Business Operations Case Studies Samples For Students

Management

Executive Summary
The following paper is an evaluated analysis of Kraft Foods Inc which will be examined from an internal and external angle with the utilization of fundamental and technical analysis. Kraft Foods Inc is a global food company with is operations focusing on the packed foods industry. Its annual revenue figures are in the excess of $49 billion which makes it the second largest food company in the industry with an overall control of 8 percent of the total market share.
Market analysis based on fundamental concepts shows a revelation of the organization as a healthy company with revenue ...

Executive Summary

Organizations operate in an environment that is highly uncertain and that is largely beyond their control. Environmental analysis not only feeds the marketing process but is the backbone of any planning process of an organization (Comeford and Callaghan , nd). For any organization to have successful business strategies it is imperative for the external environment to be analyzed. This paper will therefore explore the environmental factors that affect the business operations of the California Pizza Chicken-USA, hereinafter referred to as the CPK. To conduct the external environmental analysis the paper will explore the macro- environment (PEST analysis) and the micro-environment ( ...

Multinational organisations present serious challenges in complying with international and domestic ethical norms. Particularly, multinational organisations currently experience various complications in assuming full responsibility of their actions to the society and environment. The manner in which an organisation can effectively foster a culture of ethical code in all its countries of operations, how to education employees on the importance of complying with the set regulations, and the most effective means of meeting the intricate legal and compliance obligations are some of the main challenges that face most multinational organisation. Even though all these challenges are independent, the solution to these ...

Business operations are usually subject to various forces including the external factors that businesses have no control over. In that respect, businesses need to devise suitable strategies as a means of responding to the forces’ influence. That is applied as a means of enhancing firms’ performance and sustainability. With that view, this case analysis seeks to demonstrate how a region or a country’s economic aspects affects industries and businesses in terms of performance, value and strategies.

Synopsis and objectives

International trade is a key focus for countries in their bid to enhance growth and embrace globalization. In that respect, trade liberalization is increasingly becoming a crucial tool ...

Introduction to Westlake Lanes

Westlake Lanes was founded by Dane Sugar, the maternal grandfather of Shelby Givens. It is located in Raleigh in North Carolina. In 2008, Dane died. After his death, the bowling alley is facing losses because of high costs and low sales. In early 2009, the Westlake Lanes was solely relying on the highest limits of loans for its business operations. In order to resolve such operational issues and smooth functioning, it was necessary to hire someone competent for handling this situation strategically.
After Dane died, someone had to take the responsibility to run the business. The board members ...

Introduction

Throughout their business operations, Philips (Netherlands) and Matsushita Electric (Japan) had implemented two different business strategies and operated with different organizational structure and competencies. Philips became successful with the development of international portfolio of national organizations whereas Matsushita Electric focused on centralized and highly efficient operations in Japan. In 21st century, both the companies have faced severe challenges to their competitive and established position in the market. Hence, in order to implement the strategic initiatives and to restructure the organization, the top management of both the companies took their organizations in different directions. It is imperative to analyze how ...

The concept of cloud computing has tremendous advantages for organizations of the future. Organizations can use cloud computing to save cost and time that are usually involved in the implementation and development of the traditional software. It has been observed that leading organizations spend a substantial amount of time on the upgradation and maintenance of the traditional software that adds to the cost of the organization. The IT department usually spends the majority of the time in the planning and the implementation of software so as to improve the operational efficiency of the organization. However, the role of IT in ...

Introduction

In this current age technology-based solutions are the main drive for business growth. A company that lags behind in adopting technology-based solutions risk the potential effect of incurring losses and finally bowing out of the business. Amaco is a systems development company having been in the industry for more than 10 years. It has seven branches all over the globe with three in Europe, one in Middle East, One in Africa and the headquarters in San Francisco U.S.A. Over time, it has realized that business environment is changing and needs to adapt to the changes in order to remain competitive. ...

