Learning on ScreenTroubleshooter 2 (6 Parts)
- Synopsis
- Corporate case studies in which Sir John Harvey-Jones visits six British companies each facing major decisions that will affect their future growth and success.
1: The Charles Letts Group is a traditional familybusiness in need of a focus and refusing to acknowledge the urgency of its problems.
2: The South Yorkshire police force faces major problems in resources and morale. The case study provides a lesson in devising, commuunicating and implementing strategy.
3: Double Two, a division of the Wakefield Shirt Company, is planning a major export drive but hasn’t addressed major flaws in its existing business.
4: The Bradford Hospitals Trust, one of the first groups of hospitals to be granted NHS Trust status, has had problems adapting to its new profit-making brief and provides lessons for other organisations facing major change.
5: Norton Motors attempts to relaunch itself on the track and in the high-performance motorcycle market.
6: The Tollemache and Cobbold Brewery, brewers of Tolly Cobbold beer, recently bought out by its management, has ambitious plans for expansion.
The package also contains a 20-minute preface and a 30-minute trigger video. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 40, 20, 30 min.
- Year of production
- 1993
- Availability
- Sale; 1996 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £395.00 (+VAT +p&p) set
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC2 from 17/11/92.
- Documentation
- Accompanying facilitator’s guides and book ‘Troubleshooter 2’ by John Harvey-Jones (1993).
- Subjects
- Business studies
- Keywords
- management of change; organisations
Credits
- Contributor
- Richard Reisz
- Cast
John Harvey-Jones
Sections
- Title
- Grasping the nettle
- Synopsis
- 1: The Charles Letts Group is a traditional familybusiness in need of a focus and refusing to acknowledge the urgency of its problems.
- Title
- Charge the guns
- Synopsis
- 2: The South Yorkshire police force faces major problems in resources and morale. The case study provides a lesson in devising, commuunicating and implementing strategy.
- Title
- Old Cinderella story, The
- Synopsis
- 3: Double Two, a division of the Wakefield Shirt Company, is planning a major export drive but hasn't addressed major flaws in its existing business.
- Title
- Neither fish nor fowl
- Synopsis
- 4: The Bradford Hospitals Trust, one of the first groups of hospitals to be granted NHS Trust status, has had problems adapting to its new profit-making brief and provides lessons for other organisations facing major change.
- Title
- Hell of a big punt, A
- Synopsis
- 5: Norton Motors attempts to relaunch itself on the track and in the high-performance motorcycle market.
- Title
- Getting your ducks in line
- Synopsis
- 6: The Tollemache and Cobbold Brewery, brewers of Tolly Cobbold beer, recently bought out by its management, has ambitious plans for expansion.
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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