WHAT WOULD YOU DO ANALYSIS REPORT First reading. Become familiar with the situation of the organization: Identify insights into the problem Obtain background information on the environment and organization Second reading. Pay attention to key facts and assumptions: Determine relevance and reliability of the data Avoid these pitfalls: Do not rush to a conclusion Do not confuse belief with fact Sub-headings - Make sure you use sub-headings in your report Conclusion and Recommendation Present your thoughts and opinions on what you think is the appropriate solutions, however you need to use information presented in the text/chapter as a foundation and rationale for your recommended solutions. Your discussion should be comprehensive and include any reference and citation for material or information use taken from the book or other authors. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Cessna Headquarters, Wichita, Kansas The words "Cestna Skyhawk have special meaning One of the advantages of starting completely over for anyone who has ever wanted to learn to fly. At 27 is that you get to design the entire production facility, feet long and 3 feet tall with a 36 foot wingspana 140 from its location to the new workers to the suppliers mph Cruising speed and room for two adults and their Everything is up for grabs. For instance, Cessna does luggage, more people have learned to fly with a Cesena most of es production in Wichita, Kansas. But since it Skyhawk than with any other plane in aviation history. left the single engine plane business Wichita mostly In fact, the Cessna Skyhawk is the best-selling plane of produces a small number of highly customized jets all time. Clyde Cessna built his first plane in 1911, and each year, just the opposite of your business, which is a Cessna became a stored name in aviation. Cessna buit high number of standardized single engine planes. So 750 gliders for the army in World War II, introduced the given the differences, you locate the new single-engine Skyhawk in 1956, produced the first turbo-charged and plane factory in Independence Kansas two hours away cabin-pressurized single-engine planes in the 1960s, de by car and only 4 minutes away in one of Cessna's livered its first business jet in the 1970s topped 1 bil small planes. Along with a new location, you're debat lion in sales in the 1980s, and then in one of the worst ing taking a new approach to manufacturing planes downturns in the history of aviation business nearly by using production teams. This decision may strike went out of business over the next decade and a hall some colleagues as radical particularly at conservative Sales of general aviation aircraft, which had topped minded Cessna where one of your fellow managers and out at 17.000 planes per year dropped to 12.000 planes mitted. We probably got into a mode of doing things within a year, and over the next decade finally hit rock for the future based on how weld always done things bottom at 928 planes for the entire industry. During the in the past. But the more you think about it, the more same time, Cessna's sales of piston engine planes, like you are cominced that it is the right decision. Instead the Skyhawk, dropped from 3.000 per year to just 600 ofering a standard production line where each worker Cessna was forced to lay off 75 percent of the employ does just one task you are thinking about using teams ces at its piston engine plane factories (Cesare also to assemble Skywks and other single engine planes makes business jets and targer planes and eventually In an incredible departure from the engineering-based stopped making piston engine planes altogether. How standards in which the motions of every worker on the ever after the economy improved and the US govern assembly line are studied for time, cost and efficiency ment approved the General Aviation Revitalization Act implications, production teams would be completely barring product liability lawsuits on any plane over 18 responsible for assembling the plans and for costs and years old. Cessna decided to start building its legend quality ary Skyhawks again You expect to see several benefits from a team This is where you come in. With nearly 20 years in based approach increased customer satisfaction from the company, your first job with Cessna was teaching improved product quality, faster, more efficient produc Cessna dealers how to service and maintain single tion, and higher employee job satisfaction. A few things engine planes. But now with profits flowing again and worry you, however Despite all of their promise teams the company's legal risk greatly reduced thanks to the and teamwork are also prone to significant disadvan Revitalization Act, you've been made the vice-president tages. They're expensive to implement. They require of Cessna's new single engine business. It's your job significant ing And they only work about a third to rebuild this part of the business from the ground up of the time they're used. So, despite their promise, you And because pilots tend to remain loyal to the kind of can't ignore the reality that using teams would be quite airplane on which they learned to fly, much depends misky for Cesena on your success or failure. If you can rebuild Cessnas Still you can't help thinking that teams could pay single engine business, the picts that learn to fly on to and that there might be ways for you to minimize days Cessna Skyhawks will be buying Cessna business themsk of failure. For example, because the plant will Jets 20 years from now. be in a new location, Independence, Kansas, you get to start with a brand new worldorce What kinds of people should you hire for teamwork? What kinds of skills and you were in charge of Cenas new single engine factory who would you do? WHAT WOULD YOU DO ANALYSIS REPORT First reading. Become familiar with the situation of the organization: Identify insights into the problem Obtain background information on the environment and organization Second reading. Pay attention to key facts and assumptions: Determine relevance and reliability of the data Avoid these pitfalls: Do not rush to a conclusion Do not confuse belief with fact Sub-headings - Make sure you use sub-headings in your report Conclusion and Recommendation Present your thoughts and opinions on what you think is the appropriate solutions, however you need to use information presented in the text/chapter as a foundation and rationale for your recommended solutions. Your discussion should be comprehensive and include any reference and citation for material or information use taken from the book or other authors. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Cessna Headquarters, Wichita, Kansas The words "Cestna Skyhawk have special meaning One of the advantages of starting completely over for anyone who has ever wanted to learn to fly. At 27 is that you get to design the entire production facility, feet long and 3 feet tall with a 36 foot wingspana 140 from its location to the new workers to the suppliers mph Cruising speed and room for two adults and their Everything is up for grabs. For instance, Cessna does luggage, more people have learned to fly with a Cesena most of es production in Wichita, Kansas. But since it Skyhawk than with any other plane in aviation history. left the single engine plane business Wichita mostly In fact, the Cessna Skyhawk is the best-selling plane of produces a small number of highly customized jets all time. Clyde Cessna built his first plane in 1911, and each year, just the opposite of your business, which is a Cessna became a stored name in aviation. Cessna buit high number of standardized single engine planes. So 750 gliders for the army in World War II, introduced the given the differences, you locate the new single-engine Skyhawk in 1956, produced the first turbo-charged and plane factory in Independence Kansas two hours away cabin-pressurized single-engine planes in the 1960s, de by car and only 4 minutes away in one of Cessna's livered its first business jet in the 1970s topped 1 bil small planes. Along with a new location, you're debat lion in sales in the 1980s, and then in one of the worst ing taking a new approach to manufacturing planes downturns in the history of aviation business nearly by using production teams. This decision may strike went out of business over the next decade and a hall some colleagues as radical particularly at conservative Sales of general aviation aircraft, which had topped minded Cessna where one of your fellow managers and out at 17.000 planes per year dropped to 12.000 planes mitted. We probably got into a mode of doing things within a year, and over the next decade finally hit rock for the future based on how weld always done things bottom at 928 planes for the entire industry. During the in the past. But the more you think about it, the more same time, Cessna's sales of piston engine planes, like you are cominced that it is the right decision. Instead the Skyhawk, dropped from 3.000 per year to just 600 ofering a standard production line where each worker Cessna was forced to lay off 75 percent of the employ does just one task you are thinking about using teams ces at its piston engine plane factories (Cesare also to assemble Skywks and other single engine planes makes business jets and targer planes and eventually In an incredible departure from the engineering-based stopped making piston engine planes altogether. How standards in which the motions of every worker on the ever after the economy improved and the US govern assembly line are studied for time, cost and efficiency ment approved the General Aviation Revitalization Act implications, production teams would be completely barring product liability lawsuits on any plane over 18 responsible for assembling the plans and for costs and years old. Cessna decided to start building its legend quality ary Skyhawks again You expect to see several benefits from a team This is where you come in. With nearly 20 years in based approach increased customer satisfaction from the company, your first job with Cessna was teaching improved product quality, faster, more efficient produc Cessna dealers how to service and maintain single tion, and higher employee job satisfaction. A few things engine planes. But now with profits flowing again and worry you, however Despite all of their promise teams the company's legal risk greatly reduced thanks to the and teamwork are also prone to significant disadvan Revitalization Act, you've been made the vice-president tages. They're expensive to implement. They require of Cessna's new single engine business. It's your job significant ing And they only work about a third to rebuild this part of the business from the ground up of the time they're used. So, despite their promise, you And because pilots tend to remain loyal to the kind of can't ignore the reality that using teams would be quite airplane on which they learned to fly, much depends misky for Cesena on your success or failure. If you can rebuild Cessnas Still you can't help thinking that teams could pay single engine business, the picts that learn to fly on to and that there might be ways for you to minimize days Cessna Skyhawks will be buying Cessna business themsk of failure. For example, because the plant will Jets 20 years from now. be in a new location, Independence, Kansas, you get to start with a brand new worldorce What kinds of people should you hire for teamwork? What kinds of skills and you were in charge of Cenas new single engine factory who would you do