Introduction

Operations is the component within an organization that entails the responsibilities pertaining to the production of goods and services with goods being the physical resources which comprise of raw materials and sub assembly components such as electronic sub-components. On the other hand services are defined as the activities that a combined provision of time and location among other factors. In this case the operation that function within a business can be assessed in a far reaching perspective that provides a collective success or failure of organizational operations in the functions that have an impact on the capability to understand the notions the compete ...

Business Financial Problems:

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Executive Summary
Capital budgeting is one of the key functions that a business needs to underatake in order to establish effective and efficient ways of allocating its funds in various investments and projects. In that respect, businesses apply some basic methods of evaluating their prospective projects with IRR, Payback period and NPV forming the most widely applied methods. However, the evolving world of business is increasingly demanding a consideration of other factors beyond the conomic factor which is the key ...

Container Corporation of America et al. (1969)

Abstract

This case involved a civil antitrust action charging a price-fixing agreement in violation of Sherman antitrust act, in which the district court dismissed the complaint. This was generally a case between the United States and Sugar institute.
Sherman antitrust act was a federal statute on United States competition law after its passing by congress in 1890. The act was against business activities that regulations within the government deemed anticompetitive. Additionally, the federal government was tasked to carry out investigations and pursuits on trusts, and other forms of organizations that were alleged or suspected of the ...

McKinley Consulting Group Incorporation

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Introduction 3

Background information and industry analysis 4
Strategic issues affecting the industry 7
Netflix SWOT analysis 7
Strengths 7
Weaknesses 7
Opportunities 8
Threats 8
Competitor analysis 8
Company business model and environment analysis 10
Conclusion 12

References 13

Introduction
Netflix is the world’s most successful company that specializes in providing rental services for the home movies to various online consumers after paying the required fees for the product. The company has experienced success and failures in their daily operations as a result of internal and external company factors that are the ...

Introduction

Management involves getting things done through other people in order to achieve desired organizational goals (Witzel 2004). Management is possible through performance of certain functions by managers. These functions include planning, controlling, leading, organizing and achieving. Whether in large or small organizations, these functions are essential for managers at all times because they assist in achievement of goals. However, managerial practices differ in small medium enterprises and large enterprises because of the size and complexity of the organizations. Managers in large firms perform functions of management differently from those in small medium enterprises. The leadership styles in these two ...

Introduction

The low cost carriers (LCCs) have been enjoying very fast growth in the past several years. Airlines like Ryan Air, Southwest, Lion Air and Asia have become dominant forces in their respective regions. Opportunities for growth and expansion abound especially in the light of changing consumer preferences and habits stemming from the global financial crisis. To take advantage of emerging opportunities, Air Asia needs to go public and raise funds for expansion. While its business model has so far been very successful, certain aspects of it operations and business model need to be modified for it to be able ...

Deciding Which Market to Enter

A case study of Taco Bells
Introduction
A company with objectives of entering into new markets must implement strategic decisions on the type of market and the entry mode. Typically, global business enterprises enter new markets through exportation, obtaining market licenses, the formation of joint ventures, or sole venture entry (Keegan, 1989). Any of these entry modes require a firm to commit some resources to succeed in the market entry. Thus, initial strategic decisions as to the category of the market and appropriate entry mode are essential. High competition, industrial organization, and international market imperfections tend to impede the ...

Internal analysis of Hudson’s Bay Company

Introduction
The internal analysis of a firm enables the understanding of the internal factors that has contributed to the position that the firm is currently in. It involves the analysis of the resources of the firm and the attributes such as inbound logistics, operations, marketing, human resources management, development of technology that adds value to the organisation. The core competency analysis enables the understanding of the expertise, skills and abilities it has to maintain a competitive position in the industry. Internal analysis also enables the finding of the key success factors that are contributing to the competitive advantage of ...

Business Strategy Analysis

One characteristic attribute of the fashion industry is its predisposition to change; therefore, an innovative product may become irrelevant and lose market share within a short period. Consequently, this element necessitates for continuous product development coupled with market research to maintain a competitive advantage. In some industries, having a R&D department is a competitive edge, but in the fashion sector, it is a survival tool. These rapid changes in the industry are not limited to products only, as marketing tactics and other business strategies need to be constantly reviewed. The emphasis on customer engagement is increasing in this sector ...

