Commentary on HBR Case: When Consultants and Clients Clash -by Vinodkumar Pralia‚ Section-D1‚ 341/47 Is the business relationship between the Statler Group and Kellogg-Champion Securities a lost cause? How should the consultants and the client handle the status meeting? The crux of the problem is the incorrect framing of tasks to be undertaken by Statler Group consultants. This has been the cumulative result of the lack of understanding of merger situations by Kellogg and over-estimation of
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CHEMICAL BANK - Allocation of Profits EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The overall profitability of Chemical Bank has been negatively affected by a decrease in profit contribution from Due Bills. There is an external threat of reduced interest rates and internal threats in the form of misalignment between involved divisions. The following suggestions aim to counteract this development 1. Increasing sales volumes of Due Bills a. Allocate 100% of profits from customer fees to Metro b. Aligning Metro’s
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1. What are four to five ways that specialty retailers differ from discounters (a la Wal-Mart)? Inventory turns: According to the data provided in the Williams-Sonoma Inc. case study (1990) average specialty store turns were just under 2x. If you look at the data from the Wal-Mart Article discount stores have turns many times that‚ actually turns around the neighborhood of 8x. Margins: Discounters such as Wal-Mart go for the high volume low margin approach. Sine their whole approach revolves
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By positioning Clean Edge in a mainstream position‚ branding Clean Edge as “Paramount Clean Edge” and allocating $4 million dollars of the trade promotion to consumer promotions we would not only stay under our marketing budget for the year but analysis shows we could generate a 20% increase in revenue the first year alone. The problem to be analyzed is selecting the appropriate methods in which we can ensure the successful launch of Paramount Clean Edge. There are three sectors of the value
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Five-Step Approach to Unstructured Problems 1. Succinct Statement of the Financial Reporting Issue(s) When has a company completed its side of an arrangement‚ allowing it to record a sale and related loss contingencies (recall product costs)‚ while still conforming to GAAP? 2. Brief Summary of the Economic Purpose of the Transaction To better match revenues and expenses‚ Frequent Fixer has proposed recognizing all of its recall product costs at the time of sale to match its competitors
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CASE STUDY : Multinational Outsourcing and CSR. Inditex: The worldwide outsourcing garment industry and social community development in Morocco “Intermón claims that pressures on foreign clothing suppliers are smothering employees. […] In Morocco‚ where Cortefiel‚ Inditex (Zara)‚ Mango and Induyco (El Corte Inglés) manufacture their products‚ a Tangier based textile factory sold a pair of slacks to large Spanish retailers for 3.3 euros three years ago; today‚ the same item sells for 2 euros
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Key Challenges in Maintaining a Relationship between LEGO and Flextronics Name: Shanshan Liu Andrew ID: shanshal LEGO Group is the fifth-‐largest toy-‐maker in the world with a complicated global supply chain‚ while Flextronics is a large Singaporean electronics manufacturing services provider. So
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involving the company CEO Marks in persuading Humphrey Porter and his European team to adopt the software. This shall give them the authority‚ credibility and allow for speedy execution of the task. The article says that‚ one of main reasons that Flextronics won a bid to produce Microsoft’s Xbox is that Microsoft had expressed its
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the their first comics appearing in 1939. Up to the time of the case‚ the company had changed owners a few times‚ had ups and downs‚ and had built a large following by providing up to 60 periodicals per month which included comics like: Spiderman‚ Fantastic Four‚ and Iron Man along with about 4‚700 other characters. Decision Dilemna: What business model should Marvel Executives pursue to ensure continued growth? Analysis of Case Facts‚ Missing info and Contradictions: • There was a lot of talk
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Royal Caribbean Cruises‚ LTD: A Case Study 1. Using the Information Systems Triangle as a framework‚ evaluate the alignment of RCCL’s business strategy‚ organizational strategy‚ and information systems strategy before Tom Murphy became CIO and then after Tom Murphy took over as CIO (up to 9/11/2001). Prior to Tom Murphy’s tenure as CIO‚ Royal Caribbean Cruises Line’s (RCCL’s) business strategies were not fully aligned with the organizational and IT strategies. Tom Murphy was instrumental in bringing
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