Joint Ventures -- Case Discussion Questions 1. GE used to prefer acquisitions or greenfield ventures as an entry mode rather than joint ventures. Why do you think this was the case? Acquisitions were thought to be more cost effective and less risky. With GE having total control‚ they did not have to worry about the internal problems of the company and could enhance coordination all the while gaining immediate market share. 2. Why do you think that GE has come to prefer joint ventures in recent years
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surprising is how many students would put their job in the category of “other‚” suggesting that many jobs do not fall neatly into any one functional area. Perhaps many in the “other” category might best be called “operations” on further reflection. Customers‚ both internal and external‚ are part of each process‚ and the goal is to manage the processes to add the most value for them. 3. Core processes should link to a firm’s core competencies. Core processes are those processes that provide the firm
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56 ● Module I / Foundation Concepts REAL WORLD CASE W 2 GE Energy and GE Healthcare: Using Information Technology to Create Strategic Customer Relationships efficient network-enabled remote servicing‚ can charge $500 to $600 per hour for the same technician. Even more important‚ the information generated by its continual monitoring allows GE to take on additional tasks‚ such as managing a customer’s spare parts inventory or providing the customer’s and GE’s service and support personnel
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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING CASE STUDY ANALYSIS CASE – TOYOTA AND GENERAL MOTORS SITUATION ANALYSIS The world’s largest car manufacturers Japan-based Toyota and and US-based General Motors [GM] have joined together in Australia to create a joint venture under a new company called United Australian Automotive Industries [UAAI]. This is hoped to see replication of same success as the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc venture between Toyota and GM in California‚ but this was not to be the case
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Kelsey Galati WMST 340 Metacommentary As my last upper division GE‚ it would be an understatement to say that I was tired of the regular‚ fact-reciting‚ GE courses. I’d taken one too many courses that were based on memorization of facts‚ all of which were forgotten twenty minutes after the test. For these reasons‚ I decided to make my last GE class Women’s Studies 340. Not only had I heard the material was motivating‚ but also that there wasn’t a final at the end of the semester‚ a huge bonus
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The Ge’ez Fidel or script is the only native African writing systems still in use in the world today. At Fidel Creations we believe this is a cause for celebration. That pure love for everything Fidel gave birth to Fidel Creations - a design studio and a product line with the Ethiopic Ge’ez script or Fidel as it’s called‚ and Ethiopic motifs front and center in its design philosophy. Our goal is to layer in this beautiful script into your visual landscape interpreted into various products. Introducing
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Question 1: In what ways has Jeff Immelt redirected the strategy of GE? In 2001‚ shortly after Jeff Immelt became the CEO of GE‚ a series of events changed and impacted the corporate landscape. The immediate challenges that he faced included 9/11‚ and a subsequent series of high profile corporate scandals (Enron‚ WorldCom). In 2008‚ the financial crisis hit and had a severe impact on GE’s primary growth source‚ GE Capital causing it to accumulate bad debts and asset write-downs. These events caused
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services which need a large amount of investment and cost in order to run the business and develop the products and services. It is very difficult for the new entry because GE has a very strong brand and reputation as well as patents and know-how that has the new entry cannot be done in the short period in order to compete with GE and other major competitors in this industry. The power of buyers The bargaining power of the buyers is high. This is because‚ the extremely high of switching cost from
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Chapter 19 Valuation and Financial Modeling: A Case Study 19-1. You would like to compare Ideko’s profitability to its competitors’ profitability using the EBITDA/sales multiple. Given Ideko’s current sales of $75 million‚ use the information in Table 19.2 to compute a range of EBITDA for Ideko assuming it is run as profitably as its competitors. Ideko’s 2005 sales are $75 million. Find the highest and lowest EBITDA values across all three firms and the industry as a whole: EBITDA/Sales (%) EBITDA
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GE’s Case analysis Jack Welch 1. He has adopted 3 D’s (Downsizing‚ destaffing and delayering). He has made hierarchical changes across the organization by reducing hierarchy level from 9 to 4. 2. Fix‚ Sell or close the business in which GE is not either No.1 or No.2. Between 1981 to 1990 they had sold more than 200 businesses which has accounted for 25% of 1980 sales. 3. Restructuring the organization - Jack Welch stated the above objective into a 3 circle concept. Business were categorized
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