...decisions to executives through e-mail after two weeks on the job. However, two months later, she found that no one responded her decisions. Problems: 1. Senior personnel change The suddenly senior personnel change is one of the serious problems.At first, Cabletronica appointed Sampson to be the new head of CA, replacing the well-regarded founder, Frances Wong, who was very familiar with the operation of CA. Moreover, the period that Sampson started the appointment was in the busiest time of year, there were a lot of tasks of design and manufacturing to achieve a strong end-of-year holiday sales. The most serious problems were that although Sampson had professional financial ranks and successful background, she did not work with line managers in a manufacturing setting. 2. Communication system The problem of communication system led to no one responded Sampson’s decisions. It was an ineffective way to announce the important changing of policies to executives through e-mail memorandum, because e-mail is a low powerful communication channel in business communication. Although Cabletronica generally used e-mail to communicate, it was not as well as at CA. While Wong, who was very familiar with the process of CA, indicated that e-mail was not an effective way to announce, Sampson still insisted her own idea. There is a communication...
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...-1 introductory video, CanGo seems to be doing very well in the market place. This was evidence by the telephone call that was made to Liz by the President of the Hudson Valley business association. When Liz was inverted to speak at the Hudson Valley business meeting to share her expertise with the rest of the business community, she could not define how the business was organized the system she and her management team have used to be so successful in the Hudson Valley. She could not clearly say where she came from as a business, where she is and where she will be going as a business. This seems clear to us that CanGo lacks a mission statement for the smooth operation of the business. If CanGo continue on this path, the company may and will experience major setbacks in areas of business growth and development, accountability and the ability to stay in the market places if other market forces come against her. Recommendation: CanGo like any other business is in the market place to survive and be profitable. Therefore if CanGo must survive and be competitive it must develop a mission statement as a foundation for survival. This statement will define the goals and operations of the business and the purpose for which it was established. 2. CanGo Ethical and Moral Values Due to the absence of an established mission statement the importance of ethical code of conducts cannot be overemphasized. The moral and ethical values of any establishment like CanGo, is based on professionalism...
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...ensure there’s balance and the organization is running properly. For CanGo they have the vision of where they want to be in the future and the start of a good internal structure to carry out those goals and vision. Where things seem to get off track for CanGo is in the areas of communication between departments, ensuring that full financial analysis have been completed before starting on a project, internal organization within the company, lack of professionalism between employees, and lack of concern for legality when it comes to company action’s. All of these issues if left uncorrected can pose a huge threat to the viability of CanGo’s business in the future. However, on the other hand if the following recommendations are put into play and the current issues are resolved it will only further and grow CanGo in their current state and in the future. Issues: 1. There seems to be a serious lack of communication between departments at CanGo. At any given time it is apparent that employees do not seem to know what others are working on or have already worked on. 2. CanGo has not done a proper full financial analysis regarding the new system; once again no project should be jumped into without proper analysis. 3. CanGo’s lack of a strategic plan to train the personnel for new responsibilities. CanGo management is seriously considering entry into the online gaming market, a business of which CanGo management has limited understanding, while simultaneously attempting...
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...CanGo Week Two Analysis Report DeVry University Bus460 Senior Project Instructor David Mozinski Introduction The Grad Consultants have spent the last two weeks observing CanGo and their business practices to help them determine the weaknesses within their organization. We will use our knowledge and experience to provide suggestions for improvement that will have a positive impact not only on CanGo’s bottom line but also on the morale of all those who are employed by the organizations. Elizabeth (Liz), who is the owner of CanGo, first conceived the idea of the company in 2006. Since then, the company has grown exponentially. According to the company’s intranet “Liz’s experience and education helped refine her vision of a business environment centered on the Internet revolution. Under her leadership, CanGo has grown from a small online book retailer to a leader in entertainment focused e-commerce”. Liz has done very well for herself and the company with the effort and ideas that she has used thus far. CanGo is growing so fast that she now needs help to show her how to be prepared for what could happen and what she wants to happen as a company. When there is so much growth and so much competition, Liz and CanGo need to have a plan. That is why we are here; to help the company stay successful even when they are considering expanding into a new market. During this research period, The Grads have come up with the top...
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...CanGo Business Analysis Team D DeVry University BUSN 460 October 14, 2011 Table of Contents Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5 SWOT ANALYSIS.........................................................................................................................6 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................7 Financial Strategic Recommendations...............................................................................8 MARKET ANALYSIS...................................................................................................................9 Market Strategic Recommendations................................................................................10 STRATEGIC PLANNING...........................................................................................................11 Planning Strategic Recommendations.............................................................................11 COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS.......................................................................................................13 Competitive Strategic Recommendations.......................................................................14 ...
