...Advanced Strategy Case Ingersoll Rand Victoria Antsiferova, Student ID: 20117747 MBA 555 Business strategy Laura Williamson March 20, 2016 Table of Contents: Introduction………………………………………………...………………..…………………..3 Ingersoll Rand company overview..………………………...………………………….………3 Case study…………………...…….…………………………………………………………….4 Strategic analysis of I.R……...……………………………………………………...................9 References…………………………………………………………………………………..…10 Introduction The purpose of this Case Study Analysis is to implement the knowledge that was gained during the course MBA 555 Business strategy. In the first part of the analysis will be described the history of the company, its products, the key success factors and the changes that were made within the organization. Besides, in the second part will be disclosed the strategy and the impact it had at the company’s appearance at the market. At the end of the work will be written the conclusion to sum up the core ideas of the analysis and will be given the list of references. Ingersoll Rand company overview To start with, Ingersoll Rand Inc. represents itself as a branch industrial organization which headquarters are located in Dublin, Ireland. The general American administrative staff is in Charlotte, North Carolina. The European headquarters of the company were located in the Belgian cities : Zaventem and Saint-Stephens. The history "Ingersoll-Rand" has begun in 1871 when the "Ingersoll Rock Drill Company" was established...
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...Ingersoll-Rand (India) Ltd.: The Air Compressors Business at the Crossroad About Ingersoll-Rand (India) Ltd.:- Ingersoll-Rand, Inc., USA is a global major in the manufacture of a wide range of equipment catering to diverse industries. Its equipment have been used in a number of prestigious projects all around the globe like the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam and the English Channel Tunnel. Ingersoll-Rand’s business in India dates back to 1871. But, it began major operations when it incorporated a private limited company under the name Ingersoll Rand (India) Pvt. Ltd. at Calcutta in 1921. Some of the key points to note about the company are:- * At first it was only a trading company but in 1965, owing to upbeat demand for engineering equipment, its first manufacturing plant was set up in Naroda, Gujrat to manufacture reciprocating compressors. * Went public in 1977. * In 1978, a second production unit was set up in Bangalore to manufacture engineering tools. * Major capacity expansion of both plants between 1993 and 1997. * A number of additions were made to the product portfolio in 2000. The current situation (2002):- * Turnover of Rs. 406.2 crores * Employee strength of 1000 * Rs. 80 crores worth of exports. * 22 company offices and more than 80 distributors. IRL’s Air Compressor Business:- Air compressors are used in all types of manufacturing industries. They’re classified according to capacity as low (0.5-40 HP), middle (40-100HP)...
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...Índice Página Portada. ………………………………………………………….1 Índice. …………………………………………………………….2 Introducción. ……………………………………………………3 Información General. ……………...…………………………..3 Desarrollo. ………………………………………………………4 Ventajas y Desventajas del Método Delphi. ………………6 Conclusión. ……………………………………………………..7 Referencias y Sitios Web. ……………………………………8 Introducción La Técnica o Método Delphi es una herramienta creada por la Corporación Rand al inicio de la Guerra Fría (1989), donde se investigó el impacto de la tecnología en la guerra donde se hicieron pronósticos militares patrocinados por la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos. Se considera una técnica efectiva y valida de reunir información sobre un tema o problema complejo donde hay escases de información, evidencias o acuerdos, es por esto que es una técnica muy importante para la investigación multidisciplinaria y para la realización de pronósticos y predicciones aplicado con fines civiles, una vez que se desclasifico el método Delphi por las Fuerzas Aéreas de USA se empezó a extender rápidamente, en primer lugar, hacia la previsión tecnológica a largo plazo y posteriormente a otros campos importantes como el transporte, la educación, la sanidad, turismo por mencionar algunos. Consiste en recoger las opiniones de expertos por medio de encuestas de manera anónima. La idea fundamental de este método es que el conocimiento “grupal” es mejor al de un solo experto, en áreas donde la información es escasa o no se encuentra disponible...
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...Research Brief Homeland Security A RAN D IN FRAST RUCT URE , SAFE T Y, AN D E N VIRON ME N T PROGRAM Cybersecurity Economic Issues Corporate Approaches and Challenges to Decisionmaking RAND RESEARCH AREAS THE ARTS CHILD POLICY CIVIL JUSTICE EDUCATION ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS NATIONAL SECURITY POPULATION AND AGING PUBLIC SAFETY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITY TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE WORKFORCE AND WORKPLACE C ybersecurity economics is an emerging field. There is a significant need for better data, better understanding, and better methods for using resources wisely, not only to protect critical products and services but also to provide assurances that software will work as expected. In two articles, RAND senior scientist Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and her colleagues addressed these key cybersecurity concerns and identified how different types of companies or organizations perceive the importance of cybersecurity and make cybersecurity investment decisions. Abstract The emerging field of cybersecurity economics could benefit from better data, better understanding, and better methods for using resources wisely, not only to protect critical products and services but also to provide assurances that software will work as expected. This research brief presents findings that address these key cybersecurity concerns, perceptions of the importance of cybersecurity, and considerations for cybersecurity...
