...related to specific stakeholders, that relate to and are important to understanding the problem(s) identified in the problem statement. Organize your situation analysis accordingly. Here is where you would likely bring in much of your additional research. Decision Criteria If there is more that one particular problem, there will likely be more than one set of decision criteria, although many of the criteria may overlap, or at least be synergistic. Think about the best way to organize this. When you present criteria, please include: clear concise labeled for the criteria, brief explanation as to why each criteria, how to assess (measure) the criteria, and what the optimal solution would look like. Alternative Options For this case, we are assuming that Cisco wants develop their Chinese market more fully. As such, there are two basic options: pursue Sunbird or do not pursue Sunbird. However, your presentation of options would not stop there. If they do develop Sunbird, whom should they sell it to? How? Possibly there are more than one sub-options here. You recommend that they do not pursue Sunbird, then what should they do to enhance access/sales to the Chinese market? Again, there may be more than one option for this....
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...teaching environment education to school children. The project was highly penetrative but lacked qualitative and quantitative testing. With only three months left for completion, the company faces the issue of deciding the way forward with the project taking the budget, brand image, stakeholders and outcomes into consideration. After a detailed analysis, it is recommended to Mr. Ritesh Sinha, The head of CR, to extend the project timeline by two more years and bring about qualitative improvements in the project to better its effectiveness. Table of Contents Serial No. Contents Page No. 1 Situation Analysis 1 2 Problem Statement 2 3 Options 2 4 Criteria for evaluation 3 5 Evaluations of options 3 6 Recommendations 4 7 Action Plan 4 8 Contingency Plan 5 SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS The world’s largest steel and mining company, ArcellorMittal, entered the Indian market in 2006 with plans of expansion and growth. ArcelorMittal believed that ‘Doing right is the only way of doing well.’ ArcellorMittal thus used to take up task of social and economic development in the areas where it conducted its business operations. For this it even set up a non-profit foundation named ArcellorMittal Foundation in 2007. It initiated many community...
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...analyzed these alternatives using common criteria, and finally developed a complete set of recommendations. This process challenges your organizational and communication skills as much as your analytical and quantitative skills. Step 1. Situation Analysis. The first step in systematically analyzing an organization's marketing problems is to conduct a situation analysis. This is not part of the written case brief but it is needed before you can begin the problem solving process. Step 2. Define the Problem/Issue. Once you have conducted a thorough situation analysis, you can identify the problem(s) facing the organization. Be careful not to assume that the characters in the case are objective or accurate in identifying the problem or make a rush to judgment about the problem. Step 3. Identify plausible alternatives. What are reasonable options for solving the identified problem? While you should at least initially consider the options discussed in the case, do not assume that these are the best or even appropriate alternatives, especially if these options are not consistent with the problem. Alternatives should be plausible, not "straw men" that are just knocked aside in order to make a bee line for some obvious solution. Step 4. Identify reasonable, common criteria to test the alternatives. In order to objectively consider the alternatives, you need to identify common criteria that can be used to sort out the best choice. These criteria should include both quantitative and qualitative...
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...consolidation. Analysis of the Equity Pledge Agreement, Call Option, and Management Service Agreement, various contractual agreements, should provide insight into these concerns and if consolidation is necessary. Review of the agreements will either support or negate the qualifications of VIE, as well as, primary beneficiary requirements. I will then state my recommendation if the Enterprise is deemed a VIE and if the WFOE should consolidate. Recommendation It is my recommendation that the Enterprise is a VIE and that the WFOE should consolidate. The Enterprises’ total equity investment at-risk is insufficient, equity investors as a group, lack the ability to make decisions, and have no right to receive expected residual returns. Above are the VIE criteria the Enterprise meets, as stated in ASC 810-10-15-14. A controlling financial interest requires a reporting entity to consolidate; the WFOE satisfies the two requirements that deem them to have a controlling financial interest. In Rationale, I will expand in more detail the variable interest criteria that are met, as well as, the WFOEs controlling financial interest. Rationale “A legal entity shall be subject to consolidation under the guidance in the Variable Interest Subsections, if by design any of the following conditions exist” (FASB, ASC 810-15-14). The Enterprise is deemed a VIE as defined in the Codification if at least one of the criteria are met. The first criteria among them are that the total equity investment at risk...
