Thursday, June 25, 2009

Coca-cola Company- IT/IS Best Practices

Coca-Cola Company

About Us

Founded in 1886 by pharmacist John Styth Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia, The Coca-Cola Company is the world's leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, used to produce nearly 400 brands. The Coca-Cola Company continues to be based in Atlanta and employs 49,000 people worldwide, with operations in over 200 countries.

Coca-Cola Great Britain (CCGB)

Coca-Cola Great Britain (CCGB) is responsible for marketing 21 brands (over 100 products) to consumers in Great Britain, developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting Coca-Cola trade marks in Great Britain. CCGB employs around 130 people at its headquarters in West London.

Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE)

Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) is the local bottler responsible for the manufacturing, distributing, sales and trade marketing of the brands of CCGB throughout England, Scotland and Wales. It employs around 5,000 people at its various sites across Britain.

The Coca-Cola System

Together, CCGB and CCE form one 'system' which is referred to as 'The Coca-Cola System', but is not a single entity from a legal or a management point of view. The two businesses work together closely and have taken a joint approach to corporate responsibility in particular, because while some issues are relevant to one business and some to the other, still more are relevant to both.

Our Mission

Our Roadmap starts with our mission, which is enduring. It declares our purpose as a company and serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions.

To refresh the world...
To inspire moments of optimism and happiness...
To create value and make a difference.

Our Vision

Our vision serves as the framework for our Roadmap and guides every aspect of our business by describing what we need to accomplish in order to continue achieving sustainable, quality growth.

People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be.
Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality beverage brands that anticipate and satisfy people's desires and needs.
Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create mutual, enduring value.
Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping build and support sustainable communities.
Profit: Maximize long-term return to share owners while being mindful of our overall responsibilities.
Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.

Our Winning Culture

Our Winning Culture defines the attitudes and behaviors that will be required of us to make our 2020 Vision a reality.

Live Our Values

Our values serve as a compass for our actions and describe how we behave in the world.

Leadership: The courage to shape a better future
Collaboration: Leverage collective genius
Integrity: Be real
Accountability: If it is to be, it's up to me
Passion: Committed in heart and mind
Diversity: As inclusive as our brands
Quality: What we do, we do well

Focus on the Market

Focus on needs of our consumers, customers and franchise partners
Get out into the market and listen, observe and learn
Possess a world view
Focus on execution in the marketplace every day
Be insatiably curious

Work Smart

Act with urgency
Remain responsive to change
Have the courage to change course when needed
Remain constructively discontent
Work efficiently
Work efficiently

Act Like Owners

Be accountable for our actions and inactions
Steward system assets and focus on building value
Reward our people for taking risks and finding better ways to solve problems
Learn from our outcomes -- what worked and what didn’t

source: http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/About_us/
http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ourcompany/mission_vision_values.html

Discussions:

With those information on the top, I can say that this company have many best practices in the field of the IT and IS. Some of these practices that I think it can truly help to develop the skill of the IT/IS,some of these are as follows:

1.Network / good server system- I can say that having a good server system and networking has a great effect in terms of the e-business. Making it more competitive to other companies. Example of the importance of a good networking of a company is on the connectivity of the databases of the the company to it's other branch. Making this task such require a good skills in order do this.

2.Effective databases- I can say making this a big and complicated databases also require a good skills. Example of it's important part is the payments of the customers that it should be a well plan database also the recovery of the database on how you deal with when it encounter problems such us loss of data.

3.Equipments use- I can say also that having the best equipments in this kind of company is very important also because even how good your networks and databases but if your equipments are not that good to handle this, it's obvious that this is useless. You can also expect a large effect to your business.

4.Administrators- particular in the part of the IT people to have a good plan to it's databases. A well plan to it's future development and the smooth flow of it and the effectiveness of it's work to the benefit of the company.

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