Learning Objective As a group, you will use the Meetings tool to discuss the Mindersoft Case, and reach a consensus about the problem(s), analyze the problem, and recommend a defensible solution. Your group will: Evaluate an early-stage investment opportunity from the VC's perspective: market opportunity, business model, management team, and financials and come up with an offer for the entrepreneur. Perform the valuation of an early stage Company using the pre and post money method, the venture capital method and discounted cash flow method of valuation. Illustrate the valuation gap between the VC and entrepreneur and underscore that valuation is eventually driven by negotiation. Explore how entrepreneurs make financing decisions when they are faced with timing issues and low bargaining power versus VCs.
How will the initiative affect sales? Describe risks associated with the initiative and financial effects they may have. Starbucks Strategic Initiative Your Name Here University Name FIN/370 Date Instructor Name Here Starbucks Strategic Initiative In this paper, Team C will describe the relationship between strategic planning and financial planning for Starbucks Corporation. The first topic covers Starbucks strategic planning initiative and identifies a strategic initiative discussed in the organization’s annual report; from this report Team C will describe how this initiative affects Starbucks financial planning. Team C will break down and address how Starbucks initiative directly affects costs and the sales of the company’s financial plan.
* Are they ethical? 3. Choose TWO of the criteria from your checklist. Explain why each would influence your decision to invest in a company. * What risk is the company?
2. Question: (TCO 1) The first phase of Porter’s recommended process for evaluating the company is: 3. Question: (TCO 2) Change management is the approach to plan, _______, ________, manage, measure, and sustain changes in business processes and work. 4. Question: (TCO 2) According to Porter’s model, which of the following are forces driving industry competition?
Consider first the question of work/life balance at Premier Publishing. Based on the information you have reviewed, what are the primary work/life balance issues? To what degree, and in what ways, do these concerns constitute business issues? Do you think that Premier should address these concerns, and if so, how? What specific strategies would you recommend, and how would you promote them at Premier?
Why? DQ 3: What are two platforms that business leaders can use to demonstrate and articulate their purpose, principles, and values? Discuss them. DQ 4: Do you think consumers hold companies responsible for their actions? Why is it important to have a corporate code of conduct?
Strategic Plan, Part I: Conceptualizing a Business University of Phoenix Integrated Business Topics BUS/475 February 4, 2013 Strategic Plan, Part I: Conceptualizing a Business In conceptualizing a business the owner or owners need to select the company’s mission statement, it’s values and the vision to determine what strategic direction the organization wants to follow to be successful in that industry. The type of business that will be describe is service style industry, which will show the type of clients pursued, and what type of mission statement and vision that will aid it’s owners in their decision process. Then define the guiding principles in understanding the culture, social responsibilities, and ethics within an industry.
With it being the time for the strategic planning for this facility, we will explain our plans for the yearly assessment. Also, we will describe what leadership positions there will be in the planning and what there responsibilities will be. Along with strengths and weaknesses there are also market trends that we are going to have to follow. In the strategic planning we will be using the SWOT analysis. “SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture.
ACTION PLAN | ASSESSMENT CRITERION | BODY/CONTENTS – COURSE OF ACTIONS | Analyze and discuss the primary and secondary stakeholders of Starbucks | * Introduction of the Starbuck Coffeehouse Brief history – Group founder, presence in different countries , company profile – Including mission and vision(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks) * Analyze and extract relative primary and secondary stake holders of Starbucks (From case study and also from following sources:http://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/sourcing/store-productsWho are the primary stakeholders and secondary stakeholders for Starbucks?What are their influences on Starbuck? E.g. : Suppliers – secondary stakeholder: - How can suppliers being a secondary stakeholder help in creating and reinforcing a positive image about Starbucks? E.g. : Competitors : Competitors (Alterra Coffee, Caribou Coffee, etc.)
Case 1 Mystic Monk Coffee: 1. Has Father Daniel Mary established a future direction for the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming? What is his vision for the monastery? What is his vision for Mystic Monk Coffee? What is the mission of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming?