Case Analysis Komatsu Ltd. and Project G (A) The Kawai Era (1964-1982) Strategies Acquired and develop advanced technology to raise quality‚ and to increase efficiency to the Cat’s level. Introduced “management by policy.” “Project A‚” sought to raise the quality of Komatsu’s middle-sized bulldozers to Cat’s level & instituted the “Plan‚ Do‚ Check‚ Act” (PDCA) cycle. In 1966‚ his five-year “World A” campaign sought to make Komatsu internationally competitive in cost and quality. Results
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Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy is a business strategy book that promotes a systematic approach "for making the competition irrelevant." The authors‚ W.Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne‚ are professors of Strategy and Management at INSEAD ( is an international graduate business school and research institution with campuses in France and in Singapore). A core idea is to create a leap in value for both the company and its buyers by breaking the differentiation/low cost trade-off and to align product
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EXPLORATORY RESEARCH Exploratory research is conducted to clarify ambiguous problems. Management may have discovered general problems‚ but research is needed to gain better understanding of the dimensions of the problems. Exploratory studies provide information to use in analyzing a situation‚ but uncovering conclusive evidence to determine a particular course of action is not the purpose of exploratory research. Usually‚ exploratory research is conducted with the expectation that subsequent research
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cost by using their unified counter image. Trained strictly‚ shop assistants mastered enough knowledge of beauty culture to deal with goods of many brands so that labour cost saved greatly. “Giving up the farthest benefits to customers”‚ SASA’s marketing strategy‚ is helpful of forming its steable consumer group. With its expansion‚ SASA began to stock directly from manufacturers all over the world and has become the exclusive agent of many brands. Presently‚ SASA owns 7 main markets in Asia‚ including
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Enova Health System 01)How would you begin to study this problem? Inova Health System is Virginia’s leading healthcare provider‚ with 10‚000 employees consist of services for three hospitals‚ seven outpatient centers‚ and long –term –care facilities and also with home nursing .first of all I want to start the investigate with recruitment . According to byers and rue recruitment is the process of seeking and attracting a pool of people from which qualified candidates for job vacancies can be chosen
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emphasizes its advances which include spacious and energy-efficient. Honda Civic focuses on the need and want of the middle age while Smart Car thinks about the youth. Smart Car and Honda Civic also concern about the income level of different social group. Smart Car targets its market on the consumers who are earning a low salary since it is considered small size and low fuel consumption. Research in Euro discovers “respondents with a monthly salary of $700 or less preferred small cars to the
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to pick chocolate and biscuit industry where there are three big company stands. Although there are many companies in this sector like Kent‚ Saray‚ Anı etc. I have decided to choose three company which are Ulker‚ Eti and Solen to evaluate their marketing strategies. According to many researches Ulker is the market leader‚ Etı is the challenger and Solen is the follower on this sector. a)Attacking Strategies of Challangers 1. High Advertising and Appliances: Ulker and Etı are big chocolate and biscuits
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manufacturing capabilities and lost sight of the products from the consumer’s point of view. In other words‚ they keep creating breakthrough technology‚ but failed to make improvements faster such as easy-to-use software‚ online services‚ and smarter marketing messages. Their technology is outdated compared to the other competitors. They have failed to improve their technology and give the customer what they want. ii. It is “the art of making things.” This has Japanese firms focusing on creating
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McCain Foods is one of the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and potato specialties. But there’s more to McCain than just potatoes. Young & Tender Baby Peas‚ Aromatic Thai Corn‚ Rising Crust Pizza‚ Veggie Burgers‚ Chinese Dumplings‚ Dim Sum‚ Old South Juice Concentrates‚ Cape Malay Beef Curry‚ Chicken Wings‚ Jalapeno and Chili-Cheese Nuggets‚ Chinese BBQ Pork‚ Onion Rings..the list goes on and on. McCain has a menu selection for every course of every meal. We sell our products in
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One way in which it could do this was to encourage development in Poland by its European partners‚ and Poland already had a good relationship with the UK‚ which has a Polish community of some 150‚000. These rapidly changing political‚ economic and social factors were key influences in Cadbury Schweppes’decision to enter Poland’s developing market. Another strong factor was that‚ despite Poland having‚ at that time‚ one of the largest confectionery markets in Central and Eastern Europe‚ none of Cadbury
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