Best Stuff Case

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Gianni Guitteaud Best Stuff Case December 10th, 2008 1. Based on a careful reading of the case description above, list and explain Best Stuff’s most important competitive competencies and other requirements and the information needed to support these requirements. Make sure you have read the case instructions carefully! Competitive competencies and other requirements Information Best Stuff needs to meet the requirements Place *Where people who share the same passion can meet? Not where everybody is, but where people have a need for technologies (Colleges, Financial Centers, Malls). *How to ease communication between stores? Improve communication between different locations by using networks. (LAN& WAN) *Create a genius bar like in Apple where computer geeks can exchange knowledge and rumors about new technologies to know about what is new, what they like or not, how a program needs to be improved, and so on. People *Hire enthusiastic sales people. Focus on their backgrounds, experiences, hobbies, interests, and ability to talk to customers to then grasp their needs. *Develop excellent after sales service. Deliver good advice. It involves training for product knowledge, and developing brand awareness. *Meet customer needs and satisfy them. Need customer feedback, trends, sales patterns and demographics. Customers’ data and buying power. Price *Improve competitiveness in pricing with a totally different strategy or approach than competitors. Need competitors’ selling prices, strategies by benchmarking. *Low prices as a long‐term approach to business to attract more customers. They can implement this strategy by lowering transportation and storage costs. Need supply chain, inventory, order processing, replenishment, and manufacturing process data. Product *Provide high quality products. *Information about past and
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