...Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation with IT Otis was the largest manufacturer, installer, and servicer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways in the world. Otis Elevator company has reformed itself as a service oriented company from an old line industrial company. This was possible due to the company’s focus on orders of magnitude improvements in logistics and service. It has integrated all the functions needed in perspective of customer and developed a single customer-centric business model. One Interesting fact is that 80% of the company’s revenue comes from outside the united states. This emphasizes that globalization played a significant role in terms of customer base, revenue. So, going forward the company should concentrate in expanding it’s operations all over the world, especially the emerging economies and attaining diversified customer database. One can easily infer form Otis transformation that Information Technology, Improvement in information flow and understanding market trend, customer needs plays a major role in changing the face of the company. Otis has restructured itself taking upon the fact that customer service, maintenance contributes more to the market along with the sales. OTISLINE Customer service center is one of the early IT applications in Otis which helped Otis dispatch group respond to customer in less than a sec. IT applications aids in improving visibility of business performance to management and...
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...Business Context/Key Business Drivers * Otis is the largest manufacture, installer, and servicer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways in the world * Specialize in logistics, service excellence, and total solutions for customers * Key drivers: * Transform the culture of Otis to become a single-customer centric business model to increase profitability, attract new and maintain current customers to beat out competition * Shift focus of the Otisfrom manufacturing to logistics and information management Initiative Objectives/Benefits * Redefining the processes in the engineering, supply chain, sales, and field operations sectors to improve innovation, quality, cost, and speed * Convert the culture and migrate core business competencies from product and service management to customer solution management and logistics and information management * OTISLINE Customer Service Center * Centralize customer service system to improve service delivery, response time, and cumulative product issues in the field * Improveperformance visibility of the elevator service business to management * Reduce callbacks, improve product reliability resulting in improved customer satisfaction, thereby, reducing maintenance contract cancellations * Restructuring the company, eliminating several layers of management and speeding communication between field mechanics, customers, and company management * REM elevator monitoring ...
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...Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation With IT Otis Elevator, a subsidiary of United Technology, has witnessed many transformations since Elisha Graves Otis first found the company in 1853. As a result of these transformations, the company has become the leader in its industry as the world’s largest manufacturer, installer, and servicer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways. Across the world, the company has over 1.5 billion elevators and over 100,000 escalators in operation, with some operating inside some of the world’s most prominent building structures. Today, mainly informational technology (IT) is responsible for the company becoming the leader of its industry. During the years from 2000 to 2004, the company experienced significant growth and grew to over 61,000 employees with operations in over 200 countries. As this growth occurred, the elevator service market became more stable as there were now elevators installed in almost all buildings in the world’s major cities. The company’s profits now relied heavily on the service and repair of elevators and escalators. The problem at hand was that the company was facing new competitors in the global market, including other similar elevators manufacturers and also other companies that exclusively offered elevator services and repairs. At this point in time the then president of Otis Elevators, Ari Bousbib, knew it was time to remake the company “To become the recognized leader in service excellence among...
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...TIS ELEVATOR Accelerating Business Transformation with IT Company Background Otis Elevator is named for the company’s founder, Elisha Graves Otis, who invented the “safety brake elevator” in 1853, then become of the company under United Technologies (UTC). Otis core business was the design, manufacture, installation, and service of elevators and related products, including escalators and moving walkways. By 2004, Otis had 1.5 million elevators and 100,000 escalators operating throughout the world. Otis had elevators in 10 of the world’s 20 tallest buildings and more than 1.4 million elevators and escalators under maintenance. Otis sold products in more than 200 countries and territories. Engineering headquarters was in Farmington, Connecticut with international facilities in Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Korea, and China. Revenues climbed from $6 billion in 2000 to $8 billion by the end of 2003 with 80% coming from outside the United States. The company had always provided solid and steady profit contribution to UTC since its acquisition more than 25 years earlier. In the period from 2000 through 2003, Otis’s contribution to UTC’s profit increased from 25% to 35%. Otis’s sales and profit growth helped drive the strong performance of UTC, which had projected revenue of $35 billion for 2004, 14% over 2003’s. Early Application of IT (OTISLINE) In The early 1980s, Otis created a centralized customer service system to dispatch service mechanics. IT worked...
