Business Analysis: Dish Network

* Another important aspect to be noted is that, although the company has a very low operating profit the

How may I serve you? This is the greeting everyone gets when they dine at a Chick-fil-A restaurant. The company's relentless pursuit to build relationships with its customers goes beyond chicken sales. As a leader or manager, scanning your organizations external environment for opportunities and threats will assist in keeping employees motivated and the customers loyal during turbulent times. This paper will evaluate the external environment of Chick-fil-A, determining the extent to which opportunities exceed threats, or threats exceed opportunities.

Comcast is planning expanding globally. With the main competition with the Dish Television Network. Comcast’s have devised

There have been many issues with the state laws regulating Marijuana in the US. I knew this would be a good topic to choose for this unit, and in this by article by John Hudak the case of Coats VS Dish Network is discussed; the case is a perfect example of how federalism can go wrong. The problem here was the misinterpretation caused by allowing states to regulate a classified “controlled substance,” while the subject matter has a different interpretation at the Federal level. Coats was terminated for using medical Marijuana outside of his work place to treat his medical condition. He argued his case by pointing out that the State of Colorado legally allowed him to be purchase medical marijuana legally for medicating.

* In 2005, the profit was approximately ($144,000 / $5,500,000) 2.6% of sales; does this number indicate whether the company is doing well or not?

Verizon is a major telecommunication provider in the United States. The company is the market leader, with $110 billion revenue and $2.4 billion in profit (MSN Moneycentral, 2012). Verizon has steady revenue streams that are largely based on a subscription model. It has several business segments, including wireless (63.3% of revenues) and wireline (36.7%) (2011 Verizon Annual Report). Most of this report will therefore focus on the wireless business, not only because this is the largest business that the company operates but because it is a rapidly growing and evolving business as well, a function of the rapid pace of smartphone adoption in America.

The company’s ability to generate profitability might not be constant and subject to a lot of factors.

1. Mission, vision, and primary stakeholders Verizon's corporate mission statement is published in the introduction to the 2010 report, "to enable people and businesses to communicate with each other. We are also committed to providing full and open communication with our customers, employees and investors" (Verizon, 2011a, p. i.). This conveniently outlines the primary stakeholders, with customers owning the service delivered through contracts they commit to, employees obviously having a stake in compensation, benefits and retirement, and investors including institutions as well as individuals. Other stakeholders include the general public who benefit from corporate giving and responsibility, and the suppliers and distributors, their shareholders and employees who earn profit and wages generated directly and indirectly as part of the Verizon value chain, and perhaps the taxpayers who enjoy public services from direct and indirect (capital gains) taxes thereby.

Accounting information is used by management in various ways to make the business decisions. Accounting information is used to compute financial ratios and comparing the financial data of one period with other. Various Ratios are used by the managers and accountants for controlling the functioning of the organization. These ratios are also known as accounting or financial ratios, these ratios play very important role in the organization. Following are the ratios of Verizon wireless for last three years:-

Comcast is a large cable and satellite television provider in the United States. The company has been plagued with internal weaknesses and external threats in recent years and is in desperate need of turning around its customer service department as quickly as possible. Aside from customer service, the way the television industry is marketed to is changing, Comcast has to stay on the cutting edge in price, product quality, flexibility of plans, and customer service. Comcast has many different areas of their business that need to be analyzed to see where they can invest time and monetary resources to improve the quality of their product and service to their customers.

The company I chose to discuss is also the company I work for, High Five Kids English Daycare and School. It is an English as a second language pre-school that operates in Osaka, Japan. Students range from fifteen months old to six years old in the daycare and up to twelve years old in the hourly English lessons. The company has been in operation for six years and is doing well, in the last year they moved to a larger location in order to expand and accommodate more students. The new location is adjacent to a busy shopping facility, offering more exposure. The company recently became a corporation in order to raise funds for the expansion.

The first key strategy that Dish Corporation has adopted in its quest to gain competitive advantage over its competitors is putting more emphasis on customer focus. Customer focus in the latter perspective represents boosting services such as customer care. In the recent years, the firm has been faced by dwindling financial situations that have almost threatened to knock it out of business. As a result, the firm has adopted the idea of adopting up to

▪ Founded 1984 ▪ 2009 Revenue: $11.1 billion ▪ 2009 Net Income: $1.89 billion ▪ Employees: 12,000

It’s noticeable how the company’s operations have been deteriorating as they are having a more difficult time translating sales into cash. Their A/R turnover is not where it needs to be, and in line with that, their liabilities are increasing as well. The company has also been inefficient with the use of their assets as their current activity ratios are not up to par with the industry standards.

What do the data on employee injuries, incidents, absences, and turnover suggest to you? Is there reason for concern about the company’s direction?