Was Silvio the right choice to head the India operation?
In my opinion, I do not think that was the right choice. Even though India’s growth potential was significant, there are several reasons why I think so. First of all, Exchange rates and unforeseen duties further frustrated market development efforts. When it comes to international business those risks always would be cause of challenge. For example Japanese lumber company in Canada decreased their sales from last year because of change of currency rate of Japanese yen and Canada dollar. Making the transferred sub-assemblies even more expensive was the fact that there were exchange rate fluctuations favoring Indian currencies. Second, Schindler 's manufacturing cost structures were
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Meet Silvio Napoli
After having taught this case study for four years and having gone through thorough discussion and analysis of its points, I decided in preparing for a recent class to cut through all the conjecture and get right to the source to see what really happened. I called Silvio Napoli. He graciously gave me fifteen minutes of one of his busy mornings.
We went over the case 's more glaring lessons quickly, and then Silvio provided some great insights into lessons he learned trying to create a subsidiary for Schindler in India. Here are his take-aways:
• A "swatch" strategy of low-cost market entry was the wrong choice. In the case study much is said about how Schindler 's CEO was fascinated with the success of low-end, mass produced Swatch watches -- a 90 's phenomenon -- more than one General Manager of Manufacturing Operations strove to emulate this low-end production strategy.
• Schindler 's manufacturing cost structures were compatible with customization, not commoditization. Silvio said that was one of the biggest challenges he faced as getting transfer costs for elevators to a price point internally where building elevators made sense. The case study
When he heard about this he ran to the train station and he bribed, threated and mentioned the names of some of his Nazi friends until he was able to take his workers back to the factory, saving their lives. In early 1943 the Nazis wanted to do the final liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, they wanted to send the healthy prisoners to labour camps and the rest were either killed at the spot or sent to death camps and gas chambers. Schindler knew that most of his workers were situated there and he knew death would be their fate. Schindler wouldn’t allow any of his employees to die so he used his well-practised skills in bribery and threats to assure they lives would be spared. He used his power and his position high up in the social hierarchy to persuade the officials that his factory and therefore they workers there were essential to the war effort. He also had the idea to have a camp build beside his factory so the Jews would be away from the inhumane brutality of the Nazis. Schindler saved 1200 Jews during the Holocaust and did actions only a pure hero could do.
My biggest takeaway about him was that he was the Chief Prosecutor for a case called "The Einsatzgruppen Case, which is known as the most "biggest murder trial in history". Where he got twenty-two members of the Nazis Party charged with murdering a million innocent people. However, what makes this even more interesting was that this was his first case as a Chief Prosecutor and he was only twenty-seven years old.
There is no doubt that Oskar Schindler’s actions helped save many Jews during the Holocaust. His acts of bravery allowed many Jews to survive the Nazi regime and bring forth a new generation of Jews. We understand the outcome of Oskar Schindler’s good deeds, but do we truly understand the motives of his actions? What made a German industrialist so brave and devoted to saving the lives of the persecuted? Did Oskar Schindler see right through the Nazi facade and see the evils and atrocities it committed? In order for us to truly understand Mr. Schindler’s true motives, we have to see his life through the whole spectrum, from beginning to end. We have to observe Oskar Schindler’s upbringing, his activities before the Holocaust, his actions during the Holocaust, and his place in history after the Holocaust. Only when we have studied this man’s life in it’s fullest can we truly come to some understanding of why he was so motivated to do so much good and help the Jewish people and also where he found the courage to stand up to the evils of Hitler and the Nazi regime. That is the purpose of this investigation. However, before we begin to emerge ourselves in the life of Oskar Schindler we have to begin with the lives of two pivotal figures in Oskar’s life, Franziska Luser and Hans Schindler.
So, Silvio decided to minimize the learning curve burden for their manufacturing operations by picking only two elevator configurations that Schindler India would build:
All what Italy knew about (c/n) was, from the text he read just a second ago, he found that (c/n) was a strong and remained a peaceful country for many years to show.
