b) Explain why you should respond positively to changes in products or services. It is important to respond positively to changes in products or services because it is likely it will increase your business turnover. A company will want to review its services and products so that it keeps up to date with the expectations of its customers. This will ensure the company can stay competitive and meet its targets and objectives. c) Identify ways of responding positively to
Internal and external customers provide business with information about how their products are used, new opportunities for their business, trouble-shoot issues with their product, and organise workloads. Operational plans include customer service processes and product development. These plans include: * Understanding customer needs (internal/external – current/future) * Expectations of Customers * Research results -target markets , sampling and profiling, market segmentation, needs * Collection and analysis of information collected Customer needs can continually change being influenced by the economy, social and political events, trends and movements. Organisations use change management practises to pre-empt changes wherever possible, and also to be ready for change. To do this, organisations need to be aware of the following: * Identify what customers are buying and what benefits they purchase * Understand why customers will or do purchase * Know when customers are likely to buy By knowing the customer, organisations can plan to meet their needs.
When deciding to outsource, there are risks such as quality issues, security issues and personnel issues. There are also various benefits to outsourcing such as the ability for the staff to focus on core related business functions. The vendors normally have access to better technology that would otherwise only be available with a large investment by the organization. Costs associated with an outsourcing agreement are primary, secondary and incremental. The implications of outsourcing for the business can be to strengthen the business structure or can lead to a weakness.
By fully managing the organization and their effectiveness and efficiency Kundlers can obtain the overall business intelligences goal of the mission. The marketing strategy should look at and use a competitive intelligence to accomplish these goals. The strategies of understating and knowing productive organization can give the upper hand with knowing the competitors market. Also by viewing the competitor’s sites, stores, and marketing strategies Kundlers can achieve the mission they set for their own business to excel past the competition. Analysis within a business should serve as a vital function.
6 Social Responsibility within Company Q Social Responsibility within Company Q Daniel R. Beckerman Western Governors University WGU Student #000322976 For any given business, the greatest potential for revenue growth can be found through a mix of focusing on providing for the shareholders, as well as thinking of the stakeholders as a whole. This means focusing past short term profits and creating a plan that demonstrates a measure of social responsibility. Business reputation goes a long way towards creating how large a company’s customer base is going to be, and giving the appearance of not caring about the community can lead to a loss of customers and a loss of additional revenue in the long run.
In a highly competitive business world, on a firm’s priority list is the subject of increasing profit and reducing cost. One might than pose the question, has this put them out of business (mom and pop store)? The answer is absolutely not, but rather, they too benefit from cheaper prices as they continue to buy in bulk and continue to operate as the name suggest, convenient
Running head: FINAL STRATEGIC PLAN Final Strategic Plan University of Phoenix Samantha Huggins Final Strategic Plan In the business environment, there are different ways to become successful. In order to be successful, a potential business owner must achieve the goals of having steady strategic planning and strategic management, to exist in its market to establish high profits. These goals are the foundation that makes up a good business in the business environment, and are known to be important. In addition, strategic planning is accommodating by implementing the company’s mission statements, visions statements, value statements, SWOTT analysis, balanced scorecard, and a communication plan, that are all beneficial to determine the future of the business about to prosper. As a result,
A successful business creates a SWOTT analysis to improve business decision making and identify high-level performance areas as well as any other area needing improvement. A SWOTT analysis looks at the positive and negative in the business and helps to overcome any problem areas. Strengths and weaknesses are internal forces within the business that can be controlled and changed in most circumstances. Strategy is one internal force that can be changed when necessary. In this instance the business focuses on customers in a one-on-one setting or in small groups to allow them to feel special and treated with high priority.
It can also help us to win over new customers or even create customer loyalty from current customers. We currently have sufficient marketing strategies to increase loyalty and profitability of consumers. However, the organization can create more strategies to have long lasting success. According to "How to Develop Marketing Strategy" (2013), “A carefully planned marketing strategy provides continuous benefits to a company”
In this type of decision making process, the various types of constraints that affect the decision are financial, legal, market, human, and organizational. Each of these constraints potentially can affect another, which in turn affects the organization. Another technique used to assist in the simulation was Pareto Analysis. In this technique the team was able to prioritize the possible changes by identifying the problems that would be resolved once the changes were implemented. Proposing a new variable pay scale, will affect how the employees are performing, sales, profitability, attrition, as well as the overall well-being of the store.