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Challenges
for the Automotive Industry in an On Demand Environment:
Seven
Areas of Strategic Action --Andreas
Gallasch, Jörg Grafe,
René Hans and Brian Neil
Salter
This
article describes the range of factors that are increasing
the complexity and influencing the economic options available
to automobile manufacturers. Today's tough challenges in
the automotive industry require OEMs to find new ways to
create value if they are to prosper. The purpose of this
paper is to present a short overview of the automotive industry
today and highlight challenges facing the industry. Based
on this perspective, even strategic levers are discussed
such as brand management, customer relationship, software,
core competency, quality and product development expansion
that enable the OEMs to transform to on demand enterprises.
©
2004 IBM Corporation (www.ibm.com/bcs). Reprinted with permission.
Organizational
Improvisation and Leadership: A
Field Study in Two Computer-Mediated Settings
--Miguel
Pina E Cunha,
Rita Campos E Cunha and Ken Kamoche
Drawing
on empirical evidence collected in two case studies, we
present a tentative model of leadership in a context of
organizational improvization. This article discusses the
role of leadership in the process of improvization, suggesting
that opposite leadership behaviors are simultaneously integrated
when an important task has to be performed in a turbulent
environment with flexible resources. This type of leadership
creates "minimal" social and task structures that,
together with a perception of the task at hand as individually
important to group members, invites the team to improvize.
This model builds the argument for a dialectical perspective
on organizations, highlights the role of important events
as action generators, and underscores the presence of curvilinear
relationships in organizational phenomena where linear ones
are conventionally assumed.
©
2003 M. E. Sharpe, Inc. This paper was earlier published
in International Studies of Management & Organization,Vol.
33, No. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 34-57. Reprinted with permission
from M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
Modeling
Business Value for Effective Change Management: An Approach
-- Harsh Bhargava,
M G P L Narayana and L Shankar
The
CEOs and corporate leaders are always on the lookout for
new ways to combat change. Management of change and resulting
realignment of business strategy and plans is therefore,
a constant challenge. This paper attempts to look at management
of change, with a different perspective. We focus on customer
value and how to model it. What are the components of such
value proposition? How does environment affect these components?
And, in turn the business model? We attempt to analyze these
issues. We propose a set of ten components of value-proposition
in the Indian context. However, these are equally applicable
in any business environment. The model proposed by us is
generic and can be utilized by any industry vertically.
©
2005 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Financing
Strategies for Rural Enterprises: A Case for Micro Credit
--Ajai
S Gaur and Gaurav Mishra
This
article presents a case for micro credit as a viable financing
strategy for catering to the financial needs of the rural
poor. The conventional rural financing structure is briefly
explained along with the details of micro credit. The FAPILVI
approach toward establishing micro credit institutions,
developed by the authors, is presented in detail. The study
is primarily based on interviews conducted by the authors
of the various players involved in rural financing.
©
2005 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Exide
Industries Limited: Challenges for Growth
--B
Karunakar and Saptyarshi Purkayastha
To win our customers, stakeholders and employees by transferring
quality into a performance oriented business, which will
secure market leadership and profitable growth through effective
fulfillment of customer's needs - Vision of Exide Industries
Ltd.
©
2005 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
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