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...CanGo Business Analysis Team B DeVry University BUSN 460 Table of Contents Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................2 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5 SWOT ANALYSIS.........................................................................................................................6 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................7 Financial Strategic Recommendations...............................................................................8 MARKET ANALYSIS...................................................................................................................9 Market Strategic Recommendations................................................................................10 STRATEGIC PLANNING...........................................................................................................10 Planning Strategic Recommendations.............................................................................11 COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS.......................................................................................................12 Competitive Strategic Recommendations.......................................................................13 HUMAN RESOURCES...
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...CanGo: Growing from Entrepreneurial to Expanding Corporation with a Click of the Mouse!! A PROPOSAL TO: CanGo June 22, 2014 Presented by: The Sharpies Cherie Hayes Eileen Hauad Julia Misenhimer Franklin Raymundo Donald Scholfield June 22, 2014 Mission Statement: SHARPIES’ consulting provides a professional setting where high energy, motivation, and leadership are rewarded with opportunities for proficient growth. Our goal is to guide organizations in rethinking; reworking and restructuring their business plan to increase profitability. SHARPIES have completed its extensive research into CanGo. This assessment concentrates on your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. While CanGo is a small company that has experienced success, it has done so through haphazard means. CanGo has succeeded through teamwork but needs to revise itself to compete at the next level of business. It is the purpose of this report to address CanGo’s senior staff and board members concerning analysis made while reviewing your company. CanGo has developed a successful company. You have successfully met the purchasing needs of your customers. To enable CanGo to remain competitive and grow, changes will be necessary...
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...CanGo is a fast growing Internet business that retails variety of products and services, ranging from books, music, and services. They are now in the process of implementing the online gaming systems to their company. When Liz, the CEO of the company, was invited to speak at the local Hudson Chamber of Commerce meeting to discuss her strategic management process that contributed to the success of CanGo, she realized that the strategic planning process of her company was haphazard and emergent. Its success has more to do with “luck” rather than deliberate strategies and planning. CanGo’s management would have to make a decision about how to institute a strategic management process in the implementation of a successful online gaming system to their business, so they can develop a competitive advantage. As an external consultant hired by CanGo, our job is to advise the management team as to the appropriate courses of action needed to address various challenges facing the firm. We will observe CanGo’s personnel, their interactions in various group settings, and other business functions. Based on these observations, we will address CanGo's notable challenges; develop our recommendations for its resolution and improvements that are focused on improving the business processes, operations, and profits of CanGo. Based on our observation from week 1 and 2, below are the 6 issues that our team determined that CanGo is facing, followed by our recommendations. 1. The first...
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...things that they have to ensure are balanced and running properly. For CanGo they have the vision of where they want to be in the future and the start of a good internal structure to carry out those goals and vision. Where things seem to become off balanced for CanGo is in the areas of communication between departments, ensuring that full financial analysis have been completed before starting on a project, internal organization within the company, lack of professionalism between employees, and lack of concern for legality when it comes to company action. All of these issues if left uncorrected can pose a huge threat to the viability of CanGo’s business in the future. However, on the other hand if the following recommendations are put into play and the current issues are resolved it will only further and grow CanGo in their current state and in the future. Issues: 1. There seems to be a serious lack of communication between departments at CanGo. At any given time it is pretty apparent that employees do not seem to know what others are working on. 2. It does not seem that CanGo has done a proper full financial analysis regarding the new system; once again no project should be jumped into without proper analysis. 3. CanGo lacks of a strategic plan to train the personnel for new responsibilities. CanGo management is seriously considering entry into the online gaming market, a business of which CanGo management has limited understanding, while simultaneously attempting...
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...After reviewing the videos and other information relevant to CanGo made available in weeks three and four, we have determined the following issues to be the most pressing and critical of those currently being faced by the CanGo team. 1. Team Building and Communication An issue which has plagued CanGo from the outset, and one which continues to cause negative repercussions throughout the entire organization, is the lack of a clearly defined organizational system and structure by which CanGo manages projects, as well as prepares for, and deals with corporate change and growth. CanGo's current approach to projects, as well as their strategy for managing change is very reactive, and seems to be developed on the fly, as the need for change, growth, and additional functionality or systems arises. Being in a reactive mode like this will severely limit CanGo's ability to control the efficiency, and the final outcome of these changes. A perfect example of CanGo's reactive approach to change is their recent realization that they are not currently researching and tracking customer behavior. The fact that they realized this oversight is a very positive thing, but their unpreparedness in being surprised by this, and not having a proactive customer tracking plan in already in place, is paralleled only by their cluelessness at how to implement one. Sapient Solutions recommends that CanGo establish an overlying project and change management strategy to be applied to all future...
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...CanGo is a rapidly growing business and is currently lacking a strategic plan in order to continue to grow and stay viable. Stealth Applied Concepts has been working together to develop many recommendations to increase future endeavors and to expand in order to reach customer needs. This report contains the final analysis of the business practices and recommendations for CanGo from Team D, Stealth Applied Concepts. Stealth Applied Concepts has analyzed CanGo for approximately seven weeks now, which consists of several findings and recommendations based off of that detailed analysis. The team goal was to analyze current business practices in order to determine what is working, as well as to identify what changes and improvements are needed. The final analysis reports consist of a detailed SWOT analysis in order to determine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; it also consists of a market analysis, competitive analysis, financial analysis, and a strategic planning recommendation. This final analysis report should be...
