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Bob Waters is a successful sales engineer at Omni Automated Systems, who aims to make an important sale to Gentech. Since Gentech is currently developing its automated capacity, this would ensure Omni consistent revenues over the next period of time and a profitable business relationship. Although Waters makes significant efforts over a year, in the end, a different company is chosen. This analysis will look at several problems, and will propose a couple of solutions to address these.
The main problem is the organizational culture at Gentech. Organizational culture is seen, by Kennedy and Deal (1982) as "the way things get done around here." The problem with Gentech is that, throughout the case study, Waters is not able to figure out how things are done there, particularly who makes decisions. In appearance, this seems pretty clear and is openly and transparently, but decisions on most things (from specs to the final purchasing decision) appear to move from one decision maker to another. Officially, there is a committee that makes the final call, but one could always whether Kevin Reilly, vice president for northern California operations, is not in fact the final decision maker.
Another problem is the fact that Omni appears to have some problems on the technical and service side, as the meetings between Waters and the foreman point out. While Waters boasts, in his marketing and communication message, that "price,...
His meeting with the foreman on September 16 is focused on providing information about the problems in the programming environments at competitors UA and IAS rather than providing reasonable explanations for the programming problems, resulting in bugs, at Omni. While there is still debate whether badmouthing the competition could be a way to increase sales or not, there seems to be a general agreement that it is better to present the company's benefits as a way to boost sales (Fenn, 2013). In Omni's case, it just seems a way to protect the obvious flaws that the company has in some of its technical areas, previously discussed, then to fix these.
An additional problem is the fact that Omni is not referred to in the specialized literature as an important player in the field, something that cannot be seen as something positive by a future company. Certainly, Waters points out that Omni is a leader, in fact, in…
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2. Deal T.E. And Kennedy, A.A. (1982, 2000). Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1982; reissue Perseus Books, 2000
3. Fenn, Rob, (2013). Bad Mouthing the Competition -- does it help or hinder sales? Business 2 Community.
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