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...Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation with IT At Harvard the only thing considered duller, safer, and less adventurous than working for a bank was working for some old-line can't-miss industrial firm like Otis Elevator, which only needed caretakers. —Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), p. 31 At the northeast corner of 20th Street is the turreted red-brick Victorian Apartment house . . . the first cooperative apartment house in New York City. Peek into the luxurious lobby! The foyer is adorned with stained glass and Minton tiles, and the building is equipped with Otis hydraulic elevators installed in 1883, and among the oldest of their kind still in service. —Gerard R. Wolfe, New York: 15 Walking Tours (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003), p. 261 In early 2004, Otis Elevator President An Bousbib (pronounced boozbe) finalized his presentation to United Technologies (UTC)—the parent company. The past 12 months had been a success for Otis, as highlighted in the 2003 Annual Report: Otis completed the second-largest acquisition in its history with the addition of Amtech Elevator Services. Amtech brings . . . a customer base spanning universities, hotels, hospitals, airports and convention centers throughout the United States. Overall, Otis revenues grew by more than $1 billion to $7.9 billion. Operating profit increased by more than $300 million to $1.38 billion, and operating profit margin grew by more than one point to 17.4%) Otis was the...
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...this sublime juxtapositional tautology has gone unnoticed until now is itself remarkable. We're so exquisitely privileged to be living in this time, to be born right on the precipice of the greatest paradigm shift in human history, the only thing that approaches the importance of that reality is finding like minds that realize the same, and being able to make some connection with them. If these books have influenced you the same way that they have us, we invite your contact at the email addresses listed below. Enjoy, Michael Beight, piman_314@yahoo.com Steven Reddell, cronyx@gmail.com Here are some new links that we’ve found interesting: KurzweilAI.net News articles, essays, and discussion on the latest topics in technology and accelerating intelligence. SingInst.org The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: think tank devoted to increasing Humanity’s odds of experiencing a safe, beneficial Singularity. Many interesting articles on such topics as Friendly AI, Existential Risks. A SingInst.org/Media Videos, audio, and PowerPoints from the Singularity Summits; and videos about SIAI’s purpose. blinkx.com/videos/kurzweil Videos on the internet in which the word “Kurzweil” is spoken. Great new resource! PRAISE FOR THE...
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...Breakout Strategy Cycle Companies Getting on the Fast Track Companies Staying Out Front Types of Capital and the Capital Accumulation Process The Vision Wheel State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Organization State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Culture State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Relationships State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Markets The Six Pillars of a Value Proposition Leveraging up the Apple Value Proposition Reconciling Different Value Propositions Leveraging up Samsung Electronics’ Value Proposition Components of a Business Model Aligning the Business Model and Value Proposition Business Model Needs Analysis Delivering Strategy System Balance and Strategy Delivery at CEMEX Organizational Culture and Cultural Reproduction Breakout Leadership Capabilities Chapter 1 Breakout Strategy ______________________________________________ We all want to identify the essential ingredient that makes for outstanding business success, the decisive factor that differentiates exceptional companies from those that are just plain average. Sadly, like the elixir of...
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...permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, website www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN 978-0-470-34381-4 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.1 Bill Gates Microsoft I’m not hiring MBA students for the technology you learn while in school, but for your ability to learn...
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...permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, website www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN 978-0-470-34381-4 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.1 Bill Gates Microsoft I’m not hiring MBA students for the technology you learn while in school, but for your ability to learn...
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...FOR BLYTHE Acknowledgments My profound thanks to three dear friends with whom I have the great luxury of working: my editor, Jason Kaufman; my agent, Heide Lange; and my counselor, Michael Rudell. In addition, I would like to express my immense gratitude to Doubleday, to my publishers around the world, and, of course, to my readers. This novel could not have been written without the generous assistance of countless individuals who shared their knowledge and expertise. To all of you, I extend my deep appreciation. To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. The Secret Teachings of All Ages ———————————— FACT: In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today. Its cryptic text includes references to an ancient portal and an unknown location underground. The document also contains the phrase “It’s buried out there somewhere.” All organizations in this novel exist, including the Freemasons, the Invisible College, the Office of Security, the SMSC, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. All rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real. ———————————— Prologue House of the Temple 8:33 P.M. The secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret had always been how to die. The thirty-four-year-old initiate gazed down at the human skull cradled in his palms. The skull was hollow, like...
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...under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, website www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call 1-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN 978-0-470-34381-4 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.1 Bill Gates Microsoft I’m not hiring MBA students for the technology you learn while in...