Issues Between Store Norske Spitsberger Kulkompani Corporation

1. Store Norske is considering using Coal India Limited to assist them in their international business operations. What issues will Store Norske have to address with respect to any business transactions between Store Norske and Coal Inida Limited. Discuss.
Store Norske’s manner of partnering with Coal India to assist them in their international business operations is called international joint venture. This is the most common way to go into international business to a) reduce the risk in venturing into a new operation, and b) takes the favorable opportunity of using the skills and assets of the new business ...

Summary

Apple is a technology multinational corporation headquartered in California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics all over the world. Nokia is a company related to communication and information technology and headquartered in Finland. Both companies are leaders that managed complexity, ambiguity, and change within their organizations but results achieved prove to be beneficial for Apple . Nokia leadership lacks in efficiently applying their relevant strategies that could provide expected outcomes. There are many factors including a collection of information, quick response, analyzing risks, and preparation of alternative strategies that resulted in the success of Apple. Nokia failed to obtain ...

Question 1

Business processes are the set of interrelated tasks that comprise the development of an organization’s behavior in the attainment of business objectives. It is also related to the organization and coordination of business activities that are aimed at achieving set objectives. Business processes may comprise the creation and development of a new product in the market. Business processes may also involve processes that involve the development of a precise market plan. The manner of implementation of an organization’s business processes can be instrumental in the success of a business.

Business processes may require a means for the specific goals to be ...

Executive Summary

This paper espouses the application of lean management system of Just in Time Distribution (JITD) by a manufacturing company called Barilla Spa. At the onset, the fundamental problem in the operations of Barilla is that there are various fluctuations in their pasta orders. These are brought about by several factors like transportation discounts, volume discount, promotional activity, the lack of a minimum or maximum order quantities, product proliferation, long order lead times, poor customer service rates, and poor communication. This case considers all these problems to come up with a better system which primarily involves a more effective and efficient approach to shorten ...

Introduction

Business performance emanates from the comprehension of the diverse issues that may impede on their operational mandate. As such, through an inclusive approach towards analysis of both the internal and external environment, successful outcomes are bound to prevail. Thus, from the analysis of Chipotle, it has been highly frontward within the fast food sector in regards to profitability and the business operational model. Accordingly, through investment into distinctive performance approach, the company has sustained market reach and growth both in US and other countries. Elle’s visionary leadership approach has been pivotal for Chipotle. Nonetheless, there are various challenges ...

The document will analyze financial positioning of ClineKinds Inc that has proposed a loan of its future operation. The goal set for the purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the financial information of the chosen company in order to have in-depth understanding about the company’s positioning. It is also due to identification of the company’s performance are eligible to acquire further loans for its future operations.
Currently, ClineKinds have requested the commercial banks for another loan of $300,000 for at least five years and more. In order to expand its business operations, introduce new ...

Introduction

Levi Strauss and company was established in 1853 by Levi Strauss and produced riveted jeans. Levi Strauss America (LSA) is the largest employing over eighteen thousand staff throughout the Latin States, United States, Canada and Mexico. The company has different marketing brands under its trademark namely: The Slates®, Levis® brand and the Dockers® brand (Downey, 2009).

Does LS&C act in a responsible manner while closing its North America production operations?

Levi Strauss and Company (LS&C) decided to close its North America production operations. The company acted in a responsible and justifiable way. They were RIGHT to close their operations as a result of the challenging productions process; high input costs and low returns from investments. ...

Part. 1.
Inter-organizational systems (IOS) are automated information systems shared between one or more organizations. They are ICT based systems that enable businesses and organizations to electronically perform and conduct businesses and share information across business boundaries (Oz 2009, pp 87). Since the establishment and the increasingly availability of information systems and the internet, there has been few limitations of technological barriers (Schmidt and Jared 2013, pp 59). However, this does not imply that IOS operations are successfully implemented or have no limitations and challenges.
The supply chain management has been considered one of the crucial elements ...