The contrast to the Germans begs to be made. While the first are depicted as ruthless perpetrators who take no pity on their victims, the Italians are portrayed as ‘harmless’ occupiers so much so that
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Throughout his essay, “Prisoners on the Stage of International Politics: The Evidence from Risorgimento Italy” Dr. Soper utilizes multiple primary sources in order to depict the feelings and treatment of numerous prisoners from the Risorgimento period. Conversely, Dr. Soper also provides descriptions of British papers from the time period. It is evident that discrepancies exist between the two and therefore the reader must approach the British papers with apprehension.
As a child, Benito Mussolini had an affinity for violence. This may have been a result of the fact that his father was an atheist. He had attended a Catholic school, which he had soon gotten expelled from, at the age of 10, for stabbing a classmate in the arm. Mussolini’s violence also continued, as he also got expelled from the next school that he had attended. Not only that, but Mussolini’s affection for stabbing continued, as he had openly admitted to knifing his girlfriend in the arm. In fact, Benito Mussolini had been so malicious that at his local church, he would pinch others so strong that they would begin to sob. Even as a child, Mussolini new he was born to be a leader, as he often led gangs of boys to raid the local farmsteads.
Most relevantly, this is identifiable through an examination into Silvio Berlusconi’s attitudes on soccer. Distinct from Mussolini in his love for the sport, Berlusconi reignited Italian soccer in the political sphere by interjecting popular chants and slogans into his rhetoric when campaigning for Prime Minister. Famously, Berlusconi’s own party Forza Italia is a direct rip-off of the chant used by supporters of Gli Azzuri, Italy’s National Team. (Semino) Through Berlusconi’s techniques, he ably abused the phenomenon in Italy in which tidings of the country are predictable based on how people felt about soccer at any given moment.
The venture in India would be different from Schindler 's other subsidiaries in several ways. Rather than focusing on Schindler 's success with custom equipment, the India operations would focus on standardized products. In addition, Schindler planned to outsource all of the manufacturing of components to local Indian suppliers with a few critical components being supplied by its European subsidiaries.
In the past, products were made to last. Some people still have old watches and record players that have been passed down through generations, which remain in working condition. In reality, most items, which were made prior to World War I, have been found to be long lasting, durable, and reliable. In contemporary society we are faced with a dilemma, due to the fact that if all products were built to last as they were previously, various industries would shut down, and consequently, millions of workers would become unemployed. Furthermore, the overall goal and strategy of obsolescence is to motivate the population to buy more, and additionally, be occupied within a perpetual cycle of consumerism – by purchasing and replacing products in order to keep respective industries open, and to keep products flying off the shelves. The following essay will exploit exactly how obsolescence is perpetuated by design, from the past through to the present.
This paper will highlight how Hublot watches use the elements of the marketing mix to target its position and to achieve its competitive force. The essay is composed of two main parts. The first part includes the analysis of the segmentation and target of Hublot watches and its major competitors. The second part is adopting marketing mix (4P) to illustrate how the company differentiate itself from competitors to satisfy costumers, then to enhance its market share percent and sales.
Silvio spent weeks trying to juggle the relocation of his family and setting up the company infrastructure. As a result of the juggling, neither goal was executed well. Silvio needs to become more accepting of alterations to his business plan. Silvio was determined to follow his business plan even if the market revealed better alternatives. A good example of this was the decision to strictly offer a standard product line with no customization. Customers were pretty clear that the standard product line would not be acceptable for the first two orders that Schindler India received.
Katja Ruth and Constantine Moros sat facing each other in the empty conference room. Covering the table between them were the latest operational and financial figures from the supply chain optimization pilot Hugo Boss had been running in its global bodywear and hosiery Division.1 Ruth, the director of the division, agreed with Moros, the division’s head of operations and procurement, that the pilot had been a success—better product availability and lower inventory to sales ratios had been observed for the stock-keeping-units (SKUs) involved in it—but was not convinced that expansion of the initiative beyond