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Posted on May 16, 2012 - by invest

You are a professional business consultant. Write the report called for in the Mountainside Industries case?

Please note carefully the task you are being assigned, and also the circumstances.
You should not repeat or summarize the information given in the case description, since
the person you’re writing to obviously knows all about it already — in fact she’s the one
who told it to you. Just focus on giving her advice about what to do now.

Note also that this is an external report — that is, you are not part of the firm but are an outside consultant who has been called in to help.

MOUNTAINSIDE INDUSTRIES

Mrs. R. K. Hill, owner of Mountainside Industries, has called you in as a consultant. Believing that tighter coordination among the divisions of her company was necessary, she created the post of general manager a year ago and hired Don Henson, an experienced accountant, to fill it. Things have not worked out well, however, and she is now seeking your advice.

After studying the situation, you have come up with the following information. Write her a report — accompanied by a letter of transmittal — advising her about what to do now.

When Don Henson came to Mountainside Industries a year ago, he understood that his assignment was to bring about tighter coordination among its four divisions. The company had earlier experienced great success, but in recent years competition has become much more serious, and now Mrs. Hill, the owner, recognizes that the company must make its operations more efficient if it is to survive.

Presently in its 37th year, Mountainside Industries is the result of mergers among four originally separate small cottage industries — candy, toys, crafts, and furniture — in four widely dispersed Appalachian mountain locations. Using the philosophy of a “benevolent owner,” Mrs. Hill originally allowed each of them to continue to operate pretty much as it did before the merger. Within the last few years, however, she has found that two of the divisions (crafts and furniture) have repeatedly placed large orders with the same supplier without each other’s knowledge and thereby failed to take advantage of quantity discounts, and that the candy and toy divisions have been duplicating their marketing efforts and failing to use some obvious opportunities for combining their products. Mr. Henson’s job was to correct these and similar problems.

Mrs. Hill notified the divisions about Mr. Henson’s appointment but then left the work to him, without interference. After making initial visits to each of the divisions, he communicated thereafter by letter and telephone. Since he noticed, as Mrs. Hill had told him he would, that major purchases were being made without central coordination, he quickly instituted a policy requiring each divisional purchasing office to submit all purchase orders for $1,000 or more to him for approval before sending them to vendors. His letter to the divisions explained the reasons for the new procedure.

At the end of the first year, however, his office had not received any purchase orders at all. Investigation showed that many in excess of $1,000 had in fact been issued all along during the year.

This is the point at which Mr. Henson came back to Mrs. Hill for advice about how to get cooperation from his subordinates.

Posted on May 12, 2012 - by invest

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Posted on May 8, 2012 - by invest

Enterprise Case Studies @abcol: Steven Bedford.wmv

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Posted on May 4, 2012 - by invest

SMB Case Study in Australia – Overview

Posted on May 2, 2012 - by invest

Case Study #1: The Broken Window

A group discussion about the case study of a boy who threw the brick on the window of the baker’s shop, breaks it and affects the business of the baker and the glass makers. The group scrutinizes the issue with economic point of view–secondary effects, scarcity, opportunity costs, etc, and the various insights from the group members. Case Study per se was narrated by Mytch Evangelista. ©2012 by Mytch Evangelista.

Posted on April 30, 2012 - by invest

Yo Sushi Case Study

Posted on April 28, 2012 - by invest

Video 05: After The Writing is Done: Freelance B2B Case Study Writer Q&A

Visit www.samuraiwriter.com for a free, edited transcript of this video. Video 05: After The Writing is Done: How To Get The Best From a Freelance B2B Case Study Writer If you found this video helpful, please click the ‘like’ button and also share it with others who you think might benefit from seeing it. There are 6 videos in this Q&A series. 01) introductions; 02) about case studies; 03) the writer’s experience; 04) the case study process; 05) after the writing is done; (current video) 06) wrap up Pamela DeLoatch is a freelance b2b case study writer based near Raleigh-Durham, N.Carolina, USA. Mark McClure is a freelance b2b case study and white paper writer to the IT computer networking industry, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Posted on April 26, 2012 - by invest

Kcom Mediahawk Case Study

Mediahawk were among the first to adopt Myriad API, Kcom’s inbound call management solution. Find out more here.

Posted on April 24, 2012 - by invest

Case Study – Visualise – Part Two

A project “Visualise” that successfully used the TSB funds to accomplish it’s goals.