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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Internal environment • 1.1 Marketing goals + objectives • 1.2 Marketing strategy + performance • 1.3 Current organizational resources 2. Customer environment • 2.1 Firms current and potential customers • 2.2 Why do customers purchase these products • 2.3 Why do customers not purchase these products 3. External environment • 3.1 Competition • 3.2 Economic growth + stability • 3.3 Political trends • 3.4 Legal + regulations • 3.5 Technology • 3.6 Socio-cultural trends 4. SWOT analysis

objectives with stated benefits of the IT project. As stated in Applegate, “IT governance is the effort to devise an overarching and integrated approach, addressing broad themes such as operating performance, strategic control, risk management, and values alignment.” (Applegate, 403) In

MGT 303 Final Exam Peanutty Food and Co. 1. What actions can Peanutty’s managers take to ensure the supply of raw materials for its operations, while reducing the risk of stockouts or high production costs? They can operate on a just in time method, when they get a constant understanding of demand. This way they can cut production costs, by only making what they need. They can also predict when they need more inventory to make sure that they never run out of stock for their customers

by identifying the non-value added processes and working on them to eradicate them which in turn increases the amount of non-value added tasks. VALUE STREAMS: Value stream is a map of processes in the order of which they run. Creating a value stream is of key importance in understanding the value added and non-value added processes. Value streams help us identify the whole production process as a whole while giving us insight on all the sub processes that go through. Value stream processes may also

1. How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? Even though Welch’s overall performance during his GE years was outstanding, his start was a little rocky. When Welch became CEO, in 1981, he came in with a strong message “be better than the best.” He faced the challenge that his predecessor was a very credible CEO, so any new strategy presented to the company, by the new and young CEO, was going to be received with certain skepticism. For a while

effectively did he take charge? Welch encountered a very difficult situation in 1981; the economy was in a recession, almost one of the worst recessions any organization has witnessed since the Great Depression of 1929.  The strong dollar was losing value and the unemployment rate was at an all time high.  Interest rates were consistently on the incline during the time Welch took over as CEO of GE.  Jack Welch was both a transformational and transactional leader who displayed an aggressive competitive

States GDP Trends, Forecasts, and Statistics Paul Lindner American Intercontinental University Abstract One of the primary indicators used to judge the health of a country’s economy is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is the total value of goods and services produced during a period of time. GDP was first developed by Simon Kuznets for a US Congress report in 1934. There are three ways of calculating GDP, the production approach, the income approach, and the expenditure approach

The newest additions to leadership and the traits organizations now seek out to includes Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Decision-Making (DM). Acknowledging the transformation of emotions from a negative unwanted factor to a positive, successful factor in organizational terms is essential in today 's’ job market. Moreover, today’s organizational view, EI is indispensable to the effectiveness of leadership (Fambrough, & Hart, 2008). The fact that employees with high EI build solid organizational

Second, Pep Boys must take advantage of the latest technological innovations that will enhance customer service, productivity and competitive sales to augment their profitability. Constantly changing technologies, and the need to evolve is a must. As noted by (Stacey, 2011), companies must not just keep up. They must be leaders in innovations, so that they do not become the followers, but leaders as well, setting an example for all others to emulate. One aspect of the increasing of sales has been

activities. I also plan to talk about how my new understandings of these cultures can impact my future as far as thinking and behavior. And I will provide explanations as to how my new understandings can be applied outside of class, and how they can add value to my personal, professional, and academic life. My initial perspective of culture was basically that culture is what makes up a person’s entire way of life, and like I stated in my first paper on culture, it is difficult to identify all the specific