{"product_id":"management-consultancy-an-assignment-on-kingsholm-polymer-systems-von-elisabeth-felice-nehls","title":"Management Consultancy","description":"\u003cp\u003eResearch Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1, Anglia Ruskin University, course: Management Consultancy Skills, language: English, abstract: Kingsholm Polymer Systems (KPS), a tape producing company, is located in the UK. It consists of three different sites: the paper masking tape faculty, a pvc tape producing faculty, and a cable jointing faculty. For KPS is in the producing and processing industry, the company acts as supplier to main customers such as electronic wholesalers, electronic cable manufacturers, do-it-yourself stores (DIY), and the automotive industry. 450 members of staff are currently employed at KPS. The challenge KPS has to approach is to bring a new product, the so called Haltadon, to market. By doing so, KPS seeks to achieve a better market position, increase sales, enhance market share and better return on investments (RoI). To cut it short: great expectations concerning improved profitability and reduced costs focus on the desired product launch, an undertaking coming along with certain defiance:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿ KPS does have a numerous amount of technical experts but the products do not always meet customer`s expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿ KPS does have sales and finance employees but to analyze which clients and products bring value to the company has not been possible yet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿ Some of their products are more innovative than those of rivals but because KPS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elacks patent protection, innovations soon become commodity and prices decrease. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿ KPS has made it to involve up-to-date cultural aspects but internal disparities especially concerning the HR aspect lead to unsatisfied employees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿ KPS missed access to low priced raw materials which makes it hard to compete with rivals and sustain high margins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternal and external defiance mentioned above show that KPS offers some potential - even though the company is struggling at the moment. That underlying potential is the issue which is now to be developed through a situational audit, a strategic analysis, and an implementation of change management activities. An appraisal of recommended consulting activities will be done to support the analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640961009\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn assignment on Kingsholm Polymer Systems\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640961009","offer_id":39430999703645,"sku":"9783640961009","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/1fe745e1-4c90-4a19-9cc9-04e6d710facc.jpg?v=1777783098","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/management-consultancy-an-assignment-on-kingsholm-polymer-systems-von-elisabeth-felice-nehls","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}