...Entrepreneurial Case Study of “The Brewster-Seaview Landscaping Company” BUS 266: Principles of Organization and Management Saginaw State University Tuesday Feb. 9, 2016 CASE Study 1 Problem/Issue Statement 1.) What were the major factors that affected productivity in year 2? 2.) Who is to blame for the fall in productivity in year 2? Executive Summary Joe Brewster who owns his own small private landscaping company in Seaview, New Jersey created a very successful business with a staff that admired him. That is up until year 2 rolled around. The original crew consisted of a younger crowd of five guys ranging from 17 to 20 years old. The work days consisted of six days a week, but once in a while Joe would need his workers to work overtime which was not a problem. With the ownership skills Joe installed, the workers felt a sense of respect and both parties trusted one another. In fact, Joe would read off a list of houses that had to be completed that day, and leave it up to his workers to decide who would do what task and how long they would spend at each house. He had a strong commitment to his work and to his employees, sometimes Joe would work alongside of them six days a week. Another example of Joe’s passion for his business, is that he did not separate himself as the boss, he wore the same clothes and basically did the same work as his employees. The one downfall with that, is the lack of delegation. Even though trusting his employees...
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...1. Read the case study of D.A. Garden Supplies 2. Prepare a proposal for D.A. Garden Supplies a. Market research is a key part of developing your marketing strategy. It’s about collecting information to give you an insight into your customers’ mind so that you understand what they want, how they gather information and where they come from. You can also do market research to get a better idea of market trends and what is happening in your industry sector. The information you gather and analyses builds the foundation of good business decisions whether it’s deciding what product or service you’ll offer, where your business should be located, how to distribute your products or how you communicate with consumers. Market research is important for every business, and should not be just a one-off activity. Successful businesses conduct research on a continual basis to keep up with market trends and to maintain a competitive edge. Regardless of whether you’re starting or expanding your business, market research is vital to understanding your target market and increasing sales. b. To do the market research for D.A. Garden Supplies successful we need to ; • Identify potential customers Who is going to use your product/service? How old are they? Are they male or female? Are they married, single or divorced? Do they have children? Where do they live? What is their level of education? and so on. • Understanding your existing customers Why do customers choose your product over competitors...
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...' Faculty of Business Studies LB160: Professional Communication Skills for Business Studies 2nd Semester 2011 TMA Branch: Saudi Arbia -Damamm | Part (I): STUDENT INFORMATION (to be completed by student) | 1. Name: | 2. Registration No: | 3. Section No:4 | 4. Tel. : | 5. E-mail: | I confirm that the work presented here is my own and is not copied from any source. Student's signature: | | Part (II): TUTOR'S REMARKS (to be completed by tutor) | Tutor name: | Signature: | Date TMA received: | Date returned: | TUTOR'S REMARKS: | Marks Allocatedto TMA | STUDENT MARK | 20 | For content : a maximum of 20 marks | Marks deducted for lang. & communication errors: a maximum of 4 marks | Earned Mark | | | | | LB 160 TMA * This TMA01 contains 2 parts. You should answer both parts. * The value of TMA is 20 points. * The mark assigned to each part is 10 points. __________________________________________________________________________________ PART 1 (10 points) Q. Write a SWOT analysis for the case study provided below in about 300 – 400 words. Analyze and propose solutions to the problem. The Sweet Dreams Motel – Far North Queensland The Sweet Dreams Motel is a 40-unit, no-frills operation in the less scenic part of a major Queensland resort town. The owner, Mr Smith, firmly believes that there is a need for his style of low-cost family accommodation amid the luxury and beauty of the area. His rooms are large...
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...Appendix C Activity-Based Costing QUESTIONS 1. Manufacturing overhead costs cannot be directly traced to units of product like direct materials and direct labor. Assigning overhead costs to units of product requires some sort of allocation on some “reasonable” basis. 2. In the first stage, service department costs are assigned to operating departments. In the second stage, a predetermined overhead rate is computed for each operating department and used to assign overhead to output (or jobs or products). 3. Operating departments are directly involved in manufacturing or selling the products or services of a business. Service departments support operating departments through activities such as accounting, payroll, and legal services. 4. Activity-based costing (ABC) is a method for allocating shared costs among departments or products. It is especially common for overhead allocation. The goal of ABC is to provide reliable information about costs and their sources. One advantage of ABC is that it forces managers to examine the behavior of cost drivers and cost levels, with the result that costs are more likely to be managed effectively. 5. Anything to which costs would be assigned is considered a “cost object.” Common cost objects are units of product, product lines, departments, activities, and projects. 6. An activity cost driver is the measure of the activity that causes costs to be incurred. For instance, the activity driver for the activity...
