Functional Area:
Strategy & General Management
Pub. Year: 2005
The case illustrates the underlying forces that erode a company's competitive advantage and are instrumental in converting its success into failure. Focusing on Motorola's strategic evolution in China...
Functional Area:
Strategy & General Management
Pub. Year: 2005
In the late 1990s, IBM successfully moved up the value chain and became one of the largest business and information technology (IT) solution providers in the world. To achieve such transformation, the...
Functional Area:
Strategy & General Management
Pub. Year: 2005
The case presents the start-up initiatives of a former management consultant in building a consulting company in Australia; it highlights the firm's strategy and approach, how it is differentiating it...
Functional Area:
Human Resource Management, Strategy & General Management
Pub. Year: 2005
The case examines the paradox of bringing in a charismatic leader to spearhead organisational change in a company renowned for its strong legacy and culture. On one hand, in the face of a rapidly chan...
Functional Area:
Strategy & General Management
Pub. Year: 2005
At the dawn of the 20th anniversary of its involvement in China・s passenger-car industry, Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) found itself caught in changed external and internal environments, with factors crit...