...Xerox Management Close-up Xerox CEO, Anne Mulcahy had her hands full when she took on the responsibility of fixing Xerox’s debt problems. Even though she did not know how to fix everything, she made it a point to educate herself on the unknown subjects and began to find a way to fix them. Not only does Anne Mulcahy show what it means to be a leader, she also showed what it meant to have great managerial skills. This paper is going to discuss what it took for Anne Mulcahy to fix Xerox. Despite the massive $18-billioin debt Xerox had accumulated, Anne Mulcahy had a vision and a plan to save the company she loved. In order to achieve her goals, she needed to get her co-workers on board, as well. In order to get her co-workers on board, she needed to have a well thought out plan of action. Anne recognized there was a massive debt looming over her company, and she also recognized that Xerox was about to go under. Despite the negative remarks people gave to Anne for trying to fix the company, she went ahead and fixed it. By doing so, Anne saved thousands of jobs. Before Anne Mulcahy became CEO, the previous CEO had put the company further in debt. His managerial skills were faulty because there was a lack of structure and there must have been a large amount of uncertainty. This can be assumed because he had only lasted 13 months as CEO. When there is a lack of structure and uncertainty, there will always be conflict. The conflict here is that the old CEO had done nothing to fix...
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...DELL INC Strategic Planning at United Parcel Service (UPS) Case Analysis Name Student ID Course Code Course : : : : Harinath Mathavan 30109283 BUMGT 5926 Strategic Management of Change Contents 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 5.0 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 6.0 7.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 2 Company Background ...................................................................................................... 2 Strategic Planning: Critical Assessment .......................................................................... 3 Strategic Problems and Solutions..................................................................................... 4 Strong Local and Regional Government Regulations ...................................................... 4 Rising Fuel Prices............................................................................................................. 4 Intense Competition ......................................................................................................... 5 Strategic Opportunities and Exploitation Strategy ........................................................... 5 Expansion of E-Business .................................................................................................. 5 Geographical Expansion .................................................................................................. 5 Business to...
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...Questions: 1) Why would having an available strategy be a positive for a firm? An available strategy can contribute to a firm in several ways. Firstly, the strategy developing process requires a firm to identify its resources and capabilities, evaluate the external context, and study its competitors. People involved in this process can take the chance to think through their ideas and try convincing others through the discussions. More importantly, a short and easily-understood strategy can be readily communicated and internalized among the employees in the firm. It aligns personal choices and decisions of everyone within the firm, thus making execution of the strategy more successful. Lastly, after the strategy is formed, it also reduces cost in terms of time and energy spent on the decision making during implementation, for instance, whether to have more financial advisors in an office or have more offices. This is because the strategy has already provided the guideline and defined a clear objective, scope and advantage of the business. 2) In what case would this not be a positive? The first issue came into my mind is that a simple and clear strategy known to everyone in the firm could be easily stolen by strong competitors, especially those big companies with sufficient capital and relevant experience. To be specific, companies such as Tencent, Baidu have “integrated” or acquired some features developed in startups. Consequently, it is extremely difficult for small companies...
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...The movie UP is perfect for ABC yeah the movie of the house flying with a bunch of balloons. The movie consists on a young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure-spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a lost land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. So he decides to go in an adventure, while he gets stuked with a young scout kid The movie up is perfect for ABC because it covers your basic requirements. The movie UP does not contain violence or profanity it is classified PG, in addition the movie UP has a perfect length of 1hr 29 minutes. ABC wants this movie because this points are important to consider, it is important because there is going to be children of a young age that could be sensitive at violence, that could lead to an unwanted behavior. Furthermore older people can be more susceptible to violence and could dislike the movie if so, your audience will really love this movie. Don't forget about the perfect length you have to take in notice that the movie UP is not a long movie so that kids can stay focused at the movie, and is not short so that you have time to appreciate it you must consider this factor a lot so that you can make you audience happy. I guarantee that they will love it. Paul Chambers from CNN Radio, ''Pure joy and one of the best films of the year. You gotta have a good story, and this one is a gem. It even made a bit misty-eyed. Good stuff from Pixar''. Also Dan jardine from...
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...UP (2009) Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Negal, Bob Peterson Director: Pete Docter A 3D animated film named ‘ Up ‘ which directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar Animation Studio and released by Walt Disney Pictures portrays the adventure of an old widower named Carl Fredrickson (voiced by Edward Asner) fulfilling his lifelong dream along with a young Junior Wilderness Explorer named Russell (voiced by Jordan Nagai) and a talking Golden Retriever named Dug (voiced by Bob Peterson) Carl Fredrickson always dreams to become an adventurer ever since he was a kid. He then met Ellie and both of them became friends. Both of them idolized explorer Charles Muntz (voiced by Christopher Plummer) and Carl has promised Ellie he will move their clubhouse, an abandoned house in the neighborhood to a cliff beside Paradise Fall in South America. In just 8 to 15 minutes, the film has shown how Carl and Ellie grew up and got married. As both of them grow older into their old age, one day Carl decided to surprise Ellie with two flight tickets to South America but unfortunately Ellie suddenly becomes ill and passed away. Sometimes later, a court orders Carl to move to a retirement home because he accidentally injured a construction worker for damaging his mailbox. However, instead of moving to a retirement home, Carl decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie by tying balloons to his house and make it fly. A young Wilderness Explorer named Russell accidentally...
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...Operation Management at UPS Katina Taylor FSJC Jacksonville Operation Management Michael Neff December 1, 2012 Abstract This paper will discuss the different operation management policies and leadership practices at United Parcel Services (UPS), one of the premier shipping companies in the world. This paper will discuss the growth and different training programs that UPS offers to its managers and employees. It will also review the way external and internal works, failures of operation and how to anticipate a problem that UPS deal with on a daily day, UPS links millions of organizations and individuals together, by delivering an average of 15 million packages and documents in more than 220 countries and territories to achieve the growth of success. Organizing Within UPS UPS is one of the world's largest private logistics transportation and a global leader in OM. Our mission is to increase the efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of global commerce by combining the shipping activities of our customers into a single, highly efficient logistics network. UPS has been a marketplace innovator for more than a century, and we've maintained that pace. With 2009 revenue of 45.3 billion dollars and 1,801 operating facilities, UPS has certainly figured out how to efficiently and effectively organize their management within their corporation. Knowing how to resourcefully organize a management system within...
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...transportation company called united parcel service (UPS). It provides the services on deliver the parcels for the market of domestic by air-express or ground delivery. UPS is a popular company that able to provide a stable and low-cost delivery of small parcels in united state or even the other country. The rule, regulation, policies and procedures have been given to the UPS worker so that they can work well on their job and they accept this highly regimented system too. As the time passed for a few years, UPS has to face more competitors that appear in the market. In order to compete with their competitor and maintain their famousness, UPS increased its parcel weight and size limits. The drivers have to accept the changing on how to use the new rules and services like speedier deliveries or heavier loads. Other than that, it also starts to deliver the letters to most of the country from early in the morning until midnight. Due to this entire problem, the UPS workers start to complaint and feel stress. After the productivity of UPS getting slowly decline, they realize that the style and technique they used in the past would not work within the company. UPS need to have some improvement to restrain the company rather than suffering the workers. 1. Which approach under the Classical management had UPS practiced that made UPS successful in the past? Explain the advantages of the approach 1.1 Introduction After being established for many years, UPS has built their reputation through their...
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...Running head: UPS 1 United Parcel Services Aaron Carter Mount Vernon Nazarene University IBS 3013 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES IN BUSINESS BBA017MV June 17, 2013 David Skinner UPS 2 United Parcel Service Abstract United Parcel Service is the world’s number 1 provider of commercial and civilian shipments. The company ships to all parts of the US, Asia, Europe and most all of the Continents on the planet. The company seemingly has the world market cornered when it comes to the shipment of packages and documents. Except for a couple of competitors, UPS controls the market. The challenge for this writer is to make recommendations and suggestions of how this company can grow even stronger and expand its already enormous global appeal amongst consumers. This essay will reveal the history of the company, evaluate the business model that UPS currently works under and will give recommendations on how the model can be expounded upon to ultimately make UPS not only the world leader in packaging and shipping, but also a competitor in the technological world market. UPS 3 United Parcel Service UPS began its operations in 1907 in Seattle, Washington and since then has continued to grow and expand its operations throughout the United States and eventually the world. The company is a shipping and delivery operation that services commercial companies, small businesses as well as residential customers. UPS which stands for United Parcel Service employs 397,100 people within its corporation...
