Ford Motor Company Case study

Ford Motor Company was faced with several tough choices in order to save the company. They needed to find a way to not just make the company profitable but save the company from going out of business. Not only did Ford need to improve its car line, but they also needed improve the company and the way the conducted business. The car building industry is a true form of an open system. While they design and develop the cars they get the parts or raw materials to build the cars from outside suppliers. Along with that they get financial puts as well, like in the case of Ford which secured large loans. These loans were put to good use to get the company positioned to make changes. The problems that Ford faced were in the subsystems and to some degree in the product outputs. The company had been spread thin over several different name plates as Ford had acquired other car companies. In doing this Ford was not able to concentrate on its own car brand. Quality of the cars declined, the design of the cars began to suffer and the overall performance deteriorated. The company began to lose it fit with the environment and Ford needed to find ways to correct that in order to remain in business. Many of the changes that Ford made were in the subsystems of the company and how they conducted business. First off the CEO of the company stepped down and they hired a new CEO. One of the ideas that he brought with him was the One Ford plan. It was a way to get everyone in the company on the same page. Basically it was a mission statement or vision statement that gave the employees at Ford an idea of where the company was going. Ford also began to lose many of the other car manufactures that is carried which in turn allowed the company to focus on its core brands. This gave Ford the opportunity to look at its Internal Subsystem Effectiveness and begin to find ways to improve its efficiency within the company turning input into outputs. Ford not only began to increase