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...D-Bamboo Home and Garden Shop Marketing for New and Growing Ventures with Nadia Salamat-Ali By: Andre Ferguson, Candice Lela-Rolingson, Eric Gransaul, Ken Francis Charles, Melissa Pascal Company Background ❖ Incorporated in 2007 in Chaguanas ❖ Owner:Harry Laurell-Graduate of the The University of the West Indies ❖ Startup capital of $75K ❖ No market research but tacit knowledge ❖ Company know for high quality H&G products ❖ Rising competition began eroding profits Company Overview The D’Bamboo Home and Garden Shop was incorporated in 2007 by Harry Laurell, fifteen years after graduating from The University of the West Indies. Laurell, the business was totally funded the startup with $75,000.00 which was every cent of his personal savings, with no prior marketing research or marketing plan in effect, but a great deal of knowledge and experience, which he acquired from years of work in the Agribusiness sector the D’Bamboo Home and Garden Shop became established. Located at a busy intersection in Chaguanas, the business had gained a reputation for selling high quality home and garden products at best prices, however as competition in the immediate vicinity began to emerge, subsequently the D’Bamboo was affected by a host of challenges and opportunities which will be further outlined in this document as well detailed alternatives/recommendations are presented. Issue Realization and Definition Issue ❖ 40% reduction in sale as of 2009 ❖ ‘Introduction’ of competition...
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............................................................................. 7 1.1 Background to the study .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.2 Problem Statement .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 1.3 Purpose of the Study.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 1.4 Study Objectives .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 1.4.1 Ultimate Objective .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 1.4.2 Specific objectives ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 1.5 Study...
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...Derby City Bed & Breakfast Business Plan for the period Starting April 2007 By: Cherisse Spillman Table of Contents Executive Summary - Business Description - Ownership and Management - Key Initiatives - Marketing Opportunities - Competitive Advantages - Marketing Strategy - Summary of Financial Projections Business Overview - Location and Facilities - Product and Services - Industry Overview - Marketing Research - Management and Staffing - Regulatory Issues - Market Risks - Implementation Plan - Financial Plan - Monthly Cash Flow Executive Summary Business Description Derby City B&B is a bed and breakfast establishment that is scheduled to begin operation on April 1, 2007. Derby City B&B will provide various high quality accommodation and full breakfast for both tourist and business customers. Derby City B&B will have 4 comfortably furnished rooms, each will queen-sized beds. A full breakfast will...
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...Foreign Study: Asian restaurants still foreign to U.S. chains By Bob Krummert Fast-casual concept gurus take note. Now there’s yet another reason why a chain restaurant that serves Asian food should be a can’t-miss proposition: lack of competition from other chains. Numbers compiled by foodservice database and analytics firm CHD Expert show that of themore than 64,000 Asian restaurants now doing business in the U.S., only six percent are run by chains. Factor in the many other attributes this segment holds and you’d think fast casual developers would be opening new Asian concepts as fast as they could think them up. That’s not the case, even though this segment provides most of the things customers want from a contemporary restaurant experience. Consider: Asian food embraces a wide variety of unique ethnic flavors; most dishes are inherently healthful; the nature of Asian meal preparation makes it easy for patrons to customize their orders without overburdening the kitchen; and Asian dishes travel well, a particularly important component given the current boom in takeout and delivery business. All this and relatively low price points, too. Restaurant industry watcher Technomic sees more growth on the way. “There's something about Asia,” Technomic writes in its roundup of 2015 food trends. “Asian foods have been trending for years, but the world's biggest and fastest-moving continent always delivers something new. In 2015, look for the breakout of Korean, mainstreaming of...
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...G o o d B e t t e r B e s t I O W A CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION Education is an endeavor that is highly sensitive to location. Students and alumni respond all their lives to memories of the place that nourished their intellectual State leaders who established The University of Iowa more than 150 years ago are gone, but their work is alive today. The UI Pentacrest and campus are a living testimony to the state’s history and its legacy of support for education. growth. The physical environment of a campus does much to stimulate and support the mind, body, and spirit of those who study, live, and work there. The beauty and serenity of the UI campus stir imaginations and motivate students, faculty, and staff to give their best efforts. The charm and splendor of the campus are also enormously advantageous in recruiting the best students, faculty, and staff to the University. During the University’s 150th anniversary in 1997-98, the Sesquicentennial Campus Plan was prepared as a guide for future campus physical development—a plan that would help fulfill aesthetic potential and build on the work of our predecessors who created this wonderful campus. SHARING A VISION FOR THE FUTURE Nature has a commanding influence on the UI campus environment, both nurturing and destructive. The Iowa River is a powerful force on the University’s entire campus, and several graceful bridges unite east to west. Tamed by a dam and reservoir “Sixty percent of collegebound students told...
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...is reaching such alarming levels that in some parts of the world it is posing a threat to human existence. Scientists around the globe are working on new ways of conserving water. It is an opportune time, to refocus on one of the ways to recycle water—through the reuse of urban wastewater, for irrigation and other purposes. This could release clean water for use in other sectors that need fresh water and provide water to sectors that can utilize wastewater e.g., for irrigation and other ecosystem services. In general, wastewater comprises liquid wastes generated by households, industry, commercial sources, as a result of daily usage, production, and consumption activities. Municipal treatment facilities are designed to treat raw wastewater to produce a liquid effluent of suitable quality that can be disposed to the natural surface waters with minimum impact on human health or the environment. The disposal of wastewater is a major problem faced by municipalities, particularly in the case of large metropolitan areas, with limited space for land-based treatment and disposal. On the other hand, wastewater is also a resource that can be applied for productive uses since wastewater contains nutrients that have the potential for use in agriculture, aquaculture and other activities. In both developed and developing countries, the most prevalent practice is the application of municipal wastewater (both treated and untreated) to land. In developed countries where environmental standards...
