CASE STUDY #1 Fall 2013 Struggling Operations in a Manufacturing Organization You are the Chief Operations Officer a midsized window frame, aluminum siding, and tire recycling equipment manufacturing company located in the northeastern United States. Your company is organized along product lines, and you directly supervise the three people in charge of each of these product lines. The plants for these products are geographically dispersed over a two state area; the nearest plant is located
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Case Study # 6: Struggling Operations in a Manufacturing Organization Stakeholder analysis: Within this case study, many individuals can be referred to as stakeholders. The individuals residing in the two states where the plants are located may be affected by any changes that occur within their geographic area. In addition, federal, state, and local government agencies are responsible for the enforcement of laws that the business may be required to abide by. The Chief Operations Officer (COO) and
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Outline for OP Project 1. Background 1. Current situation New COO –YW is facing a lot of challenges to carry out lean manufacturing. Even the project is running very well, actually there were some conflicts between some departments, such as Therefore, YW is struggling to figure out how to solve with those conflicts production department and Lean manufacturing department. 2. History and background Ansen Electronics Company was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1989 by Mr Zhong and has
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Dell INC. was successful and unsuccessful in the market through out the late 1980s to the late 2000s. Now the company is struggling in the market. Analyzing the internal environment of Dell Inc. and its strengths, weaknesses, and core competences would definitely help the company to solve some problems. Internal environment A company’s core competence is something the organizations do especially well in comparison to its competitors, such as competitive advantage. Dell had developed a core competence
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expand on their current product offering. The opportunities for expansion and to increase market share are prevalent with the success of the Chevrolet Volt and the recent spike in international sales. Instead of cutting costs and expenditures in a struggling economy, GM should increase resources to R&D in order to stay on the leading edge of the industry and remain competitive with other vehicle manufacturers with the same vision. The budget should be revised to pull back on production and reallocate
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management an overview on the Strengthen, Weakness, Opportunities and Treat that points out the core issues about the company’s position on it’s operation. It “serves as a catalyst to facilitate and guide the creation of marketing strategies that will produce desired result” O.C. Ferrell, Michael D.,George h and David l (1999) using the SWOT analysis organizations can examine the various factors both internally (Strength and Weakness) and Externally (opportunities and treats) to improve business performance
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Ford and the World Automobile Industry Ford and the World Automobile Industry In 2008, the Ford Motor Company and the world automobile industry as a whole, was struggling financially. The slumping economy had a significant effect on US automobile sales, with a 50% reduction year over year, negatively impacting company earnings. (Grant, 2010, p. 46) Reduced sales, emerging markets and increased competition created a changing landscape and financial sustainability issues amongst the market.
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annual sales in excess of $50 billion, some 54 percent of which are generated outside of the United States. P&G sells more than 300 brands- including Ivory soap, Tide, Pampers, IAM per food, Crisco, and Folgers- to consumers in 160 countries. It has operations in 80 countries and employs close to 100,000 people globally. P&G established its first foreign factory in 1915 when it opened a plant in Canada to produce Ivory soap and Crisco. This was followed in 1930 by the establishment of the company’s first
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Change Management & Communication Plan Angela Wright, James Gregory, Joshua Hall, Kim Sherman MGT/311 May 4, 2015 Angela Guest Change Management & Communication Plan In any organization, it is important to have an organized system for dealing with information that is needed by multiple departments. One example of information that needs to be organized is customer information. Various departments use customer information and if it is not easily accessible to everyone that needs
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Recruitment, Selection & Onboarding Reliance Solar Engineering (RES) specializes in designing and manufacturing of solar products for American consumers. The company has grown into a mid-size manufacturing firm in the last decade and management has plans in expanding the company’s operations to compete in the global solar technology industry. In order to achieve this, the organization has to keep up with the latest trends and developments, which requires future recruitment and selection of
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