JSW: The Swot Analysis Of Vijayanaga Steel Ltd.

The “Leadership Crisis of Steelworks Xiamen Plant” article impartially shows events happened in Steelworks which have led to an unpleasant break between the new CEO of Steelworks, Kumar, and the general manager of the Xiamen 's plant. Since 1960s, Steelworks has provided metal products and services for construction sector in different Asian countries. In 2005, Steelworks was acquired by Southern Metals, a well-known and respected Indian metal company. Because of the different philosophy of the new CEO Kumar from his predecessor, some problems emerged in the Chinese branch of Steelwork company. The critical point was the project "3C", which Kumar has created as a key for reorganization of regional branches of Steelworks’. According to S. Heidari-Robinson, advisor of the British Prime Minister David Cameron and S. Heywood, problems are inevitable in any company restructuration, because it unlocks existent values and brings up new ones ' (Heidari-robinson & Heywood , November 2016). Indeed, this project produced an escalation of conflicts in relationship between the headquarters of Steelworks in Singapore and C.H. Chan, the general manager of the Xiamen plant. Thus, to better understand this in study case, we are going to analyze the perspective of Chan, the relationship between Kumar and Chan, their two distinctive personal and cultural dimensions, and finally suggest what Kumar could have done differently.

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Nucor’s sheet steel mills experienced higher margins and capacity utilization rates compared to the previous year. The company’s raw materials team did excellent work to optimize iron unit costs for their steel mills, maintaining Nucor’s position as the low cost producer.

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To be successful in the steel industry a company must be very innovative and able to differentiate their products from the next guy. Steel is steel and it is not important as to how it is packaged or how it looks but whether it serves the customer’s needs. In order to be successful production must be efficient, delivery must be on time, and innovation is the key.

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Infosys is an IT consulting company based in India but primarily doing business with North American firms looking to outsource their IT needs. With the rise of the popularity in this form of business between the United States and India, there have been several political factors in both countries that will affect the way Infosys does business. In the US, President Obama made outsourcing a hot topic of his campaign platform. With speeches such as “Say no to Bangalore, yes to Buffalo” he is looking to provide incentives to American companies to keep all of their jobs on American soil, close tax loopholes and eliminate breaks given to companies that outsource to firms such as Infosys. On the flip side though, the US government is also looking to change immigration policies to restrict H-1B visas that would have previously allowed foreign skilled technical workers to be brought in to the US on work visas. While they won’t be eliminating them, they are seeking to restrict them which would force Infosys to hire employees from the US for any work they would be doing in the country and restricting the available talent pool. Meanwhile, the government in India is making changes of their own, particularly with reforming the tax code. To encourage the growth of the Software and Technology fields the Indian government had established significant tax breaks which are now coming to an end. In addition, they have