...A Framework for Case Analysis Case analysis is a problem solving process. You are demonstrating in a systematic way how you have defined a key problem/issue, identified plausible, realistic alternatives (not necessarily limited by those suggested in the case), analyzed these alternatives using common criteria, and finally developed a complete set of recommendations. This process challenges your organizational and communication skills as much as your analytical and quantitative skills. Step 1. Situation Analysis. The first step in systematically analyzing an organization's marketing problems is to conduct a situation analysis. This is not part of the written case brief but it is needed before you can begin the problem solving process. Step 2. Define the Problem/Issue. Once you have conducted a thorough situation analysis, you can identify the problem(s) facing the organization. Be careful not to assume that the characters in the case are objective or accurate in identifying the problem or make a rush to judgment about the problem. Step 3. Identify plausible alternatives. What are reasonable options for solving the identified problem? While you should at least initially consider the options discussed in the case, do not assume that these are the best or even appropriate alternatives, especially if these options are not consistent with the problem. Alternatives should be plausible, not "straw men" that are just knocked aside in order to make a bee line for some obvious solution...
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...Guidelines for Addressing Case Topics FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS SITUATION ANALYSIS The Situation Analysis involves analyzing a number of internal and external factors. Important internal factors to analyze include the organizational structure, the resources at hand, and the personalities involved in the decision- making. Externally, you should analyze the organization's positioning relative to the competition, the size and characteristics of various target audiences, consumer attitudes toward the product or service, the nature of the purchase/consumption function, the salient attributes of the product or service, and the threats versus opportunities posed by the various elements of the environments (i.e., social, political, legal, technological, and economic). Secondary sources should be used for this section of your paper. Assumptions based on logic may be appropriate, if stated as such. Remember, an advertising manager will never have ALL the information he or she would like in order to make a decision. A. External Environment 1. Relevant economic, social, political, legal, technological trends 2. Nature and extent of demand a. demand elasticity b. size of the market 3. Industry structure a. entry/exit barriers b. competition 1) nature of competition 2) profile of competitors (background, resources, etc.) ...
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...Case Analysis Dustin Dabney The Treadway Tire Company Job Dissatisfaction and High Turnover at Lima Tire Plant Objective Ashley Wall, Director Human Resources for one of the plants of The Treadway Tire Company situated in Lima has to submit an effective plan to resolve the issues that are faced in the plant and are impacting the productivity and efficiency of the plant. The major issues to focus here are: ➢ Increase in Employee Turnover resulting into High Cost of Production ➢ No Induction pathway/ plan Case Analysis Briefing The tire plant at Lima is passing through a tough situation as margins and profits have abruptly decreased due to skyrocketing raw material cost and intense global competition. Although there is nothing much that can be done of increasing raw material costs, however the overall costs can be definitely reduced by reducing the employee turnover. As per the facts there are major morale issues in the line-foreman and hourly workers segment and this disease spreading in the entire plant. Now, there are several reasons at fundamental level that have resulted into this high employee turnover: ➢ Employee un-satisfaction The tried and tested approach of management by the line foreman focussed on getting the work done by the workers by hook or by crook. This resulted in decreasing morale of the workers because of unfavourable working environment. The line foreman was not having any authority over the workers, as...
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...Case Analysis Case: BONIFACIO SAVINGS AND LOANS ASSOCIATION The Bonifacio Savings and Loan Association (BSLA) in its consultative meeting for the year decided to embark on a one year deposit campaign program. Dubbed as BSLA’s “Employee Motivation Program (EMP)”, the deposit campaign is aimed to increase deposit levels which was BSLA’s traditional source of funds. Mr. Danilo Lagman, VP for operations, was chosen as overall program coordinator. After a month of preparation, Mr. Lagman and his staff is ready to launch the EMP. Under the guidelines, bank officers and employees were given account credits for every account turn in. Points were based on the operating balance and their average balances thereafter. The participants were divided into teams, with one branch/division representing one team. To monitor progress of the EMP, solicited clients surrendered introductory cards given to them by the EMP participants. Passbook/deposits certificates were then marked with the EMP logo. As an added incentive, aside from individual bonuses specific credit levels reached, special bonuses were given to teams if group targets were met. Personal and team award credits earned were summarized and distributed at the end of each month within the deposit campaign period. The more award credits earned, the more expensive the merchandise that can be redeemed. The list of prizes included calculators, watches, living room, and microwave ovens, and others. Mr. Panganiban head of the Accounting...
