In: Operations Management
Management skills
Reading with question at the end: answer as if you were at a job interview:
At Tesla, helping others and making a difference is one of our main missions, this is why we wanted to go throught this organizational processs that we went throught, thought a model called the SOAR model:
The first step of the model is the Strength: The main strength of tesla is their engineering expertise: tesla has some of the best and most skilled engineered in the world. They are consistently innovating with the release of new cars almost every year. Another major strength that relates to the article about their production of ventilators is that their production is based in the United States, meaning that they can act and deliver quickly.
Secondly, their main opportunities are what the shareholders are asking for: tesla should focus on the growing demand. Moreover, Tesla can differentiate itself from the competition by showing that it has a moral obligation to shift and produce ventilators to help the American population. This new challenge that tesla is facing could be seen as a great opportunity for the firm.
Reflecting on Strength and opportunity, tesla’s main aspiration is to forge itself as an innovator and leader in the driverless car’s revolution. The company aspires to be able to shift its production by constantly innovating in moments of urgent need such as the Coronavirus. The strategic initiate that tesla put in place to shift its production to ventilators is to adapt the process of building cars into building the medial supply by using car parts.
Finally, considering its strength, opportunity and aspiration, tesla achieved its goal to produce and deliver extremely quickly the ventilators for many hospitals. The best reward for the company is the media coverage that this shift has achieved. This could result in an increased in market share and car sales for tesla.
Question to answer:
1. We wanted to ask you how you can relate to this example in your past experience and how your problem-solving skills could be applied in your role at tesla?
Question 1) we wanted to ask you how you can relate to this example in your past experience and how your problem-solving skills could be applied in your role at tesla?
Answer 1) So as per my experience it takes a lot of time for any student to reach at a professional management level and take key strategic decisions after gaining experience in the field, knowing about offerings and competitors. Tesla very well managed their working style and production capability the way the company shifted from car manufacturing to ventilators manufacturing is remarkable. So how I can relate with this example is, talking about my past experience I once had a same issues where I was the media person for the event where my duty was to click the photographs and the other person had the duty of pinning down the points/notes for press release and for write ups. So due to some tragedy that person was not available so having the experience of media team I took the step forward and did photography and did the write up for press release as well by recalling my old experience and penning down the points. So this is what experience speaks if you have a little bit of experience then you can poke you nose into it. Talking about how I will apply problem solving skill is being an Indian I am aware of my all possible skills sets, my knowledge and my versatile nature along with I have experience of all the sectors that is retail sector, wholesale sector, supply chain management, logistic business etc and work as a therapist. So I have all these skills and Indians are also known for brining solutions to the problem in every possible way. This is how I will use my experience and problem solving skills if I get a role for working for tesla.