...Management 303 SWOT Analysis MANDATORY OUTLINE I. Organization History, including a Mission Statement if possible (10 points) According to the website About McDonald's, McDonald's is been in business since 1940. Dick and Mac McDonald open the first McDonald's as a BBQ restaurant in San Bernardino, California. "It was a typical drive-in with a large menu and car hop service." McDonald's mission statement states: "McDonald's brand mission is to be our customers' favorite place and way to eat. Our worldwide operations are aligned around a global strategy called the Plan to Win, which center on an exceptional customer experience – People, Products, Place, Price and Promotion. We are committed to continuously improving our operations and enhancing our customers' experience." (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company/mission_and_values.html) II. Organizational Strengths and Weaknesses (40 points) A. First Organizational Strength 1. According to the website Ezine Articles, McDonald's has a strong global presence and is considered as a market leader in both the domestic as well as the international markets. 2. "It is a global brand that owns 31,000 restaurants serving in 120 countries. Of these 31,000 restaurants at least14,000 restaurants are situated in the US." (http://ezinearticles.com/?McDonalds-Business-Analysis&id=687438) B. Second Organizational Strength 1. According to the website Wordpress, McDonald's uses economies of scale for reducing the...
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...McDonald’s Value Chain Analysis Jeovani Zamarripa, Alicia Wylie, y Jason Flores, Conor Mullarkey Mission Statement “McDonald's brand mission is to "be McDonald s be our customers' favorite place and way p to eat." Our worldwide operations have been aligned around a global strategy called the Plan to Win centering on the five basics of an t i th fi b i f exceptional customer experience – People, Products Place, People Products, Place Price and Promotion. We are committed to improving our operations and enhancing our customers' experience.” Company History McDonald s McDonald’s Bar-B-Que (1940) • World’s 1st McDonald’s • Founded by Dick and Mac McDonald • San Bernadino, CA • D i i & car hop service Drive-in h i McDonald’s (1948) •N Name F Formulates l • Menu develops • 15 Cent hamburger Company Info • Corporate Headquarters: p q – McDonald’s Corporation 2111 McDonald's Dr Oak Brook, IL 60523 • Employees: – Approximately 400,000 McDonald s employees globally McDonald’s – 1.6 million people globally are employed through McDonald’s restaurants and their franchises • Restaurants: – 32,000 world-wide, 118 countries 2009 Revenue & U.S. Stocks k (US only) • NYSE: MCD – Current Price: $64.74 – Change: $0.26 + g (As of 2/16/2010) • • • • 2009 Revenue (mil.)$22,744.701 Year Revenue Growth -3.3% 3 3% 2009 Net Income (mil.)$4,551.001 Year Net Income Growth 5.5% Y N tI G th 5 5% Leadership James Skinner Vice Chairman, CEO Left to Right: Jose...
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...Individual Assignment Analysis McDonald’s Franchise in Viet Nam Name: Le Quang Hieu ID student: BA60114 Class: BA0662 Lecturer: Nguyen Quoc Cuong Subject: Entrepreneurial Small Business Individual Assignment Table of contents I. McDonald’s background 1. History 2. Mission and Vision 3. Business objective II. SWOT analysis III. Advantage and disadvantage of MacDonald franchise IV. Investment decision V. Summary VI. References FPT University – BA0662 Page 1 Individual Assignment I. Background of MacDonald 1.1. History McDonalds’s is a business corporation system of fast food restaurants with approximately 31,000 restaurants in 119 countries to serve 43 million passengers a day under its own brand. The McDonalds’s restaurant concept was introduced in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald’s in May 15, 1940. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald’s brothers in the concept and went on to found McDonalds’s Corporation in April, 15, 1955. 1.2. Mission and Vision Mission McDonalds’s brand mission is to "be our customers' favorite place and way to eat." Our worldwide operations have been aligned around a global strategy called the Plan to Win centering on the five basics of an exceptional customer experience - People, Products, Place, Price. We are committed to improving our operations and enhancing our customers' experience. Vision...