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...[Author] [Institution] Introduction Globalization Over the recent decades, particularly after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the methodology of globalization got quicker and popular in so many economies. The most capable variable of globalization is finance, showed in the vicinity of transnational partnerships working in numerous nations and utilizing the new verifiable conditions further bolstering their good fortune. Globalization has an impact on virtually every aspect of our daily lives. For example, the clothes that we buy from a local retailer, incoming network Woolworths; can be manufactured in Australia or China. Entering into an outside business sector is similar to running across new domain for entrepreneurs. Remote nations have diverse laws, economies, business methodologies and coin. Social contrasts can additionally obstruct a nation's prosperity. Despite the fact that each business ought to suspect a tremendous learning bend, entering a remote business sector could be simpler with the reception of a couple of techniques (Krishna, 2005). Coca Cola One of the most popular carbonated drinks in stores, restaurants, and confection machines is coca cola and not just in one or two countries but it has got its operations worldwide. It is conveyed by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is customarily suggested fundamentally as Coke (an enlisted trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). In the first place...
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...Introduction Coca Cola markets nearly 2,400 beverages products in over 200 geographic locations. As a result development of a superior value system is imperative to their operations. Throughout this paper we will analyze their value system by using Michael Porter’s value chain analysis model. In an attempt to paint a current picture of the non-alcoholic beverage industry we will assess the market activity by using mergers, acquisitions and IPO’S as our benchmarks to determine if the market is growing or contracting. Value Chain Analysis A value chain is a model used to disaggregate a firm into its strategically relevant value generating activities, in order to evaluate each activity's contribution to the firm's performance (Terms V 2006). Through the analysis of this model we can gain insight as to how a firm creates their competitive advantage and shareholder value. The value chain of the nonalcoholic beverage industry contains five main activities. These include inbound logistics (suppliers), operations, outbound logistics (buyers/ customers), marketing and sales, and service. Inbound Logistics (Suppliers) Some of Coca Cola’s most notable suppliers include Spherion, Jones Lang LaSalle, IBM, Ogilvy and Mather, IMI Cornelius, and Prudential. These companies provide Coca Cola with materials such as ingredients, packaging and machinery. In order to ensure that these materials are in satisfactory condition, Coca-cola has put certain standards in place which these...
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...Case Chapter 14: Coca-Cola Strayer University Principles of Organizational Behavior Professor Jefferson February 27, 2011 The Coca-Cola Company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, produces approximately 400 beverage brands in over 200 nations around the world. It is the world’s largest non-alcoholic beverage company. In, 2006, net operating revenue was just over $24 billion, up 4 percent from the preceding year, and operating income was 6.3 billion, also up 4 percent from 2005. Coca-Cola Company describes itself as “ a local employer, with responsibility to enable our people to tap into their full potential; working at their innovative best and representing the diversity of the world we serve.” The most emerging issue in the design of work is hiring competent and motivated workers. In order to have a successful company, it is essential to have these types of employees working with your company. The Coca- Cola Company states, “ encouraging performance excellence by creating meaningful and involving jobs seems to be a hallmark of Coca-Cola’s approach to employee motivation throughout its global operation. According to the company’s Web site “each employee of The Coca-Cola Company helps lead our success in the beverage industry by committing to benefit and refresh everyone who is touched by our business”. From the Coca-Cola company it seems that the employees are very motivated people and the company helps keep the motivation going with...
