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GE & Strategy
"Indeed, diversification and decentralization had been the major strategic thrusts of GEs two prior CEOs…" (Walker, General Electric Strategic Position-1981, 1993). Under decentralization, GE's departments were building blocks with their own product market, market strategies, finance, engineering, manufacturing, and employee relation functions. With expansion came problems of permissiveness and lack of proportion. Employees lacked experience. GE had profitless growth, massive investments with long payback periods, poor planning, and poor understanding of the businesses.
In the 1970s, GE was restructured with corporate staff in two parts to implement a hierarchical structure. There was shift in the business mix. But, this structure created major communication problems. GE moved into the sector structure. This developed the problems of discontinuities of strategic plans and unnecessary costs from duplication and uncoordinated actions. GE was moving in all directions with no focus to where it was...
He implemented a three circle concept of core, services, and technology. The priorities for the core businesses became reinvesting in productivity and quality. Services had the responsibility to add outstanding people and make contiguous acquisitions. Technology businesses had the focus of staying on the leading edge by investing in research and development.
Welch's vision for GE was to become the company perceived as unique, high spirited, and entrepreneurial with being the most profitable, highly diversified, and with high quality leadership within a decade. He did a de-staffing process to eliminate bureaucracy and eliminate the sector structure, reducing the number of hierarchical levels from nine to four. Managers were required to have a strong commitment to new values, a willingness to change corporate culture, and ability to take charge and bring…
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GE Aviation Division, Aircraft Engines This paper discusses General Electric Corporation (GE), specifically the arm which focuses on the production of aircraft engines. Until 2005, the GE Aviation division (GEA) operated under the designation of General Electric Aircraft Engines (GEAE). We will analyze GEA from a product standpoint, as well as from a business operations standpoint. We will firstly discuss the beginnings of GE as a maker of aircraft engines. We
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That can get them into a lot of trouble. In short, uncertainty is always going to be there in the business world. Nothing is one hundred percent certain when a person is owning and operating a business. During a time when economic uncertainty is higher than normal, there is even more uncertainty that has to be addressed. Overall, though, most uncertainty falls into levels one and two. By the time