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Strategy Case Studies by topic
Effective strategies for long-term growth
Over 3,000 extra flight slots were needed for the visitors and athletes for the London Olympic Games. Making sure all flights have a safe...
Developing initiatives to improve financial stability
This case study examines how one organisation dealt effectively with a key funding issue when faced with the loss of funds from a major...
Business aims objectives and values
Aims and objectives
Aims and objectives are the 'ends' that an organisation seeks to achieve. It then has to decide the means it will use...
Building a global telecommunications business
The twentieth century will be looked back on as the period when telecommunications revolutionised people’s daily lives - from the first telephone call and...
Building a joint venture in an emerging market
Burmah Castrol is a leading international marketer of specialised lubricant and chemical products and services. With operations in over 50 countries, Burmah Castrol employs...
Creating an effective organisational structure
The Coca-Cola Company is truly global, and its main product is recognised and consumed worldwide. The Company organises and structures itself in a way...
Reinventing the organisation – Heinz Europe
The business writer, Charles Handy, illustrates the need for organisations to reinvent themselves by the sigmoid curve - effectively an ‘S’ shape on its...
Working with bottling franchisees around the world
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company and is the leading producer and marketer of soft drinks. Today, Coca-Cola is consumed throughout...
Making the best use of limited resources
One of the challenges facing every organisation today is how to make best use of its limited resources. In any aspect of business, there...
A business case for investing in rail
Today, there is growing concern about the number of cars and lorries on the UK’s roads, the amount of time wasted in traffic jams,...
Driving forward a business start up
From the 1990s onwards we have seen the development of a ‘new economy’ based on the new realities of an ultrafast, ever-changing environment in...
Supporting new business start-ups
Barclays is a major global financial services provider. It operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 156,000 people. In 2008, Barclays had...
Vision, values and business strategies
Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen from a market stall in London’s East End. Today it is one of the largest retailers...
Building a competitive advantage
A successful company understands the nature of the environment in which itoperates, and manage to identify how best to gain a competitive advantage over...
Helping individuals and companies that are in financial difficulties
Fear of failure and insolvency can be a major inhibitor of entrepreneurship. Insolvency law offers alternatives to companies and individuals in financial difficulties, not...
Developing clear strategies to fulfil strategies within cultural aims and values
Enterprise Rent-A-Car was founded in 1957 by Jack Taylor in St. Louis and is still operated by the Taylor family. Since its formation, it...
Creating a high performance culture
Organisational culture and values
The culture of an organisation is the typical way of doing things in the organisation. It particularly relates to behaviour patterns...
Changing the culture at Jaguar
This case study looks at how Jaguar, one of the world's most prestigious car manufacturers, has been involved in a culture change programme to...
Decision making techniques
A business aims to generate value for its owners, customers and other stakeholders. It must decide how to combine valuable resources – typically buildings...
Managing risk through effective team based decision making
Making sure that government, businesses and households have secure supplies of energy is a huge commitment. Engineers working for energy supply companies must make...
Decision making in an uncertain world
Modern organisations operate within an environment of change. There are all sorts of factors that change within this environment - for example, the market...
Developing enterprise skills
In a world in which young people follow the National Curriculum and then prepare for examinations, it is easy to ignore some of the...
Intellectual property rights and entrepreneurship
People have ideas all the time. In business, new ideas can lead to new products and services. They can lead to a better way...
Money markets and more
The business environment of today is more complex, faster moving and more volatile than ever. In order to survive in such an environment, businesses...
The future is branded
The challenge for organisations in competitive markets is to provide clarity for customers in a way which reduces the random nature of their product...
Growing a company by international aquisition
Successful businesses know when and how to adapt and change. This involves growing some areas of activity and cutting back on less profitable areas....
Generating cash for growth
Successful organisations are able to compete in tough environments.
To do this, they need:
capable managers who are willing to face facts and make hard decisionsexcellent...
To Create a Better Everyday Life for the Many People
“Once upon a time, a long, long time ago we decided that, instead of making furniture for people with fat wallets, we would side...
Delivering the mission statement
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the lead UK government department in foreign affairs.
Its mission is to formulate and deliver foreign policy and...
The business of nuclear decommissioning
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a new organisation. It was set up by the government and started to operate in April 2005. Its...
Calculating and managing risk
Eurostar is the high-speed rail service directly linking the UK to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel. It started operating in 1994, providing city...
Achieving a competitive advantage through risk management
Returning publicly owned enterprises to the private sector is a process known as privatisation. The effects of privatisation are highly significant as organisations, which...
The power of partnerships
This case study focuses on how the creation of risk and revenue sharing partners (RRSPs) has enabled Rolls-Royce to take on contracts which have...
Sectors of industry
OPITO The Oil & Gas Academy is the focal point for skills, learning and workforce development in the industry, delivering the right skills for the...
Engaging with stakeholders
The textile manufacture and clothing distribution industry has seen dramatic changes in recent years. Consumers’ expectations are higher today than ever before, they expect...
Meeting responsibilities to stakeholders
The provision of energy to meet the needs of society is a pressing issue today. Many of the world's non-renewable resources such as coal,...
Balancing stakeholder needs
A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in what a business does or an influence upon the business.
Large organisations have many different stakeholder...
Combining an offline and online business
These days, we are surrounded by 'high-tech' developments. Ordinary citizens may not suffer too much from failing to keep track of new technologies the...
Using planning to construct a better future
Planning is the process of deciding what you want to achieve in the future and then thinking about ways of making it happen. First...
Adding value through asset optimisation
Anglo American is one of the world’s largest mining companies. The company operates in Africa, Europe, South and North America, Australia and Asia. It...
Businesses and taxation
Business growth
Many business owners regard business growth as desirable. So, too, do governments. There are many ways in which businesses can grow e.g. by:
increasing...
Adding value to the case for building societies
Building societies are mutual organisations. This means that they have no shareholders and operate solely in the interests of their members. A member is...
The contribution of the FTSE4Good Index to socially responsible investment
In a fast moving world, individuals and organisations need to make quick decisions based on sound judgement supported by accurate data. As a result,...
Values into vision
In 2011 the world's population reached 7 billion, compared to just 3.5 billion in 1969. Current estimates suggest that it will reach 9 billion...
Implementing a new vision at Virgin Trains
Virgin Trains is known for running high quality, fast and reliable state-of-the-art trains, capable of speeds of up to 125 miles per hour.
Virgin Trains operates...
Promoting Social Inclusion through access to legal services
which it manages its economic and social role. For example, it now owns very few manufacturing or service industries as many public corporations have...