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...include a plan of action; a roadmap to success. The company will face challenges and detours along the way, but it must resign itself to stubborn resolve. Commitment to addressing diversity in the organization must be a cogent conviction instead of a retrospective addendum. Opportunities and Challenges of Increasing Diversity Today more than 60% of McDonald’s home office and U.S. company workforce are of a racial or ethnic minority, or are women (McDonald’s, 2010). McDonald’s thrives on diversity within their organization, and based on their initiatives, the level of diversity will increase. Opportunities Diversity presents a variety of opportunities to improve adaptability, productivity, teamwork, and problem solving. Organizations employing a diverse workforce can supply a greater variety of solutions to problems in service, sourcing, and allocation of resources. For instance, different perspectives can assist in the development of new meal options for consumers. Employees from different cultures bring a variety of talents or experiences in suggesting new ideas in adapting to changing markets and customer demands to keep McDonald’s competitive in the food industry. A variety of skills lead to innovative approaches to problems. The development of a problem-solving process that meets the needs of those solving the problem is necessary. AchieveGlobal’s five-step results process can assist in reaching solutions. The first step is to quantify the gap by determining the division...
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...support http://talkfinanceonline.com/swot-analysis-of-mcdonalds/ SWOT analysis of Mcdonalds April 18th, 2012 | Author: admin Share Swot analysis on McDonalds. McDonalds is an international food outlet preferred by every age group around the world. It is a multinational food outlet, despite this it has to be analyzed to evaluate its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and the threats. Let’s analyze the outlet using swot analysis. Weakness * The weakness that hits the list is the employee turnover rate. Every year many of their employees are fired out of the restaurant * McDonalds mostly advertises products and food items that targets children. You will notice that bill boards always display the advertisements of Happy Meal and any other deal that is ordered for the kids mainly * Health conscious people seldom complain that they do not provide us with the organic and healthy food. This becomes their weakness when they get in the complaints * They also face quality issue at times. This affects the business as they are running the outlet worldwide, if one franchise gets affected others also get a bad name Strength * McDonalds holds a very strong brand name worldwide * They have large partnerships with other companies that provides them with their desired products, this increases the goodwill of the company * Socially responsible firms earn a good name in the market due to their projects they do to help people, McDonalds is one the most reputed...
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...SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BMIS300 – Management Information System Sec: D Beirut campus Analysis of Mc Donald's Information System Done By: Rawan Al- Masri To: Dr. Abdo Haidar Year: Spring 2015 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all I'm thankful to Almighty Allah who gave me strength for the completion of this project. Next, I'm heartedly thankful to my most respected and honored course instructor of Management Information System, Dr. Abdo Haidar who gave me an opportunity to do this project, and for his guidance, efficient teaching, and cooperation. . This study greatly acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of all those employees of McDonald’s, whose favors have helped me to precede my project, for that I'm very grateful. Table of Content 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Organizational Overview 3 3. Issue Analysis 12 4. Analysis of Information Systems 14 4.1 Customer relationship management 14 4.2 Knowledge Management 19 4.3 E-Procurement and McDonald’s 25 4.4 Supply Chain and Logistic Management Definition 29 5. Details Analysis of suggested Systems 35 6. Organizational Impact of Recent Systems 36 7. An overall analysis of organization 40 Conclusion: 42 Reference 44 Analysis of Mc Donald’s Information systems Executive Summary McDonalds is the world's largest chain of burger fast food and perhaps is one of the fastest and rapidly growing fast food chain restaurants in the world. It uses various...
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...(2014, October 24th). McDonald’s Is Making 4 Changes To Get You To Eat There Again. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-us-strategy-for-2015-2014-10 3. Ovidijuis Jurevicius (2013, February 16th). SWOT analysis of McDonalds. Retrieved from http://www.strategicmanagementinsight.com/swot-analyses/mcdonalds-swot-analysis.html 4. Harsh Narula. ( 2014, July 29th). McDonald’s Supply Chain. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/harshnarula/mcdonalds-supply-chain-37455744 5. Dan Moskowitz (2014, March 22rd). The Motley Fool: McDonald's new menu item hints at new strategy Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/03/21/mcdonalds-new-menu-item/6705499/ 6. Keith Nunes (2014, October 22nd). McDonald’s to focus on local, customization in 2015. Retrieved from http://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/news_home/Business_News 7. Adam Jones (2014, June 18th). Must-know: A company overview of McDonald’s. Retrieved from http://marketrealist.com/2014/07/must-know-company-overview-mcdonalds/ 8. Don’t just talk; register. (n.d). A McDonald’s Restaurants case study. Retrieved from http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/mcdonalds-restaurants/the-marketing-process/introduction.html#axzz3TmfHSNfl Don’t just talk; register. (n.d). Marketing Strategy of McDonalds. Retrieved from http://sales-management-slides.com/marketing-strategy-of-mcdonalds/ 9. Ana Pomposo Carreras. (2014, February 24th). What is the Secret to McDonald’s Global Branding Success...
