Blinds to Go: Staffing a Retail Expansion
In 1954, from Montreal, Canada, Blinds to Go (BTG) business began as a retail fabricator of window dressings. Mr.Shiller was the sole operator of the company and until his son joined in 1970s, He persuaded his father to focus on selling blinds. The new business plan generated positive customer responses and by year 2000, the business has expanded widely across North America. The business continues to grow.
Even though they were growing fast, they faced few problems which include staffing and decrease in sales. Staffing has become a major issue in the company, since there were locations that have buildings but no employees. This problem in hiring the right employees that meets criteria of the
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Another weakness was the ability of management. Even the idea of switching from a commission base to a salary should never even have left the closed door meeting. This is their key strength which helped them to generate so many sales. Due to this, it seems like their decision making capabilities seem to be lacking as well as their problem solving abilities.
It seems that their biggest weakness is the management. Not the owner because the owner was the one who understood their greatest strength. 2. How can BTG improve on the weaknesses you identified in question 1, and what can it do to maintain the strengths? In which ways is BTG not prepared to meet its plans to increase staff? Explain.
BTG needs to look at the upper management to improve the company as a whole and its ability to achieve their goals. However, if upper management is unable to lead effectively and implement effective plans to business then no matter how well the sales personnel are trained and motivated, the company will not be able to move to where it needs to go.
To maintain its strength, it needs to mainly keep its commission based compensation system. Another way to improve on this could be creating new incentive/reward system. Organize company –wide contests based on success rates and etc. 3. What is your view of the career path at the store level (sales associate to selling supervisor to Assistant manager to store manager)? Discuss the advantages and
If the weaknesses are not addressed they will be threats because the competitors will be able to get in on the profits because of how unorganized CanGo is when it comes to handling business. I think there is room for CanGo to expand if they make the necessary changes to the company in order to stay on the track they are currently on.
In the area of weaknesses, the biggest challenge was employee turnover. Even with the recession and the current job market good talent could and can be found, but it is hard to retain with the current compensation and benefit plans offered
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The table below helps to understand the implications that the business growth strategy has on the staffing process at the company. The positions highlighted on the table are the positions that CHERN has to focus on because they are the core drivers of the company’s performance and they make
Inferior Company Leadership - President Barry Louden failed to manage the business at a high level, recognize the warning signs, and proactively deploy a strategy for improvement. He fired his accountant and allowed the company to flounder, displaying no sense of urgency, taking on increasing amounts of debt, and failing to reach out to Ashmark for help until it was too late.
That relates directly to winning a larger market share. The short-term goal for the company should be to cut coasts and improve the human resource department functions. Which can be done through the above stated suggestions of the improvement of the business.
The Wow Surround Company in the last three years has had the fortunate and opportunity to expand double the size of the organization. The last development was the two nearby cities branches that were open in the beginning of the year. The conversions of the growth has left many opportunities that can make the business be profitable. The first step that the organization needs to accomplish is analyzing all the market data. After, one was able to identify that the sales in the two new location have been lower than projected, the company will have to distinguish a potential crises for all their employees.
There is an important issue which needs consideration which is known as Human Resource . No matter whatever the financial strength the company has , or how fast it is
Blinds To Go (BTG) is a family owned and private held company from Montreal, CN. BTG is a made-to-order window coverings business has approximately 120 retail locations in Ontario, Quebec, and eight northeastern United States, and two manufacturing plant; one in New Jersey and one in Montreal. The company has annual revenues of over $100 million dollars and looks to expand itself even further into the AWC market, which is a $2 billion dollar market and growing. David Shiller started a business from the back of his car in 1954, and became very successful, whereas he was able to open a storefront in 1955 where he branched out and began selling more products in home décor, such as carpets, floor coverings, and draperies under the name of Au
Their assets aren’t growing and they have too much debt, but at the same time I recognize the current CEO was promoted to that job and inherited these problems. In the context of trying to work with what he has been given, it seems like they have been aggressive about trying to make the best of it."
effective staff. Therefore, the continuing rise of college tuition than salary can lead to hiring
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