INTB 6217 Sec 02 February 29, 2012 Giganet Case Study Would You Characterize Giganet as a success? Why? Giganet, a network switches and software company founded by David Follet in 1994, promises to provide companies with improved speed and bandwidth through the use of their switches over those currently used. Giganet’s founder realized early that developing a quality product would only be part of the recipe for success. If they wanted to be truly successful they would need to elicit the expertise of a professional management team already a tested and proven success to create a product strategy that would catapult them into the industry.
Because they decided to utilize their past experience of sales of the Devil Sticks, they developed a routine to use the same strategy consistently with their newer products in order to achieve great success. Thus, it is clear that this group of entrepreneurs used programmed decision making. 2. It is no surprise that Spin Master is doing exceptionally well in the retail industry. They were successful in transforming their home based company into a multi-million dollar
I think refining is the most appropriate response in this scenario. The vision and mission have already been established for Listo sytsem. However, the lack of employee training due to the rapid growth of the company and high turnover rate has resulted in low production and poor quality. Refining the company by using the ACHIEVE model to motivate employees is one of the theories that can be used to help the Vision to Performance. Managers need to know what motivates people in their organization.
Career Development Plan Part II Canita Hardnett-Johnson HRM 531 Dr. D. Jakes University of Phoenix May 6, 2009 Development of Training and Mentoring Program In Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great, he proposed that it is not enough to hire good people but more important to hire the right people. Building on that belief, the management team of the sales department of InterClean believes we have hired the right people to take this company from good to great. We know that you are the best and the brightest when it comes to sales. But with the introduction of new products and services at InterClean, we want to direct our focus on the customer experience. It is our belief that our sales managers are the face and voice of InterClean
What went wrong in the context of a political frame? Skilling was a man of great power, but he also took a fairly hands-off approach to doing business. That being said, he created an environment at Enron that enforced relentless creativity and competitiveness and that made a company of employees who were more willing to speak up, be heard, and propose things that people who were more conscious were walked over and went unheard. The article describes these aspects of the leader as fostering “competitiveness” and “creativity” and if we look at the most fundamental definition of the political frame from the text, it clearly states that the image of the leadership would be prone to advocacy and one of the central concepts would be power and competition and organizational politics. At this point, how is the organization Fowler described above not a jungle?
Jerry Storch had a very canny approach which his way of thinking was for the good of the company and to differentiate itself from the retail giants. The approach that helped Toys “R” Us from its competitors was selling different products then the Wal Mart and Target. I really think that this is a very smart move because I recently changed from working for the biggest service provider in the Oil and Gas industry to a competitor who wants to enter the completion tool business and compete with the big boys. I was hired on to kickstart and look for ways to compete in this business so with that being said and working closely with my customers who are engineers for major production companies and asking what their needs and wants were. I have recently sealed a 300 well package deal with one of the biggest players in the Eagle Ford Shale Play area and offering them various solutions that no other competitor could do.
GLOBALIZATION APPROACH OF SAATCHI & SAATCHI The ability to launch “global” advertising campaigns was among the foremost capability building measures that were to be implemented in order to develop a globalization strategy for the company. Though the Saatchi brothers, Maurice and Charles had always been inclined towards the very idea of global marketing but finally it became incumbent upon the new CEO Louis-Dreyfus to implement the strategy as a part of measures to bring the company out of the crisis. The concept of global marketing had been developed by the ace management guru Theodore Levitt of the Harvard Business School and it essentially meant that the cultures around the world are becoming so similar and homogeneous in nature that marketing of the products can be done in similar or rather same ways everywhere in varied geographical locations. The specific approach that Louis-Dreyfus adopted towards this global marketing idea was in principle different from the one imagined by the Saatchi brothers. He agreed regarding the vitality of the idea and believed that it would be apt to expand into different markets in order to cater to the needs of the multinational clients but he specifically cautioned against over generalization and said, “Creativity isn’t the same everywhere.
Leadership Case 10 What do Mr. Cotes ideas on results and learning mean to you? I believe that results and learning are probably the most important parts of learning and leadership to rely on in business. It was neat to read that he is focused on getting results in the right ways. It is very important to set your company up for success in the future while still maintaining the results one is trying to achieve. I believe that learning somewhat comes from being enthusiastic and always willing to try new things.
Job’s contribution to the company is the innovation which took place in the day light of booming technology worldwide and that has made him to think outside the box in a short period of time, questioning and analyzing the outcome success and failures that hold the key of his innovation idea. Apple became a press in a matter of a short time all of that because he is a person with ideas, a person with inspiration for innovation and initiative. His mind was on track finding ways to make the product hit the market hard and not to fail, that is a true creative individual to me. Rhodes describe the term ‘Person’, which I’m using in my essay is about personality, intellect, temperament, physique, traits, habits, attitudes, self-concepts, value systems, defense mechanisms, and behavior. (Rhodes 1961, 307).
Interest rates were consistently on the incline during the time Welch took over as CEO of GE. Jack Welch was both a transformational leader who showed an aggressive reasonable style of leadership. He did not let the recession discourage him from keeping a competitive advantage over the competition. He set a standard for each business to make sure that GE was either #1 or #2 in their current industry or they would disengage. His strategy was to "fix, sell or close", for example, when Welch took charge of the company his objective was to fix the problems delaying GE from operating to its fullest potential, sell the company if it is more of a liability than an asset, or close the organization and start from scratch.