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HWMaria Teresa L. Revilala POM HW

BSA3A November 27, 2013

How can a company with defective tactics/strategies be saved?

A company must formulate an effective operations strategy by harnessing their strengths and minimizing their weaknesses, if analysis of strengths and weaknesses indicate that weaknesses can be converted into strengths, the company should do so.

To do this, extensive research is obviously necessary. The company needs to know first their competitive environment, and other variables that render their tactics/strategies defective. Environmental scanning is crucial, and a SWOT analysis is highly encouraged. Some organizations fail because of failure to take advantage of strengths and/or failure to recognize weaknesses, putting too much emphasis on short-term financial performance at the expense of research and development, and neglecting investments in capital and human resources. It is also possible that the company failed to consider consumer wants and needs.

The bottom line is, the organization must first know why its tactics are ineffective and device from those inefficient techniques a strategy with all their core competencies what will give them the highest chance of emerging on top of their competitors.

A department in a certain company is experiencing a 3 year period decline of productivity; propose at least 3 measures on how to address this dilemma. Explain how each proposal will work.

1. Modernizing the workplace. This measure may be costly but it certainly is effective in improving productivity. Automation of processes results to faster results and lesser scrap and lag time for workers.

2. Employ a piece-rate labor system. If line workers are paid per piece of output, they will work harder to produce more finished goods. Quality may be put at risk, but that can be compensated by improving quality control on output. The workers must be duly aware that only finished goods that pass quality inspection will...