...CHAPTER 7: SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMY Terramica Inc. has contributed to the Philippine economy by way of complying with the legal requirements. The company has been practicing its Corporate Social Responsibility by giving importance to the welfare of the society and the environment. The goal of the business has always been more about caring the environment through the manufacturing process of making Ceramic souvenirs which lessens the usage of plastic materials and promote local designs. EMPLOYMENT GENERATION The company’s employees are being supported with safe and healthy working condition in order to help them improve their motivation to be efficient and effective at work. The employees are being proper and justly compensated with accordance to the employees’ performance and responsibilities. The employees are also being treated respectably with dignity and pride. Terramica Inc. would be generating employment for they would need more employees in the long run. Through this, it could help potential employees seek for employment. Thus, this will contribute to the Philippine Economy by decreasing poverty. SOCIAL DESIRABILITY It is with utmost responsibility of the business to act in a legal, ethical, and be social responsible in order to achieve its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This will be executed from the different aspects: Marketing, Operations, Management and Finance. 1) MARKETING Ceramic souvenirs are...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION As people nowadays are becoming conscious on what they eat, the partners have come up with the idea of incorporating a nutritious ingredient to the famous frozen dessert - ice cream. The business will be able to introduce the vegetable ice cream in the market. The business is named Renaissance Partnership. The business venture is an upscale business selling new variety of ice cream products primarily vegetable-based frozen dessert. It is established as a one stop shop offering different and unique flavors of ice cream as dessert. The business falls under the food industry specifically the ice cream industry and is under the category of dairy products. Dairy products are generally defined as foods produced from cow’s or domestic buffalo’s milk and are usually high-energy-yielding food products. In general, ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products with fruits and flavorings. The major markets that the business serves will be composed of individuals who are patrons of desserts like ice cream and other frozen snacks. Their ages ranges from young individuals to adults. The gender is not a hindrance since almost everyone loves to eat ice cream. Summer season is the projected time that would increase demand for the ice cream. The ice cream product would be saleable during summer season but regardless, ice creams can be served at anytime of the year. The business is using e-commerce and social networking...
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...I. POINT OF VIEW Through the help of world wide web, ebay has been successful because of creating a new online market place. World wide web also broaden markets to include people and organizations that otherwise would not have known of buying or selling opportunities. Ebay has been moving into areas of service and creating global network. II. MAIN PROBLEM E-bay has become critical to their revenues and profits especially to South Korea, Germany and the United Kingdom. III. SECONDARY PROBLEM * Other online sellers and auction sites provide competition. * Taxes on online sales have been imposed in some countries. IV. OBJECTIVES * To create a product or service that is new to market. * To provide service in the easiest way. * To expand E-bay internationally and globally. V. SWOT ANALYSIS STRENGHTS | WEAKNESSES | * Continued to innovate, providing new sites and services. * E-bay purchased PayPal. * Free service * Technology became a core strength for E-bay. * E-bay offers a wide variety of features that enable members to buy and sell on the site quickly and conveniently. * Top online automobile site. | * International business in Korea, Germany and UK has been critical. * There was so much traffic on the website. * E-bay site went dark for 22 hours resulting in lost fees of $4 million. | OPPORTUNITIES | THREATS | * E-bay changed their strategy in China by entering into a joint venture with a local...
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...TERM PAPER OUTLINE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY MODULE ONE 1. Table of Contents 2. Acknowledgements 3. Introduction (include reason for paper and choice of company) MODULE TWO – External Environment Analysis 1. Definition of Industry (include overview) 2. Analysis of Present Task Environment 3. Analysis of Potential Changes in the Macroenvironment 4. Threats and Opportunities Basis: 1. Effect of potential changes on the macroenvironment on the barriers and determinants of the task environment. 2. The effect on the forces of the task environment. 3. The conclusion on whether the potential change on the macro is a threat or opportunity. Note: The potential changes in the macroenvironment that will cause a change in the in the task environment will be a threat or an opportunity to the industry. 5. Industry and competitive analysis. 6.1 Strategic map 6.2 Market Definition 6.3 Market Size 6. Broader Societal Expectations 6.1 Corporate Social Responsibility MODULE THREE – Analysis of Internal Environment 1. Overview of the company 2. Financial Analysis 2.1 Financial Ratios 3. Value Chain Analysis 4. Strengths and Weaknesses 4.1 Describe the Strengths and weaknesses 4.2 State the basis for each strength and weakness. Basis is from Financial and Value Chain Analysis 5. Personal values MODULE FOUR – Strategic Plan 1. Vision (include mission) 2. Objectives – Financial,...
