... | |TOP Bookstore on the Rise | |Technology in the Bookstore | | | | Table of Contents Proposal I. Subject of the Project II. Business Problem Statement III. General benefits to the organization IV. High level Approaches V. Audience Milestone 1 I. Company Background II. Discussion of Business issues III. Benefits of Solving the problem IV. Businses/technical Approach V. High Level Solution Milestone 2 I. Technology or business practices used to augment the solution II. Value of the Approach III. Business process changes Milestone I. Technology or business practices used to augment the solution (plus) II. Conclusions and overall recommendations III. High-level implementation plan IV. Summary of project PROPOSAL 1. Subject of Course Project The subject of my Course Project is TOP Bookstore using technology to increase competitiveness and profitability...
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...Characteristics of Business Leadership Teresa Fuller BUS 302 – Management Concepts Characteristics of Business Leadership Innovators and inventors are usually seen as individuals that have made huge contributions and have impacted an industry or the world in a significant way. Over the past 15 years there are several individuals that have impacted industries through invention of an item or simply by endorsing a problem. What make these individuals different is their highly motivated spirit, their willingness not to accept failure and their unprecedented work ethic. One such innovators is known by names such as “the king of the web,” “wizard of web retailing,” or “lord of the jungle,” it’s Jeffrey Bezos. Jeff is credited with the online e-book craze, a place where individuals could by books without visiting a brick-and-mortar. What is most impressive about this innovator is how he has kept his business relevant by re-inventing the company by keeping up with the changing environment (Peneberg 2003). Jeff started with the idea of online retail in 1994 because of the growth of the internet usage. After thinking about what he could sell over the internet is settled on books. The reason he believe books would make it is because no traditional bookstore could possibly offer 2.5 million titles like the internet could. The most a bookstore could carrier in titles at one time is around 200,000. This innovator was careful and methodically in the decisions that he made down...
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...ESLITE IN SINGAPORE 1 Eslite Profile: One of the best bookstores in Asia Eslite was selected as one of the best bookstore in Asia by Times Magazine in 2004, and it was awarded "the most influential design award" by the Hong Kong Design Center. The founder was Mr. Wu Qing-You. He establishes this bookstore in 1989. His purpose of founding this organization is to see cultures and arts cultivated as the economy grows. As a result, this bookstore is operated based on arts and culture, hoping to enhance the diminishing humanities in Taiwan. Eslite now owns 48 branches, and is highly experienced in establishing them. The number of employees is about 1,200, and annual sales are about 1 billion dollars. It not only provides people with a comfortable atmosphere to read, but also blend in the element of fashion and trend into the bookstore. In spite of the bookstores, Eslite also owns 2 stationary stores, 5 concert halls, and 2 children bookstores. Eslite is well operated by compound management, including publishing, art exhibitions and even Tearoom. Because of its positioning and targeting customers, most of the branches are located in the urbanized areas. In 2012, Eslite established the first overseas branch in Causeway bay, Hong Kong. It is a spacious and quiet bookstore with more than 230 thousand books. It’s now the biggest bookstore and the one with most book collections in Hong Kong. Moreover, it will soon open in China at Soochow 2014. Assessment of Potential...
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...Alternative Two: Strategic Partnership with NSM 9 Pros 10 Cons 10 Alternative Three: e-Textbook Options 11 Pros 12 Cons 12 Alternative Four: Client Focused Strategy 12 Pros 13 Cons 13 Alternatives Matrix 14 Index 14 Conclusion 15 Solution Objectives 15 Recommendation 15 Build an e-Commerce platform 15 Strategic Partnership with NSM 16 Client-focused strategy 16 References 18 Introduction Dag Juul Moller is the owner and president of Juul Moller Bokhandel, a bookstore located in Norway. Dag speaks to Dagfinn Nettland, a master of management student at the Norwegian School of Management. Dagfinn was enrolled in a course that required students to take an existing company and analyze how it could use the internet as a sales channel and source of information. Dag was interested in the fact that the required textbooks weren’t available until several weeks into the course. Some students purchased their books using Amazon.com, others resorted to using other bookstore websites. Some students had purchased other products through the internet with minimal savings due to the costs associated with customs and sales tax. Although Dagfinn wanted to continue working with Juul Moller, he was concerned that some students would stop buying from Juul Moller and use the internet instead. Situation Analysis SWOT Analysis Strengths * Historical and “close” relationship with the Norwegian School of Management (NSM) and the student union...
