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Strategy Case Studies by topic
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...
Driving forward environmental aims and objectives
There are many issues in the workplace that require discussion, for example, attention to health and safety at work. This helps to keep accidents...
The business of economic development and regeneration
The economy of the UK has experienced a dramatic change in recent years as a result of both:• demand factors – modern consumers want...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Tips to Start a Startup in Leeds
Leeds is a vibrant city that has, in recent years, been gaining prominence as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.
With a thriving ecosystem and...
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...
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...
The business of reinvention
Today we live in a highly competitive world in which only one thing is certain for companies - change. Intelligent companies continually seek to...
Building the heritage of sustainable products
This case study examines how Akzo Nobel is building on the heritage of some of its established coatings for timbers at a time when...
Engineering advantage strategy in action
Achieving competitive advantage is not easy, particularly in global markets. Businesses that do well in these markets need to be able to use their...
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...
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...
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...
Financial information in decision making
CIMA is the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. It supports over 164,000 members and students in 161 countries. CIMA works with some of the...
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...
Franchising and entrepreneurship
What is franchising?
McDonald's is an example of brand franchising. McDonald's, the franchisor, grants the right to sell McDonald's branded goods to someone wishing to...
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...
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...
On-line shopping: the Dixons experience
Retailers simply cannot afford to ignore these developments. However, not all retailers are equally well placed to take advantage of this changing environment for...
Going for growth by investing in people products and plant
Hazlewood Sandwiches
Greencore's traditional activities lie at the start of the food production chain, whereas the new convenience foods operations are at the end of...
Entering overseas markets
Provident Financial was founded in West Yorkshire, England in 1880 by Joshua Waddilove. The company’s headquarters are still based in West Yorkshire. However Provident...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Building on stakeholder support to achieve dynamic growth success
Aldi is one of the world’s leading grocery retailers with more than 7,000 stores across 70 countries. The company originates from Germany, where it was founded...
Building community partnerships
In recent years, there has been a profound change in the financial services industry, with increasing competition coming from companies not normally associated with...
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...
Making shopping easier for today’s family
The challenge for companies in this sector is to provide a service that will regularly bring customers back to their stores. So they have...
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...
The route to fast food franchising
When the McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac opened their first restaurant in 1940 in San Bernardino, California, they could never have imagined the phenomenal...
Converting to a Public Limited Company – PLC
On Wednesday, July 12, 1989, Abbey National Building Society converted to become Abbey National plc. This case study tells the story of how that...
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...
London 2012 achieving the vision
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the world's largest peace-time event. The modern Olympic Games were first held in Greece in 1896 and since 1960, the...
The natural 1st choice dairy company
Responding to the change in the business environment is challenging, particularly for large organisations. The business environment provides both opportunities and threats to the...
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...