take calculated risks. A manager’s independent decision making responsibility results in increased self-confidence. Further‚ exposure to managing diverse businesses‚ results in enhancing the business acumen of high-potential managers. Instilling the ‘GE Attitude’: A personal contact between CEO and high-potential managers develops a in them an attitude that inspires them to re-define the game in addition to meeting targets. Thus‚ creative and practical ideas result‚ contributing further to GE’s growth
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that had been designated “Imagination Breakthroughs.” IBs‚ as they were called within GE‚ were new projects with the potential to generate $100 million in new business within two to three years‚ and were a key part of Immelt’s organic growth strategy. At the IB Review‚ Immelt expected to hear how Transportation was progressing with each of its locomotive IBs and what plans they had for their future. Within GE Transportation‚ however‚ the future of several IBs had been a source of considerable
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AWL (GE/McKinsey approach) | 1. Describe the business portfolio and the options available to AWL. The business portfolio of AWL’s 1998 fiscal year consists of three SBUs‚ namely three new marketing textbooks‚ including Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy‚ Analysis for Strategic Marketing and Marketing Engineering. We can also see these three textbooks in the GE Portfolio Matrix as shown in Graph 1 and Graph 2. AWL should have clear understanding of these three new textbooks in order
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McKinsey Matrix (The GE multi factoral) With the help of McKinsey and Company‚ a leading consulting group‚ the General Electric Company (GE) developed a popular business portfolio analysis tool called the GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix. This tool helps managers develop organizational strategy that is based primarily on market attractiveness and business strengths. Industry attractiveness might be determined by such factors as the rate of industry growth‚ the number of competitors in an industry
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responsibility is defined in Chapter 5 as the corporate duty to create wealth by using means that avoid harm to‚ protect‚ or enhance societal assets. Did GE in the Welch era fulfill this duty? Could it have done better? What should it have done? I believe that Welch only fulfilled one portion of his corporate social responsibility duty. Financial results for GE show that Welch was very effective in directing a highly profitable company‚ but he did so at the expense of many of the employees of the business
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1. How difficult was the task facing Immelt assuming the CEO role in 2001? What imperatives where there to change? What incentives to maintain the past? 2. What do you think of the broad objectives Immelt has set for GE? Can a giant global Conglomerate hope to outperform the overall market growth? Can size and diversity be made an asset rather than a liability? 3. What is your evaluation of the growth strategy (a strategy for a giant global conglomerate with a portfolio of mature industrial
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GE Capital Analysis Recommendation on Argentina’s future outlook Abstract This dissertation will determine Argentina’s current political‚ economical‚ social‚ and legal macro environments in order to make a consensus on a recommendation for the next step in GE Capital’s involvement within the country. Recommendation will be based on analysis on previous economic‚ political‚ legal and social environments of Venezuela
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Founded by American icon Thomas Edison‚ General electronic (GE) has been admired for his performance and spirit for more than 125 years. The businesses that they invent and build fuel the global economy and improve people’s life. GE is s very large corporation with business in a wide range of industries‚ including‚ aerospace‚ power system‚ health care‚ commercial finance and consumer finance. Today GE has more than 11 technology‚ services and financial business with more than 315‚000 employees in
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External Analysis An external analysis is one of the most important tasks to complete when completing a strategic analysis for a given corporation. By looking at our Internal Analysis of General Electric (GE) we identified Strengths and Weaknesses and we were able to recognize the Distinctive and Core Competencies that exist within the General Electric organization. Our external analysis consists of two major analyses: The Competitive Analysis and the Industry Analysis. By taking a closer look
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people in the movie "The Matrix" written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them‚ and they believe what they are experiencing is all that really exists. Plato the ancient Greek philosopher wrote "The Allegory of the Cave"‚ to explain the process of enlightenment and what true reality may be. In the movie "The Matrix"‚ Neo (the main character) was born into a world of illusions called the matrix. His true reality is being
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