Session: | Introduction to Strategy and Strategic Management | Submitted by: | Lord Mills‚ | Exploring Strategy: 9th edition‚ 2010: Johnson‚ Scholes and Whittington: Prentice Hall Publishing LEGO Group: Working with Strategy – pages 542 – 546 1. Explain how the development of strategy at the LEGO Group reflects the key characteristics of strategic management. As a reminder‚ strategic management has three key characteristics: strategic position‚ strategic choices and strategy into action (Johnson
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Question 1 Before competing in Asia‚ Lego pursued a global standardisation strategy whereby its aim was to create global products with 95% standardisation and 5% variation in its packaging. Lego started adopting the transnational strategy when competing in Asia whereby there is high pressure for cost reduction and local responsiveness. In terms of cost-reduction‚ it was vivid when Lego decided to construct a factory in China which is expected to shorten lead times and improve efficiency by responding
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LEGO’s values and corporate identity? How did these develop over time (prior to LEGO Media Int’l)? * The name LEGO in itself means “play well”‚ the beginnings of the corporate identity were designed into the brand name * GKC was responsible for the stud and tube system‚ which is recognizable within the logo‚ as well as meant that all Lego blocks could fit together * In the 1970’s‚ GCK designed the “ten lego characteristics” which today represents the guidelines for development and policy
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Unit 6 LEGO Group Case Study Analysis Kaplan University School of Business MT460 Management Policy and Strategy Author: James Nelson Professor: Dr. Levitt Date: 20 February 2015 LEGO Group Company Name: LEGO Group Topic of the Week: Implementation Synopsis of the Situation After outsourcing to Flextronics‚ LEGO Group decided it was more cost effective to keep manufacturing setup in house. With this move‚ LEGO supply chain can develop much faster through the best‚ leanest and highest
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TASK 1 Introduction The LEGO Group is a privately held company based in Billund‚ Denmark. The company is still owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family who founded it in 1932. The LEGO Group is engaged in the development of children’s creativity through playing and learning. Based on the world-famous LEGO® brick‚ the company today provides toys‚ experiences and teaching materials for children in more than 130 countries. The LEGO Group has approximately 9‚000 employees‚ and it is the world’s third
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1. What has led the LEGO group to the edge of bankruptcy? External threats (macro PEST‚ micro Porter’s 5 forces) giant conglomerates dominating industry (risk of being taken over) p.2 competing rising costs while competitors outsource p.2 pressure from big retail customers with power? e.g. Walmart‚ Target p.2 negative industry trends in toy industry p.1 1) fad toys are rising and product life cycles declining. threat of shortening/declining life cycle despite rise of fad toys
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Shell Company background and history: The Royal Dutch Shell Group was created in February 1907 through the amalgamation of two rival companies: Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom. It was a move largely driven by the need to compete globally with Standard Oil. Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Dutch company founded in 1890 to develop an oilfield in Sumatra.]For various reasons‚ the new firm operated as a dual-listed company‚ whereby
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Assignment 4: Managing for Innovation What You Need to Do The LEGO Group is a privately held‚ family owned‚ company based in Denmark. Founded in 1932 to manufacture wooden toys‚ a significant milestone in innovation at the company was the development of the now ubiquitous LEGO brick in the late 1950’s. In recent years LEGO has enjoyed an envied record of success with significant revenue growth year after year and significant successes with new products. Its 2011 revenue was 133% greater than its
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The LEGO Case Study - New for 2013 In 2003 and 2004 LEGO announced losses of over $400 million dollars on annual sales of just over $1 billion. The reorganization plan announced in 2001 had begun to falter. The company was forced to take a hard look at every facet of the operation including costs‚ overheads‚ margins‚ sales‚ marketing and the product offer. Non performing assets‚ including the company’s LEGOLAND parks were sold off. A radical plan for recovery and growth was introduced. Since then
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tricks to art and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in Illustration‚ with Honors. He’s impressed many people that when a LEGO manager come to his school to hire product designers‚ they tricked him to pass over the product design department and go over to his exhibition instead. This is how Mike Rayhawk got his career in art started with The LEGO Group. He started out as a painter‚ mostly using oil paint over an acrylic paint sketch. As technology developed‚ he has started creating
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