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...advise and help guide CanGo in the restructuring and planning their future endeavors. CanGo is a young fast growing company which is interested in expanding into the online gaming market. This analysis report is the first of a series of reports created by our company to examine CanGo’s current concerns and offer recommendations to fix these issues. At DDM Consulting we believe that success is a team sport and there is no I in team. In saying this, it is going to take the cooperation of the upper management, lower management and CanGo employees for this company to reach its full potential. By implementing our recommendations CanGo can look forward to building a stronger company foundation, a growing presence in the online gaming market place, and a general increase in company moral In this first analysis report we will be going over six most important issues that CanGo will have to address immediately in order to guarantee continuous company growth and longevity in the market place. These issues include: 1: Company Mission and Vision statements 2: Goal setting and deadlines 3: Strategic planning 4: Workplace communication 5: Management skills 6: Market research Now that we have provided our six main focus areas for improvement, let us dive into the matter further by discussing and exploring each of these issues in greater detail to show how they really affect the overall success of your company, followed by our recommendations and suggestions to how CanGo can potentially fix...
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...Team B Video Analysis Report of CanGo Innovative Financial Management & Consulting Services BUSN 460 Based on the first two week of observation, Innovative Financial Management & Consulting Services (IFM) has noted the following issues and our recommendation for your review. ISSUE #1: No Mission Statement or Company Vision RECOMMENDATION: It is the recommendation of IFM that a formal mission statement and company vision be defined. A mission statement defines why the organization exists and what it does, and is also a way of ensuring that everyone in the organization is on the same page. A mission statement also serves as a base line for effective business planning. A vision statement focuses on the organization's future; it can also robustly communicate the company’s purposes and inspire your team or organization. IFM consultants will meet with the Board of Directors to help define the company’s mission statement and vision. ISSUE #2: No Strategic Plan RECOMMENDATION: Once the CanGo mission and vision have been finalized and approved by the board, IFM consultants will develop a strategic plan through the following process: • Conduct a SWOT analysis • Review SWOT analysis and outline CanGo’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats • Define objectives, key strategies and short and long term goals • Define operational plan Once the strategic plan has been fully developed and approved by the CanGo Board of Directors, IFM will...
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...is for selling books. Barnes and Noble currently have expanded their product market. Both company service mixes appear to offer pure tangible goods. However, some products may offer a tangible good with accompanying services for both websites. I believe Amazon appears to have greater brand equity because of their reputation. CanGo's goal is to conduct branding in such a way that customers will easily recall and respond positively upon seeing its brand (Mastering Marketing, 2001). After comparing elements of service quality and product support, Amazon and Barnes and Noble’s intangibility may not be known until the product is purchased. However, Amazon has a good reputation for quality of service. Amazon’s perishability is not a problem because products can be stored at the supplier’s location. The variability of Amazon depends on which company Amazon sells the product through. The delivery is always subject to human error and the quality of services is variable. The inseparability of Amazon and Barnes and Noble are the same. The service experience is inseparable from the customer. When the product is completed the customer is there to see if it was done correctly (Mastering Marketing, 2001). Amazon and Barnes and Noble develop their customers trust and comfort in purchasing their products online because of their excellent reputation. However, Amazon’s return policy may depend on the merchant. Generally,...
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...Running head: CanGo Final Report CanGo Final Report Advantage Plus Consulting Services Prepared for: Professor David Mozinski Prepared by: Tonya Blevins Sydney Coleman Brent Currie Glen Ferry Tina Foster DeVry University BUSN 460 Senior Project October 23, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. SWOT ANALYSIS 4 3. MARKET ANALYSIS 6 4. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS 7 5. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 10 6. STRATEGIC PLANNING 11 7. CONCLUSION 17 8. REFERENCES 19 CANGO FINAL REPORT ADVANTAGE PLUS CONSULTING SERVICES 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Elizabeth Bennett, who sought to break into the lucrative and booming world of ecommerce, founded CanGo in 2006. Over the proceeding years CanGo would establish itself as a regional online success story, providing customers with the opportunity to purchase books, music, videos and games in an online environment. As the country became consumed by an economic crisis, CanGo somehow managed to sustain its success by providing customers with affordable options for entertainment. In this way, CanGo was able to capture a mass market of a variety of segmented consumers. Despite CanGo’s initial success, however, the organization is not without its fair share of concerns. The primary issue with CanGo is that it lacks a formal strategic business plan. The company has also failed to clearly define what its short-term goals and long-term goals are and how it plans to go about realizing those goals. The company...
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