VENDOR PROFILE HCL Technologies — Vendor Profile Series for R&D/Product Engineering Services Mukesh Dialani IDC OPINION As HCL Technologies likes to put it, product engineering is in its DNA. Since inception of its group operations more than 30 years ago, the company has invested in creating technology products and offering engineering services to its customers. Until recently, its focus was to position itself as a "technology services provider." IDC believes that in order to scale revenue and
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|DMAIC Model; for new product development- Design for Six Sigma; laid off 8000 workers (11% of the workforce); slashed capital | | |expenditures | | |Buckley continued Six Sigma in manufacturing and administrative areas but reduced in R&D; invested more in R&D and new | |
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-Company background Company is an online store that would offer gardeners a one-stop shopping place for products, plants, gifts, and services.Garden.com is a virtual store, selling a wide variety of gardening and gardening-related products. It also offered a range of services, including an online magazine, an online landscape planning and design tool, a plant finder tool, a monthly newsletter, a garden reminder service, a weekly sales and promotion e-mail, and celebrity-hosted chat sessions. In
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OF ZARA] August 31, 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS SL.NO. PARTICULARS PAGE NO. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Acknowledgement Executive summary Zara – Company Profile Fashion Industry – Overview Fashion Industry – Growth Drivers Zara – Customer & Product Mapping Zara’s key factors of success or winning formulae Zara – Logistics & Supply Chain Is Zara’s competitive advantage sustainable? Learning Zara – In Sum Bibliography 2 4 5 5 6 7 10 12 19 22 22 23 3 [SUPPLY CHAIN PRACTICES OF ZARA]
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This segment of the cash flow is budgeted for capital investment in new equipments and new facilities, as well as adding more workers and managers. Shao’s Children Wear weights the priority in selection of the portfolio on alignment of strategic objective and equally with return on investment as we want to expand to US market and targeting to increase additional $50 million worth of company capital and assets. With the new Product D introduced, the total budget of $25.5 million would exceed current
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The Product Life Cycle concept: Cadbury The product life cycle model helps marketers identify the different stages that the sales and profits of a product go through during the course of its lifetime. There are five stages to the product life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, saturation and decline. 1. Introduction: Sales are slow as the product is not yet known. Costs are high due to heavy marketing spend to create awareness. Emphasis is on advertising and distribution. The recently launched
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Using a product development process 10 Process application – Opportunity identification and selection 10 Concept generation 10 Concept/Project evaluation 10 Defining the product protocol 11 Conclusion 12 Recommendations 13 References 14 Executive Summary New product development in tourism companies has been a nearly ignored theme in tourism marketing. Research on product development has in major studies handled destinations, development of resorts or sites as a total tourist product. We
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MicroTechnologies Inc. to develop, manufacture, and sell a new medical imaging product. Dr. Casper (47), a radiologist, had trained at Johns Hopkins medical school and, after a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School, joined a private practice in Florida. Casper specialized in the use of imaging systems for the medical practice. Over time, he had experimented with different procedures, such as ultrasounds and x-ray, until he became interested in a new technology based on sending electronic impulses through
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acquired a reputation for reliable and high quality motocross bikes. Secondly, Kunz mentioned that one of the keys to winning in the industry is a strong dealer network because it enables prediction of demand trends and consequently leads to new product development and production planning. The Dealer Net of KTM distributed 80% of its motorcycles through its own sales subsidiaries (who contract with dealers) and 20 % through general importers. Overall KTM had a presence in 72 countries around the
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Identify the skills needed for successful New Product Development and where they will be found within or outside the organisation, with consideration to the roles of the team members. Answer Developing a successful drive for new products and product development of TSS’ product range is a very complex process with the main difficulties, from a marketer’s perspective, being the integration of a team of various people or departments involved in the product development. Belbin (2004) concluded that
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