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The pre-implementation scenario and the post implementation scenario.
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GE has a long history and operates in many industries globally. It uses a multi-divisional structure to manage its diverse businesses.
Over time, GE's culture and values have shifted from an earlier focus on competition and individual performance under Jack Welch, to emphasizing local decision making, global expansion, and spreading ideas quickly under Jeff Immelt's leadership.
GE has implemented various processes like Six Sigma and Work-Out to drive innovation and improvement, and now focuses on initiatives like Ecomagination for sustainable growth through new technologies and effective use of its resources and portfolio.
Welch and Immelt led GE with different styles. [1] Welch joined GE in 1960 and became CEO in 1981, focusing on acquisitions and innovations to drive profits. [2] He instituted a performance review system that fired bottom performers and generously rewarded top ones. [3] Immelt became CEO in 2001 facing challenges from 9/11, but restructured GE's portfolio and increased transparency and innovation.
GE case study two decade transformation Jack Welch's LeadershipAnkush Goel
Jack Welch transformed GE over two decades through relentless restructuring, acquiring and divesting businesses, and developing a culture of continuous improvement. Under his leadership, GE became one of the world's most diversified and profitable companies, with annual shareholder returns of 23%. Welch instituted a "fix, sell, or close" policy for businesses and cut layers of management. He globalized operations significantly and placed strong emphasis on developing leaders and continuous improvement efforts like Six Sigma. By the time of his retirement, GE had become a global industrial powerhouse focused increasingly on services in addition to products.
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Jack Welch transformed GE during his 20-year tenure through three waves of restructuring:
1) Introduced the three circle vision and decentralized GE into business units.
2) Focused on work-out processes, best practices, going global, and developing leaders. Productivity and international sales grew significantly.
3) Emphasized boundaryless behavior, service businesses, and six sigma quality. Revenues increased 376.7% and earnings 670.88% under Welch's leadership through acquisitions, divestitures, and setting ambitious stretch targets.
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General Electric - Jack Welch and Jeffrey Immelt - (CEO Succession) | Organiz...Arjun Parekh
This presentation is based on a Case Study: 'Jack Welch and Jeffrey Immelt: Continuity and Change in Strategy, Style and Culture at GE (General Electric)' The presentation also consists of ingenious OB (Organizational Behavior) Analysis. Leadership style, Management Style, of these two great CEOs has been discussed in the slides.
GE has a long history and operates in many industries globally. It uses a multi-divisional structure to manage its diverse businesses.
Over time, GE's culture and values have shifted from an earlier focus on competition and individual performance under Jack Welch, to emphasizing local decision making, global expansion, and spreading ideas quickly under Jeff Immelt's leadership.
GE has implemented various processes like Six Sigma and Work-Out to drive innovation and improvement, and now focuses on initiatives like Ecomagination for sustainable growth through new technologies and effective use of its resources and portfolio.
Welch and Immelt led GE with different styles. [1] Welch joined GE in 1960 and became CEO in 1981, focusing on acquisitions and innovations to drive profits. [2] He instituted a performance review system that fired bottom performers and generously rewarded top ones. [3] Immelt became CEO in 2001 facing challenges from 9/11, but restructured GE's portfolio and increased transparency and innovation.
GE case study two decade transformation Jack Welch's LeadershipAnkush Goel
Jack Welch transformed GE over two decades through relentless restructuring, acquiring and divesting businesses, and developing a culture of continuous improvement. Under his leadership, GE became one of the world's most diversified and profitable companies, with annual shareholder returns of 23%. Welch instituted a "fix, sell, or close" policy for businesses and cut layers of management. He globalized operations significantly and placed strong emphasis on developing leaders and continuous improvement efforts like Six Sigma. By the time of his retirement, GE had become a global industrial powerhouse focused increasingly on services in addition to products.
