Case 4: Dakota Office Products Summary The general manager of Dakota Office Products (DOP), John Malone was concerned about the financial results for the fiscal year 2000. The company had suffered a historic first loss in spite of sales increase from its prior year as noted in the income statement in (Exhibit 1). DOP distributes office supplies and offers a comprehensive product line. DOP had an excellent reputation for customer service and response time. It had operated
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Dakota Office Products Case Analysis Concern over a first year loss prompted a case study of the business operations of Dakota Office Products. Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan authored the case study as an illustration of use of activity based cost allocation and profitability (Kaplan, 2005). In the case presentation, John Malone, the General Manager of Dakota Office Products (DOP) commissioned analysis of the company’s operations and cost allocation practices; it focused
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Table of Contents I. Background and Green Marketing Product Strategy 4 II. Objectives, Pricing, and Goals 5 III. Strategic Plan 5 IV. Marketing Strategy 7 V. Competitive Analysis 9 VI. Customer Analysis 10 VII. Selling Tactics 10 VIII. Evaluation 11 IX. Conclusion 11 References 12 Background and Green Marketing Product Strategy Greenlight Accounting is a start-up organization based in
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Page INTRODUCTION 3 BODY 3 Legalities 3 National Bellas Hess v. Illinois Department of Revenue 4 Quill v. North Dakota 4 Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 5
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Case Study Dakota Office Products The Main Learning Outcomes from Analysis of the Case Base on the analysis and investigation of the General Manager’s controller, and directors of operations, , the problem of the organization focuses on its relationship or connection with the employees and the customers. Regarding its relationship with its employee, the problem focuses on the distribution center as well as the desktop delivery of the organization where in it gives
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Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages to Dakota Bank of the new online customers? (answer this questions without numbers) 2. Does it appear that the online customers add to Dakota’s bottom line? Compare the preliminary data to support your conclusion. Support your analysis using numbers given in the case. 3. Is the price of acquiring a new online customer worth the cost? Provide documentation using numbers in the case. 4. Should Dakota keep promoting
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3. Consider two products in the same product line: Product 1 Product 2 Expected Selling Price $62 $54 Standard Material Cost 16 27 Standard Labor Cost 6 3 Calculate the expected gross margins as a percentage of selling price on each product based on the 1988 and 1990 model year budgets, assuming selling price remains constant and material/labor costs do not change from standard. 4. Are the product costs reported by
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madding electronic displays, audio systems, and timing products. Its products include scoreboards and animation displays for sports facilities; billboards and price displays for businesses. Daktronics products are used in major sports arenas, including venues such as the Olympic Games. Two-thirds of the company's business is made up of live events and commercial clients. While most sales come from the US, Daktronics has about a dozen offices worldwide. It is engaged in a full range of activities:
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focus will be in standard, FHA, and VHA loans for home refinancing and purchasing. The company hopes to increase its offices into Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. “McBride Financial Services will be the preeminent provider of low cost mortgage services using state of the art technology in the five state area of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota.” (University of Phoenix, 2005, 2011, para. 2). McBride Financial Services has decided to redesign it’s marketing plan
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be implicating the Taco Bell labeled taco shells which are manufactured, distributed, and sold by Kraft Foods, Inc. as containing a genetically modified corn ingredient unapproved for human consumption. The substance is known as StarLink and is a product of Aventis. Background * On August 1, 1996, Taco Bell and Kraft Foods, Inc. entered into a licensing agreement for Kraft Foods to manufacture, distribute, and sell Taco Bell branded taco shells in the retail grocery market. * In August 1998
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