Performing internal and externals analyses on a New York Pizza and Pasta is essential as it enables the researcher identify various issues that have enabled the company to succeed and outline areas that can be improved. The step to carry out both internals and eternal analyses is also important as it create highlight market structure and opportunities and company potentiality as a way of determining the way forward for the company’s operations. The analysis conducted has touched on all aspects pertaining porter’s five forces and the SWOT analysis. In addition, the company history is analyzed making it easy to ...

Management

Lubna Olayan
Lubna Olayan is one of the most influential women in the Middle East region. She is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal of the Olayan Financial Company. Olayan Financial Company was incorporated in the year 1947 by Sulaiman S. Olayan. He is survived by a son and three daughters and they are a part of the board of directors of Olayan Financial Company which is the holding body for Olayan Group’s business enterprise spreading across the Middle East and Saudi Arabia.
The Olayan Group is a significant global investor and has diversified business operations across Middle East. ...

Introduction

The report is a comparative examination of two electronic based companies. The Samsung group and the Mitsui group companies. Samsung group is largest Korean conglomerate. Samsung accounts for 16.5% of the Korean exports and thus becoming the pride of the Korean people. Samsung was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul (Chang, 2000). From its time of inception Samsung has rapidly grown to become one of the leading electronics producing companies in the world. The company specializes in semiconductors, digital appliances and media, system integration and memory. Samsung join the electronic industry in the 1960s and since then it has become ...

Fredrick Idestam established the Nokia Corporation by taking over a cable company and a rubber firm. It is one of the top mobile supplying companies around the globe which delivers extraordinary services to its customers. The problem has been the decline in the share of the company in the European market and specially the 13 percent reduction in Finnish market. In this scenario, Nokia, the Finnish organization, has been facing numerous problems because there has been a change in the taste/preference of the potential consumers; the technology being used had been outdated and there are far better options available to the consumers ...

- How Levi achieved business success with application of SCM.
As a result of Levi’s inefficiency in managing its supply chain, the business faced operational and performance challenges that greatly owed to a poor SCM system. However, an update of the system in order to meet the need of having an efficient system as a supplier to Wall mart enhanced performance. In that respect, Levi’s success can be attributed to SCM’s application as follows.
- The business needed to reach and sell to the mass market for its low end brands. This required an upgrade of CSM ...

Answer to Question 2:

I believe that the decisions made during the exact time (or moment) of crisis is the best decision at that time. There are a lot of instances when we feel that the systems we have installed, both the software and the hardware are working perfectly and are serving our business needs. However, perfectly working systems are never commonplace. In the field of information technology, there is a very high risk for systems to fail. When these systems fail, it is often not a simple case, as failure in a tightly managed aspect of the business creates enormous consequences. While it is true in ...

Definition of Strategy

Increased globalization and competition in the market at large has necessitated the need to come up with viable competitive strategies. This is because all firms seek to carry out activities that ensure they gain a competitive advantage over other related businesses within a similar industry. Therefore, through strategic managers, firms set various goals which are achieved through particular activities and actions. It is these activities and actions that form strategies. As such, a strategy can be defined as a plan undertaken with an aim of solving a given problem or achieving a specific goal. There are various strategies that can be undertaken by firms facing ...

Part IGenerally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) GAAP are accounting standards that are used for preparation, presentation and reporting financial statements for public, private, government and nonprofit making organizations. The purpose of these rules is to ensure that the reporting of financial statements is transparent and observes consistency. This is a measure to ensure that those relying on the reporting make prudent economic decisions. Financial statements covered by GAAP include the balance sheet, income statements and the cash flow statements.

International Accounting Standards (IFRS)

International financial reporting standards refer to a setoff accounting rules developed by international accounting standards board. The standards ensure that business ...

