MrsFields - Case Study Example
LPB was a large company; their formulations of baking from the frozen dough the croissants, bread, hot soups and sandwiches, taken from Fields extended cookies business, had a different style. Technological processes at Fields were not changed to make adjustment with the working of LPB. Fields wanted to get the benefit of their in-practice MIS system, which was not customized to assimilate the management functions of LPB like Fields had done when it acquired Chocolate Chip Company, and made changes in the MIS system. Fields assumed that that it would be able to benefit from its current MIS system for adapting different overhead functions of PBS.
Working in a totally different management hierarchy would not have been easy particularly when no job orientation was given. Things could have gone haphazard without any staff reporting to the senior level, affecting performance in all segments of the organization.