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...to time to write a good CAR. So, once you “get” the Big Picture of the Case, and recognize the major analysis elements (focal system(s), main problem/Alternatives, etc.): o focus on analyzing those Alternatives and coming up with some significant Findings, and especially Recommendations. o As your analysis results “solidify,” focus more and more on Writing a Good CAR and submitting by the Due Date! • Cases can contain more than 1 major “track” for their analysis, allowing for alternative versions of a CAR. So, do NOT simply imitate this Example CAR blindly for its “specific content.” Worse, DO NOT simply copy any of its parts. • Instead, use this Example CAR by way of “Reverse Engineering:” See how its contents arise logically if our Case Analysis Method (Guide) is applied to the Case. This will help you understand how our analysis method works! Then, use the same general analysis method (actually, the Approach) on the Case assigned for your CAR. • Don’t just imitate the pattern of alternative found here! Analyse and find out what alternatives make most sense in the particular Case you are working on. • No Case contains ALL the facts you want to know for its analysis. So, when analyzing Cases, be pragmatic! Do not worry about any facts beyond the Case (unless specifically instructed). Instead, conduct the “best possible” analysis using available Case-facts. • Leave Enough Time to Write a GOOD REPORT based on your...
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...sharply increased the intensity of competition in most industries. We will learn how leading firms have devised strategies, structured, and managed their organizations to achieve competitive advantage in this challenging environment. Strategic management deals with uncertainty and unstructured situations. You will learn tools and concepts for putting some structure into your analysis of strategic issues. But most strategic choices require judgment. Case studies enable us to test our judgment and learn vicariously from successful and unsuccessful managers in a variety of situations. Hence, class discussion of the cases is a central part of your learning experience. Methods: We will combine cases, lectures, individual and group papers and presentations. Pre-requisites: First semester of Core. Textbook: Jay Barney, Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Fourth Edition. Case Packet will be available. Assignments and Grading: 1. Participation: (15%) Attendance is required. Please inform the instructor in advance if you need to be absent. Participation means active involvement in the discussion of the case with evidence of preparation. 2. Article File: (5% for 1 brief, 5 minute, presentation) Once during the term you will come to class prepared to make a short presentation of an article from a business publication that fits the topic of...
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...Case Analysis This packet details the steps necessary to produce a case analysis that may be required for work in business and technology courses. This packet is not intended to replace instructor guidelines and should not be used in that manner. The packet’s intended use is as a supplement to classroom instruction on assembling a case analysis. Therefore, it contains only general information that must be tailored to fit specific guidelines as required by your discipline and by your instructor. This packet is subdivided into five sections: I. General Information States what a case is and what purposes it serves. II. Process Gives step-by-step instructions on how to get started on your case analysis. III. Format Provides a description of the most common format used in case analysis. IV. Checklist Allows appraisal of your completed case analysis to assure that it follows all necessary guidelines. V. Resources Lists helpful resources used to compile this packet provided so that you may obtain further information. General Information Definition: A case analysis is used to achieve a business goal. It is a hypothetical, yet realistic, business situation that is developed to give the student a sense of the types of business situations a manager or business owner may encounter on a daily basis; a case analysis prompt usually includes information on the business’s employees, goals and values. The situation requires a decision to be made and a solution to be proposed...
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...discussing “case” materials in light of theoretical arguments advanced in “readings.” Case materials include standard Harvard Business School cases, book chapters about individuals (Robert Moses and Henry Kissinger), corporations (e.g., Lehman Brothers and Time Warner), and industries (e.g., the auto industry), and in-class videos (e.g., a “Bill Moyer’s Journal” segment on David Rockefeller). COURSE REQUIREMENTS Final course grades will be based on student performance on three written assignments and on student participation in class discussions. Written Assignments. Each student will be expected to submit two individual case analyses that indicate what the student learned from reading and discussing the case in question. The case analyses should be one single spaced typewritten page long and should be submitted the week after the case that they address is discussed in class. Individual case analyses will be graded on a scale from 1-3 and together will comprise 10% of a student’s final grade. Each student should also form a group with three to four other students to complete a case study of a real organization. The research for this case study can be carried out using primary sources (e.g., participation observation and/or interviews) or secondary sources (e.g., books, articles, or prepared cases about a target organization). Thus, group members need not have worked in an organization to use it as the subject of their final case analysis. Other case analysis topics...
