photographic paper and related office equipment‚ Xerox is presently one of the biggest and oldest document-management company in the world. Xerox‚ initially known as Haloid‚ became significantly prominent in 1959 with the introduction of the world’s first plain paper photocopier dubbed as Xerox 914. Utilizing the process of xerography or electrophotography‚ Xerox 914 became an instant office item pursued by countless organizations around the globe. As a result‚ Xerox business opportunities and market share
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has Fuji Xerox played in Xerox’s global strategy? How do you expect this role to change near future? Fuji Xerox can consider as the most successful joint venture in history between an American and a Japanese company which is the joint venture between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film. Fuji Xerox then subcontracting partly with Rank Xerox (which is the joint venture between Xerox and Rank Organization of Britain) and received exclusive rights to xerographic patents in Japan. The role of Fuji Xerox originally
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Benchmarking: how Xerox regained its competitive edge INTRODUCTION This paper examines the benchmarking initiatives taken by Xerox as a part of its ’Leadership through Quality’ program during the early 1980s. The case discusses in detail the benchmarking concept and its implementation in various processes at Xerox. It also explores the positive impact of benchmarking practices on Xerox. The history of Xerox goes back to 1938‚ when Chester Carlson‚ a patent attorney and part-time inventor‚ made
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Xerox Diversity‚ the inclusion of different types of people (whether it be race or culture) in a group or organization. How would Xerox‚ a fortune 500 company define diversity? How diverse is Xerox in comparison to the rest of the market? With diversity your company gains knowledge and experience from different facets of the world‚ but what would keep Xerox motivated to diversify their workforce? Considering the growth in cultural diversity in the US how has Xerox manage to maintain its diversity
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Xerox was founded in 1906 as the Haloid Company‚ a photographic supply house that developed the world’s first xerographic copier. They had a positive people oriented culture and dedicated employees‚ who were the desire of the corporate world. With the passage of time many things become a hurdle in the success of the company. The biggest factor was that they couldn’t move beyond copiers to sustain growth in the market‚ they only focused on the copier because they were getting 70 percent profit
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Xerox Focuses on HR Xerox Corporation is a $22 billion company‚ and is a world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management that manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ digital production printing presses‚ scanners‚ software solutions‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut and has 130‚000 employees in 160 countries. On September 28‚ 2009‚ Xerox announced
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Xerox Corporation 1. Leadership through Quality was a strategy developed by Xerox as a result of competitors being financially strong‚ technologically advanced and having excellent customer relations. Xerox Corporation through its strategy tries to meet its customer requirements. The strategy is viable as Xerox through this strategy tries ensuring that definition of Quality is meeting the customer requirements all the time. The three major components of LTQ are Employee Involvement that stresses
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through Functional-Level Strategies: Xerox Corporation 1. Identify how the changes that Xerox undertook after 1980‚ helped the company to improve its efficiency‚ quality‚ innovation and customer responsiveness. Xerox underwent series of improvement after its 1980 downfall. First‚ Xerox had changed its waste management by decreasing the number of defective products and services‚ thus promotes efficiency. To cope with the increasing reject rate products‚ Xerox consolidated its worldwide supply base
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Content Page Executive Summary Xerox‚ the then world’s largest copier seller‚ was sued by the U.S. Security and Exchange Committee (SEC) in 2002 for its fraudulent accounting manipulations‚ which inflated $1.5 billion earnings from 1997 to 2000. Several parties got their hands dirty in the scandal‚ including the then senior Xerox management‚ the Board of Directors and external auditor KPMG LLP. The failure of those parties in discharging their duties induces the further thought of trust and accountability
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FUJI XEROX AND THE XEROX CORP.: TURNING TABLES? Company’s Profile Xerox – In a Glance Xerox was founded in 1906 as "The Haloid Company"‚ which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment. The company subsequently changed its name to "Haloid Xerox" in 1958 and then simply "Xerox" in 1961. Although Xerox is a global brand‚ it maintains a joint venture‚ Fuji Xerox‚ with Japanese photographic firm Fuji Photo Film Co. to develop‚ produce and sell in the Asia-Pacific region. Fuji
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