Executive Summary The Objective of this report is to practice the analysis of possible scales and scopes of an engineering organization and to recommend and suggest ways to utilize them fully. The organization chosen for the analysis Ceylon Electricity Board (referred to as CEB hereafter), which is the Sri Lankan government organization for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity for local industrial and domestic consumption. Following a general introduction to the services by the organization and the structure of it and market competencies, the economies of scale and scope are discussed and finally a few suggestions are made to utilize them for the improvement of the organization. 1. Introduction to the Organization Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is the government body of Sri Lanka for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity for the local industrial and domestic consumption. Most of the electric power related needs and demands of the nations are fulfilled by CEB, and it has vast coverage of service in all over the country, cities, villages and industries. The organization is mainly an engineering organization and its product is service type. The service and the aim of the organization are obvious from the vision and mission statements of the organization. Vision statement: “To provide high quality service to all its consumers” Mission statement: “To provide reliable quality electrical power to the entire nation at internationally competitive prices effectively and efficiently through a meaningful partnership with skilled and motivated employees using appropriate state-of-the-art technology for the socio-economic development of the country in an economically sustainable manner while meeting acceptable environment standards and a satisfactory rate of return on investments” Ceylon Electricity Board was formed under act of No of 17 of 1969. The structure of CEB is highly dependent on the government and its decisions passed. Government intervention is at a higher degree that although the highest officials such as the Chief Executive Officer make suggestions on the management of power systems, they have to be approved by the government to be implemented. CEB is distributed throughout the whole island for better interaction with consumers and monitoring of field. The branches are divided into provincial and are offices. The performance in planning and implementation of CEB still has chances to be improved. The electrification of total Sri Lanka population is only 55% and the rest (45% of population) are in darkness. It seems to be quite unsuccessful and unfair sometimes when considering rural off-grid villages. On other hand, the consumption of electricity presently requires a higher cost compared to the rest of the world, due to inefficiency in planning, management, performance, design of power systems and implementation.
33). This approach can be the closest practice to finding a permanent solution. Many of the opportunities for Cenovus Energy is controlled by the ultimate decision of AER and other government bodies. With the use of private politics, environmental activist has been able to shape a voice for the environment. Cenovus has created diverse levels of innovation to express their responding solution.
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FROM observation we have come to know, that more than 1.5 billion people around the world have little or no access to light due to shortage or unavailability of electricity. Large numbers of affected people are from rural areas, and to a certain extent people from urban areas are also getting griped into energy crises. Statistics from United Nations says, that an investment of about US$35 billion to 40 billion per year is required to provide electrical energy to accomplish consumer basic need of energy for light, cook and mobility. Even after such heavy investment 16% of the world’s population will still not have electricity by the year 2030 (International Energy Agency).
BBC was the third largest company in Switzerland, and it has been very successful in the electric industry. Its past successes mainly owe to the focus strategy and geographic organization. BBC emphasized technology and quality, which enabled it build up its competitive advantage and achieved long-term success. In order to meet the market environment at the time, together with the deep-rooted culture, it built up the geographic organization. This organization stresses local autonomy because it is believed the local management is the best place to negotiate with the public utilities and this structure can meet the strictly local competition. Moreover, it resulted from the foreign exchange restrictions during the definite historical time. The strategy and the organizational structure brought about continuous successes because of the booming demand. However, it increased risks at the same time. When the economy collapsed and demand declined in the 1980s, the company faced with a stagnating situation. The organization structure made decision-making much slower than the changing market required. In 1987, the company once tried to shift its structure to divisional organization, but it’s not implemented into reality.
Emerson Electric Co. operates in the industrial machinery sector and other players in the industry include Eaton Corp, ITT Corp., Hubbell Inc. and ABB Ltd. The industrial machinery sector was hard hit by the 2007-2009 economic crisis but it showed recovery signs towards the end of 2009. In 2010 and 2011, the sector recorded improved sales and earnings as the economic recovery gained momentum. Despite slowed economic resurgence in the United States, the sector expects to maintain high sales due to high demand in emerging markets. Emerson registered a 0.1% growth in its annual sales in 2013 compared to 2012. Despite the ups and down that the sector has faced it has proven resilient when growt...
The management style employed at Lincoln Electric is a Participative also known as Consultative Management style, which encouraged or encourages the involvement of employees in the Advisory Board through employee representation. One of the many benefits of this style is that it ensures that issues at the front-line levels are properly captured, reported, discussed and corrective actions are recommended for improved operations. It also involves employees in decision making and as a result, employees feel valued, delighted, and take ownership of resolutions
TPC’s vision is to create affordable, clean, and plentiful energy to create economic growth in India and implement cutting edge eco-friendly technology. They want to make a difference and stay committed to improving the quality of life for all their stakeholders. They whole heartily believe that they need to communicate and work with their stakeholders so that they can make progress in advancing technology and strengthen their renewable energy range. Globally TPC has establis...
Since its inception, the company has always been contributing towards the advancement and development of the engineering sector in Pakistan by introducing a range of quality electrical equipment and home appliances and by producing hundreds
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Second, the reliability of electricity was compromised throughout many parts of our state, affecting both residential and business sectors. On June 14, 2000, about 100,000 customers were blacked out in San Francisco Bay Area (Kahn and Lynch 9-10). According to Lorenco Goncalves, the CEO of California steel industries, “We were interrupted 14 times this month [January] compared to not once from 1987 to 1998. So many other industries depend on what we send them…If they can’t depend on my products, they will [buy them] elsewhere” (Wood and Sherer). These uncertain interruptions are causing a lot of damage in our economy.
circumstances and failures that can occur in any element of power system. Moreover, the rapid
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Lincoln Electric introduced management trainee programs and involved its workers more at strategic level. The training was given under the supervision of effective leaders of the organization. Because of these methods Lincoln Electric cope up with different situation and challenges and became a successful organization.
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