Assignment Instructions Unit: 7 Instructions: This week's assignment consists of reading a scenario about Sandwich Blitz, Inc. and writing about how self-managed teams could be used at Sandwich Blitz to allow Dalman more time to devote to growing the business. Lately, Dalman has mostly been visiting the operating locations and addressing manager operations concerns. Lei has concentrated on financial matters. Both 3Dalman and Lei are pleased with Sandwich Blitz’s past performance but feel that they are each unable to devote their time and energy to take the business to the next level. All of their time seems to be spent addressing small problems within the existing operation.
Kudler Fine Food’s Human Resource Information System BSA/502 October 14, 2013 Kudler Fine Food’s Human Resource Information Systems Kudler Fine Foods (Kudler) opened in 1998 by Kathy Kudler and performed beyond expectations. With a solid business plan that provided a productive and profitable first year Kathy opened two more stores by 2003. The upscale epicurean food stores opened in La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas with a talented administration but without a central file area to connect their employee or store information (Apollo, 2013). The lack of a central file area creates a disengaged information system from store to headquarters as the business continues to expand. The original strategy consisted of Kathy Kudler as the main management person, hires and fires, finalizes the inventory, places weekly orders, and maintains the accounting.
General Industry Analysis..........................................5 5. Current Situation or Dilemma of Target....................6 6. Management Solutions...............................................6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this skeleton, we outline the structure of our final project and briefly summarize the content in each section. The company we are doing our project on is Citigroup. Using the knowledge we have gathered from this course thus far, we will identify the current strategic problems that Citigroup is facing and will recommend solutions to address these problems.
The savings in licensing costs alone justify this conversion. The recommendation of moving Mega-Corp to an Optimized Core structure would facilitate and focus the company’s information resources from one central source, the financial analysis and reporting areas would also benefit. Both of these core processes would fall under the umbrella of technological management or a
Thus, a management function is derived that tries to address the alignment of IT and business by systematically designing and develop an organization according to its strategic objects and vision. In line with Frederik Ahlemann (2012), this management function, known as enterprise architecture management, is defined as follows: EA management is a management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise’s architecture to achieve its vision and
Hausser Food Products Company Brenda Cooper, the Southeastern Regional Sales Manager for the Hausser Food Products Company (HFP) expressed her concern: I think during the past year I’ve begun to make some progress here, but the situation is a lot more difficult than I thought when I first arrived. Our current methods of selling products just are not adequate, and the people in the field don’t seem interested in coming up with new ideas or approaches to selling. Background Hausser Food Products Company was a leading producer and marketer of infant foods in the United States. The company manufactured and marketed a whole line of foods for the infant market including strained meats, vegetables, fruits and combination dishes. The product line included foods that were completely strained, for infants, as well as foods that were partially strained or chopped, for children six months and older.
The first area concerns the chains inability to adapt to change. The layout of the stores has remained unchanged for the past 15 years, despite the change that competing stores have made to their layouts. A grocery management system that is implemented, used, and adhered to is recommended. The second area concerns the roles of the district store supervisors and their store managers. Store managers have been deprived of the opportunity to advance due to the lack of training and the general development of managerial skills by their supervisors.
And they have been quite successful, growing from revenues of $1.3 billion in 1994 to $12.2 billion in 1999, and their stock is up more than 2,300% in the same time period. In order to fuel the explosive growth, Cisco executes a business strategy of acquiring companies to complement their core strengths. As of October 1999, Cisco had acquired 43 companies (the latest was just hours before this case was written) in fields related to their goal: Be the biggest supplier of equipment needed to build, run, and manage the Internet. The acquisitions provided Cisco with immediate infrastructure, technology, and smart people. John Chambers, the CEO and President of Cisco since 1991, described his strategy to Business Week magazine as, [Mergers and acquisitions] are a requirement, given how rapidly customer expectations change.
But, while the pizzas are now made using a conveyer oven from dough that is made in a central kitchen, frozen and then delivered to each restaurant, the sauce had not changed at all. And that was the key to their growth. While old customers knew that the pizzas were not as good, new customers only knew that they were better pizzas than Checker's competitors made. Even still, the pizza business had fallen on hard times by the late 80's. Competition for customers in the fast food business had soared and the weak economy at that time had slowed business for everybody.
In 2005, online learning enrollments grew by eighteen percent. This percentage exceeded overall higher education enrollment by ten times. According to some educators online learning is one of the most important and significant new instructional approaches available for improving teaching and learning in schools today. (Blomeyer, 2002) Since this boom in online learning much research has been has been done to see if this new way of learning can have the same outcome for students as it does in campus courses. With the research I have gathered it is my belief that online courses provide the same quality of education as campus courses do.