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...Situation analysis: The Capital Markets Services(CMS) division, which was established as an interdisciplinary concern to address the issues of focused client attention and cross-divisional collaboration, required professionals who not only had domain-specific industry knowledge but were also skilled at responding to client needs by designing products in collaboration with product specialists within Morgan Stanley. It was these requirements that led to the appointment of Rob Parson, a managing director at a smaller firm with connections to some of the important players in the banking and insurance industries, as a market coverage professional The financial services industry is characterized by firms where individual professionals attract business and the ability of the firm to retain clients is solely dependent on the entrepreneurial skills of professionals. Thus, in a market typified by clients demanding immediate solutions, Morgan Stanley’s attempt at creating a consensus-based interface can be seen as a process projecting the firm – and not the individual – as the business facilitator; this necessitates the appointment of skilled executives who not only possess the ability to market and sell but also display the willingness to obtain approval through franchise and collaboration. The nature of Rob Parson’s responsibilities, though challenging, involved resurrecting Morgan Stanley’s capital markets’ business and had witnessed a high turnover rate in the past. This position...
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...Agro Agro Storage Toronto, ON M3P 23R Dear Mark, As you requested I’ve prepared the following report to address some concerns about your new warehouse. This report contains a full analysis of the situation, as well as a solid recommendation on how you should proceed. I’ll be in contact with you next week to discuss this report, but should you have any questions for me before that time please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Sample Student Executive Summary Agro Storage has recently purchased a cold-storage warehouse that stores packages for three customers. Although the warehouse runs at 85% capacity, the previous owner was unsatisfied with profitability. Pressure on prices downward and the non-homogeneity of customer packages complicates matters. I have developed three criteria for choosing a solution – profitability, risk and perceived image our customers. Of all these, I’ve determined profitability to be the most important criteria upon which to base a recommendation. In order to begin my analysis, I determined what an average package would look like for each customer. I then calculated the costs associated with each characteristic of a package, including weight, volume and area. In order to make a recommendation, I focused on four main alternatives: • Maintaining Status Quo • Contracting the whole warehouse to one customer • Maintaining all three customers, but renting additional space to the most profitable customer •...
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...61/80 Q-2 SPA WORKS MEMO To: Glen Mori, President From: Meghal Desai, Information System Manger Date: 1 January 2014 Subject: Proposed Advisory Committee Hello Glen. In the preceding years, rapid growth of spa works has created new customer base by acquiring new locations and capturing competitors market. Actually, increase of daily operations and business transactions, the current legacy system has been creating lots of issues with financial statement and decision making process because of data from numerous sources have to be combined. Such a rapid growth needs a change in legacy system in terms of selecting new committee members. As a result and as per request from a President to form a new advisory committee has been proposed to provide assistance and guidance in creation of new integrated system. This will improve Spa works business process. Below stated five committee members presented with their roles and tasks: 1) Human Resources manager: Spa Work has been going through the stage of expansion. Human Resources Manager is the key member of this organization. Main goal of Spa Works is to improve their legacy system and these will only possible through people and HR. Human Resources manager is responsible for all people related activities like recruitment, training and retention of employees as well as their daily concerns that consists of payroll, tax provisions, and benefits. Human Resources team also needs to comply all government related policies and follow...
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...Tata OUTLINE FOR CASE ANALYSIS AND REPORTS 1. Source Problems: This is a general statement of the underlying, fundamental problem or core issue. It is important to distinguish between symptoms of the problem, and the problem itself. Frequently the source problem precedes the current problems in the case. (one short paragraph) (medical example: tonsillitis) 2. Secondary Problems: These are more specific, current and observable problems and derive from the source problem. They frequently are the problems immediately evident in the case. Do not write three sections: all problems should be listed under short or long term. (Three quarters of a page). (medical example: fever, loss of appetite, cough) Short Term: Current problems of recent origin, which can be solved within a period of months without major commitments of capital, technology, finance or managerial effort. (business example: overstocking, high prices, labour shortage) 2.1 2.2 2.3 Long Term: Problems which have existed for years, and which involve long-term trends in the internal or external environment. They will reuire solutions spread over a period longer than, say, a year, and may demand major allocations of capital, technology, finance and managerial effort. (business example: obsolete products, out-pf-date production process technology, lack of adequate plant capacity) ...
