of three companies from three different industries, Starbucks Coffee, southwest Airlines and Wendy’s Old Fashion Hamburgers. In addition to the SWOT analysis there will be information regarding the company’s competitive advantage, strategies used, how value is created by each company along with the measurements guidelines used to verify strategic measurements SWOT Analysis: Starbucks Coffee, Southwest Airlines & Wendy’s Starbucks Coffee, Southwest Airlines, and Wendy’s operate in three different
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Importance of alignment [300 words]: The role of incentives in securing execution Employees are the agents of the firm’s owners since they take actions or make decisions that impact the payoff to the owners. The difficulties in the agent-principal relationships arise when the objectives of principal and agent are different and the actions taken by the agent or the information possessed by the agent are hard to observe. Employees care about the job in terms of the value the job generates for themselves
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Total Quality Management I. Company Background The success of Frito Lay is a tribute to two entrepreneur’s dreams. In 1932, C.E. Doolin purchased a bag of corn chips in a café in San Antonio, Texas. He learned that the chips manufacturer was selling his business so he purchased the recipe and began selling Fritos Corn Chip. Meanwhile, that same year, Herman W. Lay began his potato chip business in Nashville by delivering snack foods. He then purchased the manufacturer, and the H.W. Lay &
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people’s opinions on certain issues, products, etc. The types of traits that makes a credible opinion leader are trustworthy, respectful, intelligent, convincing, etc. An example would be Beyoncé. Beyoncé is such a wide known loved celebrity that any type of endorsement she does will be sure to substantially increase the company’s sale of the product. People tend to idolize celebrities and follow celebrity’s trends which makes them extremely valuable and influential in regards to their views in the world
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for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer. They also make it well known that employees come first and customers come second. Employees are encouraged to take their job serious but not themselves. Southwest Airlines believe that if their employees are having a good time they will offer better service and
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founded by a group of investors, including Rollin King, M. Lamar Muse and Herbert D. Kelleher to form the Air Southwest company. The company was incorporated in 1967 and envisioned as a commuter airline to serve three cities in Texas: Dallas, Houston and Antonio. Although the Texas Aeronautics Commission (TAC), the regulatory body responsible for overseeing aviation within the state,
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due to the difficulty of living in the far north. Our Brand Survey We did a brand audit of Alaska to see how well Alaska has worked past these harsh criticisms. To accomplish this we surveyed local Alaskans, people from the “Lower 48”, and a few international people. Most of these surveys were done online using Survey Monkey (Survey Monkey). This has given us a comprehensive view of how people feel about Alaska—both within the state, from the lower 48, and internationally. We want to evoke
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who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell's Drive-In in San Bernardino, California Bell began eating there regularly, attempting to reverse-engineer the recipe, and eventually won the confidence of the proprietors such that they allowed him to see how the tacos and other foods were prepared. Several locations in the Midwestern United States were converted from Zantigo, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Mexican chain which PepsiCo acquired in 1986. Concepts In 1991, Taco Bell opened the first Taco
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