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CASE ANALYSIS REPORT
Problem
Inefficiency of the performance of customer service personnel, and higher labor cost.
Objective
Mountain West Health Plans Inc. is health insurance company with an ever-
increasing costs of its service customer department which is a labor intensive unit
The previous director Evelyn Gustafson has just retired and is now replaced by Erik
Rasmussen, a young man with a new bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Considering the following strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, how
would the company solve its problem on inefficiency and high labor cost?
Opportunities: Threats:
Alternatives
1. S1, O1: Study thoroughly the human resource of the company and to come
up with a short-term and long-term strategies to improve the efficiency of the
human resource of the company and minimize turnover.
Advantages: Improves people effectiveness as they are given the power how
to do a task thereby developing their creativity.
Advantages: The decision is more reliable, and may get a wider acceptance
as it is a product of deliberation of many persons.
Disadvantages: The decision-making process may take longer because the
information is passed among individuals before it reaches the decision-
maker.
Solution