Operational Strategies and Change Management Case Study

Operational Strategies and Change Management - face Study ExampleBefore being acquired by Rendall Graphics, Preston Plant was going through problems mostly relate to the tonus of the products, which were surprisingly identified the customer, HP. The company was facing many hardships in producing quality products and no belief of control over the product operations. The existing crisis revolving around the quality of products and business operating under loss, the advantage would have been only possible with occurrence of certain significant events.Concern by HP criticizing the puddle of Preston Plant which was non able to control the quality of its products which was depicted in the control chart prepared by HP itself for Preston plant, which shows that HP was performance of quality was closely monitored by HP though it was not done by the Plant, worked as a alarm bell for the plant management.Tom Branton, Managing Director, employed exist reduction strategies to bring the c ompany expenditure down by job layoffs and decision was taken to wee a portfolio for the plant dedicated to new ideas in order to establish greater confidence in the future sales and an innovative ideas was Photowrap for newsprint that could be re-pulped.AccordingAccording to Slack et al (2007566)3 quality is consistent conformance to customers expectations. The word conformance is stressed upon to meet the specifications set by the customer, ensuring a product or service conforms to specification whereas consistent implies that conformance to specification is not an adhoc. The quality crisis could be diagnosed by cut down the gaps in cusomter specification-operations specification, the concept specification, the quality specification - actual quality, the actual quality - communicated image which can be done through marketing operations, product/ service development, etc. As per the case study, prior to the acquisition by Rendall Graphics, the management was producing goods whic h met the specification on the customer, but they did not performed any control check on the product, which was eventually done by HP, which showed the loopholes in the performance of Preston Plant. Preston Plant, after being acquired by Rendall Graphic underwent big change in the operation and management wherein the departments were asked to review the day to day performance of the operations which was afterward put on to debate and discussion once in a month. The result was positive as the processes were coming under control, quality levels were improving and the