International Journal of Production Research Vol. 48‚ No. 14‚ 15 July 2010‚ 4179–4198 The impact of inclusive and fragmented operations strategy processes on operational performance Steve Browna*‚ Brian Squireb and Mike Lewisc a School of Business‚ University of Exeter‚ Rennes Drive‚ Exeter EX4 4PU‚ UK; Decision Sciences and Operations Management‚ Manchester Business School‚ Booth Street West‚ Manchester‚ M15 6PB‚ UK; cSchool of Management‚ University of Bath‚ Claverton Down‚ Bath‚ BA2
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About Whirlpool Corporation: 1989: Whirlpool entered European Markey by buying a 53% stake in the appliance division of Dutch based Philips Electronic for $ 470 million .Formed a joint venture firm named Whirlpool International BV (WIBV). 1990: Added the whirlpool brand name to the Philips product line. 1991: whirlpool bought the rest of the Philips stake (47%) for $ 600 million to become the sole owner of Whirlpool International BV. 1991-1999: WIBV developed three pan European brands
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Whirlpool Company Introduction: Whirlpool centers its consideration on a few key regions‚ including‚ Nonstop Quality Change‚ Overhaul of Business Courses of action‚ Inventory network Administration‚ Enhanced Client Introduction‚ and Globalization of Business Operations. Whirlpool is the business pioneer in the assembling and advertising of home machines. Whirlpool is a worldwide organization and markets Whirlpool‚ Maytag‚ Kitchen Support‚ Jenn-Air‚ Amana‚ Brastemp‚ Bauknecht‚ Delegate and other significant
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1. Introduction This report focuses on the case studies of the Levi Jeans workers and the California Auto Club reengineering customer service. It looks at operations management as a source for gaining a competitive advantage and overcoming potential problems experienced within and organisation or workplace. The questions to be reviewed are as follows: Jeans Therapy - Levi’s factory worker are assigned to teams‚ and morale takes a hit: 1. What went wrong with Levi’s move to teams in their plants
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Operation theatre is one of the most productive rooms in national guard hospital. With many different surgical operations done on a daily basis‚ delays in case durations would add extra cost as the result of the extra using of surgical resources. Besides‚ a good time management in operation theater will increase the overall quality of operating workflow in particular‚ and the productivity in hospital in general. The unexpected delays in case durations could be due to many factors. These include
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A07-00-0013 Whirlpool Corporation’s Global Strategy We want to be able to take the best capabilities we have and leverage them in all our companies worldwide. David Whitman‚ Whirlpool CEO‚ 1994 Quoted in the Harvard Business Review In 1989‚ Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) embarked on an ambitious global expansion with the objective of becoming the world market leader in home appliances. Beginning with the purchase of a majority stake in an appliance company owned by Philips‚ the Dutch
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Two key operational approach elements that link the operation to national interests include objectives and COG. JP 5-0 states‚ “the operational approach reflects an understanding of the OE and the problem…and identification of objectives‚ COG(s) and decisive points are useful in developing the basis for an operational approach.” However‚ if the analysis and understanding of these fundamental aspects are wrong‚ the operational approach will fail. Sadly‚ an imprudent objective and the wrong COG hampered
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Fordham University | Service Oriented Architecture | The Whirlpool Case | 3/28/2011 | Service oriented architecture (SOA) is an approach to build IT systems that connects applications across a network via a common communications protocol‚ allowing organizations to reuse old software‚ often with the help of Web services to create new business processes and functions. It is a set of design principles and approaches to software development and a methodology for organizing and using independent
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SIG Combibloc to its main competitor Tetra Pak. The results of the study were striking: “Whereas both companies are head to head in all major qualitative aspects‚ SIG Combibloc lags behind in speed of implementation of new printing designs and customer order lead time”. Senior management was obviously very uncomfortable with these negative benchmarking results and expected him to address this issue and to come up with a solution. Theodore Streng and his team had identified the key problem and
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Jitendra Kumar Chaurasiya PCOM no. : 166 IIM Lucknow KPCL Case Study Solution Problem at hand: This case is about KCPL which was started in 1945‚ by Mohan Kumar Gupta. It started business in the candy industry but subsequently moved to “Glucose biscuit” Industry with “MKG” brand. There were two national player “A-one and International biscuits” in the market. In year 1986-87 the company incurred losses. A-one with sales over 1200 tonnes/month wanted to increase its production capacity by
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