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...'Cannibalising' Mr Schultz has himself been brutally honest about where Starbucks has gone wrong, admitting that it now has too many outlets in the US, which is "cannibalising" sales between branches only a short distance from each other. | It was all but inevitable that after such aggressive expansion that its sales growth would eventually stagnate Brian Morgan, Cardiff School of Management | Also bemoaning a dilution of the "Starbucks experience", he said the firm had lost its focus. "When you succeed at this level for so long... you get a little soft," says Mr Schultz. "We have to get back to what made this company great, and that is to have the courage and curiosity, and commitment, to do things that have not been done before." Image problem Such market saturation has changed how Starbucks is viewed, with many consumers now mentioning it in the same breath as McDonald's and Burger King. | It may not sell burgers and fries, but the perception is that the bigger and more corporate Starbucks has become, the worse customer service and quality have become. As a result, once loyal US customers have migrated to its growing army of competitors, such as smaller but more fashionable chains Caribou Coffee and Peet's Coffee & Tea, despite Starbucks also expanding into selling CDs. Mr Schultz himself has admitted that the brand risked becoming a mere commodity, and needed to better focus on the consumer. Starbucks has further been hit by the likes of McDonald's and...
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...Sapo, Marie Nicole M. 4 BBE/ December 3, 2012 Nicolesapo.wordpress.com Creating Strategies Strategy indeed is important to every organization and you don’t just create it, you plan it to run your organization in a straight line. You think, research, study and plan your strategy or in short, you strategize. Strategy is viewed in different perspectives and used in different manners. We need to know the strengths and weaknesses of an organization to have a basis on what strategy we can create against our competitors and for sustainability as well. This is important as it helps you outperform or outsmart your competitors in the present and also in the future to be able to gain an advantage and be competitive. According to Mintzberg’s article, Crafting Strategy, “…one of the great challenges the corporate strategist faces: knowing the organization’s capabilities well enough to think deeply enough about its strategic direction”. When we strategize, we first consider the resources or skills that we have so that we know where to start. It gives us basis and ideas for us to carefully plan and formulate our strategy. Then we think of how to make use of the resources or skills and then plan on how we could benefit and use it as a tactic. It goes the same with organizations, making use of its strengths to create strategies that targets the weaknesses of other organizations. As to what Henry Mintzberg mentioned in his article, it gave “…five definitions of strategies – as plan...
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...[pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] SWOT and Strategic Choice Strengths and Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats (SWOT Analysis) Strategic Choice Business Functional Global Corporate [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] ----------------------- Why do some firms succeed while others fail? * A central objective of strategic management is to learn why this happens. What is strategy? * An action a company takes to attain superior performance. What is the strategic management process? * The process by which managers choose a set of strategies for the enterprise to pursue its vision. Overview Basic Strategic Planning Model Rational planning by top management? Strategic Planning Implementation of Chosen Strategies Selection of Appropriate Strategies Internal Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses External Analysis of Opportunities and Threats Defining the Mission and Setting Top-Level Goals The Main Components of the Strategic Planning Process FIGURE 1.1 Mission and Goals Mission * Sets out why the organization exists and what it should be doing. Major goals * Specify what the organization hopes to fulfill in the medium to long term. Secondary goals * Are objectives to be attained that lead to superior performance. Identify strategic opportunities and threats...
