Acuscan Critical Case Study

The key determinant of Chester’s’ success was the management commitment to superior business processes. Chester has a state of the art facility. Management increased capacity in the years after the government split and will continue to add capacity as growth dictates. However, capacity will be expanded at a lower rate than previously, in an attempt to avoid cash flow shortages seen in prior years. Chester has enhanced automation and quality processes in order to gain production efficiencies and cost savings. Chester has invested in labor recruiting and training; developing core competencies in it’s’ workforce. The firm has and will continue to maintain investment in research and development, as product improvements will continue to be demanded by the customers. The other key factor of the corporation’s success was the superior growth of the industry. It would have been much more difficult to sustain profitable growth in this extremely competitive market without the superior volume growth of the sensor industry.

since 2002 and its Head of Global Sales and Marketing Strategy since 2003 and is responsible for advancing Halo's growth through an aggressive partnering strategy with key technology players, and other advisory activities. He is a former Director of IBI Israel Biomedical Innovations Ltd, Datatec Systems Inc. and OxiGene. These varied investment activities continue, both domestically and abroad.

* This question is to determine the successes and limitations that they are currently experiencing to get a better picture of the current status of the implementation and whether they have met with any portion of success or if they have been unable to make use of the software at all.

Because Rosenberg said that they will siphon off consumers if he considered a mainstream positioning strategy. A niche strategy will make more sense.

To meet the growing needs of the MSCC, Lassiter discovered a small software firm that developed an extensive piece of software. The small

Organisation Development is about ensuring the organisation has a committed ‘ft for the future’ workforce required to deliver strategic ambitions. It plays a vital role to ensure that the organisation culture, values and environment support and enhance organisation performance and adaptability. It also provides insight and leadership on development and execution of any capability; cultural and change activities.

The company needed a new product that was different, modern and offered a better cost/benefit relationship than other products on the market.

Hawkins strategy is to generate ideas to promote increased efficiency and cost reduction while striving to predict future consumer needs. For example, the Visor “can morph into just about any handheld device you can imagine, from a pager to an MP3 player to a global-positioning satellite receiver, simply by replacing a small module on its back” (Time, Inc., 2005).

United Beverages’ CEO is debating with his department heads on the course of action the company is going to take in the future. Their flagship product, GangBuster, has been highly successful for the past 5 years. However, they have been thinking of entering the market for Energy Drinks for kids. Paul Diaz also comes up with a revolutionary idea of the dual-drink, having two separate flavored drinks in a bottle and being able to mix both flavors. Due to the limited resources of United Beverages, they have two weeks to decide whether to expand their portfolio or not?

Regan Kessel is the new Vice President of Product Management and Marketing. He has offered Cam a Marketing Director position in the Marketing Department. Archer has a difficult decision that needs to be made today. She needs to decide between her dream job as Director of Marketing in the Marketing Department with Regen Kessel, or accept a position in the Product Services division

          The Hexadecimal Company in recent years was forced to change their product market due to lower labor costs by companies in competition. With this change of product came rapid growth and systemic problems within the company. The President, John, Zoltan, decided to created an Organizational Development (OD) group to help address change and managerial style within the company. However, this OD group was not accepted well within the organization and many felt as though this group was a waste of time, energy and resources. Employees did not want to participate in the training although forced to attend.

The products that had given the company success, were forgotten. For that reason, the new strategy was based to revive those ‘core products’ and bring with them back the values that their founders set at the beginning (Breen 2013). (See Appendix 2)

Organization Development (OD) is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to increase an organization's effectiveness and/or efficiency, and/or to enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals (2015, Wikipedia).

There were several core problems that were interrelated around the strategy, organization, and structure of the company. Strategically, they were trying to do too many things. It wasn’t clear what the core businesses were,

Organizational development (OD) is an application or process of building a greater level of efficiency within the organization. OD develops the ongoing effort geared for long-term effects. OD works to help management and employees on a variety of levels. Organizational development is perhaps unequaled in its ability to meet any type of organization needs. However, the solutions developed from the role of OD may not be necessarily interchangeable with different organizations (Grant, 2010).