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...OUTLINE FOR CASE ANALYSIS AND REPORTS 1. Source Problems: This is a general statement of the underlying, fundamental problem or core issue. It is important to distinguish between symptoms of the problem, and the problem itself. Frequently the source problem precedes the current problems in the case. (one short paragraph) (medical example: tonsillitis) 2. Secondary Problems: These are more specific, current and observable problems and derive from the source problem. They frequently are the problems immediately evident in the case. Do not write three sections: all problems should be listed under short or long term. (Three quarters of a page). (medical example: fever, loss of appetite, cough) Short Term: Current problems of recent origin, which can be solved within a period of months without major commitments of capital, technology, finance or managerial effort. (business example: overstocking, high prices, labour shortage) 2.1 2.2 2.3 Long Term: Problems which have existed for years, and which involve long-term trends in the internal or external environment. They will reuire solutions spread over a period longer than, say, a year, and may demand major allocations of capital, technology, finance and managerial effort. (business example: obsolete products, out-pf-date...
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...Healthy Work Environment Standards: Effective Decision Making Macy Gregory Florida State University Effective Decision Making While there are many factors that contribute to successful leadership and management, being able to effectively make individual and group decisions is the major action that defines who a leader is, what a leader does, and what a leader can accomplish for his or her organization. A successful organization must have effective leaders, and effective leaders must be able to make important decisions in a timely fashion. In order to achieve this, leaders must first possess essential qualities and characteristics, know different approaches to decision making, and overcome any difficulties during the process to make decisions that influence organizational approach and ultimately define their success. Managers and leaders are held accountable for the decisions they make, how those decisions were determined, and what data were collected and analyzed. In making decisions, leaders/managers must have a degree of adaptability so that options can be considered and made flexible (Smith, 2013, p. 1435). Employees rely on leaders/managers to make timely decisions. A leader/manager must be able to take ownership of their decisions. Although managers can delegate particular tasks, they ultimately take responsibility for the outcome. There are different types of managers. Some are cautious and prefer to analyze problems carefully, even routine ones, before taking...
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...Worksheet No. A 1 Question Decision Legacy What are the key ‘decisions’ the company has made since its inception? What was the situation when these decisions were made? Answer To cater to the healthcare requirements of rural population by hiring local women as Sahayikas Situation – Problem Positive outcomes I. Increasing population in rural India presents huge opportunity for providing healthcare II. The importance of women in the lives of people in rural India Negative outcomes i. ii. 3 What are the causes of these outcomes? Failure of other medical options and prevalence of quacks Abysmal healthcare conditions in rural India 2 Outcome: Importance of women Causes: Women directly responsible for health of children and can transfer best practices from generation to generation Outcome: Poor healthcare in rural India Causes: Prevalence of quacks as the only source of medical help in rural areas and lack of trust in other practices among people Problem: Low demand below the breakeven point making the program unsustainable Cause Lack of trust in modern medicine and lack of awareness among people in terms of ill effects of steroids Criteria Low number of patients and repeat patients Awareness about the program as well as the ill effects of steroid injections Trust and reliability of Piramal e-swasthya Confidence of people in Piramal workers Increasing awareness about the program as well as the ill effects of steroid injections Improving the trust and reliability of Piramal...
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...xx/xx/2011 Sir, Subject: Report on analysis and recommended plan of action for Ramkumar’s proposal Enclosed is [the] report detailing the decision to be taken regarding Dr. Ramkumar’s proposal that Indian Medical (Siddha) College should file for patent of new drug, for treatment of atherosclerosis. I recommend that Patent is taken [use filed instead of taken] and [a] one-time fee for license-transfer for production of drugs is opted. Sincerely, XYZ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dr. Ramkumar has [had] approached you with [the] proposal that Indian Medical College should file [a] patent for his discovery of [the] new medicine, [comma not required] for treatment ofAtherosclerosis [spaces should be maintained]. A decision has to be arrived at [by] taking into account IMC’s problems [IMC’s problems have not been specifically stated in the case], [use and here instead of comma since the next point refers to Siddha and not IMC] objectives and also [the] welfare of Siddha [kindly be specific, can use propagation instead of welfare] system along with other factors like faculty motivation. You can opt to reject the proposal or opt to [no need to use opt to here] file the patent and if you opt to file the patent, select the best possible way of using the license obtained from the patent. [Should have given the overview of the options and evaluated them in brief] It is...