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...CASE STUDY#1: Rocky Gagnon, General Contractor Rocky Gagnon is 50 years old carpenter who wants to make some changes for the way he earns his money. Due to his health condition especially his back, instead of working hard physically, he wants to work with his mind by creating an effective house-building team which includes various type of construction workers. Gagnon wants to continue his life as a general contractor, but as a general contractor he encounters some problems of building a team; therefore he has hired a well-known and respected business professor from the local community to serve as an adviser and mediator. Most of the problems he faces are due to a lack of cohesiveness and cooperation between the contractors which create big problems to form an effective work team. Rocky Gagnon must know the stages of developing a group such as forming, storming, norming and performing. All contractors should work together for one common goal and they should respect to work of each other. It is very important to know that level of respect should come from one individual with the organization. The best solution is Rocky Gagnon as a leader should inform the team of what it takes to establish effective work team. The team must educate on understanding of roles and group norms, common goals, a positive team identity, good working relationship, shared responsibility, respect, positive energy, trust, willingness to cooperate, unity, good communication, pride in membership, and...
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...and flowing to the National Mall. While parts of the MBT run on 16 rails to trails u spring/summer.10 RTC’s Stephen Miller helps clip on a new helmet during a bicycle giveaway along part of the Met Branch. For the October 2009 event, RTC partnered with the Beacon House—a tutoring and mentoring organization in the Edgewood neighborhood of Washington, D.C.—to give bicycles (pictured below), locks, helmets and safety instruction to 40 students. A completed section of the Met Branch that runs parallel to Takoma Avenue near Silver Spring, Md. busy streets today, the goal is to create a trail that’s completely off-road. In many ways, the creation process of the MBT and its integration with the surrounding community serves as a case study for urban trail development. As Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) looks to promote the MBT and revitalize underused trails in numerous metropolitan areas, it is building out a set of best practices to inform its Urban Pathways Initiative, or UPI. Funded in December 2008 by a three-year grant from The Kresge Foundation, UPI partners with civic, commercial and nonprofit groups to create trails, including the MBT, that...
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...RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1 Introduction The recommendation will look through the objectives either achieved or not. The objectives of the study are the percentages of the using the public transportation by residents in daily working trip and leisure trip, also the factors that influences the residents about their satisfaction when using the public transport. Besides, the recommendation is to propose the mitigation from the problems that be highlighted. Based on the findings it will be as a guideline to create the recommendation, which is to make the study area become improve, lively, sustain and liveable. The recommendation will improve the services of the public transport, to find ways how to attract people more use the public transport and intend...
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...CCJS345: Introduction to Security Professor Michael A. Jackson Final Project: Case Study Presented by: James W. Johnson 04 November 2012 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………..……………………………………..iii Facility Overview……....…………….……………………………………………...……….......iv Current Crime Prevention and Security Measures in Place............................................................iv Physical Limitations.…………………………..…………….…………………………………….v Optional Physical Security………..………………........................................................................vi Information and Records Security………..………........................................................................vi Emergency and Response Planning...............................................................................................vii OSHA Standards and Violaton….…………………………………………….……………..….xiii Hiring Practices……………...….…………………………………………….……………..….xiii Legal Issues…..……………...….…………………………………………….……………..……ix Conclusion……………...….…………………………………………….……………..………...ix References…………………………………………………………………….……………..…….x Introduction The purpose of this paper is to design a security plan for the Maryland Public Safety Education and Training Center (MPSETC) that, at a minimum, identifies the facility assets requiring protection, the criticality of those assets, the various threats directed at the assets and the probability of loss...
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...Introduction The Indian retail industry is estimated to have a market size of $180 billion accounting for a national GDP of 10%. It is poised to see a growth of 11 -12% per year. India is placed sixth in the global retail development index and it is predicted that there will be 1000 – 1500 stores in each of the metros by next year. The Indian retail business has the capacity to employ over 2 million in new jobs within the next 6 years. About 60% of these are expected to be in the area of fashion and lifestyle, and visual merchandising is one key area for the same. Visual Merchandising is the art of displaying merchandise in a manner that is appealing to the eyes of the customer. It sets the context of the merchandise in an aesthetically pleasing fashion, presenting them in a way that would convert the window shoppers into prospects and ultimately buyers of the product. Passion for design and creativity are essential to be a good visual merchandiser. A perfect design process and the ability to create ideas that are different are required. Awareness of happenings in fashion world is needed so as to keep up-to-date with the dynamics of the market constantly. According to Apurv Satdeve, "Visual Merchandising is a perfect understanding of one's business strategy filtered into highly creative solutions" The store derives as much of its identity, character and gravity from its physical contours, as from the products it houses and the individuals who manage the transactions...
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