Indentification of Stockholder

Identification of the stakeholders

The stakeholders with respect to the issue in San Jose should have fourth parts. The first part is the three founding partners of Automation Consulting Services (ACS) --- Clifford Reed, Jack Leland, and Angela Goldberg who had been opened the San Jose office. The second part is one of the San Jose partners Douglas Crowley who had employed a client billing practice and billed Powerhouse monthly. The third one is the Managing Partner Kyle Ross who has approved “cross-subsidizing” plan. The fourth part is all overcharged client on the project of Powerhouse by San Jose office.

Identification of organizational factors

The organizational factors that contribute to the development of the San Jose situation are the executive management and organizational policies. The three founders of ACS constituted the Executive Committee and they were the only partners with firm-wide responsibilities and all other partners focused only on their own offices.

I consider the organizational factors include several elements which can describe this organization, such as business model, organizational structures, corporate culture, and organizational life cycle.

A business model is a company’s method for making money in the current business environment. ACS advised clients on the development of automation strategy and long-term facilities planning and also provided guidance in the design and implementation of specific automation projects. So basically ACS is a service organization.

ACS’s organizational structure is strategic business units, which are divisions or groups of divisions composed of independent product-market segments that are given primary responsibility and authority for the management of their own functional areas.

In one word to describe ACS’s corporate culture is relaxation. ACS had hand-off management style, and every partner of ACS managed his or her clients according to his or her own style and strategy. The reason ACS...