MATTHEW YACHTS‚ INC. This is an excellent case to address the characteristics of process-oriented vs. repetitive vs. product-oriented production. 1. Matthew Yachts is profitable‚ thanks to its custom-designed yachts. Its management experience appears to have competitive advantage in custom-designed yachts‚ hence the higher profit margins. However‚ since the demand for the “fixed” design is growing‚ expansion into this area‚ with its repetitive-oriented layout and procedures (see Table 7.2 and
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File-It Supplies Inc‚ Present Situation Patsy Akaka is the marketing manager of File-It Supplies which is a file folder manufacturer that has been in business for 28 years. Other primary lines they are file markers‚ labels and indexing systems. On the other hand 40% of FIS´s file folder business is in specialized lines including oversized blue-print and engineer drawings for several high tech industries. Even though the company has a unique knowledge in the field‚ Patsy is facing a complicated
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GROUP CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: WORKING COMPUTERS‚ INC.1 Jennifer Sobey‚ an analyst in the headquarters of Working Computers‚ has been asked to evaluate whether or not Working should sell a division of the firm which has been losing market share and requires a great deal of new investment to remain competitive. The ailing product is a personal data appliance‚ or PDA‚ that once led the market in features and innovation‚ only to fall prey to competition from numerous firms once it had
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Introduction The company was established in 1980 by Eugene Mercan and the first product was a desalinator. In 1996‚ the product line included desalinators‚ particle filters‚ ozonators‚ ion exchange resins‚ and purifiers. In 1996‚ sales revenues was almost $400 million (annual growth average 12% for past five years)‚ with an expected profit close to $50 million. In 1999‚ water purifier was added to product line by using brand name “Delight”. The company has identified a market for its water purifier
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Filter Innovations Inc. Filter Innovations Inc. (FII) was created by John Dragasevich in 1992. It was based out of Toronto‚ Ontario and supplied small industrial water filtration systems and environmental products. It focused mostly on projects that required processing below 1 million litres per day. This was because competing companies were more interested in projects that required processing above 1 million litres per day. Problem Statement The problem Dragasevich faces with FII is that
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‘Optical Distortion‚ Inc.’ Case Study December 02‚ 2013 Situation Executive Summary: Optical Distortion Inc. is a single product company that produces contact lenses for chickens. ODI believes that the use of contact lenses for chickens is a superior solution for poultry farms relative to the current alternative manners that farmers use to prevent cannibalism among their chickens – something that is the cause of mortality rates of up to 25% on some farms. Given the fact that
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Case Study: MagRec Inc. 1. Place yourself in the role of the manager. What should you do now? After considering what happened‚ would you change any of your behaviors? If I were the manager in the situation that she is currently in I would apologize to Dinah. I would apologize because: 1) Dinah was honest and reported the file when she could have disposed or disregarded the file‚ 2) Dinah could have taken the file directly to Partco without MagRec’s knowledge and completely undermined MagRec’s
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I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Struggle in achievement of profitability II. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE Jeff Hawkins‚ a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in BS Electrical Engineering‚ did a short tenure at Intel before working at GRiD Systems in 1982. While at GRiD‚ he developed GRiDTask – a high-level programming language which fuelled further the technological advancements in handheld computing‚ particularly in the area of text entry. In 1986‚ Hawkins left grid to pursue further
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GOOGLE INC. History of Google Inc. Google ’s founders‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ met by chance on a Stanford University tour in the summer of 1995. Page‚ at the time‚ was working on a PhD research project involving the mathematical properties of the link structure on the internet. The research project‚ "BackRub"‚ used an algorithm to follow the links in a webpage and analyze all the connections. The PageRank algorithm generated a popularity index for each web page based on the quantity and
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Apple Inc. is a global computer manufacturing company that is going through major changes in its organizational culture and it’s organizational structure due to several events of the past few years. This is a company that grew extremely fast in little time‚ that their management found themselves not being able to keep their operations and finances under control. Apple Inc. has been forced to reevaluate and redesign it’s organizational culture and organizational structure to avoid bankruptcy. The
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