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Better World Books Case Study
1. Mission, values and vision evaluation
The fundamental reason for BWB existence, its mission, is ‘being a global bookstore that harnesses the power of capitalism to bring literacy and opportunity to people around the world’. BWB core values include six guiding principles: (1) high-value experience for customers, (2) valuing talent and respecting each individual, (3) doing what is right (4) fostering innovation, (5) spreading literacy (6) positively impacting the world.
BWB does not state its vision explicitly. Their closest approach to vision is being ‘a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic, and environmental value for all our stakeholders’. However, this statement is largely a reflection of what BWB already is and lacks aspiration for the future.
Essentially, BWB core ideology revolves around the way humans interact and relate to
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This will be achieved through strong stakeholder relationships, superior customer service, operational excellence and dedication to social causes coupled with concerted marketing effort to increase brand awareness and loyalty.
4. Strategy statement explained
The revenue and awareness goal is connected to company mission, while specific figures allow tracking the achievement over time. The scope implies that BWB is US-based, operates in the book market and targets a wide range of customers. Its competitive advantage is based on lean operation management, strong relationship with all stakeholders and public goodwill. The underlying logic is that concerted marketing effort to increase brand awareness and loyalty, emphasizing the value of “triple bottom line” activities for the society, will help achieve the stated goal.
5. BWB strategy effectiveness
St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital is a non-profit organization to help kids with cancer or other diseases. St. Judes started on February 4th, 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. It now has eight affiliations located in Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma. “St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.” (stjude.org).
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Evaluate how ASU is positioning itself through its vision and mission. The ASU’s vision and mission statement are a very powerful. These two statements positioning ASU as a public research university that use a student-centric model to support innovation and creativity. ASU’s vision is to lead their people to be success in life and understanding the value of the community.
Agency Mission Pupil Services is an agency within Los Angeles Unified School District under the Student Health and Human Service Division and their mission statement is the following: “To ensure that all LAUSD students are enrolled, attending, engaged, and on-track to graduate.” The agency firmly believes that within every student is a highly capable and motivated high school graduate. Agency Structure Pupil services partner with a variety of district and non-district agencies such as the City of Los Angeles. The City of Los Angeles pays for 16 PSA counselors, 1 lead counselor, and 1 coordinator position to be co-located at FamilySource Centers which are non-LAUSD agencies.
a) Bloomingdales is a department store based that is based in the United States of America. The stores run nationwide and is widely expanding in the nation. Its business objective is to cater to shoppers nationwide, for both male and female. Shoppers can choose to shop in stores or online from their website or through their mobile app. This gives shoppers the convenience to shop at any time, anywhere.
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In order to ensure that the company meets its target in gaining the required market share, the company should among other things, ensure that it carries out an effective market research to discover the market gaps and have an idea of the best points of entry. This should be coupled with an efficient sales force for product promotion and distribution. The company should also deploy cross-functional teams charged with making key manufacturing and marketing decisions to ensure synergy when it comes to product release. Another key, but often overlooked aspect is getting the required logistics in place early enough. With logistics, the focus should be on the involvement of logistics personnel in developing strategy both marketing and managerial.
Many firms are successful due to the relationship with the customer, if a customer’s experience is a positive one they will return for future business. A satisfied customer will be full of praise and recommend the business to others. Word of mouth is a very powerful tool within the competitive world of business. Within the department I currently work there are procedures and local guidance protocols that each staff member has to follow when working with customers, a staff handbook.
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Greetings of joy! Ever since in my tender years, I have always been fascinated in the art of writing. My strange fascination in writing made me expose to school publications from my elementary to secondary education. My exposure eventually developed into a deep interest in journalism and this is the prime reason why I felt truly inclined with it until now. With regard to the hiring of new members in your reputable publication, I would like to apply for the position of layout artist.
Firstly, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix that concentrate the market position of different products. Secondly, the experience curve and the Profit Impact of Market Strategies model which identified a number of strategic variables. Furthermore, competitive advantages model (Porter, 1985) which focus on five different forces in environment of organization, but suit with only stable market. Generic strategy was developed strategies under this school, especially it can identify position in the market. Advantages: -Provide content in a systematic way to the existing way of looking at strategy -Particularly useful in early stage of strategy development, when date is analyzed -This school emphasis on analysis and calculation can be a very strong support to the strategy development process -This strategy suit with big businesses or organization which have ability for operate effective market research in the environment
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