...TEAM CASE 1: OPERATION STRATEGY AT GALANZ 1. What were the order winners/qualifiers for Galanz in the microwave oven business during the early stage of its development? Order winners are "those competitive characteristics that cause a firm's customers to choose that firm's goods and services over those of its competitors. Order winners can be considered to be competitive advantages for the firm” (APICS Dictionary, 2008). Order qualifiers are "those competitive characteristics that a firm must exhibit to be a viable competitor in the marketplace" (APICS Dictionary, 2008). In the case of Galanz, the large production scale and cost-leadership strategy are considered to be the order winners for the company; the qualified products with affordable price are the order qualifiers. This classification of winner and order qualifiers is on the basis of development that had been done in the company during the early stage of development. During the early stage, due to lack of technology and technicians at the home market, the company “did not have any competitive edge in production technology but only an abundant supply of cheap labor and land. Offering a low price thus was the only way to compete in the market” (4). To deal with winning orders, the company previously implemented the low-price strategy that was based on selling products at low cost in comparison with the competitors. As a result, the company had successfully achieved cost reduction that led them to achieve the large...
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...Galanz Enterprises Group Co. Ltd Executive Report September 2011 Executive Summary This executive report is to aid the Board of Directors of Galanz in examining the company’s market position. We will make a series of recommendations in order to direct the company towards greater future success. During the early years of development (1991 – 2000) Galanz order wining factors (OWF) which contributed directly and significantly to customers choosing their products over competitors’ products included: 1. Low cost/ value for money 2. R & D capacity and production 3. Innovation During this same time the order qualifying factors (OQF) which were the minimum things required in meeting customer expectations, were: 1. Own Magnetron Product capacity 2. Blue print brought from world leader- microwave oven technology 3. Production capacity—three shifts; 24/7-365 Galanz has progressed through three distinct phases of business development in getting to where it is today. These are: Phase 1 Galanz started off as an original brand Manufacturer (OBM) manufacturing and selling own-branded microwave ovens in the domestic Chinese market. Production technology and key component parts were purchased from Japan. Phase 2 Galanz then incorporated contract manufacturing into its business operations undertaking original equipment manufacturing (OEM) of component parts for foreign microwave manufacturers and exporting them to their respective markets Phase...
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...CASE ANALYSIS REPORT ON Operations strategy at Galanz MGT 546 Operations and Service Management Case Summary This paper is all about one of the leading electronic appliance manufacturer of china, the Galanz group. The case tells about the phase development of a manufacturing company. How a down feather producing company entered into production of the microwave oven and how they become the leader in national and international market. The company was found in 1978 as the down feather producing company. The original name of Galanz was Guizhou Down Product Factory and their main objective was to produce down product to supply in the international market and earn foreign currency. But the drastic change in the company was brought by the decrease in the revenue of the company because of the quota system and the industrial revolution played major role in the transitional phase of the company. They are the leading manufacturer by covering microwave oven market 50% of total market share by 2003. The case also explains about the competitive and operation strategy that Galanz used to achieve meteoric growth. The initial competitive strategy of the company was cost leadership, and they followed it. The cost leadership benefit was available to this company because of the factors of production available at low cost. Not only that the company adopted in innovative style of production in operation and due to which was able to gain exponential growth. Case Analysis Q.1...
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...1. The success of Galanz is mainly the result of adopting different competitive strategy and operations strategy under different internal and external situation. From the perspective of competitive strategy, first Mr. Liang took the overall cost leadership strategy. As he well understood the competitive edge of his company was offering cheap labor and cheap land, he offered a very low price to the customers. By doing that, Galanz beat the competitors away as they could not make big profit and Galanz gained a big market share within a short period of time. At the same time, Galanz escalated its production capacity through free production line transfer and provided necessary training to the operators by its clients. The most important thing was Galanz had the right to use the excessive capacity for producing its own product. By doing this, Galanz fully utilized the production facilities and resources and produced the products in a lower cost with better quality. Ultimate, Galanz could further lower the product price and attract more clients and gain more market shares. This price cutting cycle helped Galanz building a strong financial and operation foundation. The most important achievement was Galanz became the overall cost leadership. Once Mr. Liang had the solid foundation, he tried to differentiate his product from others. He tried to develop his OBM business with cheaper and better quality as the brand image focusing domestic market. Meanwhile, he kept his OEM business focusing...
