“Designing for Global Expansion”
Section 1
Managing by design questions:
1. The only way an organization can reasonably expect to be successful in different countries is to customize its products and services to suit the local interests, preferences, and values in each country?
I disagree, because some companies could change some steps to fit the new location to be international and local successes.
It is an especially difficult challenge to work on a global team to coordinate one’s own activities and share new ideas and insights with colleagues in different divisions around the world?
Agree, because not easy to control many organization in different location and deal with.
2. If management practices and coordination techniques work well for a company
in its home country, they probably will be successful in the company’s international divisions as well?
Disagree. Maybe its work but the truth is each location in the same country need techniques, so that going to be with different country for sure.
“Chapter 6”
Section II:
How Do You Fit the Design?
Mostly Mostly
Are You Typically?
True False
1. Impatient? Do you have a short attention span?
Do you want to keep moving to the next topic? *
2. A poor listener? Are you uncomfortable with silence?
Does your mind think about what you want to
say next? *
3. Argumentative? Do you enjoy arguing for its
own sake? *
4. Not familiar with cultural specifics in other countries?
Do you have limited experience in other countries? *
5. Placing more emphasis on the short-team than on
the long-team in your thinking and planning? *
6. Thinking that it is a waste of time getting to know
someone personally before discussing business? *
7. Legalistic to win your point? Holding others to
an agreement regardless of changing circumstances? *
8. Thinking “win/lose” when negotiating? Trying to win
a negotiation at the others expense? *
Answer: Most of my answer is truth, so I think I can be part with global work.
1. What is your plan for self-improvement based on your responses and analysis?
For improve my self is to develop my communicate skills that will help me to be able deal with different kind of people and cultures.
2. Goals and time frame for accomplishing them?
I should be social person because that the best practice to develop my communicate skills.
3. Describe the application context?
The context explained all the steps to help any organization if it is planning to be global. Also, it cover most of the challenges which will face the global company.
4. Identify performance measures for your plan?
Maybe in the future I will plane to work at globe organization because I like traveling, learning about different cultures and be part of the public relationship.
Workbook: Organizations You Rely On
Product What country do materials come from? Where is it manufactured or assembled? Which country does the marketing and advertising? In what different countries is the product sold?
1.
Modem
America
America
Most countries
Most countries
2.
Michael Kors watches
America
America
China
Japan
Brazil
Korea
Some countries in Asia, America, Europe
3.
IKEA
Swedish/ Scandinavian
China , Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Sweden
More than 85%
Most countries in Europe and Asia, America
What can conclude about international products and organizations based on your analysis?
I see the most of the products we current use whether materials, manufactured or assembled started from different countries. So it is a Complementary process among a country and other depend the materials and cost to make the organizations achieve their goals.
CASE FOR ANALYSIS:
TopDog Software
. Extension without strong foundation and knowledge
• Because of many reasons its hard to be global
• They have financial problem.
• weakness on communications between the departments
• Lack of management.
• Stronger competitive.
• Doesn’t have enough employees
Section III:
a. What is the learning from that week’s information?
I learned form this chapter that if the organization planning to be the global, it should make study about countries, people, materials, competitive companies and language.
b. How is this week’s information related/integrated with previous week’s
Information?
Last week information is help to know the relationship inside the organization is kind of sub of the global relationship, so if we understand hoe the domestic communication and relationship its work so we can control the international organization,
Section IV:
a. Reflect on your work environment issues that are similar to the chapter content?
I haven’t work yet but as we know the communication and relationship how is important to be happy. Also, at the organization its really important to be succeed.
.
b. Apply the content to the chapter to the case assignments (see separate section of syllabus)?
From the case I learned how is the communications are important in any organization to be succeed and to be global there are many levels and components should be available.
Section V:
a. Your career goals
My career goals are to complete my master then find a good job to learn more and try to give them and entirety what I have learned.
b. Your current work experiences?
I have no experience.
Second example
“Chapter 6”
Section 2:
Managing by design questions:
1. The only way an organization can reasonably expect to be successful in different countries is to customize its products and services to suit the local interests, preferences, and values in each country?
I disagree, because every each country has different rules and culture also different styles so the successful companies have to manage their products to be similar with the country they want to enter to their market in order to catch the customers needed and interested.
2. It is an especially difficult challenge to work on a global team to coordinate one’s own activities and share new ideas and insights with colleagues in different divisions around the world?
Agree, because they are speaking different languages, culture and thinking ways. On the other hand it is not difficult for people who have the same language or culture because they have a special skills and speaking other language for example international students in US universities can deal with people whom speak English.
3. If management practices and coordination techniques work well for a company in its home country, they probably will be successful in the company’s international divisions as well?