Poverty and Pollution

Any environmental damage definitely and immediately threatens the present and future welfare of human beings, of plants, animals and entire ecosystem. Threats to the environment can come from two sources, namely pollution and resource depletion. Both can increase exponentially as industrialization expands. In the Third World, environmental mathematics works like this: the more factories we run the more pollution and resource depletion we have.
Pollution refers to the unintended and undesirable contamination of the environment by the producer or use of commodities like fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and other materials organic or synthetic. Pollution seems to be the ...

Business advice for Ullman

Introduction
When Johnson was sucked from the company, Mike Ullman was sure of the greatest challenges that he was likely to face on his appointment in the company. He was assured of the company’s recent reports that had put the company in registering a substantial drop in the profits. What Johnson had done was that he had tried to tamper with company’s procedures all in the name of betterment of its services. In his plan, he had considered that in business it involved of taking risks regardless the level or the magnitude of the risk in the ...

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Question 1:
What are the similarities between “reengineering” the shop floor (manufacturing) and reengineering business processes like order fulfillment?
Question 2:
Why has there been resistance towards BPR? What tried John Deere to overcome it? What downsides are connected to these attempts to overcome the resistance?

Answers:

Answer 1:
There were various similarities betwee the reengineering process of the shop floor and business processes like fulfillment of order. This was exemplified by application of procedures which resembled each other in these two processes. Before implementing the reengineering process, those involved conducted a pilot survey which helped in ...

Introduction

Enhancing business performance as well as sustaining effective operations requires strategic management that in turn requires intensive analysis of a business situation. The analysis should seek to evaluate the problems that the businesses face as well as capabilities in order to devise suitable measures to address the situation. In that respect this analysis seeks to demonstrate the strategic management analysis of a business as well as the process of establishing strategies by applying the concept to Haier business in its bid to expand its operations to the international market. To achieve this, the analysis identifies the key problems facing the business ...

Introduction

Starbucks Corporation is a multinational company that specializes in production and sales of coffee products including roast coffee and other coffee drinks globally. The company was founded in 1987 as a coffee roasting retail shop in Seattle, Washington by three key owners who had learned the coffee roasting idea from a local Italian retailer. The initial business performance when it was only a retail shop was a success especially since there were few competitors who specialized in the coffee roasting and sales business as most coffee houses were more into coffee brewing. The business performance was however improved when the management adopted a new diversification ...

Introduction

The case study of Carlos Ghosn in relation to his management of the partnership between Nissan and Renault illustrates the wealth that could be derived from cultural diversity if buoyed with proper and positive management. Indeed, as the study notes, both companies were faced with unique and different problems but needed the synergy and diversity present in either of them for survival and growth. However, the leadership and managerial practise stands out as the most critical in such cases. It should be noted that Nissan had indelible and traditional Japanese set up being a Japanese company while Renault having been ...

Discussion Questions

Q1.
- Spotting opportunities and exploiting them.
- Constant search for knowledge on how to run a business successfully
- Setting up systems that will assist in running the business, and doing changes when necessary
- Establishing efficient means of communication between employees, franchisees and clients
- Promotion 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s products and services over media
- Expansion of the business to various parts of the United States of America, Canada, and Australia and other countries
- Progressive improvement of the company’s technology
- Quick detection of weak points and quick rectification
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Company’s Growth and History

Oman Air, the Sultanate of Oman’s flag carrier is based in Muscat. It mainly operates in the Seeb International Airport in Muscat. It operates international air services, scheduled domestic flights, charter work and local air taxi. Although it was founded in 1981, the company began operations in 1993. It started under the name Oman Aviation Services after a merger between Oman International Services and Gulf Air Light Aircraft. The company’s inaugural flight was from Muscat to Salalah with its international services starting in July of 1993.
The company is partially owned by the government with an initial ...

Questions on Seen Case Study

Question one:

Discuss how the changing technological environment present threats and opportunities to the outsourcing of production from any single country of your choice.

In the present day business environment outsourcing has served as one of the most popular tools for management in almost every organization. Many companies both private and public continue to increase their business operations through outsourcing some of their services to outside vendors. There is an increasing debate among company managers regarding what to outsource and what to produce internally (Eliot, 1998). The high rate of change in technology is posing a lot of threats to ...