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Team Assignment (W10TA): Planning Production for Toyota North America Lexus RX 350, Successor in 2007 to the RX 330 Photo courtesy of Toyota Motor Company Assignment Taskings Address the following four exercises: Exercise 1: Making a Critical Assessment of the Toyota Production System (TPS) Today a. Demonstrate your team's basic understanding of the TPS by 1)defining in your team's own words any eight of the terms found athttp://www.toyotageorgetown.com/terms.asp, and 2) applying them to one or more of your team's own companies or other organizations. For example, Pokayoke can be defined as an approach to create mistake proofing through use of devices that detect or prevent production errors. At a software development firm, pokayoke might be applied through use of a modular development process that includes extensive software module testing before proceeding to module integration and total system testing. b.
About the size of a bar of soap, this device competed against the SkyTel two-way paging network developed by Motorola”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_In_Motion “In 2006 Research In Motion and Information Appliance Associates reached a licensing agreement whereby RIM would offer the complete version of PocketMac for BlackBerry to Macintosh users free of charge”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_In_Motion “In October 2008, RIM was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine”. http://www1.rim.com/careers.html “On August 18, 2009, Fortune Magazine named RIM as the fastest growing company in the world with a growth of 84% in profits over three years despite the recession”. “On March 26, 2010, the company announced acquisition of BlackBerry applications developer Viigo, a Toronto-based company.
Retrieved from: http://corporate.ford.com/our-company/country-websites Information for Ford unionization retrieved from: http://history.com/ford. 2011 Form 10K, Ford Motor Company, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37996/000003799612000007/f12312011-10k.htm#s2EC777AC8954D6FDEBEC89ECB25850C0) Lucass,J. J., & Furdek, J.M. (2010). Did the Labor Contracts Between the UAW and The Big Three Automakers Work?
Strategic Plan: Tesla chooses Nevada for its battery ‘Gigafactory’ Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………….. 3 Organizational Background……………………………………………………………...4 Situational Analysis of the Current State………………………………………………..5 Internal Environment……………………………………………………………..5 External Environment…………………………………………………………….6 Optimum End-State……………………………………………………………………...9 Gap Analysis…………………………………………………………………………….10 Implementation Plan…………………………………………………………………….13 Financial Pro Formas……………………………………………………………………15 Critical Success Factors…………………………………………………………………15 Assessment Plan…………………………………………………………………………16 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….17 Appendices………………………………………………………………………………18 Appendix A – SWOT Analysis…………………………………………………..18 Appendix B – Decision Matrix…………………………………………………..19 Appendix C – Gigafactory Layout……………………………………………….20 Appendix D – Income Statement…………………………………………………21 Appendix E – Stock Chart………………………………………………………..22 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………...23 Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of Tesla’s strategic plan and its recent decision to invest in a Gigafactory located in Nevada. Tesla will build the Gigafactory in order to create economies of scale to reduce the cost of batteries needed for its electric vehicles. This, in turn, will help Tesla gain a strong foothold in the affordable electronic vehicle market. Methods of analysis include a situational and GAP analysis of Tesla’s current state and optimum end state, an implementation plan showing the tools and steps Tesla has taken to carry out the new Gigafactory project, financial pro formas evaluating the company’s financial health and the impact of the Gigafactory on Tesla’s finances, critical success factors showing the uniqueness Tesla has compared to their competitors, and an assessment
CASE 2-3: FORD MOTOR COMPANY: SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY GROUP 5 Wiphu – Kirakit – Kittiphon Tacha – Pimonpich – Ariyawan 08/17/2010 OUTLINE A) General Issues B) Main Stakeholders C) Theory and Concepts D) Symptoms and Problems E) Alternatives & Evaluation Criteria F) Best Solution & Implementation Plan G) Evaluation and Review of the Project H) Current Status Update A) GENERAL ISSUES Facts: Founded by Henry Ford in 1903, with a head quarter in Detroit, Michigan The main business is design and manufacture of automobiles for sale on a global scales with 370,000 employees Ford is the second largest auto-maker in the United States In 1995, Ford implemented a corporate restructure plan called Ford2000 in order to reduce production cost by re-engineering and globalizing. Process such as OTD, order to delivery, and FPS, Ford production system were introduced. In mid-1995, Ford Motor Company launched a public Internet site to provide product information to potential customers surfing the internet world. Information technology became a tool for success in every single reengineering project of the company. Challenges: What is the best way to implement new IT technologies to provide information and share ideas with customers and suppliers at the highest level.
And finally, we are going to analyze and discuss their true intentions. Because today´s society is based on consumption, cars advertising not only could persuade people to buy a car, but also the techniques and scenery used to manipulate them. First of all, we will describe the first advertising which is the Sonata from Hyundai. At first sight, we can perceive the bright blue sky surrounded with a few spongy clouds as cotton candy. Down below, we can see a number of tall grey buildings and huge skyscrapers like if someone were in New York City.
Business Economics (2011) 46, 167–170. doi:10.1057/be.2011.10 Keywords: Ford, electric vehicles, global strategy, sustainability he NABE Policy Conference offerings during the last 10 years have been increasingly at the forefront of emerging economic policy topics, with subject matter experts participating in panel sessions or giving keynote addresses on important issues confronting global policymakers. This year’s session on “Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy Standards” was no exception. T As chief economist at Ford Motor Company, I represent a global automotive industry leader, with about 166,000 employees and 70 plants worldwide. Ford manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents.
Porsche must sell 5,773 units in order to break-even. Porsche advertisements must be consistent cross-country. Recommendation Porsche should create a marketing campaign targeting towards a high-income audience. This strategy aligns with Porsches existing marketing mix, and will generate the company additional revenues. Problem Jasmin Rawlinson, director of marketing at Porsche Canada, is creating her marketing plan for the year of 2010.
Ford and the world Auto-mobile industry 2012 Ford And the world Auto-mobile industry 2012 Name: Lakna Peththawadu Stage: 2 Date of completion: 30/11/2013 Page 1 Ford and the world Auto-mobile industry 2012 1) The world automobile industry has experienced low profitability during the past two decades. What features of the industry have caused intensify competition and low profitability? The automobile industry was the homeland of major management concepts that made significant changes in the world economy. For an instance Henry Ford’s mass production and later lean production techniques brought to light by Toyota as a means of catering to tremendous changes requiring flexibility and efficiency. Being the guru of the management techniques, the automobile industry yet face declining profitability owing to its own inherited inefficiencies.