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...Case Analysis Case Analysis Case: BONIFACIO SAVINGS AND LOANS ASSOCIATION The Bonifacio Savings and Loan Association (BSLA) in its consultative meeting for the year decided to embark on a one year deposit campaign program. Dubbed as BSLA’s “Employee Motivation Program (EMP)”, the deposit campaign is aimed to increase deposit levels which was BSLA’s traditional source of funds. Mr. Danilo Lagman, VP for operations, was chosen as overall program coordinator. After a month of preparation, Mr. Lagman and his staff is ready to launch the EMP. Under the guidelines, bank officers and employees were given account credits for every account turn in. Points were based on the operating balance and their average balances thereafter. The participants were divided into teams, with one branch/division representing one team. To monitor progress of the EMP, solicited clients surrendered introductory cards given to them by the EMP participants. Passbook/deposits certificates were then marked with the EMP logo. As an added incentive, aside from individual bonuses specific credit levels reached, special bonuses were given to teams if group targets were met. Personal and team award credits earned were summarized and distributed at the end of each month within the deposit campaign period. The more award credits earned, the more expensive the merchandise that can be redeemed. The list of prizes included calculators, watches, living room, and microwave ovens, and others. Mr. Panganiban head...
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...| Entrepreneurial Growth | | Fall Semester, 2013 Man 385.24 Unique #04780 | Professor John N. Doggett Class Days Monday and Wednesdays from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Class Room UTC 4.104 Office CBA 5.124k Office Hours Wednesdays, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. or by appointment Phone 512-232-7671 E-Mail john.doggett@mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Canvas ------------------------------------------------- Teaching Assistants Grant Garlinghouse (grant.garlinghouse@mba14.mccombs.utexas.edu) Course Objectives I have taught this course since late in the last century. Today, as we approach a second global recession, helping people learn how to grow firms as astutely as possible will play a role in speeding the beginning of a new recovery. When companies like Cisco and HP abandon major market segments, it is even more important to think critically about how to grow a firm’s products. Given the chaotic period that we are entering, I have made several significant changes to this course. First, I have done away with the individual midterm. The “next” recovery will be a group effort. So will your midterm. Second, I have assigned three books. These are some of the best books out there on how to think about innovation, competition and how to grow a business. They will become “let me read that again” go-to books that you will use long after you graduate from UT. To compensate for the heavy reading load, I have eliminated...
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...Ateneo de Davao University School of Business and Governance Entrepreneurship Department Progressive Insurance: A Case Study Submitted to: Mr. Rey Navacilla Submitted by: John Paul Dela Vega Jose Antonio Kintanar Clarence Mitchell Sy Dayle Lois Tulang John Way Keith Medina Table of Contents I. Introduction…………………………………………………..…… II. Statement of the Problem…………………………………..…... III. Objectives of the Case Study………………………………..…. IV. Methodologies and Approaches…………………………….… V. Analysis of the Case a. Qualitative Tool: Fishbone Diagram………….…. b. Quantitative Tool: Decision Tree Analysis……. VI. Alternative Courses of Action (ACAs) c. Alternative Course 1……………………………..… d. Alternative Course 2……………………………….. e. Alternative Course 3……………………………..… VII. Significant Findings…………………………………………….. f. Positive Findings…………………………………… g. Negative Findings………………………………….. VIII. Recommendations…………………………………………….... IX. Conclusions……………………………………………………… I. Introduction Progressive Insurance, an automobile insurer company, which is based in Mayfield Village, Ohio. On the year of 1991 Progressive Insurance had approximately $1.3 Billion in their sales. When the year of 2006 came that $1.3 Billion in sales suddenly became $14.5 Billion. What did they do to make this figures increase so high? Nothing. For 15 years Progressive insurance just did little advertising...
