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They do not think there is enough in the park to stay for more than a day or two. Since the Walt Disney Company relies on guests staying for multiple days and guests continually visiting the park this hurts the attendance numbers and the revenues numbers for Disneyland Paris. The vacation habits are different which Disney did not account for, they just assumed locals would come to the parks on weekends or people would come visit for quick weekend trips like they do in the US. The difference in vacation mindset and the difference in family values helps to explain why the yearly park attendance numbers are lower than expected at Disneyland
CHAPTER 2 SITUATION ASSESSMENT 2.1 Introduction This chapter illustrates the analysis of situation assessment throughout the company. One of the important processes needed when planning a decision is by having situation assessment. This process helps to monitor the internal and external factors. Internal assessment requires analysis regarding to the strengths and weaknesses of the company in terms of the resources, core competencies and strategic directions. Meanwhile, external assessment focuses on the deeper analysis of political, economic, social and technological which is affecting the missions and vision of a company.
This enables the company to interact with the consumers more closely and come up with more innovative product lines. Hasbro also invested time and money in understanding what gives children joy and what motivates toy purchases by teaming up with Harvard to do pediatric studies. About 30% of Hasbro’s sales come from selling toys based on Avengers, Star Wars and Marvel. These franchises have grown even more since being acquired by Disney. This works well for Hasbro since they focus on building characters round content.
SBH anticipates the demand for hair color will increase their B2B sales, because women between the ages of 45-55 are more likely to seek professional salon services from licensed cosmetologists that purchase their salon-exclusive products from Armstrong McCall, SBH’s B2B distributor. Currently, Sally Beauty Holdings is a market leader in the beauty supply/distributor industry. However, the multi-billion dollar beauty industry is fiercely competitive. Not only does Sally Beauty Holdings have to compete with other beauty supply chains, but also beauty retailers such as Ulta and Sephora who are also strong B2C competitors. Now that consumers can do all of their shopping, including shopping for beauty products, at one-stop shops such as Target and
Knowledge should bee needed of the production and operations work. This information gives the give the analysis of the situation of the organisation and it well helps in rating the strength and weaknesses of the organisation. When Tesco know there strength and weakness then there well be easer to make the effective decision for the organisation. But the information is not only needed. The knowledge should be there of making the effective decision for the organisation growth.
For instance, a threat matched with a weakness could cause a lot of damage to our business if we do not pay attention to the linkages between the aspects of these categories, while an opportunity matched with a Strength of the company will be a huge leverage that will help us further our strategy plans and realize them based on this powerful match. Whereas, the TOWS analysis look for the match between these internal and external factors elements to help identify relevant strategic options that an organization could pursue. It will help a business to see how it can exploit any opportunities, counter threats, reduce and overcome weaknesses and take advantage of any strengths. Michael Watkins is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD said about the TOWS and the SWOT analysis approach that: “The order of word in acronym SWOT implies wrong order of doing process of serious strategic analysis. Starting from analysis of Strengths is wrong, because managers should first identify all threats from environment in order to do following steps of planning and preparation to protect against these threats.” (ceopedia .org, TOWS
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SWOT ANALYSIS Business environment and the factors affecting the environment are essential to the business as they hinder or support the development of the business. Business need to investigate and research the environment to avoid failure and ensure growth and success in the organization. “SWOT analysis is an analysis of an organization 's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats—how can strengths be used and capitalized on, how can weaknesses be improved, how can opportunities be exploited, and how can threats be mitigated.”(Nickels) SWOT analysis helps the organization to indentify opportunity that can be harnessed and such it and it helps to identify weakness that can be converted into strengths by working on it. The SWOT analysis of Coca-Cola is as follows: STRENGTHS: Strengths of Coca-Cola can be attributed as follows: • Huge Size – Coca-Cola is financially huge company as it has a strong acquisition capabilities as well as strong marketing strategy which are important aspect for expansion and maintaining customer loyalty ("The Coca-Cola Company Reports"). • Best Global Brand – Coca-Cola is the best known brand for soft drinks worldwide.
It begins with a reaffirmation (and sometimes, Recalibration) of business strategy, explores the implications of that strategy for organization, considers changing conditions in the environment, and through diagnosis identifies organizational problems and performance gaps. ( Dawson Consulting Group) Strategy structure alignment are as follows; Assessment: gathered data on strategy, organization and business environment using interviews, authentic research and observations. Data is organized into issue categories and fed back to management in a way that supports affirmation and learning. Design: The design process gores through a series of design steps including scale and rank assessment, the design of vertical Alternatives and side processes and structures, impact analysis, these steps are geared to execute strategy and address Organization and cultural issues. Alternatives – Choice: Changes in organization are based on a selection from among a set of choices.