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...Course: BUS 302 Management Concepts Date: 7/25/12 Instructor: J. Angles Describe the history and core business of each company. Jeff Bezos, vice-president of the Wall Street firm D.E. Shaw, left his job in 1994, moved to Seattle, and began to work on a business plan that would become Amazon.com. After reading a report that projected annual web growth at 2,300 percent, Bezos drew up a list of 20 products that could be sold on the internet. He then narrowed his list to what he felt were the five most promising: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, and books. Bezos eventually decided his venture would sell books over the web, due to the large worldwide market for literature, the low price that could be offered for books, and the tremendous selection of titles available in print. A businessman by the name of Nick Hanauer believed in Bezos' idea and invested $40,000 in his venture. When Amazon first debuted online in 1995, its layout was not as flashy as it is today. In fact, the site looked very plain and unattractive to most visitors, causing the business to start on shaky ground. A man by the name of Tom Alburg decided to invest $100,000 in Amazon in 1995, which helped the company fund a better-looking website and hosting capabilities. If he wanted people to come back as customers, Bezos new he had to create more than just a bookstore. The option of buyers to write their own book reviews was added, which is a huge credit to Amazon's success...
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...E-business plan An e-business plan for e-bookstore Presented to the professor of E-business Radostina Ruseva By: Anel Nussupbayeva (3.11.2014) Executive summary “Read Business Easy” Company is a start-up which wants to create an e-bookstore for global usage. The e-bookstore will provide people with e-books strictly related to business topics in short period of time. The goal of the company is to acquire a market share in the e-book industry through dominant selection of products, a competitive variety of services and products including the application for electronic devices, suitable prices for chosen segments and friendly environment, good browsing and reading. The RBE Company will have its head office in USA, Massachusetts, Boston. This area was chosen because many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education in business area, and the city is considered to be a world leader in innovation. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services. Introduction The idea of the current business plan is to create an e-bookstore with specialized books on business topics and provide with e-book students who study business currently or business people who currently are running their own business and sometimes need to refresh the knowledge they got before. Offered Products and Services Read Business Easy will offer a wide range of books on business topics. This includes books on Economics, Finance...
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...Evolution Paper As the team researches this well-known company, we realize that their business changed over time. We have research if Amazon is moving away from its core competency, competition with other companies, the use of its database, and how Amazon uses e-business and e-commerce for B2B and B2C. Amazon is a world known online retailer company. Jeff Bezos discovered Amazon in 1994. He launched the online store a year later. WOW! What a well written business plan. “The company began operating as an online bookstore under the name Cadabra.com, from the word abracadabra. Bezos quickly changed the name because it sounds too similar to cadaver. He renamed the company "Amazon" after the world's most voluminous river (Amazon.com, N.D.).”Amazon has not driven away from its core competency. The online retail store has just broadened their horizon. In the beginning, the company started off with Amazon existing as an online bookstore, but Amazon is now selling more products. The consumer can purchase books, electronics, clothing, furniture, movies, food, toys, and much more. The company had meetings in a garage, to Barnes and Noble for future meetings. The owner wanted so much more than just an online bookstore. It seems like he wanted Amazon to be a one stop shop. Today that is exactly what it is. The online bookstore was able to put forth countless times of more what competitive bookstores or catalogs could offer because lack of inventory stock in the local store. When Amazon...
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...electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States.[12] Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its inhouse brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom &Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico. B. History of Amazon The company was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called his "regret minimization framework", which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time.[16] In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw &Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle. He began to work on a business plan for what would eventually become Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company as "Cadabra" on July 5, 1994[11] and the site went online as Amazon.com in 1995.[17] Bezos changed the name cadabra.com to amazon.com because it sounded too much like cadaver. Additionally, a name beginning with...
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...Northlake Bookstore: Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation By: Manuel Garza Hugo Hinojosa Graciela Rodriguez Jose Garcia Alejandro Arizpe Carlos Arizpe Summary of Facts Upon assessment of the FY2004 financial information, Wendy Wiley, Northlake Bookstore’s manager, identified the first ever drop in book sales over the previous quarter. After identifying the drop in sales, Wendy turned to Chuck Irwin, the Vice Chancellor of Finance for Northlake University. He mentioned that Wendy should conduct a benchmarking analysis in order to identify the deficiencies that led to the drop in book sales. In addition, Chuck also asked Wendy to develop a set of short-term performance goals and measurements for future evaluations. Northlake is a private university located in the Midwest U.S. Annual enrollment is estimated at 12,700 students. Northlake is overwhelmingly comprised of undergraduate students. Over 60% of the university’s revenues come from student tuitions, with the majority of the remaining 40% stemming from donations and gifts. Chucks, the Vice Chancellor, is worried that the donations and gifts have decreased dramatically during the current year. He believes this is due to the current uncertain economic conditions and the stock market’s erratic performance. Wendy has been the bookstore’s manager for 7 years now. She previously worked as a Wal-Mart sales manager where she acquired15 years of experience in...