Case Study Analysis on General ElectricSubhi Pradhan
This document provides a case study analysis of General Electric's organizational strategy. It analyzes GE's internal capabilities, which it identifies as key sources of sustained competitive advantage. These capabilities include leadership, human resource development, organizational structure, innovation, marketing/brand portfolio, and customer service. For each capability, the document describes how GE has built and leveraged that capability, such as through training programs, decentralizing its structure, launching initiatives like Ecomagination, diversifying its portfolio for synergies, and focusing on customer relationships. The overall analysis aims to understand the roots of GE's competitiveness through its internal capabilities.
Jack Welch transformed GE during his 20-year tenure through three waves of restructuring:
1) Introduced the three circle vision and decentralized GE into business units.
2) Focused on work-out processes, best practices, going global, and developing leaders. Productivity and international sales grew significantly.
3) Emphasized boundaryless behavior, service businesses, and six sigma quality. Revenues increased 376.7% and earnings 670.88% under Welch's leadership through acquisitions, divestitures, and setting ambitious stretch targets.
The document discusses strategic human resource management and the role and value of HR in business. It addresses factors that impact HR both internally and externally. The key focus of strategic HR is to identify appropriate functions, culture, structure and systems to create value and organizational excellence. Business value refers to results that align with organizational goals, while business alignment means activities are geared towards achieving goals. For HR to add value, its outputs must contribute meaningfully to organizational objectives. The HR business partner role serves as a strategic consultant to help align business and employee objectives.
Jack Welch led a two-decade transformation of GE through restructuring, cultural changes, and strategic initiatives. When he became CEO in 1981, GE faced challenges from economic recession and inefficient operations. Welch restructured GE by divesting 200+ businesses, making 370+ acquisitions, and eliminating over 200,000 jobs. He introduced initiatives like Six Sigma to improve quality and services businesses to diversify revenues. By pursuing boundaryless operations and developing leaders, Welch transformed GE's culture. Through three waves of changes from 1981-2001, he helped GE become the most profitable and diversified company.
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- General Electric underwent several phases of organizational restructuring over the 20th century to adapt to changing market conditions.
- In the 1980s and 1990s, under CEO Jack Welch, GE implemented a "boundaryless" structure that dismantled hierarchy and removed barriers between units to encourage innovation.
- Since the 1980s, GE has pursued strategies of globalization, localization, diversification, and more recently digitization to remain competitive in international markets through local innovation and adapting to the digital economy.
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PPT made from HBR case "GE's two decade of transformation: Jack Welch's leadership"
To get the copy of the ppt, send a request mail at mrudangpharma@gmail.com
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Jack Welch led a two-decade transformation of GE through restructuring, cultural changes, and strategic initiatives. When he became CEO in 1981, GE faced challenges from economic recession and inefficient operations. Welch restructured GE by divesting 200+ businesses, making 370+ acquisitions, and eliminating over 200,000 jobs. He introduced initiatives like Six Sigma to improve quality and services businesses to diversify revenues. By pursuing boundaryless operations and developing leaders, Welch transformed GE's culture. Through three waves of changes from 1981-2001, he helped GE become the most profitable and diversified company.
The ppt reflects upon case analysis of GE during the tenure of Jack Welsh. It identity the leadership skill, competency of Jack Welsh to make GE a successful company
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Stages on contributory system
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Ge’s two decade transformation-Case PPTmeghaiyer1988
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This document discusses change management and organizational development. It defines change management as planned efforts to introduce and implement changes that are accepted by most through behavioral science interventions. Organizational development is defined as planned, organization-wide change managed from the top to increase effectiveness through interventions in people, processes, and procedures using behavioral sciences. Several models of change management are presented, including John Kotter's 8-step model. The document also discusses understanding and managing resistance to change, and implementing change through various interventions and systems of control. The overall message is that change is inevitable, so we should try to welcome and embrace change.
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HBR's 10 must reads on Innovation. The author is Peter Drucker, the founder of modern management. The most innovative business ideas come from methodically analyzing seven areas of opportunity. You have to identify the opportunity and need a leap of imagination to arrive at the right response.
