For instance, it can make use of technological advances to better its products and win more customers. It can also use marketing strategies to increase awareness to the customer. The company makes use of high skilled human personnel in its operations (Coyne, 1996). This way, it is able to produce good quality products and better services. The main weakness lies on the external factors such as government regulations and culture of the people.
This type of process can vary from one organization to another organization. The process requires having a high degree of support from the senior executive team and must be viewed as an organizational priority. The process also requires sufficient staff, time, and resources to be devoted to the process. The system implementation process has a few steps that are required to take in order to get the process running. The steps to this process are organizing the implementation team, identifying a system champion, determining project scopes and expectations, establishing and instituting project
Costco Wholesale Corporation Part II Costco Wholesale Corporation is an extremely competitive industry. The following writing will discuss the financial health, technological advantages, globalization, and conducting benchmarking analysis in comparison to Wal-Mart and Target Corporation. To manage financial statements efficiently is by means of income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. The technology has advance and made developments through the year, technological advantage in Costco Company is helping the progress for success. Globalization is the key to survival that allow to a company to be competitive and offer diverse services and convenience to consumers.
to become a niche player. Increased number of CSAs could erode the competitive advantage of Smart Mart, hence by being a niche player SmartMart can build on its existing transactional level stakeholder management capability and thus should continue competing based on their intangible assets – their strong relationship with suppliers, employees and customers. (Carrol, Archie B& Bucholtz, p109) Maintaing status quo right now might not be ethical as company's values and missions is to constantly grow and create more value for its stakeholders. Hence my decision of going niche is more of a stakeholder synthesis approach then a multi fiduciary approach. (Carrol, Archie B& Bucholtz, p91).
To achieve these strategic targets, P & G plans to achieve by improving and touching the lives of more consumers, in more parts of the globe. The company will also influence its core strengths in leadership to generate competitive advantages that are vital to winning in the consumer products industry. The driving forces of: brand-building, innovation, customer knowledge, and go-to-market capabilities will permit P & G to accomplish their targets. The company is motivating productivity in all aspects of the business through an arrangement of digitization, integration, and simplification. The company is also strengthening the quality, extent, and depth of leadership on all levels of the organization to make a more real-time, demand-driven and future-focused business (Procter & Gamble, 2011).
The ability to tap into the global labor market will make the company more competitive by being able to offer competitive prices on products due to lower overhead cost associated with the offset in the labor cost. Attracting employees to join the company is the better option unless there is a management position that requires exceptional talent to fill the position. Relocation of prospective employees can be costly to the company and there is no guarantee that they will be long term employees of the company. With the company's plans for expansion I would recommend overstaffing. This will allow the company to stock pile talent for future
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”
The Organizing Process May 26, 2014 The Organizing Process A company’s organization is an ever-changing, dynamic process in a living entity that is on a mission to excel to its highest capacity. For an organization to reach such heights it must grow and become more efficient, effective, powerful and innovative in order to succeed in today’s globally competitive markets. Our world today has advanced into a global market; which makes it imperative that businesses of all sizes expand globally in order to stay competitive and thrive well into their future. This paper will discuss the benefits of organizing an organizations structure and the primary functions associated with it. Furthermore, it will examine the five-step process of organizing and consider the concept of authority in organizational management and the impact authority has on fostering change in an organization.
As we know increase in retention rate in the customer segment has a significant positive effect on the CLV. Narrowing the target market will allow HubSpot to develop the expertise and opportunity to expand cater to various needs of the target market. Also, continuing with the current approach of wider net will add on to difficulties of Customer service department which may lead to substandard service and higher Churn rates. Owner Ollies or Market Marys Selection among Owner Ollies and Market Marys has its pros and cons discussed in Appendix E. For Owner Ollies, first, the high no. of businesses and ease of selling, provides a great expansion opportunity for HobSpot.
The company’s ability to innovate for instance enables it to have a differentiated product and charge a small premium prices for its products. The other driver that is responsible for P&G’s success is balance. P&G seeks to achieve balance in its mix of markets, brands, products and businesses. What P&G refers to as balance is essentially diversification. By diversifying, P&G is assured of reliability of cash flows and is better placed to withstand challenging economic times (Cooper & Mills, 2005).