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...A. Geography >China stretches some 5,026 kilometres (3,123 mi) across the East Asian landmass. China is bordered by seas and waters eastward, with the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, Taiwan Strait, and South China Sea, and bordered by landmasses on its 3 other sides, from North Korea to Vietnam. China has been officially and conveniently divided into 5 homogeneous physical macro-regions: Eastern China (subdivided into the northeast plain, north plain, and southern hills), Xinjiang-Mongolia, and the Tibetan-highlands. Its physical features are multiples. The eastern and southern half of the country, its seacoast fringed with offshore islands, is a region of fertile lowlands and foothills with most of the agricultural output and human population. The western and northern half of China is a region of sunken basins (Gobi, Taklamakan), rolling plateaus, and towering massifs, including a portion of the highest tableland on earth (Tibetan Plateau) with lower agricultural possibilities and thus, far less populated. Traditionally, the Chinese population centered around the Chinese central plain and oriented itself toward its own enormous inland market, developing as an imperial power whose center lay in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River on the northern plains. More recently, the 18,000-kilometers coastline have been used extensively for export-oriented trade, making a power shift, with the coastline provinces becoming the leading economic center. With an...
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...I. Introduction Company Profile HBC, Inc. or also known as Hortaleza Beauty Center is a subsidiary of Ang Hortaleza Corporation which manufactures and retails health, beauty, personal, and home care products. It offers make-up products for face and accessories. The company also provides skin and body products, including body butter products, anti-aging lotions, foot treatments, lotions and creams, bar soaps, body scrubs, lightening powders, body oils, fragrances and scents, deodorants, intimate wash products, body wash products, body masques, and hand sanitizers; facial care products, including washes and scrubs, toners and cleansers, moisturizers, and correctives/solutions; and hair products, including hair coloring creams, shampoos, hair treatments, cleansing products, styling, and straightening treatments. In addition, it offers health and wellness products, including supplements, liniments, insect repellers, and skin treatments; salon tools, including hair dryers, curling equipment, hair irons, foot spa machines, and cuticle nippers; oral care products, including toothpastes, mouthwash products, and travel packs; and drinking water. Further, the company provides home care products, including detergent powders, detergent bars, liquids laundry detergents, and fabric conditioners; dishwashing liquids; and toilet bowl cleaners. Its products are available online and through its chain of retail stores in the Philippines; and franchised and internationally stores. History ...
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...Organizational Chart – Ayala Land Incorporated [pic] |Characteristics |Ayala Land (ALI) |Megaworld |SM Development Corp. | | | | | |Key External Factors |Weight |Rating |Weighted Score | |Opportunities | |1. Household final consumption expenditure for housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuel increased |0.08 |3 |0.24 | |to 7.2% | | | | |2. 6.8% growth in OFW remittance. |0.09 |4 |0.36 | |3. Average yearly growth rate of 20% of the BPO sector. |0.10 |4 |0.4 | |4. Nationwide expansion of the real estate business in the Philippines reaching out through Luzon, Visayas|0...
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...1|Page University of Santo Tomas College of Commerce and Business Administration Espana, Manila A Strategic Management Paper Presented to: Mr. Real C. So In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course Strategic Management (Entre 7) Presented by: Miguel O. Rodil 4M7 February 2012 2|Page I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3|Page II. TABLE OF CONTENTS 4|Page III. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 5|Page IV. INTRODUCTION 6|Page V. EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS 1. Definition of Industry Table 5.1 Real Estate Industry Classification Industry Supersector Sector Subsector 8000 Financials 8600 Real Estate 8630 Real Estate Investment and Services 8633 Real Estate Holding and Development Industries are the circles in the supply chain diagram. Each industry is a set of firms that operate in the same space in a supply chain, competing to control some of the space and so capture value. Industries have structure, history/trajectories and competitive dynamics that set the context for new entrants. In the Real-Estate Industry organizations primarily engaged in renting or leasing real estate to others; managing real estate for others; selling, buying, or renting real estate for others; and providing other real estate related services, such as appraisal services. Companies that invest directly or indirectly in real estate through development, investment or ownership. Excludes real estate investment trusts and similar entities, which...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The real estate industry consists of a collection of industrial and services sectors of the economy such as construction, brokerage services, mortgage banking, property management and even architecture and design. The real estate industry deemed ...
