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Decentralization
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc is mid-sized company that isn’t able to capture real economies of scale like a large company would, but is too big to be as “flexible” and “agile” as a small company. Pete Mather, vice president-MIS, solution was to move toward decentralization. ...
In order to compete with the larger companies, Air Products focused its energies on productivity, differentiation, and cost containment. ... 14) By Air Products decentralizing they could benefit in two ways. ...
Air Products strategy for service differentiation is called Customera, “The Era of the Customer”. ... This project actually goes against their decentralization strategy. ... Even though their will be a few problems, overall this strategy will benefit Air Product’s customers most of the time. ... ” Most of Air Products staff has been with the company for fifteen to twenty years.
Approximate Word count = 627
Approximate Pages = 2.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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