Harvard Case Study: Bausch & Lomb: Regional Organization Case Overview The Daniel Gill, the chairman and CEO faces the possibility of changing the organizational structure of Europe, Asia/Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere. The current organization includes an International Division which oversees production and marketing for countries outside the United States. The goal of changing the organizational structure of these three regions is to increase sales growth internationally and decentralize responsibility away from headquarters to field operations. Case Synopsis Company Background: The company was originally started in 1853 by John Bausch in Rochester, New York. The small store excelled because Bausch discovered …show more content…
The two divisions were often on different pages and experienced communication challenges. This created several pricing difficulties making it even harder to globally market the products. To further the problem, the ID felt as though their R&D received less than sufficient manufacturing resources, which limited the ability to forecast the global market. Difficulties in communication slowed R&D, decision making, and required a major change in the organizational structure. Gill decided to increase the capabilities of the ID and give specific regions more power in the decision making process. Regionalization: New structures were formed in order to approach the ID problems. The organizational reconstruction focused on speed of results, process to be driven by B&L executives, and input from as many B&L employees as possible. A significant amount of time and money was dedicated to creating a task force that was goal was to evaluate organizational structure. They concluded that it was necessary for a fine-tuning of the current organization structure, a regional structure, a product-region matrix, and a global product structure. Eventually the idea regionalization was adopted by the Advisory Committee. The ID was to be dissolved and replaced by headquarters in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere. Jobs in the ID were reallocated to different divisions and new products were developed according to align with the region's needs.
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The company was founded in 1948 by Dick Stack at the age of 18. Stack came up with the idea while working at an Army surplus store in Binghamton, New York. The owner wanted to get Stack’s opinion on whether it would be a good idea for the store to offer fishing
Making decisions globally might require more of decentralizing power and decision making than keeping it all centered in the company´s original headquarters. By mobilizing decision making to local areas, decisions can be more accurate and
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At Johnson & Johnson, the depth and breadth of global operations demands an extensive division organizational structure. In a division organizational structure the central corporate office governs the divisions of the company, but the operating segments have
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They had this problem because they are not familiar with how to launching a completely brand new product line. This is outside of their comfort zone and therefore it has effectively stalled the product line due to lack of interest, conflicting interests, decentralized teams, and engineering issues. Individuals were not working cross-functionally but instead they focused heavily on their specific
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Modify the organization structure: Adam slightly altered the structure of BJB-NA by having a client-segment focus within existing geographic areas. As such, the decision making processes were now decentralized to each of the regional teams. Previously, the advisory and product services departments worked with all regions. After Adam took charge, he assigned advisory teams to each of the different regions to further strengthen customer relationships.
The case then shifted to Strategic Focus, and discussed SAP’s move to their America Group. Which also contained Canada, Mexico, Latin America, and Australia. Once the focus was set they needed to chart a course of action involving commissioning a sales force to sell their product, and target customers. The key point of regional organization discussed these challenges.
The new strategy also entails Massaro to keep a closer watch on the international operations in stark contrast to the swim or die approach undertaken previously. Lincoln's structure has changed somewhat to accommodate this greater need for supervision. For example, a president is named to head international operations in each of the five regions, North America, Europe, Russia/Africa/Middle east, Latin America and Asia. These presidents held vice-presidential rank in the corporate structure to underline the importance of the subsidiaries to the overall global strategy of Lincoln. They play vital roles in supervising sales staff in their regions, advising Massaro on the need to create manufacturing capacities in their respective countries and also developing interregional cooperation such as sourcing goods from the Lincoln factory that could provide them most profitably despite it being in another territory. Compare this to previous internationalization strategies where the subsidiaries were left to their own devices and resulted in several inefficiencies both in terms of range of products manufactured as well as other costs incurred. Finally, Massaro also had to tweak the imposition of Lincoln's famed incentive system. The new internationalization strategy concedes that the system cannot simply be transplanted for use in another region because
P&G intended to overcome the tensions and conflicts of interest that arose in the former matrix structure between category management and regional managers by the clear definition and reallocation of responsibilities for product development, brand design and business strategies to GBUs and market development to MDOs.
P&G set up the newly reorganized global operations. I’m going to explain how the company works with its new global operations strategy and how P&G could push SK-II to world brand by using P&G’s target market – China, Europe, and Japan. By using the implement of Organization 2005 (O2005), the company is expected to have more annual growth rate together with less expense. P&G gives more compensation along with more responsibility tasks. P&G allows every employee in company to hold firm’s stock. P&G transferred primary profit responsibility from P&G four regional organizations to seven global business units.
In 2004, the company made a significant shift in strategy. Its new “Growth Plan” called for the
Three key issues contributed to the disappointing sales. First, internal organizational challenges prohibited the growth of the line. Rigid