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...Case Study and SWOT Analysis: Ronald McDonald’s Goes to China This study focuses on the multinational fast food giant McDonald’s Corporation, with particular attention paid to the corporation’s situation in China. Given the disparity in cultural foods between Western countries like the United States, and China, and that McDonald’s food very much reflects food preferences in the U.S., it is very interesting to see how McDonald’s works to capture China’s attention and takes hold in the Chinese market. This case study includes: a company profile of McDonald’s; a situational analysis; a SWOT analysis that performs an investigation on internal and external circumstances of the fast food chain in China and Hong Kong; an identification of some of the problems that the chain is facing in China; possible solutions to the identified problems. McDonald’s: Company Profile McDonald’s Corporation was established in 1955 in the state of Illinois. The corporation franchises, operates and develops a global network of restaurants, that each sells a limited menu of value foods. McDonald’s is the most popular ‘fast food’ service retailer in the world, with more than 30,000 restaurants in over 119 countries serving approximately 50 million people every day (McDonald’s, 2005). Popular menu options include the Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, Happy Meal, Egg McMuffin and Chicken McNuggets, as well as a large range of other menu options including fries, chicken sandwiches, salads and sundaes at reasonable prices...
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...NOTES TO MY POWER POINT ANALYSIS OF EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Factors that happen outside of the company which can lead to improper functioning of a company is termed as external environment. The first factor is economic factor. Economic factor is a type of factor which affects how a company markets its product, how much a company can spend on the success of the business and even the kind of target market a company will go after. Economic crisis has made McDonalds increase its prices because its supplies are becoming more expensive. Furthermore, the economic differences in different parts of the world have made a significant influence on price setting. The second factor is political factors which are that influences and limit businesses in a community. These include laws, agencies, groups etc. Research shows that McDonald is great political stability which has enabled the company make investments. One excellent thing about McDonald is that it is mostly based on Western countries where political and legal activities are stable. Socio-culture environmental factor: McDonalds is now operated in different countries. Therefore, as McDonalds operate it has to take into consideration the country their operating in food’s culture. For instance, Portuguese people are being offered a soup while people in Indonesia are enjoying something called McRice. Tecnological Context: McDonald have introduced new technologies in their cooking methods to minimize the fats and cholesterol in their...
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...4.1 Mode of entry 7 4.12 Autonomy in Operations 8 4.13 Conditions of Franchising. 8 4.14 Restaurant Ownership 8 4.2 Location 9 4.21 Mission as the Guiding Principle. 9 4.22 Market share 10 4.23 Pricing Strategy 10 4.3 Functional Strategies 11 4.31 Marketing Problems 11 4.32 HR Problems 11 4.33 Training 11 4.34 Adapting to Pakistani culture 12 4.35 Promotional strategies 12 4.4 Environmental Scanning 12 4.41PEST Analysis 12 5.0 Conclusion and Recommendations 14 6.0 References 16 Abstract In this age of internationalization, people are able to share any kinds of food from different parts of the world, thanks to the global business of food and beverage companies. As the leading driver of global growth in consumer food service, the fast food industry is reaching new consumers continually through improved menus, dining experience upgrades and rapid worldwide expansion. As representatives of this industry and experienced multinationals, the American fast food restaurant groups like McDonald’s. The report discusses how the strategy of globalization affects large multi nationals like McDonald’s. It later elaborates upon...
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...1. Introduction 3 Internal Analysis 2. Financial Analysis 4 3. Human Resource Management(HRM) Analysis 7 4. Marketing Analysis 8 5. Operational Analysis 10 6. Strength and Weakness of the Company 11 External Analysis 7. P.E.S.T.E.L. Analysis 12 8. Porter’s 5 forces 14 9. Critical Success Factors 16 10. Marketing Analysis 16 11. Opportunities 17 12. Threats 17 Current Strategies 13. Strategic Position 18 14. Proposed Strategies 18 15. Selection of winning Strategy: Feasibility 19 16. Description and Risk Assessment 20 References 21 Appendices 23 1. Introduction. Note: “All work within this report is taken from the case study unless referenced otherwise”. McDonald’s started as BBQ restaurant by (“mac and dick”) which also known as Maurice and Richard. The concept of the McDonald’s at that time was a typical drive in restaurant that offers variety of BBQ menu to choose from. The brothers realised that it is important for them to highlight the menu that get the intention the most. Mac and Dick eliminated McDonald’s carhops’ concept to make McDonald’s as a self- service operation. They also narrowed down the menu from 25 menu lists on focus only 9 menus that is hot sellers. This action will increase efficiency and as an act of cutting cost. McDonald’s came out with the strategies of fast...
