GE’s Case analysis Jack Welch 1. He has adopted 3 D’s (Downsizing‚ destaffing and delayering). He has made hierarchical changes across the organization by reducing hierarchy level from 9 to 4. 2. Fix‚ Sell or close the business in which GE is not either No.1 or No.2. Between 1981 to 1990 they had sold more than 200 businesses which has accounted for 25% of 1980 sales. 3. Restructuring the organization - Jack Welch stated the above objective into a 3 circle concept. Business were categorized
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GE had been the price leader in the market‚ with competitors matching its book prices. GE tended to negotiate a more consistent discount from book price‚ whereas Allis-Chalmers and Westinghouse were more prone to switch back and forth from deep discounting to selling at book price as competitive circumstances changed. GE offered its highest discounts on very large turbine generators. When the market was declining GE tended to charge a premium over its competitors. The widening gap between book prices
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11 Pure Competition in the Short Run McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Four Market Models • Pure competition • Pure monopoly • Monopolistic competition • Oligopoly Pure Competition Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly Pure Monopoly Market Structure Continuum LO1 Four Market Models Characteristics of the Four Basic Market Models Pure Characteristic Competition Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly Monopoly Number of firms A very large
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Dai 1 Kevin Dai Word Count: 1146 Compare and Contrast (Romeo and Pip) Love is a topic that innumerable authors delight in writing about. In each of their masterpieces‚ love is a driving force in he or she’s makeup. The main characters of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Dicken’s Great Expectations‚ Romeo and Pip‚ are no exception. Although Romeo and Pip live in very different environments‚ love affects their maturity‚ loyalty‚ and fluctuating mood. Love drastically changes both Pip and Romeo’s
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Question 1: In what ways has Jeff Immelt redirected the strategy of GE? In 2001‚ shortly after Jeff Immelt became the CEO of GE‚ a series of events changed and impacted the corporate landscape. The immediate challenges that he faced included 9/11‚ and a subsequent series of high profile corporate scandals (Enron‚ WorldCom). In 2008‚ the financial crisis hit and had a severe impact on GE’s primary growth source‚ GE Capital causing it to accumulate bad debts and asset write-downs. These events caused
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Ajaya Tachajanta 2011 General Electric Medical Systems‚ 2002 Overview GEMS is the world’s leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment and part of Milwaukee-based GE. It is the leader in MR and CT imaging in all regions. According to Immelt’s strategy‚ GEMS evolves from taking joint-venture and acquisition as the first step where business’s size is matter. Secondly‚ Global Product Company (GPC) concept is introduced aiming at cutting cost by shifting the manufacturing activities from high-cost
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Conclusion 3 References 3 1 Brief introduction to the topic Projects are run in most organizations to achieve some specific goals within the given timeframe and with dedicated resources. In the Hungarian subsidiaries of General Electric (GE) there are more than one hundred projects run parallel consuming millions of Euros and hundreds of FTEs; thus the quality of project delivery functions are crucial in order to achieve cost efficiency in operations and also quality outcomes. In the
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GE’s digital Revolution Redefining the E in GE Within 18 months of introducing the e-business initiative‚ Internet Week named GE the ~{!0~}Internet Company of the Year.~{!1~} How was GE to drive this ambitious company-wide program throughout its complex and diverse organizations so quickly and effectively? GE is a huge company‚ with 3 dozen of business areas‚ over 300 thousand employees and annual sales revenue as high as 129 billion in the year of 2000. It was the "social architecture" (culture
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Electric (GE) Strategic Management Case Study: General Electric (GE) Analysis using Porter’s Approach By: Johnny Cantrell Part A: General Electric‚ or GE as it is better known‚ is a diversified technology‚ media‚ and financial services company. Their primary objective as stated is “focused on solving some of the world’s toughest problems”. Their slogan‚ which is “imagination at work”‚ truly says everything there is to know about the vision of the company. Inside GE they truly
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56 ● Module I / Foundation Concepts REAL WORLD CASE W 2 GE Energy and GE Healthcare: Using Information Technology to Create Strategic Customer Relationships efficient network-enabled remote servicing‚ can charge $500 to $600 per hour for the same technician. Even more important‚ the information generated by its continual monitoring allows GE to take on additional tasks‚ such as managing a customer’s spare parts inventory or providing the customer’s and GE’s service and support personnel
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