Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Co. 1. Why did Kathy Hudson make such a major change in IS recourses management at Kodak? What factors contribute to her decision to outsource data center, telecommunications, and PC services to IBM, DEC, and BusinessLand? Kathy Hudson was appointed to the newly created CIS unit in 1988 by CEO Colby Chandler with a directive to “overhaul the existing IT organization to promote the use of IT to improve the competive position of Kodak businesses while lowering cost.” At the

Eastman Kodak Company: Funtime Film Case Analysis Group-5 PGP-RAK, 2012-14 PARTICIPANT Ankur Sinha Ishant Singal Prakhar Rathee Sambhav Jain Vikram Singh Shekhawat ROLL NUMBER 2012PGPRAK013 2012PGPRAK023 2012PGPRAK031 2012PGPRAK036 2012PGPRAK039 Situational Analysis Company Eastman Kodak is currently the market leader in the photo film market. The company has continued its domination of the photo film market, but in the past 5 years its market share has eased from 76% to 70%. Reason mainly

At your request, I have compiled information on Eastman Kodak Co., so that you may come to an investment decision. The report will consider the company’s background (including Kodak’s areas of production), a past obstacle Kodak has had to face and overcome, and a financial snapshot of Kodak over the past five years. BACKGROUND Originally founded in 1880 by George Eastman, the Eastman Kodak company now stands as a leader in the infoimaging industry. Infoimaging is a $385 billion industry that consists

On November the 4th of this year, after approximately three years under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy decree; Kodak finally was able to post a profit on their earning, and the company expects to fetch a year ending revenue of $2.1 - $2.3 billion dollars (Armental). After many missed opportunities that occurred under a myopic bureaucratic leadership; the Eastman Kodak Company filed for protections from their credits, and began what will be a slow journey back to financial health. But, the decent into

rampant, and its aggravated by a natural tendency to distrust change that is imposed from above (Morgan, 2001). This report will discuss about Eastman Kodak Company as the organization that failed because it did not go through some organizational change or resistance to change. 2. Overview of

Eastman Kodak Company: Funtime Film 1. Diagnose the reasons for Kodak’s market share loss and make your assessment of the likely development of the market if Kodak maintained the status quo. Kodak has been losing market share for the past five years to the point it has gone from 76% to 70%. The underlying causes that have generated such losses and have ultimately led consumers to favor competing brands with larger growth are: I. Consumers are tending to view film as a commodity, often

World Resources Institute ble Enterprise Program Sustaina A program of the World Resources Institute . Eastman Kodak Case Implementation of TQEM at Kodak Park’s Utilities Division “Our vision is to be a world class company and the leading imaging company in protecting the quality of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities in which we operate.” For more than a decade, WRI’s Sustainable Enterprise Program (SEP) has harnessed the power of business

film in 1884, and then in 1889 he patented a roll film. He introduced his first camera, the Kodak camera (shown in picture two) in 1888 (Carlisle 247.) This is when the magic and joy of photography first began. “He called it a Kodak because he liked the strength of the letter K and reckoned it was a word that would be pronounced the same in every language,” (Buckland and Lefer 250). In 1889, Eastman fit his Kodak cameras with transparent nitrocellulose film. This was a major breakthrough in the photography

For a century, Eastman Kodak Company was a leader in their field of capturing images on film but in the late 1980’s the company was struggling to be at the top of their field. According to Bolman & Deal (2008, p. 93) “its name and film were known around the word, but the company had been rocked by intense competition, high cost, declining customer satisfaction, threats of hostile takeover, and low employee morale.” The CEO, Colby Chandler, understood that reorganization was necessary so that the

The Eastman Kodak company was founded in 1888 by George Eastman in the United States. The Eastman Kodak Company held the majority share of the U.S. market for several years. The main factor to the early success of the company was that they offered best quality of cameras with very affordable for most of the common peoples as price was affordable and quality was awesome as compare to the other cameras which were expensive and professional. Eastman Kodak Company was the first to develop a digital