Advertising is a large part of Target’s marketing management. The retail stores sell a large variety of high quality items at lower prices than the competitors, therefore, selling more products. Target’s marketing team is constantly re-evaluating the products sold to assure that their customers stay satisfied with the items that are in stock. To guarantee that customers stay completely satisfied, Target will special order items if requested by a customer. To continue to be the largest retail store, Target has to make sure that their prices are the lowest and that the products they sell meet all of the wants and needs of each customer.
Acquire or Develop Talent Tanglewood should acquire talent, because it wants to keep performance and customer service at high levels. In addition, while old stores under Tanglewood have the same basic look, the management styles and human resource can use some improvements. Acquire talent is very helpful for new stores, because employees would “hit the ground running” and be at the peak performance the moment they arrive. Hire Yourself or Outsource Personally, I think Tanglewood should hire itself. Outsourcing is more practical for small and medium companies.
Keep the whistle included but add a separate replacement Any solution that we choose should consider the highest customer satisfaction and thus provide our customers with the care, consideration, and ultimately value that they have come to rely on our company to provide. It should consider our business and shareholders and minimize the total cost to the company. I will talk about each option separately before my final recommendation. To remake the toy that has failed standards and repackage the whole collection, would provide our customer with what they ordered and keep intact the current relationship. On the down side, it is a significant enterprise and would cost a great amount of labor and time.
Chapter 13 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Bagby Copy Company MBA 540 Michelle Wilson August 9, 2015 There are many advantages and disadvantages to specific vs. broad task assignment. Assigning specific tasks to workers allows the company to hire specifically based on the ability of the worker to do a very specific job. In this way efficiency can be increased as a worker should be performing the job that he is comparatively best suited to perform and nothing else. Competition amongst workers can also be increased as there is a specific metric to judge by. The cost of training a worker is also reduced as the worker does not have to be trained in every aspect of the company only what he is going to be doing.
The important business competitive strategies are lower cost strategy and differentiation strategy. The lower cost strategy helps an organization compete efficiently in the industry by designing, producing and marketing a similar product from its rivals but at a lower cost. Differentiation strategy helps an organization develop and market a different product from its rivals. Our team understands these two competitive strategies because we can relate with always being different to stand out or try to purchase the same products and services at a lower cost instead at a higher cost (Wheelen & Hunger, 2014). To create value and sustained competitive advantage through business strategy, organization must be able to design, produce, and
This would also save money on hiring and training employees to order products for the stores. It will also save time spent on the manual ordering process, and avoid costly mistakes. An automated inventory approach quickly reacts to stock issues to automating general orders, changes in customer demands, electronically submits the orders to the suppliers, and includes program controls to ensure the products are ordered from specified suppliers, and are paying the contracted
Spending money on training of these devices are also factors that must be considered this takes employees time and cost the company man hours and thus money that could be spent on other things. Lowes must continue to analyze the cost to decide whether these improvements are needed and continue to produce more of a profit with or without them. In the highly competitive market that Lowe’s is in strategic planning has helped them not only stay in business, but also maintain a competitive edge over the competition. Their initiative on energy conservation and concentrating on energy efficient products and materials has made good fiscal policy for the organization. This combination of cost savings and green policy provides Lowe’s with a low risk and positive image in today’s global
I would have some difficulty ordering the parts possibly which could delay the repair but it would eventually get fixed and possibly much cheaper than calling a repair man. Conclusion: Using the creative process enabled me to isolate the problem and develop two possible solutions. After discussing the solutions with my wife we agreed that calling a repair man was the best decision because time is more important than the possibility of saving a few dollars. By using the creative process I have opened my mind to numerous ideas and developed two viable solutions. If I did not used the creative process, I may have overlooked the obvious problem and just replaced the refridgerator which would cost me lots of money.
For the short term fix the organization would profit more by retaining the best candidates for the job. Thus there are some implementations that need to be in place. Make sure salaries are competitive, offer comp time, bonuses, dependent medical even if employees share the cost like co pay and incentive pay. Provide up-to-date tools and technologies to help employees work more efficiently and conduct roundtable discussions or take surveys from the employees on what priorities are important. National or Global: Recommendations for Tanglewood is national with the evidence of some regional managers operations.
Selling products online will make it easier for Innocent to reach to wide range of customers. Another challenge that Innocent could face is being able to keep its current employees because during recession Innocent might struggle to pay wages so they might think of paying minimum wages. This may makes employees to leave the jobs and look for better jobs with higher wages. So it is essential for Innocent to provide as fair wages as they can to keep their existing employees. During recession Innocent would mostly want to survive.