• Management may be spread too thin – All managers were pressed by the requirements of everyday business. • Management group works informally with a minimal amount of structured reports and controls. • Overall, mgmt. appears stretched very thin – may lead to stagnant innovation, employment turnover, etc. • Specialty manufacturers in the international market are succeeding – domestic manufacturers not innovating • Manufacturing system is run primarily on estimates and requires constant change – possible use for a JIT inventory system?
Despite CanGo’s initial success, however, the organization is not without its fair share of concerns. The primary issue with CanGo is that it lacks a formal strategic business plan. The company has also failed to clearly define what its short-term goals and long-term goals are and how it plans to go about realizing those goals. The company also has problems with its current organizational structure. Although roles are clearly defined, CanGo often succumbs to a centralized form of decision-making, with Elizabeth Bennett micromanaging to such a degree that the decision-making process almost becomes paralyzed.
Despite CanGo’s initial success, however, the organization is not without its fair share of concerns. The primary issue with CanGo is that it lacks a formal strategic business plan. The company has also failed to clearly define what its short-term goals and long-term goals are and how it plans to go about realizing those goals. The company also has problems with its current organizational structure. Although roles are clearly defined, CanGo often succumbs to a centralized form of decision-making, with Elizabeth Bennett micromanaging to such a degree that the decision-making process almost becomes paralyzed.
End Vision First, I think that implementing a good management plan by the upper level management is very important for KFF’s to succeed as a company. Having a replacement inventory coordinator who purchases the best possible products for all three stores, Also, having a person who controls the accounts payable, receivables, and finances that coordinate all vendors get paid on time will allow Kathy Kudler to focus more on duties that need more attention. For instance, implement a better website for the business will give better benefits to customer, therefore, sells will increase. The company needs to understand the difference between having a website and having an effective website. The website that is in place in KFF only displays the goods and services.
Hypothesis 7: Enterprises do not agree with respect to the factors acting as barrier to the SCM implementation. In order to pinpoint the obstacles and bottlenecks, and to achieve superior performance, organizations embrace benchmarking as a strategic tool (Rigby, 2013). Shirley (1996) defined benchmarking as a continuous and systematic process in which an organization’s processes or practices are compared with its rivals having a better position in the marketplace, to discover the best way to perform a particular activity or process. Benchmarking imparts better comprehension of the current practices of the organization and allows the firms to re-engineer their business processes, so that they can attain best-in-class performance or beyond
1) It is apparent from the lack of receiving critical information that frontline construction workers / managers are either not aware of (or buy into) the aggressive timeframe for completing the towers. They also appear to lack a clear method to communicate issues beyond the weekly status meetings. While some of the strongest positive feedback received for Erik has been the organization of these meetings, there appears to be a disconnect in how they are perceived: Construction attendees apparently believe this is where all status, including emergencies, are communicated; Erik and Curt appear to expect it as a routine checkpoint with no surprises. 2) Erik's manager, Jeff Hardy, has not done well at clarifying the General Manager's role, or in helping Erik establishing boundaries for the position. No one has put the brakes on Erik's actions, implying agreement.
There are not enough regulations and monitoring system for the daily accounting activities. For instance, management and auditors spend very little time reviewing the insignificance of petty cash account. So the five elements of internal control is not work well in this company. The control environment was not effective; there was no effective risk management, which helped the company to realize its objectives; control activities and monitoring are lack. Moreover, the CEO is ultimately responsible for the internal control who assumes primary responsibility for the system of internal control.
MEMO TO: Leon Lassiter FROM: Elbay Aliyev SUBJECT: Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (B): Cleaning Up an Information Systems Debacle One of the first mistakes on behalf of MSCC was the fact that nothing was learned from past mistakes and the company relied on DMA too much. Even though any company can go through financial difficulties, much larger organizations could have a big capability of handling such difficulties and provide long-term support of a product for their clients. Another major source of the problems within the MSCC has come from negligent decision making of Gramen. The company has made the decision to move on from UNITRAK once Gramen was hired to replace Kovecki. The reason why Gramen was not a good candidate for a position is that he was extremely familiar with HP system, whereas the currently operating systems have been running on IBM AS/400.
Without the knowledge about how specific industry works, it is very hard to manage and lead the team to progress and be successful. To make things even worse, Peterson had to report to Jeff Hardy, who was Director of Budgets and Plans and also had no experience in systems operations. This was the first sign of miscommunication in the company. One of the biggest problems for Erik Peterson was bad communication and lack of expertise from the chief engineer Curt Anderson. Peterson showed decent managerial skills by giving specific instructions on how to improve Curt’s ability to plan and organize.
Verbal communication is also immediate; therefore you know that the other person has got your message. For Apple verbal communication will appear both internally and externally as it is the best way to communicate with others. For example, customer assistants would normally speak to customers verbally, this is the best way to provide good customer service because it is the most effective, polite way to help customers, it is also a lot quicker and the customer has all of the staff member’s attention. This makes it very quick and easy to correct any issued brought up by customers if they need to be addressed. • Written Information This is the use of physical symbols to represent words; however written information also includes diagrams, graphs and charts, all types of visual representation.