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...CASE ANALYSIS ON OPERATIONS STRATEGY AT GALANZ 1. Rank the importance of Galanz’s operations objective of cost, quality, flexibility, delivery, service and innovations. How has the importance changed over years? Ans: The operation objectives are based on its competitive advantage, customers’ needs, business environment and opportunity. Galanz’s most important objective was cost as it only had abundant supply of land and labor. Since it used cost leadership, it helped to lead the market by eliminating its competitors during the early stages of business. It helped not only to capture Chinese domestic market but also helped to attract foreign market as well. Galanz expanded their business in overseas market through OEM so they prioritized delivery as they had to provide various equipments and components efficiently. They also focused on quality because in order to capture foreign market and develop a long term relation with foreign companies, quality was very important. As they expanded their business through OEM, OBM and ODM, it further facilitated them to operate with more ease in the market. They didn’t have to rely on other companies for various designs and components. A micro oven’s major component was magnetron so they had to rely on it through its suppliers. The suppliers decided to reduce the supply of magnetron which prompted Galanz to initiate a major investment in magnetron R&D in 1997. Then they transformed into ODM which was very successful. They focused...
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...Asia Pacific J Manage (2008) 25:667–683 DOI 10.1007/s10490-007-9073-0 A strategic analysis of surging Chinese manufacturers: The case of Galanz Gloria L. Ge & Daniel Z. Ding Published online: 10 November 2007 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007 Abstract Recent years have witnessed the surging of Chinese manufacturers, as China has become the world’s factory floor. This paper presents a case study of one of the most successful manufacturers in China, the Galanz Group, now the world’s largest microwave manufacturer. Based on theories of multinational corporations from emerging economies, the paper examines the process of Galanz’s integration into the global market. The company has developed unique competitive strategies that have made it a great success within China and in overseas markets. The Galanz model suggests strong strategic implications for both Chinese firms and incumbent multinational corporations. Keywords Chinese manufacturers . Strategic analysis . Internationalization . Galanz In the last two decades, China has maintained an average annual growth rate above 7%. China is rising as one of the world’s largest economies and trading powers. As China becomes the world’s manufacturing floor, the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturers and their impacts have emerged as a hot topic. China’s manufacturing output now ranks third in the world only behind the United States and Japan, after overtaking Germany in 2003 (China Daily 2005). Many Chinese manufacturers...
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...Explore how motivation theory has developed over time and assess how motivation can influence business performance Weiyang Mai (Amigo) Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 1.1 General introduction of Motivation 1 1.2 The definition of Motivation 1 1.3 The benefit of Motivation on the workplace 3 1.4 The development of the theories of motivation 4 2. The introduction of Galanz company 8 3. Motivation in Galanz company 9 4. Conclusion 15 5. List of reference 18 Introduction 1.1 General introduction of Motivation A company is a human body, so employees are like its blood. Employees are the most important asset in the creative economy. Enterprises create a kind of environment to keep the excellent talents which it's the most sensible initiative can carry out. Thus, enterprises must know the skills of employees' motivation and concentrate on motivating employees. It's the required courses about that if enterprise wants to become a successful company. Moreover, how to motivate staff in the workplace is a hot topic to discuss. 1.2 The definition of Motivation Firstly, to put it simply motivation is generalized as "enthusiasm for doing something" (Cambridge dictionary online, 2011). Moreover, Mullins (2005: 471) declares that motivation means "the direction and persistence of action." And identifies three common characteristics of motivation: (1) "individual phenomenon”, (2) “intentional” and...
