ZipCar Case Write Up Diagnosis The ZipCar concept shows several favorable data points as a sustainable venture. The data (mostly positive)‚ however‚ is not the main show-stopper to date. In order to make ZipCar fundable‚ Robin Chase needs to (1) recruit a capable management team‚ (2) substantiate her role and that of her partner (give her a non-active role) (3) provide a realistic timeline to develop the IT infrastructure‚ (4) develop a roadmap to the expansion of ZipCar in Boston‚ (5) detail a
Premium Cost Costs Variable cost
April‚ 2005. 16. Katzev‚ R. Carsharing Portland: Review and Analysis of Its First Year. Department of Environmental Quality‚ Portland‚ OR‚ 1999. http://www.publicpolicyresearch.net/documents/CSP_first_year_eval.PDF. Accessed July 31‚ 2005. 17. Zipcar. Zipcar Customer Survey Shows Car-Sharing Leads to Car Shedding. http://www.zipcar.com/press/releases/press-21. Accessed July 31‚ 2005. 18. Flexcar. Impact. http://www.flexcar.com/vision/impact.asp. Accessed July 31‚ 2005. 19. Rydén‚ C. and E. Morin.
Premium Insurance North America Electric vehicle
Case study 1 Josephine is a 47-year-old single woman. The hardest times of the year for Josephine’s family are holidays and family gatherings; Josephine never seems to enjoy herself. She seldom smiles‚ laughs‚ or reacts to people and events around her. She remains detached and often goes into a room and plays video games or watches TV by herself‚ even when the rest of the family is eating. Her family members say that she is rude and do not want her around. Josephine lives by herself. She has
Premium Personality disorder Schizophrenia Schizotypal personality disorder
Market Development BMW had been one of the world’s most ingenious marketers of luxury goods The majority of BMW’s success is attributed to the development of a consistent marketing policy‚ the ’market niche’ strategy. The company built its brand on Technology‚ Quality‚ Performance and Exclusivity since inception and continues to portray one or more of these in their Global ads. What differentiates their promotion is that they remain consistent throughout the company’s international campaign across
Premium Sustainable transport BMW Munich
Siebel System: Anatomy of a sale INTRODUCTION Siebel system was founded in 1993 in Tom Seibel. It emerged as a software company principally engaged in design‚ developmet‚ marketing and support of customer relationship management. .By 2000‚ the revenues reached $2 billion with a workforce of approx and analyst claimed it to be the fastest growing company in America and took the title as the word leader in software company and fastest growing application software company in the history.In the recent
Premium Customer relationship management
BIG RED CASE BOOK GETTING STARTED JOHNSON SCHOOL CONSULTING CLUB So you want to be a consultant. And you know that case interviews are an important tool consulting firms use to gauge ho w candidates m ight perfo rm o n the jo b. D o n’t w o rry. T hese practice cases‚ a partner‚ and lo ts o f practice‚ are all you need. Doing well in a case interview is a matter of practice and preparation. Case interview skills are so m ething yo u learn‚ no t so m ething yo u’re bo rn w ith. T his bo o k
Premium Management consulting
BUSINESS LAW ON CRIMES A FAMILY OF ART DEALERS Max imports paintings and sells them in his Los Angeles art gallery. He operates the gallery in partnership with his three sons‚ Allen‚ Burt‚ and Carl. For years‚ Max has knowingly bought and resold paintings apparently stolen from small museums in Europe; however‚ Max has never told his sons about that some art was acquired through museum theft. Each of his sons‚ however‚ has suspected that many of the paintings were stolen. One day Max and his
Premium Theft Art Law enforcement agency
Finding good parking in the city doesn’t have to break the bank. One Parking manages more than 50‚000 parking spaces across the United States. Their New York‚ NY‚ office has given these parking garage experts the expert insight on how to score affordable parking in the city. Read on for their top three tips for finding the perfect spot to park your car in the city: Skip The Streets: Every driver dreams of finding that perfect spot to park on the street for free. Parking rules and regulations vary
Premium Automobile Transport Sustainable transport
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36573826/Just-In-Time JIT in Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa: Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa has an insurance facility located in Des Moines. This office is responsible for the processing of the claims. This office receive daily2500 forms for processing of claim‚ but unfortunately few of them are processing ina day and claim processing time has increase from 10 days to 10 weeks… Benefits after the JIT: * Both claim processing managers and employees are to
Premium Insurance
Response of ZIPCAR By Yongjun Zhao Submitted to Dr. Keith Harman Oklahoma Baptist University International Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for CIS_5203 Information Technology 24/03/2011 OVERVIEW This is an interesting‚ short case about how a new type of rental Car Company is able to operate in a completely new business model‚ as compared to other rental car companies‚ and embrace Web 2.0 technologies to gain further competitive advantage. The main
Premium Strategic management Management