July 17‚ 1981‚ in Kansas City‚ Missouri‚ the Hyatt Regency Hotel held a tea-dance party in their atrium lobby. As the many party-goers stood and danced on the suspended walkways‚ the connections supporting the ceiling rods that held up the second-floor and fourth-floor walkways across the atrium failed. The fourth-floor walkway collapsed onto the second-floor walkway‚ while the offset third-floor walkway remained intact. Both walkways collapsed onto the crowded first-floor atrium. During the time
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[pic] Analysis of Corporate and Business Strategies Executive Summary The following report will describe an overview of the current environment and how it is affecting the hotel industry‚ and then will be preceded by a corporate level and business level strategy analysis. The company that will be the subject of the paper will be Hyatt Global Corporation‚ and its brand‚ Hyatt Regency. In the PESTE (Political‚ Economic‚ Socio-Cultural‚ Technological‚ Ecological) analysis the group discovered
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Hyatt Regency Hotel Project History The Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation started a project with Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City in 1976. With the consulting structural engineer Gillum-Colaco‚ Inc.‚ their subsidiary firm‚ Jack D. Gillum & Associates (G.C.E)‚ the architect‚ PBNDML Architects‚ Planners‚ Inc.‚ the general contractor Eldridge Construction Company‚ and the fabrication and erection of hotel’s atrium steel Havens Steel Company‚ they built the hotel. Divided into three groups:
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The new project management department SWOT-Analysis Strengths - Young‚ motivated employees - Methodological expertise - Executive has good network within the company - A wide range of tasks Weaknesses - Lack of experience - No working processes - Lack of acceptance within the company - No established team Opportunities (Always ask: What improves the situation?) - Strategic management of major projects - Expansion of the department - Raising the status within the company - Measurable
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Eric Sandler Ethical Disaster of the Hyatt Regency Collapse Construction on the 40-story Hyat Regency Crown Center began in 1978‚ and the hotel opened on July 1‚ 1980‚ after construction delays including an incident on October 14‚ 1979‚ when 2‚700 square feet of the atrium roof collapsed because one of the roof connections on the north end of the atrium failed. The collapse was the second major structural failure in Kansas City in a little more than two years. On June 4‚ 1979‚ the roof
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Ethical Analysis of Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway Collapse The collapse of the overhead walkways in the Hyatt Regency hotel occurred on the 17 June 1981 (Garmon 1982)‚ as a result 114 people were killed (Poel & Royakkers 2011) and many injured. An investigation was lead to determine the cause of the incident. Ultimately‚ it was concluded that the failure of the walkways were attributed to the fact that the construction did not meet the Kansas City Building code requirements coupled with miscommunication
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people were killed when 2 walkway bridges collapsed within the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City. Both the second and fourth story walkway crashed down when nearly 1600 people came to watch a dance competition held within the atrium. At the time of the collapse‚ it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history‚ only surpassed by the south tower collapse twenty years later during 9/11. This final destruction of The Hyatt Regency Kansas City was the worst in a string of smaller scale setbacks
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Mount Kinabalu towers 4095 meters (13‚435 feet) above sea level. It is the highest mountain between the mighty snow-capped Himalayas and Wilhelmina (4509 meters / 14‚793 feet) in Irian Jaya. It is also one of the most accessible and spectacular mountains in the world. Because of the earth movement‚ in is still growing with the rate of 5 mm (1/4 inches) a year. Mount Kinabalu is essentially a massive pluton formed from granodiorite which is intrusive into sedimentary and ultrabasic rocks‚ and forms
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Executive Summary Hyatt‚ one of the renowned international hotel chains has expanded their global operation across the world. The strong brand image along with efficient global account management‚ so far Hyatt has achieved great success in hospitality industry. Their success has created strong position in Asian market owning hotels in more than 10 nations. Even there are maximum of 3 hotels only in India. The mission is to provide authentic hospitality by making a difference in the lives of the
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ran Hyatt Corporate Brand Study: An Analytical Look at the Strategic Management of the Hyatt Brand By: Marina Kovalenko Sapna Mangal HMI 407 03/13/2013 Table of Contents Abstract 2 Vision‚ Mission‚ and Values 3 Internal Analysis 4 Resource Based: 4 Value Chain Model: 6 Generic Building Blocks: 6 External Analysis 8 Five Force Model: 8 Macro Environmental Forces: 8 Competition and Industry Analysis 10 Life Cycle: 10 Industry Structure: 10 SWOT Analysis
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