Company XYZ in France

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Company XYZ in France

• Best in France Case Study

By Mr. Eee, Ms. Xdy, and Mr. Ret
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Executive Overview

• What's your business
• Company products and clients
• Why did you come to France
• Do company values fit the French culture?

• Constraints in France
• Adaptation to France
• Key Constraint Costs
• Key Benefit Numbers
• Essential Advice

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Some Guidelines

• Dear "Best in France" Participants
• This presentation is a sample for you to use as a
  guideline for your own case studies. It outlines
  some of the key points of the "Four Seasons goes
  to Paris" case study by Hallowell, Bowen, and
  Knoop.
• While you will probably need to adapt some of
  these questions to your specific company try to
  cover about the same topics.
• There is no need to attach a separate report but
  please explain each slide with enough depth to
  resolve any questions by using the "notes page"
  feature of Powerpoint. Please follow normal
  bibliographic rules by citing your references
  (books, company website pages, interview sources
  (name, function, contact details), articles,
  company reports, etc.)
• It imperative that you include the full contact
  details (title, address, phone, and email) of
  each manager that you interview.
• Best Wishes
• Michael Segalla

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The XYZ Company

• When did it come to France
• What's its business
• What are its key figures (world sales, French
  sales, profits, market share etc. etc.

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Company products

• What products are produced in France?
• Why are these products produced in France (and
  not elsewhere for example)?
• Are there expansion/reduction plans for these
  product lines?

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Company's clients

• Who are the company's clients?
• What are their expectations?
• How will a French presence help or hurt the
  company's ability to satisfy client demands?

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Why it came to France

• Company approach to international growth
• Where else did it consider
• Why was France a key target location

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Company values

• What are the core values of the company that may
  or may not fit with perceived French values?
• How did company manage to instill its values in
  the French unit?

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Constraints in France

• What are the principle constraints the company
  foresaw before coming to France?
• Did they discover any others?
• Which are the worst contraints?
• How do these constraints differ with their other
  locations?
• Did the local subsidiary lose projects to other
  countries because of these constraints?

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Adaptation to France

• What kinds of adaptations did/is the company
  making to its people management systems?
• Recruitment/Selection
• Compensation
• Management Development
• Workforce Planning
• Performance Appraisal
• Motivation
• Job Design, Job Assignment
• Communication Policies
• International Transfers, Use of Expatriats
• Training
• etc.

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Key Constraint Costs

• What are the key costs to coming to France that
  are more or less than operating in other
  locations?
• Any or all HR type costs (hiring, paying,
  training, dismissing, etc.)
• Other organisation structure costs (real estate,
  travel, taxes, "cultural consultants", etc.)
• Communication constraints (language,
  infrastructure communication costs, etc.)
• Integration of French managers into global
  organisation (does it cost more to use French
  managers than managers from other cultures)

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Key Benefit Numbers

• What are the key benefits of being in France?
• Product quality (defect rate, product cost,
  productivity, design, customer image, etc.)
• Revenue/profit (revenue/profit per French
  employee)
• Location benefits (transport, time zone, quality
  of life, employee satisfaction with France, etc.)
• Government assistance
• Market Potential (product penetration or growth
  potential, customer demands for cultural
  adaptation of product(s), launch platform for
  other European countries, etc.)

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Essential Advice

• What advice do you offer to other companies in
  this sector concerning use of France as a
  location?
• Before coming to France
• Adaptation while in France
• Future investments in Europe

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We Thank

• Manager 1 Name, Title, Address, Email,
  Telephone
• Manager 2 Name, Title, Address, Email,
  Telephone
• Manager 3 Name, Title, Address, Email,
  Telephone
• Etc.

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Bibliography

• References
• Appendix (e.g., questionnaires)

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Our Team

• Name, current address, permanent address
• Name, current address, permanent address
• Name, current address, permanent address
• etc.