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...Case Featuring Wal-Mart Wal-Mart’s Competitive Advantage (Chapter 1) ● Working Conditions at Wal-Mart (Chapter 2) ● Wal-Mart’s Bargaining Power over Suppliers (Chapter 3) ● Human Resource Strategy and Productivity at Wal-Mart (Chapter 4) ● How Wal-Mart Became a Cost Leader (Chapter 5) ● Wal-Mart’s Global Expansion (Chapter 6) ● WalMart Internally Ventures a New Kind of Retail Store (Chapter 8) ● Sam Walton’s Approach to Implementing Wal-Mart’s Strategy (Chapter 9) Strategy in Action Features A Strategic Shift at Microsoft (Chapter 1) ● The Agency Problem at Tyco (Chapter 2) ● Circumventing Entry Barriers into the Soft Drink Industry (Chapter 3) ● Learning Effects in Cardiac Surgery (Chapter 4) ● How to Make Money in the Vacuum Tube Business (Chapter 5) ● The Evolution of Strategy at Procter & Gamble (Chapter 6) ● Diversification at 3M: Leveraging Technology (Chapter 7) ● News Corp’s Successful Acquisition Strategy (Chapter 8) ● How to Flatten and Decentralize Structure (Chapter 9) Practicing Strategic Management Application-based activities intended to get your students thinking beyond the book. Small-Group Exercises Short experiential exercises that ask students to coordinate and collaborate on group work focused on an aspect of strategic management. Exploring the Web Internet exercises that require students to explore company websites and answer chapter-related questions. Designing a Planning System (Chapter 1) Evaluating Stakeholder Claims (Chapter 2) Competing...
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...Case Featuring Wal-Mart Wal-Mart’s Competitive Advantage (Chapter 1) ● Working Conditions at Wal-Mart (Chapter 2) ● Wal-Mart’s Bargaining Power over Suppliers (Chapter 3) ● Human Resource Strategy and Productivity at Wal-Mart (Chapter 4) ● How Wal-Mart Became a Cost Leader (Chapter 5) ● Wal-Mart’s Global Expansion (Chapter 6) ● WalMart Internally Ventures a New Kind of Retail Store (Chapter 8) ● Sam Walton’s Approach to Implementing Wal-Mart’s Strategy (Chapter 9) Strategy in Action Features A Strategic Shift at Microsoft (Chapter 1) ● The Agency Problem at Tyco (Chapter 2) ● Circumventing Entry Barriers into the Soft Drink Industry (Chapter 3) ● Learning Effects in Cardiac Surgery (Chapter 4) ● How to Make Money in the Vacuum Tube Business (Chapter 5) ● The Evolution of Strategy at Procter & Gamble (Chapter 6) ● Diversification at 3M: Leveraging Technology (Chapter 7) ● News Corp’s Successful Acquisition Strategy (Chapter 8) ● How to Flatten and Decentralize Structure (Chapter 9) Practicing Strategic Management Application-based activities intended to get your students thinking beyond the book. Small-Group Exercises Short experiential exercises that ask students to coordinate and collaborate on group work focused on an aspect of strategic management. Exploring the Web Internet exercises that require students to explore company websites and answer chapter-related questions. Designing a Planning System (Chapter 1) Evaluating Stakeholder Claims (Chapter 2) Competing...
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...copyright holders noted. This special edition published in cooperation with Pearson Custom Publishing Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Please visit our web site at www.pearsoncustom.com ISBN 0–536–63099-2 BA 993095 PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING 75 Arlington Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116 A Pearson Education Company SECTION ONE Understanding Marketing Management Marketing in the Twenty-First Century We will address the following questions: ■ What are the tasks of marketing? ■ What are the major concepts and tools of marketing? ■ What orientations do companies exhibit in the marketplace? ■ How are companies and marketers responding to the new challenges? C hange is occurring at an accelerating rate; today is not like yesterday, and tomorrow will be different...
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...CONNECT FEATURES Interactive Applications Interactive Applications offer a variety of automatically graded exercises that require students to apply key concepts. Whether the assignment includes a click and drag, video case, or decision generator, these applications provide instant feedback and progress tracking for students and detailed results for the instructor. Case Exercises The Connect platform also includes author-developed case exercises for all 12 cases in this edition that require students to work through answers to assignment questions for each case. These exercises have multiple components and can include: calculating assorted financial ratios to assess a company’s financial performance and balance sheet strength, identifying a company’s strategy, doing five-forces and driving-forces analysis, doing a SWOT analysis, and recommending actions to improve company performance. The content of these case exercises is tailored to match the circumstances presented in each case, calling upon students to do whatever strategic thinking and strategic analysis is called for to arrive at a pragmatic, analysis-based action recommendation for improving company performance. eBook Connect Plus includes a media-rich eBook that allows you to share your notes with your students. Your students can insert and review their own notes, highlight the text, search for specific information, and interact with media resources. Using an eBook with Connect Plus gives your...
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