brand portfolio. Some nameplates like Pontiac‚ Oldsmobile‚ Saturn‚ Hummer‚ and service brands like Goodwrench were discontinued. Others‚ like SAAB‚ were sold. Main brands: - Chevrolet - Cadillac - GMC - Buick A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Today‚ General Motors is the world’s largest automotive company – with operations in more than 120 countries worldwide. In 2011 we sold 9.0 million vehicles. Our business is diversified across products and geographic markets. We meet the local sales and service needs
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1. INTRODUCTION General Motors is a motor vehicle company in the United States that started manufacturing in 1915. The purpose of this report is to examine the decisions that were made within the company‚ in the lead up to their financial crisis in 1991. In the years preceding this downfall‚ the CEO Robert Smith made several decisions that contributed to the declining financial status of General Motors. Consequently‚ when Smith retired‚ the Black Swan Event of America’s recession left the next
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IDENTIFY WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE THE PAST DEFININF ELEMENTS OF THE GM CULTURE. One former GM employee said the company’s management’ CULTURE needs an almost immediate overhaul if GM is to start producing the vehicles it needs to revive sales and return to profitability. This statement indicates there are some things that are fundamentally wrong with GM. To start with‚ GM faced the consequences for what GOP warned every one about for the last 2 years in 2009 that how our auto industry consumes more
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South East University Name:- MD Monirul Islam ID:- 2012210005052 Sec:- B Batch:- 10th Submited to :- Zahid Anowar Subject:- Evaluate the company objectives for General Motors‚ The Home Depot‚ YUM! Brands‚ and Avon. Discuss whether or not the objectives are measurable and achievable. General Motors objectives: 1. Identify and implement ways to conserve on electrical usage and on gas usage. This goal is achievable. 2. Develop strong team work and effective leadership skills of staff through
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Case study: Business Process Reengineering General Motors Corporation “General Motors is one of three leading automotive manufacturing companies in the United States. Based in Michigan in 1903 by Henry ford and grew to reach revenue of $150 billion and more than 370‚000 employees by 1996. In the 1970’s‚ the automobile market for the major auto makers - General Motors (GM)‚ Ford‚ and Chrysler- was crunched by competition from foreign manufactures such as Toyota and Honda. In 1999‚ Ford acquired
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Harvard Case Study Analysis What is an ANALYSIS? analysis Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural analy·ses \- s z\ Etymology: New Latin‚ from Greek‚ from analyein to dissolve (from ana- + lyein to loosen‚ dissolve) + -sis -1 : separation or breaking up of a whole into its fundamental elements or component parts 2 a : a detailed examination of anything complex (as a novel‚ an organization‚ a race) made in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features : a thorough study
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Case Studies - BPR in Poland The first ever Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project in the formerly communist countries of eastern Europe was completed on October 28th‚ 1994 by Wizdom Polska‚ the Polish subsidiary company of Wizdom Systems‚ Inc. Wizdom has once again taken BPR to new frontiers‚ achieving unprecedented results in the massive task of Reengineering a company laden with the residuals of 50 years of central planning. The company‚ Stomil Sanok S.A.‚ is a manufacturer of rubber
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within business education that bridges the gap between computer science and well known business disciplines such as finance‚ marketing and management. More on in this subject I have go through a lot of case studies. One of the case study I want to talk about is A Portal For General Motors (GM). General motors is a $185 billion organization with more than 350‚000 representatives around the world. It conducts business in more than 125 nations and fabricates items extending from SUVs to satellites. 1. Yes
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CASE STUDY REPORT The decisions and culture leading to the fall of General Motors CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………………….iii 1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………..4 2. EXTERNAL FACTORS IN DECISION MAKING……………………….4-5 3. BOUNDED RATIONALITY……………………………………………….5-7 4. BUSINESS CULTURE…………………………………………………...7 a. The Power-Distance Relationship……………………………...7 b. Uncertainty Approach……………………………………………8 5. THE CONFORMITY APPROACH……………………………………...8-9 6
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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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