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...“Farm Girl” Jessica Hemauer Ramirez Instructor: Professor Parker C. July 19, 2012 In the essay, “Farm Girl”, by Jessica Hemauer, Jessica shares her intimate thoughts and feelings about how she felt growing up on her families' farm. As a child, she takes you through her and her sibling early morning routine to ensure the reader is able to put themselves in their shoes. She shares how difficult and frustrating those days were as a child, but in the end she realizes how those long hard days on the farm have help her develop a strong work ethic, excellent time management skills and responsibility that is sought out in today's society. In her memoirs, she described a typical morning waking up with heavy eyes, still struggling to sleep, thinking to herself “A typical ten-year-old child does not have to wake up at five in the morning to do chores.” (Hemauer) She and her sibling have the morning routine down pat to include two hours of chores before school, and more chores after school. During school, Jessica expressed what she thought if anyone knew she was a farm girl that she would be seen as different. As her friend would discuss after school activities at lunch Jessica became depress and felt alienated. As she was about to enter the eighth grade she really want to play basketball, and after begging and pleading with her parents, they allowed her to participate on the team as long as she still helped...
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...PROJECT ON COCA COLA ASSESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY * *RYAN MARTINS * REGNO*: 634 Contents DEFINATION OF RESOURCE MANAGMENT The process of using the company’s resources in the most efficient way possible this resources can include tangible resources such as goods and equipments and financial resources and also labour resource such as employees. Resource management can include ideas such as making sure one has enough resources for the business but not an overburden so that products won’t get used. INTRODUCTION The Coca-Cola Company is the world's leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. Along with Coca Cola, the world's best known brand, The Coca Cola Company markets four of the world's top-five soft drink brands, including Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. Throughout the world, no other brand is an immediately recognizable as Coca Cola. Any company to be successful need to use it resources very efficiently. the emergence of HRM as a universal remedy for integrating business strategy and people management has exposed personnel practitioners to a fresh set of role challenges and managerial expectations that have stressed out the gaps between the HR language and reality. The goal of human resource management is to help an organization to meet strategic goals by attracting, and maintaining employees and also to manage them effectively. Coke achieved great...
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...conduct business transactions, the sociocultural situations and well the economic livelihood of the populace. Additionally, this paper will explore the technological resources, regulatory rules of the regions they are conducting business in, and the regulatory rules that may have a favorable or unfavorable affect on conducting business in the regions they wish to conduct business. The focus organization is Coca-Cola and how they marketed water and healthy beverages versus carbonated Coca-Cola products. Introduction The Coca-Cola Company has ventured into the water business with the onset of more and more people embracing a healthier lifestyle. This paper will be encompassing the six categories defined in Marketing Management A Strategic Decision Making Approach, which are demographics, sociocultural, economics, technological, regulatory, and natural environments (Mullins & Walker. p. 97). These six categories are relevant because the trends are what the marketing managers must understand to understand what influences the demands of the general market. In many areas, the push for bottled water and healthy beverages is becoming greater around the globe. This trend is forcing carbonated beverage companies, like the Coca-Cola Company (CCC) to bring out new products that catch the attention of health conscience population. Product applications in marketing Since the Coca Cola Company is a global organization their marketing techniques from one demographic...
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...Being popular gives it a superior strength that is definitely incomparable. The branding system of the company is easily and obvious recognized. In this case, it is without doubt that there is no beverage company that can be compared with Coca Cola social popularity status. Most of the populations do buy coke, not because of its taste, but because it has been accepted widely and they do feel that they are part of something big and unifying. The best term of describing Coca Cola popularity is “Overwhelming”. If one speaks of the word Coca Cola, it is recognized all over the world. The other strength is money. The company is known to deal with massive amounts of money all year round. However, just like any other business, they have experienced up and downs financially, but they have tried to do their best in this compartment and they will continue to do well and improve (Brennan, Tunisini, Harrison and Baraldi, 2007). The money they collect from their sells is much better than most beverage companies, and with this money, they put it back to the company for improvement. Strength important to Coca Cola is its loyalty to its customers. The 80/20 rule becomes effective in this manner. Almost 20% of their profits come from their loyal customers. This is termed as an improbable feat. The customers will continue buying these products and they would do so for a very long time (Forbes, 2012). Weaknesses Although Coca Cola is successful, it has its weaknesses. There are those individuals...
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