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...Ayn Rand was born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 2nd, 1905. She produced many works of fiction within her life and is applauded for the cultivation of her philosophical system-Objectivism. Ms. Rand passed away in 1982; her writing and ideals continue to influence society, literature, and surprisingly, the video game industry. After reading Her Second Career and Good Copy, it is easy to see why this author is held in such high esteem. Despite the tone of the stories being very different, the concept of wealth, the behavior of the main characters, and the traits of Ayn Rand's philosophy are all shared. While Her Second Career takes place in the glitzy scenes of Hollywood and Good Copy in the small-town of Dicksville, Ayn Rand does a fantastic job of conveying the influence of wealth no matter the setting. The characters in both stories run the gambit on the socioeconomic scale of the haves and the have-nots. Claire Nash lives a lofty life with "a palace in Beverly Hills and two Rolls Royces" pg. 112 while Laury McGee resides in an old apartment building. It is not until Ms. Nash undertakes Winston Ayer's challenge that she is forced to understand the struggles of aspiring actresses and the financial hardships endured in pursuit of their dreams. In Good Copy, it is not until Mr. McGee has kidnapped Ms. Winford that he receives his crash course in economics. It is obvious to the reader that Laury is aware of Ms. Winford's value based on...
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...Javeria Khan Permanent Address: Eden Value Homes House#15, Street 03, Block A. Multan road Lahore Pakistan. Email: ribbons.16@hotmail.com[->0] Phone: 03333293843 OBJECTIVE To work in a challenging and professional environment, where I can groom my technical, managerial and interpersonal skills and provide a valuable contribution to the organization. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY Bachelors in Fashion & Designing Pakistan Institute of Fashion Designing (4 years) 2006 – 2010 F.Sc Karachi Public College, Karachi, Pakistan 2003 – 2005 S.S.C St. Peter’s High School, Karachi, Pakistan 2002- 2003 CREATIVE SKILL · Research and inspirational work · Mood boards · Design development · Textile designing TECHNICAL SKILLS · Pattern · Draping · Sewing · Fashion drawings PROJECTS DONE IN PSFD · Lawn print for Nishat linen. · Children wear for Mini Minors. · Projects on themes like military, mafia, ballerina, color assignment. · INTERNSHIPS · Mrs. Kazmi (2months) · Nomi Ansari (2weeks) · Few projects with Yahsir Waheed. (in PIFD) · Attended Fashion...
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...1. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery 2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach 3. Illusions - Richard Bach 4. Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach 5. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 6. 100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 7. Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8. Catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger 9. To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee 10. The bridges of madison county - Robert James Waller 11. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 12. The Love Story - Erich Segal 13. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand 14. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 15. We the people - Ayn Rand 16. Nana - Emile Zola 17. A Farewell to arms - Ernest Hemingway 18. Across the river and into the trees - Ernest Hemingway 19. The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway 20. Jeeves and wooster( this is a series consisting of about 50 books approx.) - PG Wodehouse (Russian authors) 21. Anna karenina - Leo Tolstoy 22. War and peace - Leo Tolstoy 23. A collection of Short stories - Maxim Gorky 24. Notes from the underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky 25. Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky 26. The brothers karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 27. The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky 28. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky 29. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky 30. Short Stories - Anton Chekhov 31. Grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck 32. East of Eden -John Steinbeck 33. Nineteen Eighty four - George Orwell 34. Animal Farm - George Orwell 35. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert...
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...about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ― Albert Einstein “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ― Mitch Albom “Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” ― Jess C. Scott “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” ― Terry Pratchett “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” ― Emily Dickinson “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa,...
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...What’s a world without love? Love is around us all day; love is the reason why 1most of us were born. Name one person who doesn’t love another, it is not possible. In the novel, The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta survived off love while sent to the hunger games arena to fight for their lives .Also, in another novel, Anthem by Any Rand Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 lived in a dystopian society where love was forbidden where they lived. In the novels The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Anthem by Ayn Rand readers will see the main characters differences and similarities of how love bought them together. Have you ever heard the saying “love will make you do crazy things?” In both novels Katniss and Equality 7-2521 love made them do crazy things. “And you find yourself rooting for lovers who literally kill themselves to stay alive” Katniss and Peeta fought against twelve other districts just to stay alive. Katniss and Peeta were both from the same district, but was love enough to keep them both alive? Equality was born in a dystopian society everything was meant to be “perfect” so apart of their perfect life love wasn’t in it. Equality 7-2521 was a different boy. He was always smarter than the others but since everyone was the same he hid his advance knowledge that he had. “We wish to write this name. We wish to break but we dare not speak it above whisper.” For men is forbidden to take notice in woman.” This is the type of world characters from Anthem lived in. “I...