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...ETM / IEL Working Paper Disruptive Innovation in Emerging Markets: Strategies Used in India and China Ruan Y., Hang C.C., Subramanian A.M. No. 01/12 Division of Engineering & Technology Management (D-ETM) Institute of Engineering Leadership (IEL) Faculty of Engineering 1 Disruptive Innovation in Emerging Markets: Strategies Used in India and China Ruan Y., Hang C.C., Annapoornima M.S. Abstract The appropriate type of innovation which can meet the needs of the mass population in the bottom of pyramid (BOP) has not been studied much in the literature. Based on the theory of disruptive innovation, we offer 11 cases from India and China – the two biggest emerging markets to show that disruptive innovation could be an appropriate, feasible, and powerful innovation force to the companies and the economies involved. We also examined the R&D strategies used in these cases based on the framework proposed by Yu & Hang (2011) and found that 3 out of the 4 strategies commonly used in the cases from developed markets were also applied in the cases from emerging markets. In addition, we have identified 3 unique strategies which emerged from the cases from India and China, namely frugal engineering, modularization, and drastic manufacturing cost reduction. Based on the frequency of the usage of these strategies, we drew practical implications for local companies and multinational companies. Our study also provides critical insights to policy makers...
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...Operations Strategy Operations Strategy PGP – Term 8, 2016 Overview: Operations is the ‘how’ we do things regarding of what function we work in an organization – Accounting, HR, IT, Marketing, Operations, R&D, Sales or Supply chain – and strategy is the general direction for aligning operations in the organization to its strategic objectives and within its context. All CEO surveys in recent years list among their top-5 concerns: how to grow revenues, how to make their organization more efficient, and how to lower costs. Achieving these is the remit of operations strategy. Overall we wish to figure out how we can achieve desired strategic objectives of an organization across multiple functions, and even across organizations through analysis –qualitative as well as quantitative – and managing change. Module Leaders: Professor ManMohan S. Sodhi Cass Business School City University London manmohan_sodhi@isb.edu Professor Haresh Gurnani School of Business Wake Forest University hgurnani.isb@gmail.com (Professor Sodhi will lead Sessions 1-5 and Professor Gurnani Sessions 6-10.) Course objective and content: The overall goal is to develop an understanding of how to determine the general direction to ensure that the decisions being made to improve or create operations are coherent, i.e., towards the same organizational objectives. We will refer to a framework (7V framework under development by Professor Sodhi) as a lens for viewing and re-positioning...
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...IBM Business Consulting Services IBM Institute for Business Value Strategy and Change Going global Prospects and challenges for Chinese companies on the world stage In association with IBM Institute for Business Value IBM Business Consulting Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops factbased strategic insights for senior business executives around critical industry-specific and crossindustry issues. This executive brief is based on an in-depth study by the Institute’s research team. It is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Business Consulting Services to provide analysis and viewpoints that help companies realize business value. You may contact the authors or send an e-mail to iibv@us.ibm.com for more information. School of Management at Fudan University Fudan University was the first institution of higher learning in China to set up a department of business education, and was also the first in the country to resume its business education program after the reform and open-door was implemented in China. Over the past two decades, the School of Management at Fudan University has developed into an internationally well respected business school. This joint project with the IBM Institute for Business Value fulfills our mission to analyze business operations and national economic activities using advanced management theories, systematic methods, mathematics models and information technology. It is part of our commitment of timely research...
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...Abstract-With the global economic competition aggravating, the problem of China manufacturing foundry enterprise transformation upgrading is imminent. To successfully implement the transformation and upgrading, the manufacturing foundry enterprises must have the profound and comprehensive understanding of the various resistances encountered in their upgrading process and its influence. Different from the most exiting studies, this article firstly elaborates the upgrading mode and possible path of the foundry enterprises, and then analyses detailedly the diversified resistance which different upgrading paths might encounter, and put forwards the coping strategies separately from the enterprises and government point. Keywords - foundry; upgrading; resistance; dissolve. Introduction How Chinese manufacturing foundry enterprises realize their strategic transformation to achieve new developments is the focus of the public concerned. Scholars have made a lot of researches on the upgrading of the foundry mode. From the existing researching results, the majority primarily focused on researching its upgrading need and the path, seldom research the resistance maybe encountered in the process of the transformation and upgrading. For manufacturing companies, the upgrading resistance of the foundry mode is the first factor to be considered and if this factor is ignored, the upgrading target and the corresponding countermeasures will be the empty talk. The main foundry...
