Question

Compare and examine the leadership of Mahindra & John Deere using the essential parameters of Envisioning, Strategizing, Communication and Succession Planning. Need detailed analysis.
What are key takeaways/recommendations for your firm from the above analysis?

Answer 1

Answer:

Mahindra and Mahindra: M&M is an India based organization, which is the India market leader in the tractor segment for farm applications. M&M has various manufacturing plants for the tractor products for the farm applications, and head quarter is at Mumbai, India. It is India leader in farm equipment manufacturing and supply.

John Deere: John Deere is an organization which manufactures the farm equipments and caters to the world market. John Deere does manufacture tractors also and supplies in the India market. John Deere has manufacturing plants in India at Pune and Dewas locations with technical center at Pune in India. It is a global leader organization in the farm equipment manufacturing and supply.

Following are the comparison between the M&M and J&D organizations as below

S	Heading	Mahindra and Mahindra	John Deere
1	Envisioning	M&M has a great vision for the business and it is expanding at very high rate in the India as well as in the global market. M&M is supplying the farm equipments in global market with manufacturing from India locations.	John Deere has a great vision for the farm equipments for the global market. It has covered most of the key parts of world and has around 60 business locations in the global world. John Deere is global leader in farm equipments supply.
2	Strategizing	M&M is expert in strategy division. Their strategies are very clear and what they want to achieve for their business is very clear. They are investing in the market as per their strategy and achieving higher success in the India market as well as in the global market.	John Deere is global company which is highly strategic company. The John Deere is very clear in their strategy and as per their strategy they are expanding in the global market. They have captured most of the key locations under their business and have been running their business for a longer time.
3	Communication	M&M has a great approach on communication process. Communication is the key process for any corporate organization. M&M’s speed is very high in communication in the market and with their stakeholders.	John Deere do have the good process of communication in their organization , which ensures that adequate communication is happening with their employees, stakeholders, customers and suppliers etc. IT is a global company which is expert in communication process.
4	Succession Planning	M&M has started the use of succession planning for their organization, because the growth rate of M&M is high and they need right people to take care of the organization upon employee leaving the organization.	John Deere is the global organization which is expert in succession planning as they have been using the succession planning process from a long time in different different organizations in the world market.

Key takeaway / recommendations for our firm: Following are the key takeaway for our firms are as below

• Our Firm to have long term strategic approach so that the our firm has clear vision which is supported by long term goal/ strategies for the organization.

• Effective Communication Approach: Communication is the key for success, so our firm should adopt the communication strategies in an effective manner for the organization.

• Effective Succession planning: Resources are the assets without which no one can execute any business. So succession planning is very important for having desired resources for future support for the organization.

• Effective management of the business and explore global expansion for the business.