SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. 2013 ANNUAL REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS To our Shareholders: Our goals for 2013 were ambitious. We wanted to stay on track with our five Strategic Initiatives described below. We wanted to maintain our strong Brand, unique Culture, and award-winning Customer Service. We wanted to sustain our strong ontime performance and baggage handling. Finally, we wanted to improve our cost performance, achieve our profit requirement, and return value to our Shareholders. Just like in 2011
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Intensity of Competitive Rivalry MODERATE Threat of Substitutes LOW Threat of New Entrants LOW Porter’s Five Forces Analysis }ï½â€¯ Four business segments ◦  Ground, Express, Freight, Services }ï½â€¯ }ï½â€¯ }ï½â€¯ }ï½â€¯ }ï½â€¯ Boeing 777 Aircraft ◦  Fastest international Integrated Express & Ground Delivery assets IT Infrastructure ◦  COMPASS & UPSNet Inventory Express ◦  Just-in-time }ï½â€¯ Partnership with USPS ◦  High domestic market share }ï½â€¯ Few
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Topic- The cancellation of the Avro Arrow: Victims of politics or economics Thesis- The result of the cancellation of the Avro Arrow was developed due to the Americans influences on the plane. The convincing of John Diefenbaker emerged the cancellation into the victims of politics and based the dissolution of the plane as the decision of the Prime Minister. Body paragraph 1- (Background Information) Topic Sentence: As the new life started in Canada. The Canadian government manufactured a new
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Analysis of Boeing 787: The Dreamliner Boeing announced the launch of a new jetliner called the Dreamliner (Boeing 787) and hoped to regain its leadership role in the commercial airline industry. I will apply the theories of competitive forces model and the macro-environment to analyze the Boeing case in the following exploration, and then give my suggestions. According to the competitive force model, the first point of the risk of entry by potential competitors is neither high nor low because
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made to the development style of the Boeing Company. Before Philip Condit took over the 777 program, Boeing had been making airplanes in the same fashion as it had been doing for 70 years prior. Mr. Condit saw the chance to bring Boeing into the 21st century not only with the new technology of computer aided drafting, but with modern management techniques as well. The 777 program proved to be the perfect testing ground for a companywide change in the way Boeing did its business. Philip Condit and
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Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Reasons Boeing cancelled its development of the SuperJumbo 3 2.1. Boeing had an alternative to developing a new aircraft 3 2.2. Boeing already had market share 3 2.3. Boeings market analysis did not show sufficient demand 3 3. Strategic weaknesses in Airbus’s customer strategy 4 3.1. Strategic Analysis of Airbus 4 3.2. Analysing resources and capabilities of the organisation 5 3.3. Shaping the organisation through vision, mission and
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Boeing versus Airbus: The ‘endless’ crusade for continuation of subsidy! (A case study) Case reviewer: Angelica Sharma* Brought up in a family in which my parents were always ready to help anyone, closely or even remotely related to them, but not without being duly satisfied about the urgency, righteousness / desirability of assistance (mostly financial) that was asked for, I have, overtime, come to view non-market incentives like subsidies, grants and tariffs from a mind-set that I have
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Refining Solutions Paper Rosalyn Darisse McGee PHL/458 August 5, 2013 David McCarthy Refining Solutions Paper According to Vincent R. Ruggiero” Refining your solutions means making good ideas even better-that is, making the results of your creative thinking more effective, more workable, more attractive” (Ruggiero, 2009 P. 189). The three steps to follow in refining your solutions are to working out the detail, finding imperfections and complications and making problems. Original Problem
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Michael E. Porter) positioning 20 1 hypercompetition 20 operational effectiveness strategy 80 time-based competition reengineering productivity frontier strategic positioning 2 Lotus Notes 10 50 R.R. Donnelley & Sons Quebecor Color Press Flower Press Wo r l d Big learning organization 20 80 1995 7% 20 80 4.6% 3 competitive convergence zero-sum competition Southwest Airlines Company 20 70 80 Sony Canon Sega
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2013 Lockheed TriStar Case Study Group 6 Leon Krolikowski Sitaram Koppaka Brian Manning Tushar Mahajan Ryan Maggiorini Nicholas Manning UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSSETS SUMMER 2013 SCH MGMT 640 PROFESSOR RAJ GUPTA Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction/Motivation 3 Data Analysis and Results 4 Conclusion 8 Appendix 9 References 10 Executive Summary Lockheed’s L-1011 Tri Star Airbus program was a long-term, capital-intensive endeavor projected to strongly
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