Management for Engineers

Management 1
Management for Engineers

Management 2
Executive Summary
The case study of Toyota Motor Corporation Australia (TMCA) is taken, as this is one of the
leading automotive companies. The importance of SWOT analysis in the business keeps
significant value, as it helps in knowing the strength, weakness, opportunity and threats of the
business. Business model canvas is referred to as strategic management along with the lean start-
up template for improving new or developing existing business models. Business model canvas
is a visual chart with elements elaborating the product value proposition and finances of the
product. SWOT analysis is taken into consideration with describing each element, which would
be helpful in elaborating the importance of each element in the form of strength, weakness,
opportunity and threats.

Management 3
Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Findings and Conclusions................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10
Appendix (Including a copy of the subject Business Case)..........................................................11

Management 4
Introduction
The main aim of this assignment is to highlight the factors that contribute in increasing the
productivity of the employees as well as the organizations. In the context of the case study, it has
been found that the activities related to the manufacturing and engineering of the head office is
being done in Melbourne, which is complemented by inclusive sales and marketing operations
based in Sydney. Moreover, the company has different branches in sales and distribution in all
states of Australia except Western Australia (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The company
employs around 3,900 people and thousands more are employed in its supplier and retail
networks. It has been found that Toyota is a big company in Australia of vehicle exporter,
shipping to more than 13 various overseas markets. This company is founded in 1938 that
provides an upper level of satisfaction to the employees as well as a customer by their services.
This report will explain the business model canvas entailing nine elements of the case study.
With the help of this, it would be easy for the readers to understand the concept of business
model canvas in a significant manner. Along with that, the elaboration of each factor of SWOT
analysis will be given on each element of the business model by taking consideration of the
selected case study.
Business Model Canvas
Key partners
The company is more active in providing a high quality of services to the customers. Toyota
outsources around 70% of the vehicle aspects such as Araco, Denso, Trim Master Inc., and
Toyota boshoku. Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and
services company situated in Tokyo, Japan. Fujitsu is working closely with Toyota and that is
why they carefully designed and organized united SOE that involved Windows 7 and standard of
Fujitsu End User Services Management Platform for over a number of devices (Fujitsu, 2014).