INTRODUCTION McCusker is the project team leader and had authorized the organization of a cross-functional and cross-regional project team in Flextronics. McCusker should reach a decision with regards to which shop-floor system to implement in the facilities as soon as possible. Main stakeholders in this decision are Mexico team‚ Hungary team and Microsoft. From long term perspective‚ Flextronics needs to integrate the different shop-floor systems present in each facility into one system. The growing
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being forced to form cross- functional‚ inter-departmental‚ cross-divisional‚ and interorganizational alliances in order to make maximum use of scarce resources and thus increase their competitive advantage.” In their study of 70 global teams‚ Govindarajan and Gupta found out that only 18% of such teams perceived their own performance as “highly successful”‚ while a third felt that their co-operation had been utterly unsuccessful.Obviously‚ the ambiguity related to multiculturalism does not prevent
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2.1 Strategic Cost Management and the Value Chain Introduction This article by John K. Shank and Vijay Govindarajan discuss in depth on the Strategic Cost Management (SCG) and the Value Chain concept applied in real world situation from the airline industry. The Value Chain concept is divided into two (2) main strategies which are the Low-Cost Strategy and Differentiation Strategy. From the article also‚ Shank and Govindasamy stated that the primary focus of a low cost strategy is to achieve the
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Chapter 15 The Flexible Budget: Further Analysis of Productivity and Sales Teaching Notes for Cases Case 15-1 Dallas Consulting Group* This case serves as a review of sales variances. Since all costs are fixed‚ it is unnecessary to do a variance analysis based on contribution. Instead‚ the analysis is better done based solely on revenues. The variances shown in Exhibit 1 are computed for the “levels” explained in the “Note on Managing Against Expectations.” Students should recognize
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their dedication to their customers and the corporate strategies their leadership instituted. Their leadership created a different corporate culture that CEO Herb Kelleher and his company are devoted to the philosophy of putting employees first (Govindarajan‚ pg. 115). In doing so‚ Southwest was able to instill a management control system that relied on their employees and empowered them to achieve the overarching goals of their company and its shareholders. Southwest’s main strategy to be the best
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Chapter 16 Operational Performance Measurement: Further Analysis of Productivity and Sales Cases 16-1 Dallas Consulting Group Readings 16-1: “Profit Variance Analysis: A Strategic Focus” by Vijay Govindarajan‚ John K. Shank‚ Issues in Accounting Education (Fall 1989). This article uses a fictitious case to demonstrate how variance analysis can be tied explicitly to the strategies of the firm. It expands the Shank and Churchill framework (explained in the article) for variance analysis
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References: Govindarajan‚ V. and Trimble C. (2012)‚ Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home‚ Win Everywhere‚ Harvard Business Review Press‚ Jun 19‚ 2012 Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach‚ Concepts and Cases‚ 2011‚ Fourteenth Edition‚ David‚ F.‚ Published
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Immelt Says”‚ Reuters.com (Jul 7‚ 2007)‚ 10. Nelson Hoffman‚ (Jan 24 2008) “Reflections on GE Global Strategy”‚ Manufacturing and Technology News‚ 11. John Rice‚ (Feb 12 2009) ”Tackling Global Problems with Local Solutions” GE Reports 12. Vijay Govindarajan (Mar 11 2009)‚ “Winning Micro Customer in Mega Markets”‚ GE Reports < http://www.gereports.com/winning-micro-customers-in-mega-markets/> 13. Jeffery Immelt et al‚ (Oct 2009)“How GE is Disrupting itself”‚ Harvard Business Review‚ 14. Pankaj
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References: Anthony‚ Robert N.‚ and Govindarajan‚ Vijay. (2005) Management Control Systems. McGraw Hill Companies Inc.‚ New York‚ NY (pp. 654-655)
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consecutive years of making profit (Govindarajan and Lang‚ 2002). I will elaborate how the Porter’s 5 Rules of Strategic Positioning be applied in Southwest in following essay. Southwest’s activities fully satisfied customer needs‚ applying the Porter’s first rule. It has short trips with low price and the frequency of flights is very high. For the customers who want easy check-in‚ Southwest uses automatic ticketing machines and do not have seat assignments (Govindarajan and Lang‚ 2002)‚ which also applying
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