Ford Motor Company

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Ford Motor Company

• Team 7
• Nick Sinclair, Rhea Datta, Darius Johnson

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Mission and Products

• We are a global family with a proud heritage
  passionately committed to providing personal
  mobility for people around the world
• Ford Motor Company produces a very large range of
  car types.

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Profit Dynamics and Market

• Ford Motor Company is currently the 2 automaker
• in the world behind General Motors

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Technology and Employment

• Created the assembly line in 1908
• Current use of the virtual assembly line
• Combination of 3 areas- auto production, Ford
  finance, and Hertz
• Global Employment opportunities

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Key Success/ Weakness Factors

• Successes
• Economic Concern
• The Model T
• Assembly line production

• Weaknesses
• Roll-over risks
• Falling Sales due to competitive international
  market

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Ford Industrial vs. Information Model
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Information Model for Ford
Work Organization
Industrial Relations
Control System
Human Resource Practice
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Work Organization

• CAD/CAM-Computer Aided Manufacturing
• Computer Integrated Operations
• Overseas Allocation
• Outsourcing
• Flexibility

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Control System

• Culture Management
• Relationship Management
• Information Infrastructure
• Virtual Technology
• Network Management

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Industrial Relations

• Less Unionized Labor Forces
• DownsizingHigh Trust Relations

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Human Resource Practice

• Consumer focus
• Creativity
• Resourcefulness
• Entrepreneurial Spirit

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Business Organization at Ford

• Business Strategy
• Economy Of Scope
• Mass Customization 
• Innovation
• Productivity 
• Growth

• Enterprise Organization
• Networked
• Integrated
• Informated
• Communicated
• Agile
• Virtual

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The End

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