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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications For the last three years, Global Communications has been having financial problems. With a drop of over 50% in their stock Global Communications needs to implement a new strategy in order to remain competitive in the telecommunications industry or risk losing current investors. Competition is fierce with cable companies now offering more than Plan Old Television (POT) and this is their biggest problem. Cable companies are offering service packages for television,
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Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: KUIPER LEDA Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Kuiper Leda Incorporated (KL) is a company that manufactures Electronic Control Units (ECU’s) as well as Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID Tags) for the automobile industry. Currently, they are a relatively small company that focuses on quality of their product and delivery responsiveness. Because of this, Midland Motors, a well-known large company, has chosen KL as a supplier for all of
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications Upon reading the Global Communications scenario, it is obvious that several issues and opportunities exist within this scenario. Some of these problems are clear while others may not be quite as apparent. In order to ascertain where the company needs to go, it is best to describe how the situation arose in the first place. With the background information describing how the situation came about, it will benefit further analysis of
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Gap Analysis
The main concept for this week revolved around ethics. I have selected to discuss this topic broadly because ethics challenge my insight a great deal. When I face a challenge, I try to get to its core and this topic seems to be without core. As a philosophic branch, ethics pose a great challenge for me. Philosophers have dealt with the topic for hundreds of years, yet has anything completely definitive come of it? Like
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications “On Wall Street, confidence in the telecommunications industry is waning. Stockholders are bemoaning diminishing returns and speculating about the industry’s ability to rebound. Understandably, telecommunications companies are under tremendous economic pressure and Global Communications is no exception. Three years ago, its stock traded at $28 per share; today, the stock is valued at $11, more than a 50 percent depreciation,” (UOP, 2006). Global Communications’ Senior Leadership Team proposed a plan
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments The financial and investment industries are facing tough competition and companies like Intersect Investments are feeling its wrath. In order to stay competitive, Intersect is faced with a decision to implement a new company vision that creates organizational conflict. This paper will outline events leading up to the decision made by Intersect Investment to implement this new company
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Mba 500 Gap Analysis Global Comm
Introduction This paper will give an analysis of Global Communications and the issue with decreased earnings, telecommunication competition, and stakeholder alliance. Strategies will be discussed to allow Global Communications to begin market growth, stakeholder alliance as well as future measures to improve profitability. The solution to reposition Global Communications back into the telecommunications market will be discussed. The stakeholders have a problem due to contract manipulations; the Union is not satisfied with the strategy that
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications - Communication Industry
GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Matthew Thrasher University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications The communication industry is experiencing unprecedented growth and Global Communications (GC) would like to be a part of this growth. In order to do so GC will need to partner with Technologies Workers Union (TWU) and face difficult decisions concerning layoffs, outsourcing and an effective strategy to pursue emerging markets within the communications industry. Situation Analysis Issue and
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Gap Analysis: Riordan Manufacturing
Gap Analysis: Riordan Manufacturing Long Dao University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing has several issues with its human resource management system that caused retention rate declined as the company implemented change in the new sales strategy. This paper will identify the issues and the potential opportunities for the company then suggests solutions for Riordan to solve the problem with its human resource management system. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Riordan Manufacturing
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Gap Analysis Global Communications
GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communications is a company that needed a new strategy in order to compete with its competitors. The telecommunication industry was flooded with the addition of cable companies joining in their market. Global Communications was financially in a decline and had already asked union workers to give up a percent of their benefits in order to help. The union did so willingly in
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Gap Analysis
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications In today’s business world, companies are increasingly outsourcing to improve profitability and productivity. Global Communication was no exception to that. But in the process the company has faced many challenges and makes tough choices to remain competitive in the telecommunication industry. First the paper will identify the issues and opportunities the management deal while implementing the global strategy.
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Businesses are always looking for new opportunities to make and save money. In today’s world, this increasingly means adopting more efficient ways of completing the day to day tasks related to a company’s mission. Intersect Investments Services (IIS) offers a service that has an especially important role in enabling businesses to become stronger by increasing business creditability. Frank Jeffers, IIS CEO,
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Gap Analysis - Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communications, a telecommunication company, based in the United States of America (USA), was facing tremendous economic pressure due to high competition from the local, long-distance and international markets, which attributed to the stock value depreciation. In order to overcome the situation, Global Communications senior management developed aggressive approaches to compete in the market by introducing new services, partnering with a wireless provider and adapted various cost-cutting measures that can increase
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Gap Analysis: Global Comm.
