Business Case Studies by Industry - Construction

The Times 100 construction case studies

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    CEMEX

    • — Sustainable performance in the construction industry

      This case study examines how CEMEX locates and carries out its operations in a sustainable way. — Edition 16

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    Portakabin

    • [+] Achieving growth through product development

      This case study illustrates how Portakabin, a manufacturer of factory produced buildings, has developed a range of new products called Essential Business Solutions (EBS). The purpose of EBS was to develop products that more closely meet the needs of its customers. — Edition 16

    • [+] How the role of marketing drives business forwards

      This case study shows how Portakabin uses marketing to identify and anticipate customer needs and then meet them. — Edition 15

    • [+] Lean production at Portakabin

      This case study focuses on how Portakabin uses lean production methods to ensure it produces aquality product that gives value to the customer. — Edition 14

    • [+] Promoting the brand

      This case study explores how Portakabin uses market analysis to identify customer requirements and promote its brand. — Edition 13

    • [+] How market research helps Portakabin to remain at the cutting edge

      This case study helps students understand the importance of market research to successful, customer-led product development. — Edition 12

    • [+] The importance of excellent customer service

      This case study helps students understand the importance of understanding what customers want to improve customer service. — Edition 11

    • [+] The importance of quality in creating competitive advantage

      As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: know that quality relates to how well a product does what it is intended to do, explain how the ability to provide quality consistently gives some companies competitive advantage, demonstrate the importance of offering customers high quality service. — Edition 10

    • [+] Meeting customer needs for competitive advantage

      As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: define the term competitive advantage, understand the importance of differentiation as a competitive strategy, distinguish between private and public sector customers. — Edition 9

    • [+] Developing products and services to meet market demand

      This case study examines how Portakabin has developed new products in response to growth in its existing markets. In particular, it focuses on Portakabin WardSpace accommodation: an efficient way of meeting increasingly demanding and highly specific requirements of the healthcare industry. — Edition 8

    • — Responding to an Emerging Market
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    Tarmac

    • [+] Competitive advantage through diversity

      This case study demonstrates how Tarmac is benefiting from developing a diverse workforce. — Edition 16

    • [+] Developing a Human Resource strategy

      This case study focuses on Human Resource Management within Tarmac. It looks at how workforce planning and other HR strategies enable Tarmac to meet its mission. — Edition 15

    • [+] How roles and functions contribute to organisational performance

      This case study focuses on how the people in Tarmac Quarry Materials deliver the highest value for customers, communities, employees and investors. — Edition 14

    • [+] How roles and functions contribute to competitive advantage

      This case study shows how Tarmac focuses on attracting and keeping the right staff and ensuring its employees have the right skills and expertise to grow the company. — Edition 13

    • [+] Tarmac's functions - working together towards its mission statement

      This case study examines how organisational structure and departmental functions all contribute to the achievement of business objectives. — Edition 12

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    Taylor Woodrow

    • — Involving employees in meeting corporate objectives

      This case study shows how Taylor Woodrow, is creating a benchmark for human resource development by matching its objectives with the needs of its employees. This places human resource development at the centre of the company’s culture. — Edition 8

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    Travis Perkins

    • [+] Building Human Resources to provide a foundation for growth

      As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: appreciate the importance of customer service as part of the overall product offered by organisations, understand how customer service helps to give an organisation a competitive advantage, illustrate how customer service enables an organisation to build a strong business capable of growing faster than its competitors. — Edition 10

    • [+] Meeting customers' needs

      As a result of carefully reading the Case Study, students should be able to: identify how the business maintains sustained financial growth through acquisition and development of the existing business, understand how a customer service programme can help to improve performance and ensure long term financial stability, explain the key components of the marketing mix and how implementation of the mix will enhance customer satisfaction. — Edition 9

    • [+] How an Environmental Management System (EMS) helps create a sustainable business

      This case study shows how Travis Perkins has built an EMS based on the International Standard ISO 14001 in order to reduce costs and make a major contribution to ‘sustainability’. Therefore, it intends to minimise its impact on the environment. — Edition 8

    • — Using management training to build a better business