Manzana Insurance: Fruitvale Branch (Abridged) Group No. 7 Agenda Introduction Company Background Organizational structure Operational Flow Financial Health Current Utilization Capacity RUNs v/s RERUNs Profitability Factors of the Industry Recommendations Introduction Manzana’s Fruitvale branch is suffering from declining profitability. Falling renewal rate and rising turnaround time are the main issues. Other issues are incorrect prioritization of requests and the
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Introduction This study is designed to determine why the Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance is performing so poorly for Property Insurance. Golden Gates, a competitor of Manzana, numbers are estimated to outperform Manzana Fruitvale branch as well. There are several problems that are leading to the poor performance at this branch. This past quarter turnaround time increased again reaching 6 days, where Golden Gate is sitting at 2 days. Also the system is running very close to efficiency, which
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The Manzana Case Manzana Insurance- Fruitvale Branch case study Executive Summary The Fruitvale Branch of Manzana is facing its bitter reality of declining profitability and potential loss of market shares to its main competitor-Golden Gates due to its rising renewal loss rate and expanding turnaround time. In our analysis, we dig into several issues that were possible causes for the problem and tend to provide readers with feasible solutions that may resolve the issues on hand. Examples
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Tao Zhang 301184502 * Case Analysis * Case Analysis Manzana Insurance – Fruitvale Branch Manzana Insurance – Fruitvale Branch Introduction Manzana insurance, founded in California in the beginning of 20th century, originally specialized in orchard and farm insurance. During the first half of the 20th century, they expanded their business throughout California by buying other insurance company. After the World War II, Manzana had become the second-largest home and commercial
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| Syndicate Assignment | Manzana Insurance Fruitvale Branch | Operations | | | 01 June, 2016 | | | Manzana’s Position in the Insurance Industry Manzana has a history of seeing opportunity and seizing it. Manzana has grown through acquisition. Manzana's main competition is Golden Gate Casualty. They beat Manzana on both price and performance. Golden Gate tied with Manzana for first place in the property insurance market in 1988. By 1991, Golden Gate announced they could guarantee
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The Manzana Case Manzana Insurance- Fruitvale Branch Case Study The Manzana Case Manzana Insurance- Fruitvale Branch case study Executive Summary The Fruitvale Branch of Manzana is facing its bitter reality of declining profitability and potential loss of market shares to its main competitor-Golden Gates due to its rising renewal loss rate and expanding turnaround time. In our analysis, we dig into several issues that were possible causes for the problem and tend to provide readers
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| Manzana Insurance: Fruitvale Branch (Abridged) | Case Analysis | | | Group no 4(Section E) | Priyanshu Kumar 1311314Shranya S Mukund KumarPreethi VenkatramanPradeep R | | | Introduction Manzana Insurance was founded in 1902 in Sebastopol, California where it mainly operated in the business of orchard and farm insurance. It now deals in property, flood and commercial property insurances. Manzana operated through a network of three branch offices in 3 states of the United
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MANAGEMENT BANGALORE Manzana Insurance:Fruitvale Branch Submitted to Prof. Devanath Tirupati Indian Institute of Management Bangalore By: Group Number 6 Vikash Oraon 0911283 Abhijit Pagare 1011076 Bharathi Priya 1011087 Bhargavi Konathala 1011089 Bhavika Kansara 1011090 Vishal Kumar 1011143 Manzana Insurance Introduction Manzana Insurance was started in 1902, and by 1953 had become the second-largest home and commercial property insurer in California. However, since the 1970's Manzana has been facing
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Harvard Business School 9-692-015 Rev. January 30, 1997 Manzana Insurance - Fruitvale Branch (Abridged) It was a Monday morning in early September 1991. Bill Pippin had been at Manzana for only a week, but already he was thinking that perhaps he should have taken a different job. He gazed at a note on his desk from John Lombard, his boss at the Fruitvale branch: "I'm giving a speech at a conference on property insurance, so I'll be out of the office until next week. Please give this some
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------------------------------------------------- Manzana insurance ------------------------------------------------- Manzana insurance Operations Analysis Operations Analysis Executive Summary Manzana Insurance specialises in commercial insurance, with the Fruitvale branch typically processing 40 requests per day and the product mix being 60% new policies and 40% renewal requests. The operating performance of Fruitvale is deteriorating across five of the company’s six
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