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMM. Gap Analysis: Global Comm. Gap Analysis: Global Comm. Global Comm is no exemption to this phenomenon and the company's senior leadership team is challenged to face it. The senior leadership team formulated the following: implementing changes to company policies and values, reduction of workforce stateside, submitting proposal to the board to outsource their technical support team offshore for cheaper labor, and proposed pay cuts. These were all identified as
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Cheryl Dixon University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications Three years ago Global Communications’ stock was traded at $28 per share and now is traded for $11. Competition in communications is of great concern and only the companies who have the newest services at the lowest prices will survive. GC has a senior team who has come up with a plan in which the company
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communication is a company that competes in the telecommunication industry against other telecommunication companies and presently the cable companies. A situation has arisen within the industry and the problem is the amount of companies competing in the same industry. The gap analysis will focus on the main issues of Global Communications; competition, decision making, communications, and conflicting interest of the stakeholders. Then the gap analysis will provide an end-state vision
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications In today’s telecommunication business, companies are increasingly outsourcing to improve profitability and productivity. From reading this scenario about Global Communication, several points of interest will be presented in this paper. The scenario involves a company called Global Communication and presents various business and ethical dilemmas that this company must face to continue being a competitive force in this field. This paper will discuss the initial problem that explains issues and opportunities.
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Problem Solution: Lester Electronics Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Merger's, acquisitions, partnerships, and various combinations of company takeovers occur daily in today's business arena. Understanding the responsibility of social and economic development, wealth, prosperity, and longevity begins with understanding the financing aspect of a business based on the consumer's need. Bernard Lester, CEO and founder of Lester Electronics is currently entered into an Exclusive Supply Agreement with John Lin, founder and CEO of Shang-wa Electronics. Shang-wa
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Gap Analysis: Riordan Manufacturing
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING Gap Analysis: Riordan Manufacturing University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding. They have state-of-the-art design capabilities and create innovative plastic designs that have earned international acclaim. Riordan has a strong reputation for paying attention to detail and extreme precision and fascinating quality control. Riordan is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in the excess of
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Global Communications Gap Analysis
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Gap Analysis: Global Communications Issues and new business opportunities have been presented at Global Communications. Forced by the high competition, Global Communications stock value drastically fell during the past three years. The decrease of the stock value lead to new business opportunities abroad. The strategic plan of outsourcing its technical positions and downsizing the local call centers and the introduction of new services, locally and
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Kuiper Leda Gap Analysis
Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Inventory management has traditionally been considered as a necessary resource that every company needed. Its primary purpose was to evaluate and control inventory from the raw material level, through the production process and control stage, to the final out-door delivery. These older models of inventory management had several issues, such as inefficient control system, long cycle time, and bureaucratic process. Beginning in the late 1980s, many corporate businesses became deeply interested
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Hope Bradley University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications In this paper, one will find a gap analysis between Global Communications (GC) senior management and other key stakeholders in the organization. The current situation is that of Global Communications, a telecommunications company that is in the need of changing its strategies of competition in the growing market in order to maintain its presence in the
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Sean Butler University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications This Gap Analysis aims to dissect the issues and opportunities involved in the decision making process at Global Communications (GC). Increased competition from multiple sources as well as a decreased stock price has put great pressure on the Senior Management Team. Directed by the Board to cut costs and increase growth, the team creates an action
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Gap Analysis
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Asia Towns University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications Global Communications is looking to maximize profits and reduce cost by marketing itself on an international level and becoming a global resource. The company and other telecommunications companies are under tremendous economic pressure. The company must determine future end-state goals while making critical changes to the company and possibly the loss of dedicated and skilled
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: LESTER ELECTRONICS Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Jim University of Phoenix MBA 540 Maximizing Shareholder Wealth April 9, 2007 Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics The stockholders own the company and elect the board of directors, who then appoint the management team. Management, in turn, is supposed to operate in the best interests of the stockholders. One goal of the management is to make decisions that will maximize the value of the stock, including
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