theme 1 & 2 with the management evolution of the selected company Fortune 500 Rank 15 - General Motors “A car for every purse and purpose" – Alfred P Sloan Jr‚ Former President & CEO General Motors. General Motors‚ one of the world’s largest automakers‚ traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit‚ GM employs 205‚000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 157 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 31 countries
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A CRITIQUE on Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate‚ Obliterate by Michael Hammer Harvard Business Review July-August 1990 Summary Hammer emphasises the futility of using Information Technology to mechanise the existing processes. He believes in necessity for breaking away from the outdated rules and fundamental assumption that underlie operations to keep up with the quickly changing‚ growing competitiveness. To achieve this‚ companies should use the power of modern Information
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General Motors Case Study #3 Problem Summary: One of the most serious problems that GM faces is when the firm announced a $10.6 billion loss‚ which was their first in 12 years. The auditors for General Motors even thought that the firm’s survival was in substantial doubt even if they received the additional $30 billion they were going to borrow from the federal government. The problems have grown as a result of mistakes by GM’s management over the last 30 years. They built up a bloated bureaucracy
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About the case: This case basically talks about how CIGNA group introduced business reengineering into its organization five year ago and saved more than 100 million dollar. This business reengineering journey started by small pilot project and it was big hit. Then organization ramped up from this success‚ exchange their ideas‚ experiences and learning from this project into larger and more complex parts of the organization. Later on‚ all the nine division challenged to the match of CIGNA RE.
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution The novel‚ “Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution” is a very enlightening book‚ especially to a novice college undergrad like myself. The authors make the argument that traditional business organization is based on the specialization of tasks as laid out in Adam Smith’s work‚ Wealth of Nations. Once initiated‚ the idea of division of labor did in fact increase productivity immensely. Division
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General Motors Case General Motors had a faulty management strategy causing the firm to go into bankruptcy. One of the key components that led to failure was neglecting to collaborate between global divisions. As a multinational corporation‚ General Motors operated did not have sufficient collaboration between divisions
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY General Motors is primarily engaged in automotive production and marketing and financing and insurance operations. GM designs‚ manufactures‚ and markets vehicles worldwide‚ have its largest operating presence in North America. The core competence of General Motors is innovation. This is the driving force behind its $190 above turnover. General Motors has been utilizing innovation in service ad technology to secure itself a dominant position in the automobile industry‚ since 1908
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[pic] GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY Case Study Radencovici Octavian Tudorica Alexandru Lupu Mariana Bartoloni Giulio General Motors Corporation “Engineered without compromise” 1. General Presentation of the company One of the world’s largest automakers‚ GMC has it’s roots traced back to 1908. Also known as GM‚ this company is a United States-based automaker with its headquarters in Detroit‚ Michigan. After the General Motors Company was founded‚ it soon became known as one of the largest car manufacturers
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Models for Change Business Process Reengineering Assess Business Strategy Like many other approaches‚ BPR claims to align organisation change (and IT development) with business strategy. This is important because BPR concentrates of improving processes which are of primary strategic importance. The assumption is that strategy is already determined‚ and that it is externally focussed‚ dealing with customers‚ products‚ suppliers and markets. BPR is quite distinct from strategic planning.
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assess organizational performance in a variety of settings. Performance measurement is defined as the extent to which actual outcomes correspond to planned outcomes. Management use performance assessment to improve processes‚ modify plans. Motors Corporation‚ also known as GM‚ is the world ’s largest automaker and has been since 1931. Founded in 1908‚ GM today employs about 326‚999 people around the world. GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 2 countries. In 2005‚ 17 million GM cars and trucks
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