Toyota's culture, a competitive advantage
Étude de cas - 15 pages - Management organisation
More than 9 million cars were sold around the world in late 2007, and Toyota surpassed General Motors and became the number one manufacturer in the car market industry. This American car company had been a leader on the market for seventy two long years. This is thus a big success for Toyota. The...
The Rubber Company : analysis of change process
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Management organisation
"This document will study the difficulties in applying change processes and systems in the traditional life cycle of any given company and the creation of a successful change management roadmap, to be integrated into the diagnostic of any given company". Change process often needs to be initiated...
Fram communication network
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Management organisation
In the present hard competitive business environment, companies need to be increasingly flexible in order to react quickly to external threats. New technologies, such as Intranet networks development, propose new kind of organizations which answer this need perfectly. Intranet can be defined as a...
Ethical analysis of the activities of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in Sudan
Étude de cas - 23 pages - Management organisation
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a Chinese state-owned fuel-producing corporation. It is China's largest integrated oil and gas company. As of 2006, it was the second largest company in the world in terms of number of employees. CNPC holds proved to be equivalent of reserves...
Managing an integrated supply chain: Report on site visit Lyon Terminal
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Management organisation
Lyon Terminal is a public limited company and specializes in port handling and heavy lifts, which was created in 1993 and located at the port of Lyon, Edouard Herriot. It is a subsidiary of Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) who owns 64.08% of the share capital. And it is also owned by the other...
Golden Moments Group Limited
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Management organisation
Golden Moments Group Limited is an international operating supplier of “unique experiences”. The company was founded in 1998 in the United Kingdom by the twin brothers Steve and Paul Cheatle. After that it has grown by introducing the concept on new development markets. At this moment...
"Le Furet du Nord": Management and marketing
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Management organisation
Le Furet Du Nord is a famous shop which sells books, CDs, and DVDs. It is located in Northern France. The main store was set up in 1959 in downtown Lille. Today, people say that Le Furet Du Nord is one of the biggest European bookshops (the main shop is 7000 square meters large on 8 levels). The...
L'évolution des métiers technologiques au sein de la banque
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Management organisation
Document: L'évolution des métiers technologiques au sein de la banque, exposé de 18 pages en stratégie d'entreprise Extrait: L'influence des réseaux en particulier sur le secteur bancaire a commencé dans les années soixante-dix. Les NTIC ont déjà provoqué deux évolutions au sein...
Transformational Change at British Petroleum : one goal two different leaders
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Management organisation
Before Robert Horton took over as CEO and Chairman of British Petroleum (BP) in 1990, the company's situation was difficult in terms of the lack of clearness of mission and strategic policy within the top 150 managers surveyed at the beginning of 1989. This survey revealed the managers feeling in...
Is culture an intrinsic element of management and leadership: Eastern Europe against Western Europe?
Étude de cas - 16 pages - Management organisation
Since the quickening of the Industrial Revolution in United Kingdom in 1850 there is no doubt that Europe sustained important cultural changes. The aura of this revolution crossed the Channel and pervaded in Europe but only went in western countries ready to change, France the first, then...
Southwest Airlines case study
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Management organisation
Southwest Airlines is in the top ranking US Corporation in terms of profits and reputation. This airline has always applied strong strategies in order to be on the top in terms of profits, innovation, and image. This constitutes the culture of this company, which matured over the last...
Engstrom auto mirror plant: motivating in good times and bad
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Management organisation
We all know that human resources management implies a lot of fundamentals for an organization. Human resources must understand the implications of globalization, technology changes, workforce diversity, changing skills requirements, the contingent workforce, decentralized worksites and also...
A study on Ikea's strategy
Étude de cas - 18 pages - Management organisation
The main Ikea's service is to provide all consumer design furniture at a low price. IKEA entails a qualitative change by making design and practical products at the same price than the basic one. IKEA creates something new by creating new processes through innovative design, production,...
Starbucks France governance: Competitive environment analysis
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Management organisation
“Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled.” It is made to control the decision-making power of executives so they do not have as a matter of priority their own...
Proyecto de creación e implantación de una empresa: Very Importantes Productos
Étude de cas - 33 pages - Management organisation
Nuestra empresa tiene por objetivo la comercialización de productos para los disminuidos físicos en España. Hemos escogido este tipo de « sector » porque hoy en día no existen tantos productos para los disminuidos. También, no nos parece justo que nuestra sociedad que se dice desarrollada no...