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Jack Welch: GE's Two Decade Of TransformationMrudang Thakor
It is about Jack Welch's leadership at GE. Initiatives taken by him by which GE became what today it is!
PPT made from HBR case "GE's two decade of transformation: Jack Welch's leadership"
To get the copy of the ppt, send a request mail at mrudangpharma@gmail.com
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Jack Welch led a two-decade transformation of GE through restructuring initiatives and an emphasis on performance. He focused the company on its most profitable business lines by selling over 200 businesses and making over 370 acquisitions. Welch also downsized GE's workforce significantly through job cuts and attrition. His strategies centralized command, removed layers of bureaucracy, and aimed to create a culture of innovation and responsiveness where employees at all levels could contribute ideas. Key initiatives included the boundaryless organization, six sigma quality improvement, and developing leaders through competency reviews and training. Overall, Welch significantly reshaped GE into a more competitive and efficient global conglomerate.
GE underwent a major transformation under the leadership of Jack Welch from 1981 to 2001. Welch restructured GE by selling unprofitable business and making hundreds of acquisitions. He focused on developing a performance-driven culture and making GE the number 1 or 2 in all of its business lines. Welch also expanded GE globally and pushed the company to constantly challenge itself. Under Welch, GE became highly profitable and grew to become one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world.
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General Electric was founded in 1878 by Thomas Edison and initially focused on electricity generation and distribution. Under the leadership of CEO Jack Welch from 1981 to 2001, GE underwent major restructuring and cultural changes. Welch decentralized decision making, instituted a system of strategic business units, and emphasized developing world-class operations. He challenged managers and employees to be "better than the best" and oversaw hundreds of acquisitions and divestitures. Welch also introduced new strategic initiatives like Six Sigma quality improvement and growing service businesses to diversify beyond industrial products. By the end of his tenure, Welch had transformed GE into one of the world's largest and most profitable companies.
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2. GENERAL ELECTRICS
Company overview –
Formed in the year 1892
Is a multinational American technology and services
conglomerate incorporated in New York
Founded by Thomas Edison
Headquarters are in Fairfield, Connecticut
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman is Jeff Immelt (2001 – till
date)
Has more than 300,000 employees in more than 140 countries
3. CHANGE MANAGEMENT AT
GENERAL ELECTRICS
• Jack Welch in the year 1981 inherited the top position of a
company that had a worth of mere $12 billion
• By the time he left the company in the year 1998, revenues of
GE were valued at $129 Billion.
What changed ?
Jack Walch
4. IMPLEMENTING SIX SIGMA
APPROACH
• In the year 1995, Implemented lean six sigma methodology for
manufacturing and service processes
• Target was to meet or reach a level of 3.4 defects per million operations
within any process
• Five years after Welch’s decision to implement Six Sigma, GE had saved a
mind-blowing $10 billion.
• By assembling the right team and ingraining them with the right
management philosophies, Welch successfully oversaw the transformation of
GE from a relatively strong company to a true international player
5. BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION
• Before the 6 sigma, operations were carried out between 3-4 sigma
• The company realized that employees were an important source of intellectual power for
new and creative ideas.
• The program has set four major goals –
• Build Trust
• Empower employees
• Eliminate unnecessary work
• Create a new paradigm for GE
6. OUTCOMES OF SIX SIGMA
IMPLEMENTATION
• Implemented six sigma for 200 projects initially
• By 1997, statistical process control was used in
6000 GE projects and training sessions.
• $320 million reported in benefits from six sigma
implementation in 1998
• Revenues rose to $100 Billion, up by 11%
• Earnings per share grew to $2.80, up to 14%
• Operating margin had set a record by showing
an increase of 16.7 %
11%
14%
13%
16.70%
REVENUES EARNINGS PER
SHARE
PROFITS OPERATING
MARGINS
RESULTS ACHIEVED OVER THE FIRST TWO YEARS
(1996-1998)
Source – Six Sigma implementation at General electrics
(Case Study)