firm to perform a SWOT analysis in order to assess its current position in its industry. Citibank‚ like any other firm‚ has strengths‚ weakness‚ opportunities‚ and threats to consider in order to compose an effective plan for the future. Identifying the strengths of a company can give that company focus to know which areas it should continue to build on in order to pursue competitive advantages. Although Citibank has many strengths‚ its three major strengths are: diverse range of products‚ global reach
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How does the Citibank budgeting process work? Is this a Participative process? Citibank applies two management processes to control its international branches: sovereign risk limits review and operating budget review. Its budgeting process is a bottom-up. Although it starts from the headquarters’ instructions which guide the timing‚ format and issues needed to be addressed‚ budgeting is not obliged to attain specific targets. The corporation’s long-term goals are shared. Some international branches
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Case 1: Citibank Indonesia 1. Citibank’s budgeting process is based on a bottom-up method. It is not compromised of specific goals to be attained by individual operating units‚ but is composed for the corporation as a whole. Citibank was aiming for long-term goals‚ which call for profit growth of 12-15% per year‚ 1.25% return on assets‚ and 20% return on equity. These standards are set for the entire company‚ and individual sectors‚ such as international branches‚ usually set their own higher goals
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Case 6: CitiBank 1. On a social standpoint‚ CitiBank is faced with more of their customers expanding their businesses globally and becoming e-enabled. Hence‚ CitiBank had to adapt to this new social trend by shifting to e-space. For instance‚ sophisticated‚ corporate customers wanted to collect payments online and have access to more efficient Web-enabled financial processes. Politically‚ regulators who became more cautious about privacy issues and wanted banks to be able to quickly identify
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The opening of Citibank Express Service in the departure side of the airports will provide great convenience for Citibank customers (especially business customers and holiday makers). Citibank Express Service which features new product promotions and an online banking facility will offer high accessibility and convenience to Citibank customers when they are at the airports waiting to board their flights. Citibank Express Service will serve better existing customers‚ attract
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1. Analysis of Budget Process at Citibank Direction and control of Citibank’s international branches are conducted via two formal management processes. Each year‚ top management sets sovereign risk limits for its independent branches based on proposals by country managers. Country managers may choose to operate with self-imposed limits below this upper guideline. Following‚ there is the budget setting process‚ where headquarters only provides administrative guidelines but not specific targets‚ with
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October 04‚ 2010 Citibank: Performance Evaluation In 1996‚ Citibank was an emergent banking institution attempting to increase its market share in the competitive Los Angeles area. In order to do so‚ the bank’s strategy was to focus slightly less on their financial growth‚ and much more on providing “a high level of service to its customers”. Management viewed this paradigm shift as “critical to the long term success of the franchise”. To implement these changes‚ a new Citibank employee performance
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Harvard Business School 9-198-048 Rev. October 14‚ 1999 Citibank: Performance Evaluation Frits Seegers‚ President of Citibank California‚ was meeting with his management team to review the performance evaluation and bonus decisions for the California branch managers. James McGaran’s performance evaluation was next. Frits felt uneasy about this one. McGaran was manager of the most important branch in the Los Angeles area‚ and his financials were impressive. A year ago he would have
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I. Critical evaluation of Citibank performance evaluation form: Citibank corporate strategy: focused on combining excellent customer service strategy along with relationship banking to build a profitable competitive franchise. Customers were offered the convenience of choosing the type of service delivery‚ whether personal or remote. But as high end customers become more and more valuable to the bank‚ their service expectations also went up. Increased service demands included broad array of financial
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it is fair. Particularly scorecard template is clear and easy to understand. 7 specific blocks of targets (financial‚ strategy‚ customer satisfaction‚ control‚ people‚ standards and finally overall evaluation) shows what is most important for Citibank in this year. Except figures and data (Key Performance Indicators – KPIs) there is also a place for comments and opinions which is very important to evaluate managers and employees. In addition to 4 quarterly performance assessments McGaran has
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