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...discount, I have prepared a decision report to assist you in taking a decision. The report contains the analysis of the situation, the options available, my recommendation and an action plan. The recommendation has been arrived at by evaluating the options based on criteria which are aligned with the company’s objectives. Please find attached the report. Enclosure: Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vickers Industrial Supplies has requested for a distributorship and a pricing discount as it fulfils the Bolster’s criteria of a distributor. This dealer is important for Bolster so as to maintain a strong hold in the northern Alberta region. While this idea of giving a distributorship to Vickers might not be acceptable to the two national distributors of Bolster. Bolster is faced with two options of either granting a territorial distributorship of northern Alberta to Vickers with a restriction on the region covered or maintaining a status quo and not granting the distributorship to Vickers. The choice has to be evaluated on the basis of financial impact, impact on the relationship with existing distributors and the impact on the relationship with Vickers. Upon evaluation with respect to these criteria, it is recommended that the Vickers is granted a distributorship in northern Alberta. (Word Count: 142) Contents Executive Summary iii Situation Analysis 1 Problem Statement 2 Options 2 Criteria for Evaluation 3 Evaluation of Options 3 Recommendation 4 Action Plan 4 Exhibit...
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...MGMT 430 Decision Making Assignment Grading & Feedback (helpful hints in italics) Student: ____________________________Assignment: ______________________________ Area Additional Comments – also see submitted analysis: Executive Summary – clear and concise on key issues and recommendations 5 Executive summary should make the key issues and the recommendations clear for the reader. No need to discuss processes or extraneous items. Industry Dynamics – identifies key issues about how the industry and key competitors operate to provide customer value and profitability 5 Identify how the industry actually operates – are there strategic groups within the industry, how do key competitors provide value to the customers, how do firms generate profits and are there any resources, capabilities or collaborators that are key to success. Performs an insightful Situation Analysis using at least 3 frameworks appropriately (appendix)– IDs key issue(s) 20 Frameworks include such tools/concepts as: Stakeholders Analysis, SWOT, Root Cause, 5 Forces, 5 C’s, Market Expansion grid, etc. The actual frameworks should be placed in the Appendix. Use numbers! Specifies Opportunities Available or Penalties if problem continues 5 Impact of situation or opportunities are clear& specific – magnitude is identified (answers “so what” Appreciation) use numbers whenever possible! Logical Reasoning for Evaluation Criteria 10 Criteria...
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...Contents PART A- Servqual Analysis- Data Standardization and Analysis 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Service quality and customer satisfaction. 2 1.2 Measuring service quality 2 2. ANALYSIS OF SERVQUAL DATA 3 2.1 Data Standardization 3 2.2 Survey 5 2.3 Expectations and Perceptions 6 2.4 Confidence interval: 7 2.5 Dimensions 8 3 TOWN WISE ANALYSIS 9 4 Comparative Analysis of Key Results 10 5. Conclusion 11 PART B: VISA: Multi Attribute value Analysis and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis 1. Scope 12 2. Tree development 13 2.1. Cost: 13 2.2 Staff- 14 2.3 Issues: 14 3. Sensitivity Analysis. 15 3.1 Stakeholder: Local Authority 15 3.2. Stakeholder: Staff 15 3.3 Stakeholder: Tenants 16 4. Process of Scoring and weighting 16 4.1 Stakeholder: Local authority – 16 4.2 Stakeholder: Staff – 17 4.3 Stakeholder: Tenant – 17 5. Recommendation: 17 1. Introduction The Department is responsible for renting out and maintaining the housing stock (houses and apartments) of the local authority which covers a large geographic area in Scotland. The housing stock is rented out to several thousand local people on a long-term basis. The Department is committed to providing a quality service to its tenants and to help with this the Department decided earlier this year to undertake a tenant satisfaction survey. The intent behind the survey was to identify current levels of tenant satisfaction with the service provided by the Department and to...
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