Annual Report 2011 The LEGO Group FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Financial Highlights The LEGO Group (mDKK) 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 18‚731 (13‚065) 5‚666 (124) 5‚542 4‚160 16‚014 (10‚899) 4‚973 (84) 4‚889 3‚718 11‚661 (8‚659) 2‚902 (15) 2‚887 2‚204 9‚526 (7‚522) 2‚100 (248) 1‚852 1‚352 8‚027 (6‚556) 1‚449 (35) 1‚414 1‚028 12‚904 6‚975 5‚929 10‚972 5‚473 5‚499 7‚788 3‚291 4‚497 6‚496 2‚066 4‚430 6‚009 1‚679 4‚330 3
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Introduction A company’s capability means the ability to innovate‚ or to respond to changing customer needs. Organizational capabilities are key intangible assets that make a significant difference when it comes to market value. Organizational capabilities are stable over time and more difficult to copy than other competitive advantages like product strategy or technology. A capabilities audit can show a company how measure up and how to build on intangible strengths to implement cultural interchange
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Process capability studies determine whether a process is unstable‚ investigate any sources of instability‚ determine their causes‚ and take action to resolve such sources of instability. After all sources of instability have been resolved in a process‚ the natural behavior of the process is called its process capability. Process capability compares the output of a process (called “Voice of the Process”) with the customer’s specification limits for the outputs (called “Voice of the Customer”). A
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How was the Financial Situation of Prudential Vietnam in 2011‚ its problems in 2011 and challenges in 2012 Group 5 2012 11/1/2012 After the world economic crisis in recent years‚ tight monetary policy in 2011 has helped Vietnam to stop inflation but caused aggregate demand to weaken. The economy fell into stagnation characterized as inventory increases‚ the growth rate of industrial production slow and some businesses closed are on the rise. According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment
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tremendously successful? Have you ever tried to “LEGO”? “LEGO” is toy of men and women of all ages in the world. I want to talk about Lego that has been tremendously successful. • First‚ the origin of “LEGO” The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958)‚ a carpenter from Billund‚ Denmark‚ who began making wooden toys in 1932. He made toys for his son. • Second‚ what does “LEGO” means? In 1934‚ his company came to be called "LEGO"‚ derived from the Danish phrase leg godt‚ which
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There are about 915 million ways to combine six LEGO® bricks . But how many ways are there to keep a company on the right track? Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen‚ current owner of the LEGO Group‚ was faced with this question in 2004. On the surface it did not become known that LEGO was in trouble in those days. The small bricks were welcome all over the world and the British Association of Toy Retailers joined Fortune magazine in naming the company’s classic bricks the toy of the century. But the fifth-largest
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Process Capability A process is the value-added transformation of inputs to outputs. The inputs and outputs of a process can involve machines‚ materials‚ methods‚ measurement‚ people‚ and the environment. Each of the inputs is a source of variability. Variability in the output can result in poor service and poor product quality‚ both of which often decrease customer satisfaction. It is necessary to analyze the amount of common cause variation present in an in control process. Process capability is the
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entire Arctic ecosystem by exacerbating the melting of the ice caps and releasing toxins into the environment that would be difficult to clean (“The Dangers”). Ultimately they won by attacking Shell’s highly-credible and well-liked partner‚ Lego‚ in hopes that if Lego would turn against them‚ so would Lego’s supporters. The advertisement Greenpeace created for this purpose was the emotionally-striking piece‚ “Everything is Not Awesome‚” whose development team was particularly successful in creating an
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Discussion Questions for “LEGO” 1. What led the LEGO group to the edge of bankruptcy by 2004? Please focus on the management moves during “the growth period that wasn’t” (1993-98) and “the fix that wasn’t” (1999-2004). 2. Why did Knudstorp’s turnaround strategy work? In your opinion‚ which actions were the most effective? Which actions were the least effective? Be specific. 3. Should LEGO launch the new line of board games? ------------------------
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Negative Capability ’The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try and reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed and rational systems.’ Keats was a romantic poet‚ full of intense passion and desire‚ yet shy and reserved. He was a young man with all the determination and melancholy of a teenager on a romantic quest to be among the English poets when he died. He is an inspiration to all of us‚ full of colourful language and imagination
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