Case I Organization and People
Organizational structure and decision-rights design in growing SMEs | Human resource development, motivation, and retention in small firms | Leadership transition and governance in owner-managed businesses
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Organizational structure and decision-rights design in growing SMEs | Human resource development, motivation, and retention in small firms | Leadership transition and governance in owner-managed businesses
Segmentation, targeting, and positioning for SME product lines | Pricing strategy and competitive response | Customer concentration risk and channel strategy
Bottleneck analysis and throughput improvement | Inventory policy and production planning | Quality management and lead-time reduction
Cost-volume-profit and break-even analysis | Profitability ratio decomposition and improvement levers | Working capital and cash flow management

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No. They check supporting knowledge such as break-even arithmetic, bottleneck logic, decision-rights design and cash bridges. Written case performance needs open-task practice: reading exhibits, selecting an issue, weighing alternatives and writing an implementation plan.
State the assumption and use a bounded sensitivity. For example, show that a two-point win-rate improvement produces a certain number of extra orders, then say what capacity or cost must be checked before acting. Do not present an assumption as a fact.
Practise contribution and break-even, margin of safety, price-cut volume response, bottleneck output, setup-time gain, simple cash bridges, and return on assets as net margin × asset turnover. Also practise explaining what each number means for the recommendation.
Name the actor, action, mechanism, sequence, measure and main constraint. Instead of saying improve delivery, say which order-acceptance rule changes, who applies it, which capacity check is used, and which on-time and margin measures will be reviewed.
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