Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative
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Globalization introduction The idea of taking away your business and investing funds from domestic market to international market‚ with the exchange of ideas‚ culture and knowledge is known as globalization. Globalisation is the process of involving economic integration; it involves the transfer of policies‚ transfer of people‚ cultural diversity‚ and transmission of knowledge across borders‚ relations.it is the process of making world shorter and making things moves closer to each other. Somebody
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possess technology and knowledge skills but lack marketing and management expertise. Existing large companies may not have the specific skills of the n e w firm. By working together‚ such firms will have true competitive advantage. In the case of NUMMI‚ the mix of cultures‚ the Japanese team approach‚ GM ’s corporate approach and the unions ’ ’anti-management ’ approach were successfully combined. It is essential to avoid poor management styles. Strategic alliances work better w h e n there is symmetry
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Andrew Martin COMM 336 Informative Paper 4/4/2013 Tesla Motors Tesla Motors is a car company that designs‚ manufactures and sells electric vehicles. This public company was founded in 2003 by Ian Wright‚ JB Straubel‚ Marc Tarpenning‚ Martin Eberhard and most notably Elon Musk. Its headquarters is located in Palo Alto‚ California‚ with its main production plant in Fremont‚ California. The company was named after Nikola Tesla‚ a renowned electrical engineer and physicist. Its goal is to
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STUDY GUIDE Forecasting- Who needs Forecast? Accounting‚ Finance‚ Operations‚ Human Resources‚ and Marketing Elements of a good Forecast: -Timely and allowing for the system to respond to the forecast. Sould cover a span of time that allows actions to be taken to meet the forecast. -Should be accurate (no forecast id 100% accurate). Should be reliable and used so that actual sales will not depart radically from the forecast. -Expressed in meaningful terms such as dollars‚ production planners
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Introduction. In this assignment I am going to explain the following concepts‚ generic strategies‚ alternative directions and alternative methods. Indeed‚ I would like to support these concepts by referring my work to the automobile sector (as a continuing line provided with the Morgan´s example in class). I am going to use the example of General Motors and Ford‚ they are well known and also provide us a long struggling and interesting history. The first part of my assignment gives a theoretical
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TESLA MOTORS INC FORMReport) 10-K (Annual Filed 03/07/13 for the Period Ending 12/31/12 Address Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Industry Sector Fiscal Year 3500 DEER CREEK RD PALO ALTO‚ CA 94070 650-681-5000 0001318605 TSLA 3711 - Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies Auto & Truck Manufacturers Consumer Cyclical 12/31 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2013‚ EDGAR Online‚ Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online
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Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………4 I. Introduction .........................................................................................................................5 1. Toyota’s overview .........................................................................................................5 2. Toyota’s problems in recent years..................................................................................7 II. Methodology ....................................
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Collaborate with your Competitors and Win Gary Hamel‚ Yves L. Doz‚ and C.K. Prahalad Summary This article discusses that collaboration between competitors can be a beneficial experience for all member companies. Three conditions are specified for creating a positive collaborative environment‚ first that the partner’s goals converge while their competitive goals diverge. If the two firms are working on similar technologies to support different core businesses‚ then there is a higher chance
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acknowledge for their quality and reliability Quality Management | Fall 2013 4 Case Summary Toyota Background •In 1982‚ it formed a joint venture with General Motors seen as a learning opportunity - New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) •In 1988‚ Toyota produced more than 5.2 million cars BUT… aggressive penetration in other countries (Brazil‚ China or India) strained the company’s resources‚ led it to misread the market‚ to produce faulty products and to built underutilized
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