The first is corrupted data; data that can be altered and second is lost data; which is self-explanatory. The company should also focus on how to construct their network and how corrupted and lost data should be applied during the planning process by implementing the following prevention, detection, and data correction (Fitzgerald 122). When it comes to data communication noises can play a factor. The company needs to familiarize themselves with the different types of noise that can be cause and the type of circuit, analog or digital that relates to network errors (Fitzgerald 122). Knowing which circuit they will be using will provide them with the type of noise that will play factor and how to correct and improve on it.
Aileen Sullivan Case 1: Learning in Practice 1. I believe there were several factors that motivated PWC to develop the Ulysses program. The first factor is the ability to understand the mission and vision of the company. By not having a strong mission and vision for the company participants and leaders within the company may lose direction of the goals that they want to acquire. PWC had to evaluate their current vision and create a new vision of the firm’s values.
Provide different ways the OD consult could have prepared for the initial meeting. He could have: • Collected preliminary date of the organisation • Clarified the nature of the organisations current functioning • Clarified the issues to be addressed • Clarified what the clients possible solution might be • Determined the relevant client who can directly impact the change issue • He could have submitted a proposal to Robert Denton, in order for him to assess whether he is qualified to be chosen as the OD Practitioner 2.1 In what ways were these discussions effective or ineffective for the OD Practitioner? • The discussions were ineffective as Denton could only provide him the symptom of the problem in a vague statement “ things nag at me that I can’t put my finger on ... ... we haven’t yelled together as team quite like I’d hoped” 2.2 Are there other questions that might have been asked to clarify organisational issues? • Asked around the nature of the organisations current functioning • Clarified the specific issues to be addressed • Asked Denton his clients possible solution might be • Asked Denton who can directly impact the change issue 3.1 How was the mutual expectations, time and resources and ground rules determined? • Mutual expectations was only discussed in the form of the OD Consultants fee, they did discuss the time in the sense of a weekend retreat and resources was discussed in that the OD Consultant will conduct employee interviews and the only ground rule discussed was
There is a problem to antici pate the under developed material need to be solved and how to control the cost is also the issue, if the company need to be more stronger especially under the fast development situation, no doubt cost control will be very important. Meantime the internal supply chain communication is not so efficient which also need to be improved. According to the current situation, to reset the external supplier structure and internal management improvement is kind of supplier management and BVSx in on the way now. SWOT analysis [键入文字] Strength Weakness • No.2 in the field and still grows fast, has more bargain power towards the suppliers • Strong R&D competence • Independent from the corporate parent, relatively easy for decision making •
2. I would recommend working closely to address the problematic trend with the seats on two fronts: the quality control with KFS and the discovery of the reason for the differences between the first and second shift. The recommended actions related to KFS would be on incoming inspection. It is unclear if the material flaws are directly related to the manufacturing process at KFS, the transport, or the transfer process into the TMS line. This can be easily
Problem Statement Virgin Mobile is planning to enter the U.S. market in July 2002. Their objective is to reach 1 million total subscribers by the end of the first year, and 3 million by year four. This represents 0.8% and 2.3% of the current market size. Their biggest concern is how to price their service. Virgin Mobile wants their prices to be competitive, allowing them to make money without triggering off competitive reactions.
Advantages of owning 100% of Genentech’s shares: • The merger will lead to formation of the world’s largest biotechnology company. • Value of total benefit from synergies will be $5billion. This will be a result of M&D, manufacturing, development and administrative costs reduction. • Complete ownership will give the company complete access to technology and R&D projects. • It will also give the company access to its cash amounting to $9.5billion, which can also be used to make payment for debt raised for acquisition.
However, customers were asked by Lego to change their order behavior. Moreover, sales offices began to order from larger manufacturers. In consequence, the initial calculation by DHL based on the number of orders didn’t work out as the overall number of orders dropped significantly. à Key learning: Communication and transparency to parties involved is important as otherwise problems need to be solved later on • Moreover DHL was struggling with the number of different rules that were applied to different customers. This finally caused several system halts that needed to be managed.
The company lacked synergy among departments which often resulted in technical glitches that cost time and money during the design moves. Straberg recruited other company executives with strong track records in innovation to speed the transition. These members were from a heterogeneous group with a “variety of knowledge, information, and experience to draw upon (Ivancevich, p. 284).” The idea was to incorporate a member from every group to accomplish a common organizational goal. The proximity of these members increased interactions. “Highly cohesive groups are important forces in influencing organizational behavior (p. 291).” This approach created groupthink among the members because not everyone had previously participated in product creations.
The proper education and training is very essential and crucial. This has contributed to the fact that managing the project was a total failure. Furthermore, the work load might have been too mixed and too much to handle. A specialization on the industries norms and regulation would have been the better way to go i.e. according to application or customer requirements.