Executive MBA Program Class of 2015 Group Patriots OMIS 627 BAE Case Study January 17, 2015 1. Evaluate the Implementation of the Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System. What do you believe were the top 3 factors that contributed to the projects failure? Who do you feel is most at fault (Pena, Webb, DiFonso, others)? There are many factors that led to the failure of the project.
Maureen Abajah LOG 125 Chapter 7 Case 7-2 U.S. Airways Overview: US Airways is and has been beleaguered with a myriad of issues, from financial issues to consistently below average ratings when it comes to baggage handling and customer service. They have filed bankruptcy several times and merged with other airlines and now have to work on a way to get to a competitive edge in the industry with all issues facing air carriers in general. Case Questions: 1. If you were the CEO of US Airways, what would you do to confront the competition from its low cost competition? Based on the summary table provided in the text book – the first thing that jumps out is how disproportionate the labor volume/number of employees is to the number of aircraft that the company has.
Sensibly, they decided to hire an external company, called Industrial/Organization Solutions, Inc. (IOS), to develop and administer its examination. Since the IOS was receiving a very large amount of money to develop and administer its exams, they took extreme measures to verify the test was unbiased, job related, and consistent with business necessity. The extra measures which were taken to validate the exam were done in order to ensure that the exam did not favor White candidates (Mitchell, 2013). 118 firefighters took the exam; including 77 for lieutenant and 31 for captain (ten firefighters did not complete the exam for unknown reasons). It should be noted that
This global supply chain network can help Boeing achieve its goals. But it also brings a lot of risks to Boeing. The processes of supply chains need large amount resources to manage well. Boeing adopts the radical change for the new project. Facing the external competition, Boeing didn’t have enough time to establish the project and communicate with each other among a lot of different suppliers.
Internal Issue: There is a misalignment of IT Strategy and the whole business strategy in RCCL. RCCL’s corporate strategy is to enhance customer experience, reduce cost, and increase revenue. All these three strategies need technological support from IT department. However, Murphy’s Leapfrog Project was shelved due to financial problem. Causes Analysis: As to external issues, there are mainly three reasons causing overall industry downturn.
The delay in the delivery of Boeing 787 to major airliners around the world is a classic example of this situation. The board of directors of Boeing were determined with their revolutionary plans for the airplane manufacturing company. Although there were several obstacles and design challenges that needed to be addressed, facing pressure from the senior most officials, the system and manufacturing engineers laid down overly optimistic plans for convincing client companies like Emirates that Boeing was well equipped for accepting the manufacturing orders of Boeing 787 within an agreed time period. The rest, as they say is history when the client companies were almost on the verge of cancellation of their orders due to Boeing’s repeated failures of complying with the deadline requirements. 3.
Lawanda Brown LS 312-01 Ethics and the Legal Environment Assignment 4: Amtrak Case Study Professor Clyde Craig October 13, 2013 The Wreck of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited was an accident due to poor judgment and human error. People who use public transportation either to go to work or for personal reasons are stakeholders. When corporations do not take care of difficult situations in a timely and proper manner the CSR creates bigger problems.” CSR is a business practice that demands that business organizations look to the effect their decisions have on multiple stakeholders.”(eGuide 2013, pg 3). In the case study of Amtrak the crew members, passengers, mariners, perhaps the communities where the tragedy happen, and the places where Amtrak provides service is all stakeholders. The stakeholders in this case was to have a safe trip while the interest for the crewmembers was not to have anything go wrong that could cost them financially.
1. What challenges and opportunities did Boeing face in the late 1990s? Some challenges that Boeing faced in the late 1990’s were as follows: Terrorist attacks – the impact of 9/11 caused the company to lose a lot of money due to the fact that air travel declined significantly. People weren’t flying as much as flight schedules were cancelled because people were scared to fly. In addition, airplanes re-orders were being rescheduled.
Simon Kovecki was in charge of implementing this new system, but he ended up with failure that left MidSouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) with lost data on the old systems, and an inoperable UNITRAK system. This case study illustrates the problems that MSCC went through after acquiring the UNITRAK system. In writing this report on the challenges of implementing a new operational system I hope to have a better understanding of maintaining documentation and organizational structure. The Midsouth Chamber of Commerce case is about the complexities when implementing a new technology system and the challenges when technology systems fail. Since the implementation of the Unitrak software, Midsouth Chamber of Commerce has continued to make incompetent management decisions, when it is related to building an IT infrastructure, for their
Because FEMA did not have sound operations to begin with, it only added to the headache of trying to come up with a core disaster management organization which made the communication cease. Because there have been so many problems with FEMA and DHS in the past, it has led the federal government to examine their options in creating a better organizational solution. The federal government is now looking to solutions such as changing federal law to give the president authority to order federal assistance in the absence of requests from state governors, enlarging the role of the Department of Defense and other federal departments for domestic emergency response, and removing FEMA from DHS and have its director report directly to the President (Majors 2008). As of today DHS has shown inadequate interest in communicating with the public and when the results are in, it hasn’t always been positive for example, FEMA unsuccessful communication in Hurricane Katrina. DHS and its State and local partners need to address these factors to improve its communicating with the American people (Bullock, J., Haddow, G., & Coppola, D. 2012 pg.