1.How is the Fruitvale Branch doing? How the branch is doing according to key external performance measures-financial performance‚ turnaround times‚ late renewals‚ and renewal rates. Fruitvale encounters a significant loss of business due to late renewals‚ and long lead times on new policies and quotes. From the following perspectives‚ we can have a better view of what Fruitvale Branch’s problems are:Financial performance: Profitability is declining. It suffered a loss of $174 and $121 in 1st and
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definitively have some issues here at Fruitvale Branch‚ but there are not the ones you think. The main problems that I could identify are the followings: * TAT (Turnaround time) measurement: We are not measuring correctly the TAT. In exhibit #3 shows that the TAT for a particular week is 8.2 days (0‚6+3.4+2.0+2.2)‚ but this means that the process is carried as a batch process‚ every process must be finished in order to go to the next one‚ and that is not the case (The possibility is very slim (5%)4)
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Case: Manzana Insurance - Fruitvale Branch (Abridged) Harvard Business School Executive Summary Fruitvale ’s core management problem is the low performance due to an unacceptable long turnaround times (TAT). Especially because of the late Renewals many of Fruitvale´s customers are turning to its major competitor Golden Gate. The operating performance needs to be improved by eradicating the bottleneck in Underwriting. This will be achieved by restructuring and simplifying the process. Through
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Case question 1 Manzana specialized in commercial insurance‚ with property insurance‚ making up 65% of its revenues‚ liability insurance 20%‚ and investment income and miscellaneous specialty lines constituting the remainder. Golden Gate Casualty is one of the largest property-liability insurers in California‚ it is also the powerful competition with Manzana in the market. Below listing 3 advantages with Golden Gate: Golden Gate promise of one-day turnaround time to all agents‚ Manzana got lots of
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A. Get the Big Picture: At Manzana the new policies (RUNs) are believed to be more profitable because they “commanded the highest premiums” and also because they considered that costumers would renew their policies anyway so they didn’t need to pay as much attention to the RERUNs. Nevertheless‚ we consider that these are not the most profitable policies and for instance they should not be given high priority. Table 1: Manzana Profit for 2nd quarters Looking at the profits we can see that there
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Business Issues The profitability of Manzana Insurance Fruitvale branch was declining. There were mainly contributed by‚ Increasing backlog policies since 1989‚ and the number of RUN and RAIN appeared to be stagnating. Rise in late renewals resulted in increasing renewal loss rate. The renewals are decreasing and had a high renewals late rate 44%‚ which led to an extremely high renewal loss rate 47%‚ while Golden Gate’s is at just 15%. High turnaround time. Manzana increased TAT to 5 days‚ Goldengate
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Operations Management Case Analysis - 2 Manzana Insurance (Fruitvale Branch) Group 13: ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION The Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance is facing stiff competition and is being severely outperformed by Golden Gate casualty Insurance. On every measure of performance‚ Fruitvale branch seems to be falling apart. Following are the problems faced by Fruitvale branch: 1) Turnaround Time (TAT) is too high TAT‚ or the number of days between the
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problems faced by Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance in the mid 1991 and recommendations given to them. Manzana insurance specializes in commercial insurance but the Fruitvale branch handles only property underwriting. Currently the branch is confronted with problems like high turnaround time‚ reduced profits and stiff competition from other players. Performance of the Fruitvale branch The Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance is highly underperforming
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Harvard Business School 9-692-015 Rev. January 30‚ 1997 Christopher Loch and David Paul Grant prepared the original version of this case (S-DS-87‚ Revised 5/90) under the direction of Professor Michael J. Harrison‚ Stanford University. It is based on an earlier case by Karlyn Carnahan. Professor Steven C. Wheelwright‚ Harvard University‚ prepared the abridged case as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation
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Overall Performance of Manzana-Fruitvale: The Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance is struggling right now. “Branch profitability was declining. The backlog policies had increases since 1989‚ and the number of new policies and endorsements appeared to be stagnating.” To make matters even worse their main competitor‚ Golden Gate‚ had no problem taking business away from Manzana while they were struggling. Exhibit 1 shows some of the key metrics for Manzana the past two years and for Golden Gate
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