CASE ANALYSIS

Aqau Pura

Aqau Pura

Introduction

The study is related to the Aqau Pura which is a UK based involved in the production and distribution of bottled mineral water in the United Kingdom. It is observed that the management of the company needs to evaluate the quality management of the company as the company wants to improve the quality of bottled mineral water. The reason of this is that the increasing competition in the industry has made the company to think about the quality management bottled mineral water.

As a consultant in the catering services, it is important and crucial to inform and guide the company about the shortfalls in the quality management of Aqau Pura and guide the company so that the company can focus on the quality and efficiency of the operation.

Analysis

Leadership

From the case, it is observed that the Aqau Pura may have problem in the future as the company is in the change process. For a leadership of an organization like Aqau Pura, it is important to understand the core idea of the change management. As the change management, it is vital and necessary that the process of change should take place more than a year as it is a long term process.

To improve the management of ongoing changes, the leadership style of the Finance Manager should be based on the following:

Assimilation of new communication technologies

Processes to improve quality

Restructuring

Mergers

Takeovers

Accommodation to the new circumstances of globalization

In addition to this, to enhance the capacity of organizational change, the leadership style of the new Finance Manager should also focus on the basic idea of the change management. The change management techniques are also used to assist the transformation processes that are specifically targeted at enhancing the flexibility of the organization and its ability to respond quickly to new situations (Slack, Chambers and Johnston, 2010, 7-19).

The new Finance Manager should know that any change in the Aqau Pura are often accompanied by painful processes adapt to personnel. In many cases, this adaptation can be successfully managed by reducing the degree of resistance to change, accelerating these processes, and receiving a greater return on their implementation (Capodagli and Jackson, 1998, 16-29). The new Finance Manager should take help from the consulting companies to purposefully and effectively manage organizational change, using the latest global technologies and processes.

Policy and Strategy

It is vital and significant for the Aqau Pura to focus on the strategic planning. It is important for the Aqau Pura to work on its strategic concerns as it needs to be updated. Moreover, Aqau Pura should know that the strategic planning is long term planning that takes into account the internal and external variables and identifies sectors and market segments and targeted method of competition. Strategic planning is the process of rolling is updated every year to study the external and internal developments. Planning of activities is the most important function of management (Slack, Chambers and Johnston, 2010, 7-19). This issue is devoted to leading experts, dealing with management in the service sector and others, like in ...