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...Case Analysis on McDonald’s Vinil K Pillai City University of Seattle MBA 500 Essentials of Business Management June 22, 2014 Abstract This paper discuss about the case analysis of McDonald’s, one of the leading food chains around the world. This report starts off with a brief overview of the company, its presence and operations, and moves on to analyses of both external and internal environments. This paper tries to find out the relative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in different aspects of business operations of McDonald’s. The paper then looks at the issue faced by McDonald’s in today’s competitive world. The study finally concludes by suggesting some actions and recommendations to overcome those issues. Keywords: overview, external & internal analysis, issues and alternatives, recommendations and actions Company Overview McDonald’s corporation headquartered in Chicago, United States was founded in 1940 is the world’s leading global food chain service retailer with customers over 110 countries. The company restaurant offers a variety of food items, coffee, soft drinks and other beverages as well as newly added breakfast menus. McDonald’s is one of the most successful global restaurant chains around the world. Since coming in the market in the early 50’s McDonald’s has done very well in common stock and performing very consistently compared to its competitors. They have used the most effective management and global expansion strategies to...
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...------------------------------------------------- McDonald’s ------------------------------------------------- By ------------------------------------------------- Natalia Mitsukova ------------------------------------------------- W1333555 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Reflect and Evaluate the Marketing Principles of McDonald’s Important marketing principles For a global company such as McDonald’s operating in 118 countries it is very important for the company to be responsive to changes in local culture, tastes and preferences. More traditional marketing theory tended to support a ‘think global, act global’ approach purported by Levitt (1983) to marketing. However, contemporary marketing theory suggests that international companies need to respond to regional differences and cultures to be successful as suggested by Ghemawat (2003)...
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...Executive Summary This documentation is mainly about the business operation of McDonald’s in India & how it applies their operation to interact with external environment. This discussed about the Porter’s five forces of models to imply the company’s strategies in details that helps to access the competitive environment in India. PESTLE analysis will give also the details about Political, Economic, Sociocultural and Technological, Environmental and Legal analysis and effects of this analysis on McDonald’s. Dunning eclectic framework provides to complete country’s advantages that helps the McDonalds to analysis India on the basis of how attractive India is in terms of market potential and investment risk.The study conducts a comprehensive study on the MacDonald which is one of the major players in the food services industry in India. The research tries to develop a case study which studies McDonalds and its business process very closely with a greater emphasis on major activities which it carries out in India. We have also discussed about market entry strategy of MacDonald in India. Usually McDonald’s follow franchising of entry mode but in India they followed the joint ventures of entry mode. They choose a busy residential area VasantVihar. Internationalization theory is also provide a prominent theory in international business regarding how firms expand overseas & it suggests that firms minimize the uncertainty associated with going abroad by adopting some kinds of internationalization...
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...McDonald’s Keanu Gordon-Williams Lujack McReynolds 11/29/2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary LM………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction KGW ……………………………………………………………………………….5 External Analysis KGW .…………………………………………………………………………5 General Environment KGW……………………………………………………………... 5 Technological Factors KGW ....…………………………………………………..5 Economic Factors KGW ………………………………………………………… 6 Demographic Factors KGW..……………………………………………………..7 Global Factors KGW ……………………………………………………………. 7 Sociocultural Factors KGW..……………………………………………………..7 Industry Environment KGW .……………………………………………………………. 8 Opportunities KGW..…………………………………………………………….. 8 Threats KGW..…………………………………………………………………… 9 Porter’s Five Forces KGW...………………………………………………………………9 Threats of New Entrants KGW …………………………………………………...9 Bargaining Power of Buyers KGW……………………………………………...10 Bargaining Power of Suppliers KGW……………………………………………10 Threat of Substitutes KGW………………………………………………………10 Internal Rivalry KGW……………………………………………………………11 Internal Analysis LM…………………………………………………………………………….11 Core Competencies and Competitive Advantages LM…………………………………..11 Sustainable Competitive Advantages LM……………………………………………… 13 Organizational Culture and Leadership LM …………………………………………….14 Strategic Alternatives KGW & LM ……………………………………………………………..20 Business Strategy LM …………………………………………………………………...20 Corporate Strategy KGW………………………………………………………………. 21 Global Strategy KGW………………………………………………………………….. 22 ...
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