Essays on Bell Atlantic

Introduction: Organizational Change 3

Importance of Organizational Change 3 Company Overview: Verizon Communications Inc. 4 History 4 Present Scenario 5 Diagnosis 6 Kotter’s 8-Step Approach 7 Sense of Urgency 8 Guiding Coalition 8 Strategic Vision 9 Communicating Vision 9 Remove Barriers 10 Short Term Wins 10 Sustain Acceleration 11 Conclusion 12

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Introduction: Organizational Change Change is consistent in nature. A business undergoes many changes during a course of its operation. The change may be due to political, technological, economic or other reasons. To survive and flourish in operations, the business should adapt itself to meet the change successfully. The organization can adapt ...

Rules governing motion pleadings are found in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure title III. These rules have been modified and limited by two particular cases: Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal. The cases had different fact patterns, however, both concluded similarly regarding pleadings. In Bell Atlantic, it was concluded that a plaintiff had to show plausibility in the pleadings; possible and conceivable were no longer sufficient thresholds to maintain proceedings. In Ashcroft, it was held that a detained prisoner had not pleaded sufficient facts to maintain a claim of discrimination.

The Twombly case involved a class-action lawsuit for anticompetitive behavior ...

Verizon vs. AT&T

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Introduction

In the American telecommunications industry, the two leading companies engaged in a neck-to-neck battle are Verizon and AT&T. With both companies fighting to be the leading brand in this industry across voice and data services, it is important to understand the corporate culture of the two companies and how each approaches the market. Starting with a little of the company history, it is possible to put together each company’s approach to the market and what relative advantages each holds in the marketplace today. In addition, each company has been using its marketing and social media ...

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Corporate takeover In a corporate takeover, two methods are commonly used. There is the purchase method and secondly the pooling of interest method. The first is applied where the acquirer can be identified while the latter is used where the acquirer cannot be identified. In a corporate takeover, several aspects of valuation are necessary. They are as follows – share valuation, valuation of business, valuation of fixed assets and shareholder agreement (Solomon, 2011). In the event of a corporate takeover, the financial statements are adjusted so as to remove items which are not reflective of the ongoing business on a continuous basis. ...

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Mergers and acquisitions (M & A) is a topic that has over the years generated much heat due to the surmounting number of cases of failure. Some critics have argued that failure can be attributed to misconceptions prior to mergers, wrongful strategies and tactics while others inability of most employees to acclimatize to the changes. For example, it is presumably argued in Sbeit that every worker gets affected when changes are effected in an organization. In some cases, the employees are quick to adapt to the changes that may potentially lead to great success in the merger while on the other ...

Introduction

Verizon Communications is one of the greatest leaders that provide wireless and broadband services to wholesale, government business and mass market, headquartered in New York the company boasts to be serving almost hundred million customers. Apart from being wireless network and Internet service provider Verizon Communications is also into the provision of communication, information and entertainment services which are provided through a huge fire optic network and is efficiently providing its services to both domestic and commercial markets across the world. The company has grown by many folds since this is establishment on June 30, 2000 with a $ 52 billion ...

A successful CRM strategy is arrived at after understanding whom the customers are and how both parties derive value from their relationship. A relationship is considered to hold if and only if both the parties benefit. The company should therefore know and avail what the customers and at the same time make profit from it. In the given case study, the two merging companies GTE and Bell Atlantic had good CRM visions. Unfortunately, the companies’ CRM strategies had problems. GTE had technologically outdated strategy while Bell Atlantic’s problem was its surfeit of single-purpose, application-centric systems. Because value delivery ...