Strategic Plan: Part II Anonymous BUS/475 February 23, 2000 n.a. Strategic Plan: Phase II Several trends and forces, both external and internal factors can lead businesses on different pathways. Trends and forces are necessities that must be analyzed by organization and fostered as a tool to increase revenue. Organizations that respond and react to changes and modify their strategic plan when necessary will remain superior in the industry and competition. In order for a business to thrive in today’s shifting business environment, the administration of that particular organization must have the capability to respond to changes in the trends and forces in the business setting.
Growth maximisation is where the firm’s main goal is to increase the size of the firm as much as possible. Some firms may have the objective to maximise revenue, this basically is when a firms aim is to achieve as high total revenue as possible and occurs when marginal revenue to equal to zero. Another objective of s firm may be a profit satisfaction, this is where a firm produces a profit which is deemed to be a reasonable level, which is satisfying to stake holders and is not maximising profit. The best example in a leisure market is a firm that has been recently set up and wants to survive so the first couple of years their target will be to make a profit and survive. If they try to maximise profit it would an unrealistic competition as
It does so, by showing that the higher the employee's self-esteem the more profit is made for the company which can also show that employees are more productive. 3. Are there other possible explanations for the data in Figure 1 that would not necessarily support the idea that employees’ self-esteem affects companies’ profits? If so, explain what they are. Provide three alternative explanations.
sMIS 458 – Strategic Management Week 7 – Business-Level Strategies Management Information Systems Department 2 Roots of Competitive Advantage: Business-Level Strategies 3 A Successful Business Strategy is.. • To create a successful business model, strategic managers must ▫ Formulate business-level strategies that will allow a company to attract customers away from its competitors Optimization of competitive positioning ▫ Implement those business-level strategies, which also involves the use of functional-level strategies to increase responsiveness to customers, efficiency, innovation, and quality. 4 Business-Level Strategy & Competitive Positioning • Business-level strategy is the plan of action that strategic
The primary users are the 3 current owners including yourself who take an active role in managing the company. You would like the financial statements to be presented in such a manner as to indicate strong financial success and growth. You have plans to expand and possibly go public and having strong financial statements will enable you to attract the right investors and resources needed to make this happen. The more money the company makes the more you will benefit financially as the owners. It is important to remember that financial statements must be presented fairly and in accordance with accounting principles as it is evident here that there is a bias towards presenting statements in a financially strong way.
Scholars such as Friedman suggest that treating the economic responsibility as the most important responsibility of a business, is called a profit-maximising view, and “the social responsibility of a business is to increase its profits.” This kind of view states that a company should be operated on a profit-orientated basis, with its sole mission being to increase profits. This approach would seem to benefit stockholders, as well as stakeholders, as the stockholder is going to benefit from the profit made by the company and will gain something back from the company, however problems can occur when the businesses and companies do not balance their ethical responsibility, as they can therefore be perceived as greed and unable to balance their corporate social responsibility, and will cause a bad name for a business. So although the stockholder may also be gaining profit by doing this (what the company sees as doing the right thing) is not necessarily the right thing to do in terms of stakeholders. However, Friedman would argue that as long as the business is maximising its profit, that is the main point and so the loss of the stakeholders is less important. This argument can be deemed as weak as Friedman’s approach does not mean that stakeholders can be benefited alongside stockholders, and so disagrees with
MKT 571 Week 4 Quiz Latest UOP Assignment 1. Which marketing system is another channel development in which two or more companies put together resources to exploit an emerging market opportunity? • Strategic marketing system • Vertical marketing system • Horizontal marketing system • Conventional marketing system 2. What is the practice that allows companies to maximize their market share by believing a higher sales volume will lead to lower unit costs and higher long-run profit while assuming the market price is sensitive? • Market-penetration pricing • Sensitive pricing • Target pricing • Market skimming To download the complete answer check MKT 571 Entire Course 3.
These scenarios made it possible for the company to enjoy high profit margins. The situation here and the purpose of the paper is to explore alternative ways that the Guillermo Company can use some financial concepts to improve the chances of the company surviving is predicament. For the Guillermo Company to be able to weather these new forces of competition and resist extinction, the company must improve their profitability, match competitors on wages scales and, also eliminate any wasteful operation process. Solutions
So to be able to have a productive and successful business, business owners may want to look into maximizing their profits by way of the profit maximization concept. Profit maximization is when a company comes to a conclusion on the price and output level that will turn the maximum profit by using this particular process (Wikipedia). Granted there are many different approaches to this problem; however in this essay we will be considering the TR to TC method and the MR MC method. Tiffany C Wright expressed that the total revenue to total cost method is dependent on the fact that profit equals revenue minus cost. Total revenue equals price time’s quantity.
The marketing research is a great way to find ideas to make a company grow bigger and better. It also helps knowing what the competition will do, and how a company can make an even better idea to increase the number of the consumers. Competitive marketing intelligence is also important to a company when doing marketing research on the competition. As stated earlier, Competitive intelligence is the systematic collection and analysis of publicity available information about consumers, competitors, and developments in the marketplace. Both research and intelligence will help companies stay competitive; decide what is best for the company and the consumer.