Home improvement is an enormous business. Many people are interested in investing in this kind of business because it is one of the basic needs for a human to survive. Under a great pressure from competitions, the organization needs to make their business sustainable to ensure healthy of future generations. The essential part of growing the business is not just about making a profit, it's about how well managing the business efficiently. There was the theory that coined by John Elkington in 1994. The theory is called "TBL" stands for "Triple Bottom Line." In another word, the three Ps (people, planet, and profit), or known as "The three pillars of sustainability" (Slaper, 2011). The sustainable organizations need for managing and balancing …show more content…
Home Depot looks at customers as the first priority. The company supports its customers with high-quality retail services with expert advice and the wide range of products. For employees, Home Depot offers opportunities for employees to develop their career with training programs, which will enhance their skills and abilities in a specific field. They also provide a variety of healthcare options for employees, both full time and part time jobs. Home Depot's salaries are above minimum wages. According to Glassdoor.com, the lowest average wage as Home Depot cashiers is $9.31 per hour (The Home Depot Hourly Pay, 2016). To make sure investors satisfaction, Home Depot amend and change strategies and leadership to retain investors' trust. Another crucial group is suppliers, the company provides supplier diversity program not only to draw more small and diverse suppliers but also help them to maintain a relationship with the company. Home Depot makes a lot of action for the community. It has corporate social responsibility programs called Home Depot foundation grants. These foundation grants separated into two groups. First, community impact grants. Every year, it offers volunteers to have opportunities to help renovate, repair and improve community facilities, such as schools and senior centers. Another foundation grant happens …show more content…
Home Depot has update strategies in sales and marketing. It releases new innovation to create new demand. Kitchen and garden products are the best profitability of Home Depot. These types of products almost 30% of revenues in 2014(Soni,2015). From 2009 to 2015, Home Depot's ebitda or earnings before interest or tax indicate that margin increase because the lower operating expense from improving performance. Home Depot performance has been boosted by managing better inventory, improving in supply chain and decreasing in energy price(Soni,2015). Home Depot has two dominant strategies: cost leadership and broad differentiate. Cost leadership is the first store advertised strategy is everyday low price (EDLP) pricing strategy to influence customers, while broad differentiate is about provided high-quality services and various of products. Home Depot's employees are full of experts with different expertise. Home Depot is very effective in marketing. It has different ways of advertising, such as tv commercial, sale promotion, and store personnel. Customer services are the company marketing effort. Home Depot targets on almost every group of customers. The company always modernizes new innovation to attract more customers and produce new needs. The technology is that innovation. In the last few years, Home Depot has an alternative retail strategy called Omni-channel options, a combination between the digital and physical store, to
However with few exceptions, The Home Depot outperforms Lowe’s considerably. Lowe’s did outperform The Home Depot in revenue growth this most recent quarter, but this is just a snapshot when in reality both The Home Depot and Lowe’s have been experiencing very similar growth for years. Next is Earnings/Share, The Home Depot is earns over two times more than Lowe’s for one dollar of share price. Key differences can be found in profit margins, debt vs equity, and return on equity. The Home Depot has a considerably higher profit margin when compared to the margin of Lowe’s, and is much better at turning invested capital into equity.
Annual Reports and Press releases The annual reports and press releases of both companies slightly differ though with a portion of similarity. Although, Home Depot’s annual report is composed at the headquarters of giving an inclusive report on all of the retail stores in the world, through the company’s website these reports posted can be found. Therefore, this being impartial and all-inclusive to an extent of analysis it would have to be done on the contrasts, similarities, profitability, and performance of different retail stores in different regions or countries. However, the shareholders and customers analyze the summary provided to know the general performance.
The atmosphere of any setting is continuously fluctuating in both obvious and vague ways. A hardware store such as Home Depot is a prominent example of this fluctuation. Home Depot has been providing hardware products for both home and business improvement needs since 1978. Home Depot sells products that fall under categories such as: paint, lumber, electrical, plumbing, garden, and more. The diversity among the customer population is wide ranging, from the different ethnicities, nationalities, and gender shopping on any given day.
What has each competitor done in the past year to change the playing field? Lowes as one of the biggest Home Depot competitors has introduced smart home shopping which improves the shopping experience for their customers. The company has developed a smart home application and installation service that carters for the shopping process of their customers. The application and installation kit is an improvement of their flagship smart home application in 2012 (Hamblen, 2014).
Evaluate two to four (2-4) weaknesses that are evident in the selected organization’s product life cycle. Generate a new product design and product selection, and then determine three (3) strategies that the organization needs to strengthen the operation. Product Life Cycle (PLC) is known as the stages in its lifetime that a product goes through, where the demand changes over time. [Rei132.
Just like in any business the primary goal is to make a profit so as associates our job is to help customers in the most efficient way possible. Picking up after careless customers that move around the products from shelf to shelf. Running freight of our hottest commodities off a truck that worked its way across the country in a matter of hours. Darting around the sales floor as swiftly as possible to fulfill customers’ needs to ensure that they come back. These are just a few of the stand out things that make hard working associates so valuable to Walmart.
In this highly competitive world, money is one of the most significant factors for people to survive because people use money to satisfy their desires such as clothes, food, and medicines. A company will gain profit from the amount of money that people used, but only profit cannot make company to be sustainable. Hence, every corporation should be concerned about the triple bottom lines which can lead company to be sustainable. The Triple Bottom line or TBL was created by the founder of British consultancy called sustainability, John Elkington since 1994 (economist, 2009). The triple bottom line is separately in three categories, including profit, planet, and people.
INTRODUCTION IKEA is a Swedish furniture company that designs and sells furniture such as beds, chairs and desks, home accessories and appliances. It was founded in Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kampard as a mail order business it later started to sell furniture and went on to become the world's largest furniture retailer and turning its founder Ingvar Kampard into one of the richest person on the planet. IKEA has a complex corporate structure. It is controlled by several foundations based in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. Today Ikea owns and operates around 384 stores in 48 countries and is responsible for approximately 1% of world commercial product wood consumption making it one of the largest users of wood in the retail sector.
The number one way ABC Carpet and Home outperforms their competitor is by increasing their differentiation in merchandise. 1. Merchandise Management- ABC Carpet and Home offers a vast selection of merchandise including vintage, antique, eco, one-of-a-kind, and modern assortments. For example, the first floor is filled with inspirations, collections and lighting.
For instance, the wage for a cashier is now $11.55 which is only slightly higher than the minimum wages of $11.40 in Ontario. This causes high turnover rate as a lot of staffs are working as part time and frequently quite due to the low pay. A recommendation for Walmart is to develop a formal human resource program and fair performance review process to manage employee compensation. When employees perform at a higher level, their pay rate may be justified according to their performance appraisals. Providing faster promotions is another way to keep people motivated and improve their performance.
Specifically, Ralph’s (similar stores are Vons and Albertson’s) and Whole Foods (similar stores are Gelson’s and Trader Joes) are two firms that utilize cost leadership and differentiation. On one hand, we have Ralph’s using cost differentiation by providing a broad range of merchandise at a decent price. On the other hand, we have Whole Foods that has implemented a differentiation strategy by marketing their merchandise as healthier (organic). The trade of for both companies is that they are attracting less consumers by just marketing to a specific crowed. For instance, if Whole Foods had lowered their price and still sold premium merchandise, soon Ralph’s would be in trouble.
If only environmental sustainability gave proven return on investment (ROI), it would be easy being green. Corporate executives would be echoing the same thing. The problem is, executives haven’t always connected the dots between the green of profit and the green of environmentalism.1 It is only in recent times, that we humans have been able to look beyond the obvious to understand the implications of not only not complying with sustainable development practices but rather more importantly knowing about the potential benefits of undertaking them. These practices, once viewed as a cost centre are now being identified as profit centres and measures to build both tangible and intangible values not only for a firm or a company but potentially an
Introduction Sustainability has been mentioned as a goal of businesses. During the mid 1990s John Elkington created the triple bottom line plan under the concept of sustainability. Sustainability can be defined in many ways, but the simplest way is “Ability to sustain” (Sustainability, 2010). The triple bottom line is an accounting framework, and there are three dimensions of sustainability among them people, planet and profit (3Ps). The concept of TBL is to measure the profitable, social and environmental performance of the company.
Formation Bosch is a German multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886.
Industry leaders as well as corporate leaders nowadays are encompassing sustainability not just because they are socially responsible, but also because sustainability brings advantages and opportunities to be competitive on the market. The projects, as a form of corporate activities, are a beginning to be a dominating force throughout all industries. This generates the opportunity for project leaders to help organizations to integrate practices of sustainable development in order to achieve the their strategic sustainability goals throughout the whole manufacture chain from the practices used in production to delivering the end product. A vital principle of sustainability is an effective use of resource, which every great project manager must undoubtedly be concerned about. In this short essay I will conduct a short questionnaire study among project team members in our company in order to assess the level of awareness with sustainable development definitions and practices within the company.