Finnish management vs greek management
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Management organisation
We wanted to create our report on the difference of management between Japan and the United States but we were one of the last groups to choose our theme and it was already taken. So we took the last theme that was left: Europe. A lot of the European countries we wanted to study had already been...
Cultural Melting Pot: A taste of many nations
Étude de cas - 31 pages - Management organisation
The cultural melting pot is an event created to increase the speed of cultural integration in Rotterdam. The Students at the INholland University in Rotterdam organize the event themselves. The event will be held in the park near the Euromast in Rotterdam on the 6th of September 2008. The main...
Service, operations and management : Ikea
Étude de cas - 30 pages - Management organisation
Almost everyone has had an experience of a visit to an IKEA store. Every day, 1 million visitors frequent these stores. What hides behind this yellow and blue logo? What makes it so typically Swedish? To answer in a simple succinct and synthetic way about these interrogations within a framework...
British Petroleum and the intercultural management
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Management organisation
BP is a petroleum company. Even if this name does not exist anymore, BP is more known as British Petroleum. The company was founded in 1908, in England. After three mergers (Amoco in 1998, Atlantic Richfield in 2000 and Burmah Castrol in 2000), the company became the biggest company in England...
Rumors in Grundfos
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Management organisation
Grundfos is a well-established company on both the Danish and the Global market. The Group is one of the world's leading pump manufacturers. According to one of the handed out fictive situation, there are rumors about the closing the financial department of the French subsidiary. The closing of...
Case study about business to business application
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Management organisation
This document is a fictive case study, in which "Marketing Consulting World" makes some recommendations to a fictive company. This company appealed to their services within the framework of an analysis and advice in marketing for their sales force. Through this report, we shall analyze the...
Présentation de la Sonatrach, la société nationale pour le transport et la commercialisation des hydrocarbures (Algérie)
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Management organisation
Les accords d'Evian (18 mars 1962) prévoyaient la mise en place d'une organisation saharienne dont la tâche essentielle était de proposer des solutions aux questions pétrolières et de veiller au développement de l'infrastructure saharienne. Mais le code pétrolier saharien, spécialement remanié...
Corporate Governance and Business Ethics of Air France/KLM
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Management organisation
Global warming, water pollution, child labor, and human rights: All international firms now have to cope with many social problems. It is becoming common practice for multinational companies to make a report in order to clarify, to explain and to justify the company's actions and the way they...
New Concepts and Trends in International R&D Organization, illustrated by the example of Nestlé
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Management organisation
Ce rapport, en anglais, résume et extrapole tout d'abord l'article '[i]New Concepts and Trends in International R&D Organization[/i]', écrit par Oliver Gassman et Maximilian von Zedwitz, qui ont développé un modèle évolutif de la structure de R&D des entreprises internationales....
Cross culture management. Country case report: India
Étude de cas - 21 pages - Management organisation
India is one of the few countries in the world to have an ancient and diverse culture. Stretching back in an unbroken sweep over 5000 years, India's culture has been enriched by successive waves of migration which were absorbed into the Indian way of life. This variety is the special hallmark...
Corporate social responsibility: The example of Air France-KLM
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Management organisation
This group was created in 2004 through the merger of Air France and KLM and is now the world leader in terms of international passenger traffic. In addition, the financial results have been improved considerably over the last few years. But how is the airline group actually dealing with its...
Strategic management: Robin Hood case study
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Management organisation
Robin Hood and the Merrymen are facing the problem of not having enough supply of resources to meet the demands of their expanding organization. Their current strategy is to rob from the rich and give to the poor. They are looking at revising this strategy in order to find another way to get...
Negotiation dynamics: Bouygues Vs Propriétés Privées
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Management organisation
To do this assignment I have chosen to take a case that I recently came across at my work. I currently work in a real-estate agency as a marketing manager. In my work, I am in charge of the marketing of the company and I am in charge of finding new partners for the company as well. For example,...
Change management: the CBC case
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Management organisation
For this assignment, I decided to use a company which I will call CBC, and in which I did an internship for 7 months. This Swiss Group provides chocolate-based products, is present in several countries, and generates a sales turnover of nearly 3 billion €. However, this company faced strong...
Apple Case Study
Étude de cas - 14 pages - Management organisation
Apple Computer is an innovative company evolving on multimedia and high technology market. It has its presence on both hardware and software markets, as well as in the on-line services market. Its highly diversified offer makes Apple Computer company difficult to manage. This company was created...
