McKinsey 7S Model This model was developed in the 1980’s by Robert Waterman‚ Tom Peters and Julien Philips whilst working for McKinsey and originally presented in their article " Structure is not Organisation". To quote them: "Intellectually all managers and consultants know that much more goes on in the process of organizing than the charts‚ boxes‚ dotted lines‚ position descriptions‚ and matrices can possibly depict. But all too often we behave as though we didn’t know it - if we want change
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A New Focus for McKinsey Rajat Gupta‚ a 20-year veteran committed to decide to put emphasis on knowledge development‚ launched a four-pronged attack to help McKinsey to build up their long tern capital. First‚ he capitalized the firm’s long tern investment by creating come new channels and forums for knowledge development and organizational learning. Second‚ he created a Practice Olympic to encourage regional offices to extend ideas that grew out of client engagement. Third‚ he assigned senior
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GE Energy and GE Healthcare Case Study 1. What are the business benefits of using information technology to build strategic customer relationships for GE Energy and GE Healthcare? What are the business benefits for their customers? Technology is no longer an afterthought in forming business strategy‚ but the actual cause and driver. Networking and data storage & analysis technologies enabled GE to gain a competitive advantage by providing unique products and services to their customers. What
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Electric (GE) Strategic Management Case Study: General Electric (GE) Analysis using Porter’s Approach By: Johnny Cantrell Part A: General Electric‚ or GE as it is better known‚ is a diversified technology‚ media‚ and financial services company. Their primary objective as stated is “focused on solving some of the world’s toughest problems”. Their slogan‚ which is “imagination at work”‚ truly says everything there is to know about the vision of the company. Inside GE they truly
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Name – Mamta Timane Subject – Organization Development Assignment – GE Workout Three activities are generally mentioned as being keys to General Electric’s success: process mapping‚ “best practices” benchmarking‚ and “workout” (Stewart‚ 1991). Workout is GE’s approach to intensive team problem solving. An organization contacted us with a desire to adapt a GE workout-type process for use in their organization. We believe our efforts to respond to our client’s questions and concerns about the
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Australian National University July 2009 Corporate Strategy Analysis: General Electric Co. (1981–present) Stanislav Bucifal Introduction The General Electric Company (GE) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful corporations of the 20th century. This paper aims to critically analyse the corporate strategy of GE during the period from 1981 to present under the leadership of two very different but equally influential CEOs—Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt. The essay is organised in four
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8/8/00 8:56 AM Page 81 Strategy under uncertainty Hugh G. Courtney‚ Jane Kirkland‚ and S. Patrick Viguerie The traditional approach to strategy requires precise predictions and thus often leads executives to underestimate uncertainty. This can be downright dangerous. A four-level framework can help. A t the heart of the traditional approach to strategy lies the assumption that executives‚ by applying a set of powerful analytic tools‚ can predict the future of any business
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mewWHAT IS THE 7-S FRAMEWORK? DESCRIPTION The 7-S Framework of McKinsey is a management model that describes 7 factors to organize a company in a holistic and effective way. Together these factors determine the way in which a corporation operates. Managers should take into account all seven of these factors‚ to be sure of successful implementation of a strategy. Large or small. They’re all interdependent‚ so if you fail to pay proper attention to one of them‚ this may effect all others as well.
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since its architecture will determine the path that the company will go through to reach their goals. Many ways to do this kind of analysis exist and are used world widely‚ but the ones that are able to give the best results are‚ in my opinion‚ McKinsey 7s model and Galbraith`s Star model. Both models are useful because they describe very important organisational elements and recognise the interaction between them. Both also require organisations to use a chosen strategy to inform structure decisions
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0 Lambin ’s Strategic Concept of Marketing. 03-04 3.0 Critical Analysis of GE (General Electric) Marketing Strategy. 04-16 3.1 Company Overview. 04-05 3.2 Marketing Philosophies of GE. 05-06 3.3 GE ’s marketing Strategy. 06-07 3.4 Analysis of GE ’s Market Driven Management. 07-09 3.5 GE ’s Competitor Analysis and Competitive Strategy. 10-12 3.6 SWOT Analysis of GE. 12-13 3.7 GE Brand Analysis. 13-15 3.8 GE ’s promotion and Selling Strategy. 15-16 4.0 Conclusion. 16-16 5.0 Appendices
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