You will be given a case study (HBSP: Rise and Fall of Iridium) and asked to do a case analysis that is guided by a series of questions.
Please prepare replies to these five questions. Your answers need to be supported by evidence from the case. The word limits are minimum per question.
1. Who is to blame for IRIDIUM’s failure? At what point could you have known that IRIDIUM would fail?
Words: 200
2. What is your evaluation of IRIDIUM’s system design? What impact did the choices that were made have on subsequent evolution of the venture?
Words: 150
3. What is your evaluation of IRIDIUM’s organizational design? What changes would you have made to increase the probability of a successful outcome?
Words: 150
4. What strategic choices could have Iridium’s management made that would have
changed its trajectory. Be very specific in terms of what the choices should have been, who should have made them, and when.
Words 300
5. Was Iridium a failure for Motorola? Why or why not.
Words 250