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...Economics for Everyone: Going Global–FDI Fables–FDI in Multibrand Retail......................................................... 2 Special report - Business in India: Inbound and outbound deals: Their oyste ....................................................... 12 Growing confidence dented by politicians .............................................................................................................. 16 BEST CROSS - BORDER M&A DEAL .................................................................................................................. 18 The Literature on Chinese Outward FDI ................................................................................................................ 19 Page 1 of 36 © 2012 Factiva, Inc. All rights reserved. Economics for Everyone: Going Global–FDI Fables–FDI in Multibrand Retail Economics for Everyone: Going Global–FDI Fables–FDI in Multibrand Retail India Infoline News Service 5,801 words 2 May 2012 Indiainfoline News Service INFOIN English Copyright © 2012. Indiainfoline Ltd. FDI- Foreign Direct Investment Context: NEWS FDI in multi-brand retail to go ahead,TNN (TIMES OF INDIA) Govt says committed to multi-brand retail FDI FE BUREAU Aviation FDI: Cautious, Centre set to take allies on board, BUSINESS STANDARD India has been ranked at the third place in global foreign direct investments in 2009 and will continue to remain among the top five attractive destinations for international investors during 2010-11...
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...technology enables that creates the disruptive impact. Chapter Table of Contents 17Disruptive Innovation 17.1 Introduction 17.2 The Disruptive Innovation Model 17.2.1 Disruption at Work: How Minimills Upended Integrated Steel Companies 17.2.2 The Role of Sustaining Innovation in Generating Growth 17.2.3 Disruption Is a Relative Term 17.2.4 A Disruptive Business Model Is a Valuable Corporate Asset 17.3 Two Types of Disruption 17.3.1 New-Market Disruptions 17.3.2 Low-End Disruptions 17.4 Shaping Ideas to Become Disruptive: Three Litmus Tests 17.4.1 Could Xerox Disrupt Hewlett-Packard? 17.4.2 Conditions for Growth in Air Conditioners 17.5 Afterword 17.6 Acknowledgements 17.7 Appendix: A Brief Description of the Disruptive Strategies of the Firms in Figure 4 17.8 Commentary by Donald A. Norman 17.8.1 The theory is easy to understand: the practice is extremely difficult 17.8.2 Comment on the Chapter 17.8.3 References 17.9 Commentary by Marc Steen 17.9.1 A social perspective: On empowerment, flourishing, cooperation and creativity 17.9.2 Empowering people at the 'base of the pyramid' to flourish 17.9.3 Design thinking, cooperation and creativity in public services 17.9.4 References 17.10 Commentary by Paul...
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...Internship Report Submitted By: Poulami Dey MBA/June-July/2010 Semester 4th Roll no.: 50 Enrolment No: EIILMU/09/ F0741 Project A PROJECT REPORT ON CURRENT MARKET SENARIO AND FUTUREPROSPECT FOR SOLAR LAMPS AND LED PRODUCTS AT BAJAJ ELECTRICALS LTD Company ACKNOWLADGEMENT My summer internship or training with Bajaj Electricals Ltd is a life time experience that I will cherish throughout my carrier .This project has provided a great opportunity to experience the excellent and modern work culture and work process of Bajaj Electrical Ltd. I wish to thank my respective project guide at the organisation Mr. Kalyan Bhattacharya. His guidance was extremely useful throughout my project work in giving me the detailed understanding of the entire product portfolio and the overall industry overview. I would also wish to thank all the distributers and group of dealers who shared their extremely important time to equip me with the important and valuable organizational insights and helping me to prepare the project. Along with the corresponding people at the organisation, I am sincerely thankful to our internal guide Prof, Anirban Dutta, who has helped me with the adequate academic insight whenever it was required. I wish to give my warm regards to all the persons involved in the timely completion of my project, directly or indirectly. I would like...
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...B2B Brand Management Philip Kotler ´ Waldemar Pfoertsch B2B Brand Management With the Cooperation of Ines Michi With 76 Figures and 7 Tables 12 Philip Kotler S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Kellogg School of Business Northwestern University 2001 Sheridan Rd. Evanston, IL 60208, USA p-kotler@kellogg.northwestern.edu Waldemar Pfoertsch Professor International Business Pforzheim University Tiefenbronnerstrasse 65 75175 Pforzheim, Germany waldemar.pfoertsch@pforzheim-university.de ISBN-10 3-540-25360-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-25360-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2006930595 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com ° Springer Berlin ´ Heidelberg 2006 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered...
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