CASE STUDY 1 Innovation at the Lego Group A&B - 9.10.2014 Brief Description LEGO is a toy company established in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. LEGO offered high quality toys and at the same time encouraged children to be creative. Over the years they developed their products and company grew steadily and successfully till the mid 90’s. LEGO immediately noticed their fall in the market‚ in order to keep up they did many innovations.As a result company was expanded with the aggressive innovations
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FOUNDATIONS OF MANAGEMENT (PART A) LEGO Group Marketing and Operations Management Report Prepared: For: LEGO Group By: Éva Gaál On: 17 November 2008 Introduction At the request of the LEGO Company‚ this report advises the company on the expansion of its operation based on market segmentation‚ appropriate marketing mix‚ new product design and development‚ including total quality management for outsourcing new partners. LEGO Group is the fifth-largest toy manufacturer of
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Lego Case Study Report Introduction The Lego Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. For years of development‚ Lego has achieved the transition from a carpenter’s workshop to a global enterprise. Its Lego brick has been named the ‘toys of the century’ twice and greatly contributes to the company’s stable growth. Nevertheless‚ Lego struggled mightily in the early to mid-2000s. Sales dropped 30 percent in 2003 and 10 percent more in 2004‚ and the company was destroying about $337‚000
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2011 ANALYSIS OF THE LEGO GROUP Daniella Pascu Daniella Pascu Helvijs Smoteks Noelia García Csaba Precub Keystrokes: 27205 Teachers: Meg Sønderlund Peter Storm-Henningse Executive Summary This project is a case study of the LEGO1 Group to analyse the company´s current situation‚ its future campaign strategy and its further potential of innovate development. The objective is to analyse the management strategy in an objective perspective and find out how a company such as LEGO reaches a certain desirable
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Winterfell Castle Sketch Overview Lego sets have been around for the past 50 years and have been enjoyed by people from all around the world. Very recently‚ Lego released a website called “Lego Cuusoo” through which people can create and submit their own ideas for a Lego project. Following the submission of the project onto the website‚ a voting process occurs; if enough support is gathered‚ the project moves into the production stage and is then sold through Lego. The revenue is shared with the developer
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Prior to the Flextronics offshore outsourcing project‚ LEGO had a very tight control of all the elements of the value chain. Their production plants were expansive and specialized which‚ in theory‚ would create a higher degree of standardization. Their Swiss factories only produced DUPLO toys and Technic products‚ their Danish factory solely produced LEGO System products‚ and the U.S. facility focused on American demands‚ while only 5 to 10 percent of the LEGO Group’s total production was outsourced
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The Lego Group: Building Strategy Problem Statement: The Lego Group has been making toys successfully for 80 years and has grown to having close to 3.16 B USD in sales for the 2010 year. They specialize in toy building sets‚ a sector of the market that has seen 13% growth in 2010 and is forecasted to grow further. However‚ the Lego Group is at a cross-road in their business plan and requires a strategic plan going forward. Currently‚ the company needs to look at its existing partnerships
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Log for mm215……………………………………………………………….…..17 Executive Summary LEGO Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen‚ and has a long history which started with making wooden toys‚ plastic toys and then getting to the famous brick. Because of the foreign competition‚ many companies‚ including LEGO‚ had to reevaluate their strategies to regain competitive advantage. As a consequence‚ the current corporate vision in Lego energizes all employees. Furthermore‚ the bond between them and top
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and learnings from the relationship with the Flextronics? Expectations: a. Saving cost by outsourcing to low-cost countries: Prior to outsourcing‚ LEGO owned and operated production plants mainly in relatively high labor-cost countries‚ such as the United States‚ Switzerland and the South Korea. The main reason for this is that LEGO built plants close to its main markets to save transportation cost. But LEGO finally realized that the reduced labor cost in some labor-intensive countries outweighed
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innovations in an important role of the organization. When designers want to innovate something they need to think outside the room not inside the room. The Lego Group is one of the examples that showing how toys designer using their creative to create Lego by think outside the box (Elamsy‚ 2014). In 1932‚ Ole Kirk Khristiansen created the Lego Group and innovate the wooden toys that are radical
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