become the world's largest automaker. On Ivey Business Journal, Dr. Robert Angel, consultant on Japan affairs for the U.S. government and corporations, states that Toyota’s success has long been regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese innovation, manufacturing quality
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be obtained. In an attempt to tease out the issues in the global implementation of ERP systems, we carried out a number of case studies at Irish manufacturing sites of multinational firms where management sought ways to defend their hard won local reputation for excellence and efficiency in the face of changes to the organisation due to a corporate ERP implementation. Our study indicates that local managers are given too little scope and time to adequately adapt the template to their site and that
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Strategy Management in Global Environment GM599 Case Study: Herman Miller Inc Professor Denis Juren JeanMary Hermann Colas October 10, 2011 Herman Miller Inc started back in 1905, as a furniture company. The Star Furniture Company was a manufacturer of traditional-style bedroom suites in Zeeland, Michigan. It changed its name to Michigan Star Furniture Company, in 1909. Dirk Jan De Pree was hired as a clerk during that transition. D.J. De Pree became the president of the company 10 years
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a dramatic reduction in nonconforming parts, in problem cases, and in negative impacts to Delphi's facilities or to its customers. to Focus on By Bill Clark, John Chang, and Marcus Chao ays custoincrs bave come to expect levels of quality and delivery that ahnnsi unheard ot a generation ago. Nowbcrc is tbat more evident than in tbe aiBomotive industry, wbere ear buyers cannot escape the blizzard ol t|uality and reliability studies (rom Consumer R^^iorfs, J.I). Powers & Associates, and a
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Travis Spaulding: 2.6 - Case Study: Sergio Marchionne On April 30, 2009, Chrysler filed for bankruptcy due to failure to generate sufficient profits. As a result, a new partnership ensued with the Italy based car company, Fiat (Roubini, 2009). Since then, Chrysler Group LLC Chief Executive, Sergio Marchionne, has taken measures to change the attitude and organizational culture of the company to recover from the bankruptcy, as well as being a leader among American car manufacturers (Muller, 2011)
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African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(4), pp. 1266-1276, 18 February, 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM ISSN 1993-8233 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Challenges and opportunities of Tanzanian SMEs in adapting supply chain management Sama Hamisi Procurement and Supplies Department, College of Business Education, Dodoma Campus, Dodoma, P. O. Box 2077, Tanzania. E-mail: samakicheche@yahoo.com. Tel: +255 755 292 850. Fax: +255 026 232
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journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jom Qualitative case studies in operations management: Trends, research outcomes, and future research implications Mark Barratt, Thomas Y. Choi ∗ , Mei Li Department of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4706, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Our study examines the state of qualitative case studies in operations management. Five main operations management journals
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Individual report on the Critical analysis of the case-study on Nissan-cogent Master of Science in Supply chain management (M25EKM) Phil Southey and Ike Dike Andrew Philip kakooza SID: 3532647 ABSTRACT In today’s business economy it has been said that the automotive industry among other industries have hugely occupied the United Kingdom economy and continue to do so, Nissan a very famous automobile company has been one of the most hugely successful companies both in UK, Europe and
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Project Management Case Studies: IKEA and Timbuk2 Table of Contents Case I: IKEA Design and Pricing 3 Case Summary: 3 Key Terms: 3 Case Questions 5 Conclusions 9 Case II: The Tao of Timbuk2 9 Case Summary: 9 Key Terms: 10 Questions: 11 Conclusions: 15 Bibliography 16 Case I: IKEA Design and Pricing Case Summary: IKEA is a Swedish retailer that dominates the home market in 32 countries and is currently expanding in the United States. The success of the company is providing
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