Disagree, because in the word there are different cultures, rules and people thinking that will make it difficult for some managers to manage practices and coordination techniques work in different country they have to change their strategies to be successful company.
Section II:
How Do You Fit the Design?
Mostly Mostly
Are You Typically:? True False
1. Impatient? Do you have a short attention span?
Do you want to keep moving to the next topic? *
2. A poor listener? Are you uncomfortable with silence?
Does your mind think about what you want to
say next? *
3. Argumentative? Do you enjoy arguing for its
own sake? *
4. Not familiar with cultural specifics in other countries?
Do you have limited experience in other countries? *
5. Placing more emphasis on the short-team than on
the long-team in your thinking and planning? *
6. Thinking that it is a waste of time getting to know
someone personally before discussing business? *
7. Legalistic to win your point? Holding others to
an agreement regardless of changing circumstances? *
8. Thinking “win/lose” when negotiating? Trying to win
a negotiation at the others expense? *
Answer: I have found that I am familiar with different culture in different countries that will help me to make agreements with different people, places and business.
1. What is your plan for self-improvement based on your responses and analysis?
My plan for self-improvement is to focus on others’ culture that will help me to improve my skills in different things. Moreover that will increase my knowledge and help my country to grow up and follow others.
2. Goals and time frame for accomplishing them?
To accomplish these goals, I have to make a communication with different people in different countries that reason I am studying my master degree in USA. That will develop my skills in short time.
3. Describe the application context?
The application context describes how relationships between people in different culture are important in order to be successful communications.
4. Identify performance measures for your plan?
My performance measure for my plan is getting my master degree from Missouri Western State University in that time my plan will succeed, because I will have what I need it from US: knowing new culture, making relationships with American people, and getting my master. All of these positive things will help me to achieve my goals in future.
Workbook: Organizations You Rely On
Product What country do materials come from? Where is it manufactured or assembled? which country does the marketing and advertising In what different countries is the product sold?
Tea India , Indonesia ,China different countries Global Global
Samsung South Korea South Korea Global Global
Toyota Japan Australia, US Global Global
What can conclude about international products and organizations based on your analysis?
These products in my opinion are the most popular in the global. And these products produced in different location than the original materials’ locations. And I found these products are the best products in their field for instant Samsung is the best in the electronics market, because it’s have high demand in everywhere in global.
TopDog Software
It is a bad idea to be overseas market because of:
– They want to create a new globalization business with no experience.
– They have financial problems.
– They don’t have enough management experience
– They have small group of employees who can’t manage external relationships.
– They give other companies to control their company.
Section 3:
a. What is the learning from that week’s information?
I have learned for this chapter that how managers can design an international organization environment. Moreover, global forces are important that affecting the global organization from building a global presence to motivating global expansion
b. How is this week’s information related/integrated with previous week’s information?
Both chapters are related together. All these chapters present two important points in any organization first one is the relationship between organizations and employees. And the second is the international environment. Also some specific challenges faced to global organization.
Section 4:
a. Reflect on your work environment issues that are similar to the chapter content?
I have learned from this chapter the similarity from my previous knowledge experience, helpful work in any organization or department is working in group or with partnership. Furthermore any organization can not start their business as individual they have to contact with an organization bigger and have more experiences than them.
b. Apply the content to the chapter to the case assignments (see separate section of syllabus)?
I have learned from the case assignment that the good plan, financial, experiences and successful teamwork are the most important thing to start a new idea. Because there are a lot of challenges for starting or working overseas business and a good manager has experience and ability to deal with these things to succeed his/her global business.
Section 5:
a. Your career goals
My career goals are increasing my knowledge in order to achieve my future job skills. And take the advantage of studying in US university I will try to build my relationship with my American friends in order to earn as much as I can from different overseas experiences.
b. Your current work experiences?
I have learned from this chapter, how the global organizations have different strategies that helping it to succeed in their business and the global organization have to follow the rules for every country they want to make a business for example; McDonalds do not provide pork meals in their branch in Saudi Arabia. However I can use this information to help me if I will open a global company in future to deal with global challenges and competitors.
c. Any other learning points that you would like to discuss, including questions that your new knowledge raises?
I have a point i would talk about it the global teams. The global team is used a lot from IT people because as we know IT filed focusing on connection between people or machines over the word by network so to makes everything right in each country it has to be a done by a human. For example, if I would like to connect a server for an organization in US to a server in Saudi Arabia I have to connect with someone there to do same structure that I will do it in US so in my opinion IT teams in most the time are called global team because of the work environment .
Third example
“Chapter 6”
Section 1
Managing by design questions:
1. The only way an organization can reasonably expect to be successful in different countries is to customize its products and services to suit the local interests, preferences, and values in each country?
