...1. How would you describe the organizational culture at GM? Why was decision making so slow—“plodding” as one analyst described it? While the case does not give much insight into GM’s culture, what is evident is that they have been slow to change. Having not shown a profit for six years (or much profit in the last 15), GM has either been slow to recognize changing customer preferences and/or slow adapting to technological changes in the competitive automobile industry. Decision making can be equated to ‘analysis of paralysis,” or the over-thinking of a situation, so that a decision is never made, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 2. Why do you think the previous CEO’s (Mr. Henderson) attempts to change the organizational culture might have been lacking? Henderson’s failure could be attributed to his obsession with numbers. Too much focus on numbers may have clouded his judgment in that it was the culture of GM which needed to be changed. Another reason could be that Henderson was a GM insider who had been with the company since 1984. Having risen from the ranks to eventually become Vice President, Henderson could have adopted the same analysis of paralysis of other GM managers. Having been responsible for approving many of the programs in his position as VP, Mr. Henderson may have also felt some attachment to them and let them continue. 3. What changes is Mr. Whitacre making to the culture of GM? Whitacre seemed focus on changing the decision making process of GM...
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...Gucci, Louis Vuitton, & Vertu – Marketing Lessons from some of the World’s Most Exclusive Brands. By Conor Carroll, Kate Hurley & Ann Treacy, University of Limerick. Creating luxury brands is a difficult marketing exercise. It requires heavy investment in marketing communications, excellent product/service quality, but above all these brands have to try to remain fashionable, which is notoriously difficult. Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Vertu are three successful so-called luxury brands, that retail to the high-end market. Both Gucci and Louis Vuitton are well-established brands that have been around for decades, even centuries. Gucci is a well-established organisation that has being designing and retailing clothes and accessories since 1921. The Louis Vuitton brand has been around since 1850. However Vertu, a relatively new kid on the block, has only just entered the luxury communications marketplace in 2000. Vertu sells expensive mobile phones that retail for thousands of pounds. Only a handful of brands can create a high status appeal among the world’s super rich (e.g. Ferrari, Rolex, etc.). These brands have to adopt innovative marketing strategies in order to succeed in this dynamic environment. What do they do differently to create this luxury appeal? Marketers are moving from the traditional marketing mix approach towards greater use of experiential marketing. This is where customers are treated as both rational and emotional individuals that seek ‘experiences’...
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...experience with time was directly proportional to emotions and sentiments...Why does the time seems to move faster when we are enjoying ourselves to the fullest...when we are enjoying at theme parks, with our loved ones, friends...time just passes by and we surprisingly say "hey time has passed so fast..Its 10 'o'clock... our inner serenity & happiness connects us to the universal clock & the symphony tells us, we are tuned with a 'wrong sense of time’... its got a lot to do with our "state of the heart"..."so keep it in good shape folks"... We are not programmed to sleep at night by birth, but by habit...and our lifestyles…try working in night shifts and the boundaries of night and day dissolve from the mind...the time you get for the rest (watever and any amount) becomes then night for you. Our mind is trapped in this Virtual reality created by us…its not true…there are boundaries beyond just day and night...there is openness...open space...waiting to be known..."FREE THE MINDS" E=MC2 explains, If we are able to travel faster than light then the distance travelled would be lesser in time...time would appear slow to us and travel through space, back and forth in future and past would be easier. It reminds me of the movie MATRIX. Its so true, what NEO said 'our minds are enslaved, trapped in the reality created around us. We never try to break this reality…a virtual one. I saw the free runners (Parkour) on discovery channel...these guys can run on any surface...horizontal or vertical...
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...INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION Oceania_POP Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:28 AM Homework for INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION Group Member: Hong Nhung BUI Dian Amanda Pereira Kimberly Hiew Yi Mei 1. Negotiating Variables & Elements impact negotiation Negotiation items Opening Ticket revenues Targeting Walk away/ Limit $1,100,000 $550,000 Strategy & Explanation Attention Elements impact negotiations $275,000 Split of ticket revenues 60% 50% 25% Performance Schedule 9 performances 5 evenings 2 weekend matinees 2 weekday matinees 9 performances 6 evenings 3 weekend matinees 0 weekday matinees 13 performance s 6 evenings 3 weekend matinees 4 weekday matinees Matinees all week except Monday Calculation of Cost= explanation of the concession. The cost deduces the revenues. Exchange Limits set by the reduction of the profit Matinees - withhold info? $40,000 =3.6 % ticket revenues Deep ticket discounts for patrons & group don't make considerably profit Weekday matinee profits is excluded in the financial projections Cast & crew salaries are based upon a week run regardless of the number of performances Cast & crew salaries don't include additional performances Cost for additional performance =$10,000. Revenue for additional performances & its profitability Weekly Salaries for $300,000 $200,000 Paid by the host theater INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION ...
