Jerry Lopatin is the senior vice president, engineering at Quantum, having joined the company in March 2008. He served in a similar capacity at ONStor, and previously worked at companies such as Iomega, Samsung Electronics, IBM. III Opportunities/ Continue Reading...
ERP related job? Analysis of responses received for How does your level of job difficulty compare after ERP to before ERP? Analysis of responses received for How many hours of training did you receive on ERP? Analysis of responses received for Continue Reading...
Key Success Factors in the Global Auto Rental Industry Pursuing increasingly higher levels of inventory optimization and logistics performance will continue to reduce operations costs for low-cost car rental providers globally (Fink, Reiners, 2006 Continue Reading...
Any successful services business embodies and continually reinforces the values of service timeliness, reliability, empathy, assurance and tangibles (TREAT) (Sedlock, 2010). These attributes are also essential for any service business to gain trust Continue Reading...
Like most litigations on such complicated issues the company had little to do but show reasonable accommodation, adopt better surface practices and wait out a lengthy period before their liability was reduced substantially by the courts. Ethical an Continue Reading...
As we have seen, for example, Sylvan had split its business activity into two main business segments, Sylvan Learning Center and Sylvan Education Solutions, both operating on specific sub-markets, both on the K-12 customer segment. For the postseco Continue Reading...
Toyota Strategic Management For decades, Toyota has been one of the most admired companies in the world. They were able to turn their image in the 1960's and 70's from cheap Japanese import to the car of choice for millions of consumers worldwide. T Continue Reading...
JetBlue Airlines Case Analysis JetBlue Case Analysis Discuss the trends in the U.S. airline industry and how these trends might impact a company's strategy. The time period the case study covers and the ensuing years have proven to be among the mo Continue Reading...
Whole Foods Strategic Management of Whole Foods Strategic Management Definition Company Background and the Core Values Current Market Analysis Whole Food Competitive Advantage Elements of Strategy Whole Foods Growth Strategy of Whole Food Str Continue Reading...
Tom Tom is facing significant difficulties as a shift in technology has threatened its major revenue streams. Smartphones are basically giving away for free what TomTom has been charging people a lot of money for, and to nobody's surprise this has re Continue Reading...
Both companies realized that business processes had a direct effect on organizational performance. Critical Analysis: Wang's article is a persuasive piece of research regarding the usefulness of the BSC as a strategic management tool for analyzing Continue Reading...
Krispy Kreme Case Analysis Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. certainly seemed in an excellent position in the doughnut business at this moment, however, both analysts and managers of the company have been wondering whether the high level the stock had rea Continue Reading...
Then, another, and probably the most obvious, application of operations management is that of achieving cost reductions. Richard Stylves offers the most conclusive example of Henry Ford, who sought to integrate assembly lines using the most cost ef Continue Reading...
The class text (on page 338) describes that a big part of this is giving promising employees tasks and assignments that stretch their boundaries and horizons as this helps them grow and, as mentioned before, incentivizes them to do more (Thompson, 2 Continue Reading...
2. Assuring the coexistence of the current and time-based logistics systems Advantages: Reveals the benefits of both current and time-based logistics systems Fosters innovation in a context of maintained traditional safety Allows for a period of Continue Reading...
Costco Case Costco: A Case Analysis Costco has long been a retailer of lower-priced goods. Now, the company is moving toward services like insurance, credit cards, phone plans, printing, and other options that could be accessed with a specific memb Continue Reading...
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Business Management: SWOT, BCG and I.R. Matrices AnalysisWhen the company has stepped into the market and is ready to deliver its products or services to the market consumers, it engages itself in evolving. For this purpose, it ha Continue Reading...
Johnson and Johnson issued a public relations response immediately naming their number one priority: to aggressively protect any consumer from the potential hazards that may be present in any of their family of products. Symptoms of the Problem -- Continue Reading...
Technology The ubiquity of online media has prompted the magazine to reduce its rate of print publications to 10 from 12 publications a year, and cut its print subscriptions in favor of digital advertising. This will also allow for greater segment Continue Reading...
Human Resource Management Analysis - Case study of ASDA PLC Management of human resource or "people working in an organization" is the most acute problem that faces managers nowadays. Today, it is no doubt that this is the leading cause of worries t Continue Reading...
Porsche Case Analysis The intent of this case analysis is to evaluate the buyer decision process the typical Porsche customer undertakes when searching for a new high-performance sports car. The Porsche sports car enthusiasts' decision process is si Continue Reading...
The paradox for Cardinal Health was the need to reign in the intellectual curiosity that BI and analytics applications can generate while staying focused just on the most critical aspects of automating and adding insight into their core businesses. Continue Reading...
Organization Behavior International Development and Strategic Management at Proctor & Gamble International development International Development and Strategic Management at Procter & Gamble Every organization wishes to keep its operations Continue Reading...
In doing this, Apple was able to successfully create even greater differentiation through an innovative approach to product positioning that captured new customers while retaining the trust of its large, profitable installed base. Apple has been abl Continue Reading...
By choosing to sell through Sears, Goodyear will be relinquishing its brand exclusivity. It will also have to become more sensitive to retail marketing practices and may lose control over its own retail policies. By going with Sears proposal, the c Continue Reading...
To evaluate weak areas of the current strategy and propose solutions for improvement. 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction According to Zou and Cavusgil (1995), the subject of global strategy has attracted a lot of attention in the recent past Continue Reading...
Project Management: Case Study in Managing a Complex Shipyard Project in Singapore Background of Complex Shipyard Construction Project Company background Project Overview and Objective Work Process of Building Construction Issue Analysis in Ship Continue Reading...
The Xi-Cheung PartnershipSummaryThe case of Xi Jianping and Cheung's dye factory in China is a clear example of the challenges that can arise in a business venture. The two men had ambitious plans but made several mistakes that led to their factory's Continue Reading...
Faith Community Hospital: Case Analysis and Recommendations Modern day organizations, including community or not-for-profit ones, have to integrate political, legal, societal, cultural and economic concerns of the environment with corporate goals an Continue Reading...
Navigating Through Economic Turbulence: A Case Analysis of United Airlines On December 4, 2002, United Airlines entered a very dark period of their history when the company announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The case begins with CEO Glenn Tilton on hi Continue Reading...
Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG): Report on Strategic Management Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG) is a publicly traded (OTC:ECIG) company that specializes in producing, distributing and selling e-cigarettes, vaporizer Continue Reading...
The SMCO site would serve as a portal bookmark and I might return to it if I needed to research a topic and needed to know at once a list of all the major business trade magazines, or if I needed to find multiple ways of checking company data on so Continue Reading...
Health Informatics: Project Management Case Study A major focus area, for several years now, in healthcare settings has been the support of data collection and transmission of information on patients through computer-based workflow systems deployed Continue Reading...
The first three organizations in line to recuperate their funds were Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and General Electric Group. They had been offering financial solutions and encouragement to purchase the WorldCom stock based on a favorable business relatio Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. Analyzing the Role of Joint Ventures in Strengthening Strategic Partnerships Joint ventures stand out as one of the most concrete forms of partnership reference models in strategic management. This essay will explore the char Continue Reading...