I disagree, because some companies are successful to be international and local. Some countries don’t have some types of service or products, there are more locals market will cover the customer needs and interests.
2. It is an especially difficult challenge to work on a global team to coordinate one’s own activities and share new ideas and insights with colleagues in different divisions around the world?
Agree, because languages, culture and locations are one of the biggest problems a lot of companies face today, but if the employee’s have patience and high level of skills that will help them to be understand each other, share information’s, communicate, ideas.
3. If management practices and coordination techniques work well for a company
in its home country, they probably will be successful in the company’s international divisions as well?
Disagree, because every each country in the world has different culture, rules, control, that might to make it difficult for some companies.
“Chapter 6”
Section II:
How Do You Fit the Design?
Mostly Mostly
Are You Typically:? True False
1. Impatient? Do you have a short attention span?
Do you want to keep moving to the next topic? *
2. A poor listener? Are you uncomfortable with silence?
Does your mind think about what you want to
say next? *
3. Argumentative? Do you enjoy arguing for its
own sake? *
4. Not familiar with cultural specifics in other countries?
Do you have limited experience in other countries? *
5. Placing more emphasis on the short-team than on
the long-team in your thinking and planning? *
6. Thinking that it is a waste of time getting to know
someone personally before discussing business? *
7. Legalistic to win your point? Holding others to
an agreement regardless of changing circumstances? *
8. Thinking “win/lose” when negotiating? Trying to win
a negotiation at the others expense? *
Answer: I have found that I consider myself ready to to assist with an international negotiation, my way of thinking would be useful when I work with other people in different location and organization’s.
1. What is your plan for self-improvement based on your responses and analysis?
My plan for self-improvement is to improve my listening skills and communication, in order to work with different people in different locations.
2. Goals and time frame for accomplishing them?
To accomplish these goals, I have to develop my skills on many things such as the of thinking, communications, behavior and style.
3. Describe the application context?
The application context explained how business would be working in two companies in different locations, and how important the relationship is, and how to deal with partnership.
4. Identify performance measures for your plan?
I will identify my performance plan now and in the future, because I have worked with the international office in school and everyone in the department is from different country. In regards that help us to have a good skills of communications and how that changed our behavior.
“Chapter 6”
Workbook: Organizations You Rely On
Product What country do materials come from? Where is it manufactured or assembled? Which country does the marketing and advertising? In what different countries is the product sold?
1.
Audi
German
German
Most countries
Most countries
2.
Cerruti 1881 watches
France
France
More than 50% of the countries
Some countries in Asia, America, Europe
3.
Giorgio Armani
Fashion
Italy
Italy
More than 65%
Most countries in Europe and Asia, America
What can conclude about international products and organizations based on your analysis?
I have found that most of the products I have choose the materials are from the same locations and the manufactures started in those countries. Those products toke a big place in the market, a lot of countries advertise these kind of products. Sold in most important places in the word, by that I meant the places have a good rates and demand.
CASE FOR ANALYSIS:
TopDog Software
• Going global seems to be difficult for the company because of the complex environment, culture differences, languages, government regulations.
• Financial issues.
• Dis communications in relationships between the partners and misunderstanding.
• No one has an international experience, especially managers.
• Lack of management.
• Stronger competitive.
• External issues.
• Need to hire more workers.
• Run out of resources.
Section III:
a. What is the learning from that week’s information?
I have learned for this chapter that organizations are affected by significant global forces, and how companies get the advantage from this relationships and the partnership.
b. How is this week’s information related/integrated with previous week’s
Information?
This week information is related to the previous week, the to chapters covered two important things such as the international environment, relationship either domestic or international, culture, framework and relationships with the suppliers.
Section IV:
a. Reflect on your work environment issues that are similar to the chapter content?
I have learned from this chapter the similarity from my previous work experience, work as a group or partnership mostly helps the company to change and try new things. What I mean by that is our department got change while we had the contract with an American company was helping us to review our project, they helped to be active with them and change some of our structure.
b. Apply the content to the chapter to the case assignments (see separate section of syllabus)?
I have learned from the case assigment that communications are important in any organization, and working as a team is required in order to successed. Companies should be ready when they decied to becaome global because there are more compitions and challengies between companies today.
Section V:
a. Your career goals
My career goals are to build this kind of skills on myself, in order to get the advantage in my future job either the job in Saudi Arabia or here in United States. Because in this time a lot of companies have a good relationship between here and there.
b. Your current work experiences?
I have learned from this chapter, how I can use this task in school, which that helping me to communicate with different nationalities, and understand the best way to deal with people.