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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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Browse 11 GE’s Two Decade Transformation domestic markets‚ created a service industry and an E-business; thus increasing it revenue andincreasing its value by 60%‚ and most importantly surviving the recession and creating a largecomplex diversified conglomerate that continues to defy the critics and grow in performance andprofitability. Values added include but not limited to the reduction of bureaucracy
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GE’s digital Revolution Redefining the E in GE Within 18 months of introducing the e-business initiative‚ Internet Week named GE the ~{!0~}Internet Company of the Year.~{!1~} How was GE to drive this ambitious company-wide program throughout its complex and diverse organizations so quickly and effectively? GE is a huge company‚ with 3 dozen of business areas‚ over 300 thousand employees and annual sales revenue as high as 129 billion in the year of 2000. It was the "social architecture" (culture
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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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School of Business & Economics BU 491 Winter 2015 Version 1.1 Topic Week Class Readings/Cases Introduction 5-9 January 1 None Expanding abroad 2 Chapter 1 Expanding abroad: Motivations‚ means‚ and mentalities Reading: Distance still matters: The hard reality of global expansion (Harvard Business Review‚ September 2001) Reading: The Tortuous evolution of the multinational corporation (Columbia Journal of World Business‚ January-February 1969) International context 12-16 January
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Harvard Case Review and Analysis 1. Jeff Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee
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The first perception of me about Zig Ziglar is hat he was such an enthusiastic‚ driven and passionate person. It is amazing that he had travel for more than five million miles to give motivational talks with an excellent 40-year speaking career. Instead‚ he also had been the best influencer and business consultant for Fortune 500 companies and consort with American presidents and other world leaders. Therefore‚ I personally impressed with his longtime driven to success. Other than that‚ I also noticed
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Case Study: GE: Jeffrey Immelt – Change in Strategy‚ Style and Culture Sandra Armenta South University Online Dr. Patrick Udeh January 30‚ 2012 Case Study: GE: Jeffrey Immelt – Change in Strategy‚ Style and Culture In all companies changes in strategies‚ style and culture are experienced when management changes occur. This was no different with GE. As Jack Welch stepped down as CEO after 20 years‚ Jeffrey Immelt was chosen as his successor. He had some big shoes to fill. “Immelt became
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CASE-ANALYSIS “The barbecue” Made by Uskova Viktoria (gr.2305) I. Summary. Koji Fukhara has just gotten a higher position in big multinational company. He arranges an informal Sunday party and invites all team so that combine their multinational. II. The problem. Koji Fukuhara faces serious difficulties in finding lingua franca of company’s multinational team. III. Cast of characters. People: * Koji Fukuhara. Works for a multinational company as a managing director of the company’s
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GE’s Two Decade Transformation Case Analysis 1. How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? In 1981‚ Jack Welch became the CEO of GE‚ following on the heels of a well-respected leader whom the industry heralded as “CEO of the year” several years in a row. Welch needed to find a strategy for GE to succeed in this economy to avoid being the CEO that broke what Reg Jones had built. In fact‚ when Reg announced his retirement‚ The Wall Street Journal wrote
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