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...STRAMA CONSULTATION: I. General Comments on the Drafts a. Methodology i. Under introduction, include which particular geographic area/major unit of the organization we’re focusing on ii. External analysis (EA): explain actual situation. Avoid theoretical situations. Don’t put “Ifs…” (If 1. Include actual implications and analyze the situation – need to provide data support! 2. Ex. The exchange rate is expected to be stable and because of this the funding could go down by this much iii. Internal analysis (IA) 1. It’s better to start with discussion of how organization has performed a. Ex. Under the family devt program, what are the success measures? How did the org fare? If they’re not doing so well, find out why! b. Success measures could be: Program accomplishments, number of beneficiaries served, how effective org has been (given limited funding), etc. iv. Identification of strategic issues 1. The most critical threat or weakness that needs to be addressed (or strengths that need to be maintained) - so we have to choose among all the threats/weaknesses v. Part II has to follow logically the analysis from Part I – continuity! 1. The strategic issues should be culled from IA and EA 2. “Because this is what was discussed in part I, these are our strategies…” II. Further discussion of Part II/Project a. Given IA and EA (inputs), this will be our output. b. Tools: SWOT matrix – need to present! i. Can come under Part I or Part II ii. Will enable us to come up...
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...Systemimplementering innebär genomförandet av en process att installera hårdvara och mjukvara (i det här fallet är mjukvaran även personalen) och att få igång AIS. Fasen inkluderar sex steg, varav de fyra mellanstegen integreras under utvecklingen. Figur 3.1 System implementation Varför ett nytt system behövdes, känns som överflödigt att gå in på i denna fråga, och därför lämnar vi detta orört. Planen Givetvis så inleder man projekt såsom detta med att utveckla en plan. Planen ska grovt sett innehålla meningen med implementeringen, en tidsplan, kostnader och vem som ansvarar för sitt område. Malmö stad har satt upp mål för HRut, som kan delas upp i projektmål och effektmål. Projektmålen tar upp vad det nya systemet ska innehålla samt när det ska vara färdigt. I effektmålen så ser vi resultatet av vad det nya systemet förväntas förbättra. Projektmålen måste vara noggrant genomtänkta då dessa bygger grunden för det nya systemet. Ändringar som kommer halvvägs in i processen är inte accepterat och därför kräver detta noggrann kartläggning innan projektet sjösätts. Av vad som går att utläsa av den knappa informationen så framgår det som att effektmålen enbart innebär förbättringar av olika processer. Systemet kommer inte vända upp och ner på allt utan ska förbättra och underlätta för Malmö stad och dess anställda. Längre fram är det viktigt att poängtera detta: ”Hjälp-oss-att-hjälpa-er” buskapet. De fyra delprojekten som dem har satt upp är bra för utvecklandet av personalen...
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...------------------------------------------------- VISION to be the best bank for all our stakeholders. MISSION we aim to be a premier universal bank of international standing, committed to creating and providing the best possible value for our core constituents – clients, employees, shareholders, and the communities whom we serve. We shall exert all efforts to transform every opportunity to expand our sphere of business activities into instruments to help our constituents realize their own goals and aspirations. We shall strive to reach a highly diversified customer base through an extensive distribution network at the same time delivering a wide array of premium-value products and services with distinctive quality. We realize that our success depends on the quality of our people, the efficiency of our systems, and the strength of our organization. Hence, we shall continuously invest in our human resources to ensure a service force characterized by the highest standards of dignity, probity and professionalism. We shall constantly endeavor to be more responsive to dynamic market conditions, flexible in coping with customer needs, innovative in leading the competition, and united in pursuing common objectives. Our financial capability shall likewise be continually invigorated to maintain dynamism, growth and stability. Recognizing our responsibility to our shareholders, we shall exercise judicious management to consistently provide them with fair returns and...
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