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...additions.** Listen carefully for instructions our first week of class and look for >>> to know where to add additional resources from the NYT or PBS Newshour. **The reason for asking you to find/add more articles some weeks is for you to see how much there is to inform you ahead, past graduation, when you need to continue to keep learning going yourself. By then, you should bring new perspectives to the articles and changing ideas/ways of doing nearly everything. ***When NYT responses are due on a day when a case analysis is due, send ONE email with both NYT responses and case analysis included with abbreviated case name in the subject line (e.g., Google 2:30). If you are emailing with a question or about an absence, put QUESTION or ABSENCE in the subject line. Always put the start time of your section in the subject line and always send using your Baruch email account to Linda.Lopez@baruch.cuny.edu (NOT baruchmail). When responding to case questions (cases and questions found at the end of textbook chapters), recall these are analyses, not responses of one or two lines. ****Attendance is required for all panel presentations as well as for any class featuring a guest speaker. If you must leave class early, sign out on the back of the attendance sheet, noting the time and reason for leaving early. Your participation credit may be adjusted for late arrivals and early departures. > This is a discussion-based course; electronic devices/books & materials for other courses...
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...ABC Steel Company Case Analysis No description Please log in to add your comment. Report abuse Transcript of ABC Steel Company Case Analysis ABC Steel Company Case Analysis STATEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVE A. To enhance the competencies and skills of supervisors and lead men. AREAS OF THE CONSIDERATION ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION Conclusion VIEWPOINT Robert Cruz – Shop Manager of ABC Steel Company Time Context AREAS OF THE CONSIDERATION Opportunities AREAS OF THE CONSIDERATION Threats AREAS OF THE CONSIDERATION Weaknesses PROBLEM STATEMENT ABC Steel Company’s production control department failed to meet the delivery date resulting to a production backlogs due to work force related problems. ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION A. Leaders Present B. To motivate the workers to be productive and efficient. C. To improve a good relationship and communication between management and subordinates. Strengths 1. ABC Steel Company was one of the country’s largest producers of fabricated steel products. 2. ABC Steel Company had been prided itself on being a producer of top quality steel products. 3. 90% of the laborers are from a nearby barangays and many of them are barangays leaders. 1.Disciplinary problems on the production workers of the company. 2. Shortage of skilled manpower. 3. The targets are unrealistic. 4. Positions in the barangay are more highly regarded than positions in the company. 1. Established as one of the...
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...ARCTIC MINING CONSULTANTS Case Synopsis Arctic Mining Consultants is a mining company that deals with mineral exploration. In this case study, the project given is staking 15 claims in Eagle Lake, Alaska. The project Manager was Tom Parker, who has a wide experience and specialized knowledge in all nontechnical aspects of mineral exploration. He is a geological field technician and field coordinator for Arctic Mining Consultants. He assigned his previous field assistants John Talbot, Greg Boyce and Brian Millar to help him complete the project. The job required them to stake at least 7 lengths each day in order to be completed on time. However, the whole team has became very tense and agitated, especially Tom Parker, as the deadline was just around the corner and there’s still many to be finished within the limited time. The problem became worse with the way Tom managed and treated his team. The only motivation to the team was the $300 bonuses promised by the company when the job is done on time, otherwise, they might wished to give up already. This happened because working as a field assistant and in long-working hours only giving them low wages, which is considered unreasonable compared to what they have to do. During the eight hard days, everything had actually proved the strengths and weaknesses of each of the team members, including Tom. Case analysis symptoms 1) What symptom(s) exist in this case to suggest that something has gone wrong? The symptom(s) to suggest...
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...✓ Materials Needed Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy: Text and Cases, by Simons, Robert. Prentice Hall, ISBN #0-13-234006-2 Cases in Management Accounting & Control Systems 4th Edition, by Allen, Brownlee, Haskins and Lynch, Pearson-Prentice Hall, ISBN #0-13-570425-1 Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Harper Collins, ISBN#0-06-073132-X ✓ University Communication with Students All email communication from the University is sent to the student’s wsu.edu address. Please be sure that you have set up the link to forward your personal email address (aol, hotmail, etc.) or you will miss announcements and information that is very important to you. This is the email I use to contact you regarding class matters. If you change your email address, be sure to update again. ✓ Catalog Course Description with Prerequisitites 3credits: Managerial evaluation of budgeting, cost accounting, and financial analysis techniques; their utilization in control of operations. (pre-requisite acctg 550 or equivalent). Please note that pre-requisites are strictly enforced and that students will be disenrolled if they do not have course pre-requisites). ✓ Instructor Course Objectives Knowledge and Skill Expectations: Students should have the knowledge and skill level to record economic events, read and analyze financial information through the topic areas covered...
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