Celerita is a leading firm in the enterprise network optimization industry, offering solutions for businesses to accelerate and enhance the existing computer network. Celerita has always been in the top 6 leaders on the market, but its position become more and more uncertain. In fact, because of bad strategic management, the company is facing now a slow in its growth, and the management team is threatened about the future. Thus, Philippe Boyer, CEO of the company has decided to hire an external consultant, Carla Reese, in order to create a team building and to solve Celeritas problems.
Even if the annual growth revenue has declined since 2008 (from 50% to 17%), Celeritas remains the top player of the network optimization industry. During this time, its competitors have seen a better growth and have launch before Celeritas the new cloud computing technologies. Celeritas is still an effective company but it's necessary for the company to address internal problems first.
[...] Thus, Boyer's role is really to make people trust in this effort because if they are involved in it, it will be more efficient and results will be better and will occur faster. Document's bibliography: - Peter Mell/Timothy Grance. Nationale Institute of standards and Technology/US Department of commerce. September 2011. Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Accessed on January 25, 2012 from http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf - Michael Beer/ Ingrid Vargars. Celeritas Inc. : Leadership challenges in a Fast Growth Industry. November 9, 2011. Harvard Business Publishing. - Linda McDonald. No date. Team Development. [...]
[...] The job of Carla Reese is not easy to do. Indeed the role of an organizational consultant concerns the way of how to re organize a company and she has to deal with the human part which is the most complicated. It includes the relation among the department and all the process of decisions, communication and obviously the vision of the goals of the company in order to provide the best work to response to the expectations from the Board. [...]
[...] What are some barriers to strategic implementation? The team building meeting was very useful for Celerita's because it helped to identify the main reasons why the company is facing difficulties today. However, this team building meeting did not solve all of these reasons. In fact, the main reasons why Celerita is facing difficulties today are the lack of trust and communication, the inconsistent decision making, the confusion about goals and priorities and the poor coordination among divisions. During the first day of meeting they worked on those four topics trying to explain the reasons of the situation and proposing some ideas to resolve it. [...]
[...] Strategic management: Celerita Inc. Case Study Summary Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………. 1) Is Celeritas an effective company? What problem(s) do you see at Celeritas? …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2) How should the company deal with the crowded market with complete competencies? …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3) How effective was the team-building effort at Celeritas? Use a SWOT analysis to prove your point of view? …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4) Does the team-building meeting make progress toward solving Celeritas's problem? What is missing? Is the team-building approach the right strategy? Is there an alternative? [...]
[...] One problem with the top management is the management of Boyer. According to all the team, Boyer doesn't take each time the good decision. Moreover Boyer seems to don't understand the benefit of the cloud technology market and have, moreover, a personal problem with marketing head Dave Loyd. Secondly, this latter, according to the staff “gets very defensive and treats everyone like the enemy”. Another problem with Boyer has to be more transparent with the employees with the decisions is take. [...]
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