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...commands, or the thought that people could shape themselves on their own. Meaning they could work together with others around them and make use of local knowledge more effective than if they were organized by a central control. While a Keynesian idea of a government is needed to help boost economies in the time of when money is in need to lower taxes and inspire demands, however in Dharavi everything is controlled among them not with an outside government assistance. I believe that Keynesian economics would not work in this scenario in Dharavi because Keynesian economics is focused and works best in a short term while Dharavi needs so much more assistance. How might a Hayekian respond to Dharavi? Would Libertarians, Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand (from the egoism article) who are largely Hayekians, be horrified by this scenario? Unlike a Keynesian a Hayekian would be satisfied with what Dharavi was able to achieve. Hayekians believed that when people were able to freely do things in life and make decisions that the economy ran more efficiently. There economics is defined by a more freedom economy and less government interference. I feel that Libertarianism would not be horrified; their theory is of freedom from the government as long as there is no harm to others because of that freedom. I also think that a libertarian would be scared for people’s safety because of the poisonous living conditions in Dharavi. Are the technologies produced in Dharavi and the barefoot college, a...
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...Ayn Rand’s Anthem portrays a collectivist-minded and totalitarian society (also referred to as a dystopian society) where freedom is limited. The dystopian society strongly believes in the idea that everybody is equal and that everybody should only care about the each other and not about themselves. The society had created different councils, each with its own job, and people were not allowed to choose their job, but it was chosen for them. The society believed in one quote that summarized all their beliefs. Ayn Rand talks about this in the following quote: “Everything done by many is good. Everything done by one man is evil (Rand, 77).” The main character of Anthem, Equality 7-2521, was born differently, according to his society, because he had different features than the others. Accepting his difference, he started to separate himself from the society. He did this becuase his 7-2521's real passion was science and just wanted to understand the world, but sadly, in Equality 7-2521's society, he was forbidden from asking questions. Though he was supposed to be a street sweeper. he did not...
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...What is the difference amongst individualism and collectivism? Anthem, by Ayn Rand, is a select novel. It encloses individualism and how people can conform to society and do as they are told without knowing the consequences and outcomes of their verdicts. Furthermore, it teaches the importance of self-expression and the freedom that comes along with being your own person. Ayn Rand was a person with distinct intellect, which is reflected with her novel Anthem. In Anthem, there are leaders, known as the council. The council has a restricted form of deliberating. Pointing out the evils of capitalism and class inequality, the council preserves collectivism. This dystopia is a response to having no social classes known as the “Unspeakable Times”....
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... Socialism. Altruism. Communism. The great evil of collectivism bears many names, but all are based upon the same unattainable ideal: equality. The societies that embrace these totalitarian political forms, including that of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, intend to become the paragon of parity by having their citizens sacrifice their own happiness for that of their brethren. The leaders of Anthem’s supposedly egalitarian society justify this subtly sadistic method of rule with the ideals of equality, fraternity, and selflessness. The principles that blinded Equality 7-2521’s brethren to the grim reality they faced too often imbue members of modern society, especially as these standards are broadcasted by religious, social, and governmental groups. The change in personal philosophy which accompanies the reading and analysis of Anthem is one of many weapons mankind possesses in the never-ending battle against the elective tyranny of selflessness. Countless aspects of this society display the ruling faction’s justification for their method of control; the education, names, and careers that men are exposed to every day, some of the things which most shape a person, are built around the unattainable ideal of altruism. “We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.” (21) This mantra is first introduced to men at the age of five, when their minds are most malleable, and reinforced nightly...
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...In Ayn Rand's novella Anthem, a child is conceived in the Time of Mating, a child born different, curious, unique, a child to be known by the name of Equality 7-2521. Growing up in a post-apocalyptic collectivist society, Equality was repeatedly ostracized by his teachers and friends. While writing about his time in the Home of Students, Equality talks about how he had never considered learning as a challenge, but instead, it was a thirst that was never quenched. His teachers told him to be different - superior - was to be evil, and they looked down upon that. All Equality wanted was to be normal and to please his brothers, but he had believed he was cursed. Equality had become of age to visit the Council of Vocations where he was assigned the duty of street sweeper. Had been convinced he was guilty, but now he had a way to atone for it, Equality's motivation was to accommodate the will of his brothers. While working as a street sweeper, Equality finds a tunnel around the great ravine behind the Theatre, as well as his new purpose and his future. Every night, Equality returns to the tunnel with stolen equipment: flints, knives, paper, glass vials, powders, acids, strange metals, and the bodies of the animals from the City Cesspool. In the tunnel, Equality builds a brick oven where a fire starts to flicker within. After spending time in the tunnel, Equality had found "the first peace [h]e ha[s] known in twenty years" (37). He was overjoyed by his time quenching his thirst for...
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...Anthem Essay “A champion needs motivation above and beyond winning.” Pat Riley, known as the best NBA coach, once said this, and many people throughout the world believe that this is an accurate statement. Motivation is more important than winning, because winning doesn’t happen without motivation. Thinking in terms of the book Anthem, Equality, the main character, is different than his peers because of his motivation; Equality’s motivation is as important to today’s society as it was in his, and it continues to change the world. Congruently, Rand demonstrates her opinion towards society and motivation throughout the story: She feels that specific motivation is one way for people to show their individualism and personality. Equality shows his personality through his motivation. Motivation is a desire that causes a person to act (Webster’s Dictionary 1180). The effects of motivation are multiple in number and thought. Motivation creates an attitude of the aspects of learning, which are wanting to understand and elaborate material (Ormrod). The creation of an abundance of ideas, activities, and inventions were driven by...
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