Annual Report Rolls-Royce

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For this report there were 2 managers interviewed for this topic, Scot Carpenter Director of System Engineering at Teledyne controls and Masood Hassan, Vice President and General Manager of Teledyne Controls. Scot was brought in as the director of System engineering on May of 2016 to oversee the System Engineering group and to handle change for a couple items within the group, mainly the restructuring of the group from 2 functional managers to a 6 distinct groups within the group. Scot has worked with the company as Program Managers which has required him to oversee program with multiple groups while working with individual employees to ensure the success of his product lines. Masood has been with the company for over 20 years and has been the Vice President for more than 15 years. In that time frame he has to work through down turn in the aviation do to the events on 9/11 and other events. He has made changes to the structure of the company, creating System Engineering group, deciding the correct course of action to bring products to production and other aspects of running a company with 500 or more employees.

Rolls Royce, established in 1906, is now a globally recognised company. Although originally they focused on car manufacture they are now one of the leaders in power and propulsion technology. Rolls Royce’s technology is very efficient and their manufactured products are used in many sectors such as aerospace, marine, energy and nuclear energy. Investment in research is key to their success; they are innovative, creating new and improved systems to help achieve a strengthened market position. The jet engine has been improved constantly since it was developed in the early 1930s and Rolls-Royce’s new Trent XWB EP civil aircraft engine offers a fuel consumption improvement of 1% compared with other manufactures, making it the most efficient technology currently in the world. Rolls-Royce are a state-of-the-art company who continue to innovate and produce new products and services that benefit society. The Rolls Royce brand is key, without it they would not be able to make the sales and revenue they make. Its brand provides a symbol of quality and a good reputation. This reputation helps build customer relations and trust for the company. The brand also creates a strong attraction to engineers, which they offer many apprenticeships to enhance their skills base. There are currently over 50,000 employees working for Rolls Royce. It is one of the top

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I am employed by an international firm so I do have some limited exposure. This firm demonstrates a high desire and effort toward global consistency in every area of business

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The following table sets forth certain information with respect to the executive officers and directors as of September 1, 2009:

Analysis: Overall, the company is managed by an experienced and knowledgeable team, who continue to strive for sustainable strategy development. With this team, the company will continue to meet the future Performance with Purpose goals. The members of the team are skilled in different key areas of the company: finance, corporate platforms and innovation, global communications, strategic and operational marketing, and human resources.

They also had huge technological failure during this period and they almost filed for bankruptcy and were nationalised in 1971 (high-flier, 2009). However, over the next few decades, Rolls Royce bounced back as ever successful and surpassed all its competition. It is safe to say that they had reached the final stage, Externally Supportive from the Hayes and Wheelwright model of operations contribution (Slack, Brandon-Jones, Johnston, & Betts, July 2015) where they have displayed radical characteristics of Product, Technological and Service Innovation, Adapting to the changes in the market, embracing globalisation, Increasing efficiency in cost, operation process and services (Slack, Brandon-Jones, Johnston, & Betts, July 2015) which became the heart of the organisation and obviously their revenue increased by almost 60 percent by 2006 (high-flier, 2009). This proves that Rolls Royce had reached its pinnacle of Success in the 2000s. How did they achieve this phenomenal

Cover Page 1.0 Executive Summary 1 Chart: Highlights 1 1.1 Objectives 1 1.2 Mission 2 2.0 Company Summary 2 2.1 Company Ownership 2 2.2 Start-up Summary 2 Chart: Start-up 2 Table: Start-up Funding 3 Table: Start-up 3 2.3 Company Locations and Facilities 4 3.0 Products 4 4.0 Market Analysis Summary 4 4.1 Market Segmentation 4 Table: Market Analysis 4 Chart: Market Analysis (Pie) 5 5.0 Strategy and Implementation Summary 5 5.1 Competitive Edge 5 5.2 Sales Strategy 6 5.2.1 Sales Forecast 6 Table: Sales Forecast 6 Chart: Sales Monthly 7 5.3 Marketing Strategy 7 6.0 Management Summary 7 6.1 Personnel Plan 7 Table: Personnel 8 7.0 Financial Plan 8 7.0