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...April 28, 2012 8:52pm Maverick Andaloc fitzgerald speed 85 awareness 93 May 25, 2012 4:38pm Maverick Andaloc RE - D Huff 80 B 3 CB 82 - A Macfarland 86 A 2 SS - P Hollimon 85 A 1 E Clarke 80 A 5 FS - J WIlliamson 86 A 4 ROLB - J Willis 86 A 4 LOLB - E Moor 79 B 5 LG - D Mcgee 86 A 1 LG - C McEvoy 79 A 2 HB - D Flemming 85 A 4 4:48pm Maverick Andaloc Seahawks RE - D Huff 80 B 3 CB 82 - A Macfarland 86 A 2 FS - J WIlliamson 86 A 4 ROLB - J Willis 86 A 4 LOLB - E Moor 79 B 5 Giants LG - D Mcgee 86 A 1 C McEvoy 79 A 2 HB - D Flemming 85 A 4 SS - P Hollimon 85 A 1 E Clarke 80 A 5 4:50pm Maverick Andaloc Seahawks RE - D Huff 80 B 3 CB 82 - A Macfarland 86 A 2 ROLB - J Willis 86 A 4 LOLB - E Moor 79 B 5 SS - P Hollimon 85 A 1 Giants LG - D Mcgee 86 A 1 C McEvoy 79 A 2 HB - D Flemming 85 A 4 FS - J WIlliamson 86 A 4 E Clarke 80 A 5 June 13, 2012 12:10pm Maverick Andaloc C - WR - RG - FB - LOLB FS- RE C FB June 28, 2012 1:40pm Maverick Andaloc C - L Paul 83 A 2 WR - T Cobbs 81 A 1 J Palmer 80 A 2 FB - Z Boone 80 A 7 DT - C Cabunoc 80 B 4 LOLB - D Molton 79 A 3 C - N Miles 79 B 1 QB - T Terrell 71 A 2 CB - D Banks 81 A 1 J Woods 72 A 2 DT - J Washington 7 TE - K Yancy 74 B 5 July 2, 2012 2:27am Maverick Andaloc i dnt kno wat to say ive already explained everything ooh jeez thinking about it now that thing you said about making more efforts with your friends more me than with me* but like i still...
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...GIRLFRIEND FOR HIRE. INTRO Teka ahm ano…. pano ko ba sisimulan to? Sige, ganito na lang siguro..magpapakilala na lang muna ako huh?! Ang arte kasi, bakit kelangang may intro pang nalalaman tong author na to.. pede namang diretso na agad sa story line! -__- Hmp! Pero wala akong magagawa, kelangang sumunod at baka ichugi na nya agad ako dito sa story..tungkol pa naman sakin to.. pag nachugi ako, edi tapos narin ang kwento db?! Parang tanga lang..hehe..kaya eto na, sisimulan ko na..inip na kayo eh.. . . . Ako nga pala si Nami Shanaia San Jose. 17 years old, 1st year college student, SCHOLAR. (haha, ang yabang ko no? totoo naman kc eh! ) Working student ako. Nakikitira lang ako sa auntie ko. Wala na kasi akong mga magulang. Well enough of that boring introduction about myself, masyado ng common tong ganito.. Kaya pumunta na tayo sa interesting fact about me.. . . Lahat na ata ng weird na trabaho napasukan ko na. Ewan ko ba kung bakit ang wiweird ng mga trabahong napasukan ko.O___O? Isipin niyo naman,.. Naging taga alaga ako ng pusang may diabetes (SOSYAL NA PUSA,SHET NO?), . Naging taga tanggal ng pulgas ng aso ng kapitbahay namin(ANDAME KO NGANG KAGAT NUN!), . Naging mascot na sausage na nakatayo maghapon sa harapan ng isang restaurant na wala ng ginawa kung hindi sabihing “Masarap ako, tikman niyo!” (ah, ah ayoko ng maalala na ginawa ko yan! Muntik na akong lapain ng aso dahil akala nga niya sausage ako! T.T), . Naging waitress din ako sa isang restaurant na ang mga waitress...
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...ASP.Net What is view state and use of it? The current property settings of an ASP.NET page and those of any ASP.NET server controls contained within the page. ASP.NET can detect when a form is requested for the first time versus when the form is posted (sent to the server), which allows you to program accordingly. What are user controls and custom controls? Custom controls: A control authored by a user or a third-party software vendor that does not belong to the .NET Framework class library. This is a generic term that includes user controls. A custom server control is used in Web Forms (ASP.NET pages). A custom client control is used in Windows Forms applications. User Controls: In ASP.NET: A user-authored server control that enables an ASP.NET page to be re-used as a server control. An ASP.NET user control is authored declaratively and persisted as a text file with an .ascx extension. The ASP.NET page framework compiles a user control on the fly to a class that derives from the System.Web.UI.UserControl class. What are the validation controls? A set of server controls included with ASP.NET that test user input in HTML and Web server controls for programmer-defined requirements. Validation controls perform input checking in server code. If the user is working with a browser that supports DHTML, the validation controls can also perform validation using client script. What's the difference between Response.Write() and Response.Output.Write()...
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...R AJA Y OGA rajyaeg S WAMI V IVEKANANDA CELEPHAÏS PRESS Issued by Celephaïs Press, somewhere beyond the Tanarian Hills (i.e. Leeds, England), August 2003 E.V. Revised and corrected, November 2003. This work is in the public domain. EACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE. THE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINE WITHIN, BY CONTROLLING NATURE, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL. DO THIS EITHER BY WORK, OR WORSHIP, OR PSYCHIC CONTROL, OR PHILOSOPHY, BY ONE, OR MORE, OR ALL OF THESE—AND BE FREE. IS THE WHOLE OF RELIGION. DOCTRINES, OR DOGMAS, OR RITUALS, OR BOOKS, OR TEMPLES, OR FORMS, ARE BUT SECONDARY DETAILS. THIS PREFACE SINCE the dawn of history, various extraordinary phenomena have been recorded as happening amongst human beings. Witnesses are not wanting in modern times to attest the fact of such events, even in societies living under the full blaze of modern science. The vast mass of such evidence is unreliable, as coming from ignorant, superstitious, or fraudulent persons. In many instances the so-called miracles are imitations. But what do they imitate? It is not the sign of a candid and scientific mind to throw overboard anything without proper investigation. Surface scientists, unable to explain the various extraordinary mental phenomena, strive to ignore their very existence. They are, therefore, more culpable than those who think that their prayers are answered by a being, or beings, above the clouds, or than those who believe that their petitions will make such beings...
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