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...marketing mix of National Bookstore in the Philippines. Product National Bookstore offers a wide range of products from the retail sale and distribution of books to the sale of various school supplies. National Bookstore’s products, specifically the school supplies, are mostly aimed for the students’ and office workers’ consumption and needs. However, the customers of National Bookstore are not limited to just students and office workers. The company also caters to kids through the sale of toys, coloring books, crayons and et cetera. Adults are also customers of National Bookstore since they avail of the various selections of books that National has to offer. Students and other consumers as well know that National Bookstore offers products of good quality and of affordable prices that are of great benefit to the consumers. National Bookstore also offers branded school supplies like Staedler, Stabilo, Cattleya, and et cetera. However, National Bookstore also offers their own product line named Best Buy which is more affordable than other brands. In effect, National Bookstore gives the option to its consumers to choose the products and brands that suit their tastes and that fit in their wallet. National Bookstore products have become a necessity for students and office workers. So much so, that Filipinos equate and refer to bookstores as National, like how photocopying is equated to Xerox and marker to Pentel. Filipinos rely so much on National Bookstore providing them quality...
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...and implement a successful marketing plan. SITUATION ANALYSIS Barnes & Noble first must consider the issues and problems facing their company, and then perform an opportunity analysis to determine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to their customers, competitors, and company capabilities. In regards to the main concerns of Barnes & Noble, the company needs to worry about the uncertainties associated with the expected rapid growth of the Internet, the changing profile of Internet users, increased competition and indeterminate future developments in electronic retailing from publishers, wholesalers, and retailers, and intense price competition. By 2000, more than 80 million users will be on the World Wide Web, with an increase in females and a broader spectrum of education levels and age, changing the market demographics. Additionally, some book publishers, namely Simon & Schuster and Bertelsmann, have expanded online, while the national leading wholesaler, Ingram, is developing a website where wholesalers could ship directly to consumers. In the meantime, small publishers and universities have started to publish directly on the Web, avoiding print versions completely and thereby challenging the posterity of conventional books. Within the Barnes & Noble Corporation, their smaller traditional bookstores such as B. Dalton and Scribner's already face cannibalization from the growth of superstores and online purchasing. Finally, some claim that...
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...The Concord Bookshop and the Change process Tara Buckenmyer HCS/587 March 17, 2014 Carol Rohrback Organizational Change and the Concord Bookstore Change is inevitable for business owners. External forces like technological advances and consumer demands often places financial hardship on a company. The success of online shopping has forced bookstore owners to become creative in competing with Internet companies. To remain competitive and maintain viability, bookstore owners must be able to adapt quickly and implement organizational changes. Organizational change means introducing a new enterprise resource planning system to co-ordinate and standardize internal process (Spector, 2010). Businesses often turn to strategic renewal changes to improve profit margins and customer relations. An independently owned bookstore, The Concord Bookshop, underwent organizational change processes that led to failure. The Concord Bookshop The Concord Bookshop was a thriving bookstore in Boston, Massachusetts, until national bookstore chains and the availability of online shopping affected its financial status. To improve the store’s financial position, the owners represented by a board president, elected to implement organizational changes. The owners no longer wanted to use a three-way management system. They elected to demote the existing managers into different positions and hire a new general manager. This came as an abrupt surprise to the current employees. Employees...
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...Alice Watson BUSINESS ASSIGNMENT A Cup of Books Hypothetical Business Plan A CUP OF BOOKS A CUP OF BOOKS 1. Executive Summary This business plan outlines the main goals and features of A Cup Of Books a second hand as well as new bookstore with a café within. This business plan includes: * Business Goals -Two short term -Two long term * Business idea/description/outlook -Situational analysis -Description of motive * Operational Plan -Inputs - Process Transformation - Outputs - Quality management * Marketing Plan -Target Market identification -Marketing mix * Financial plan -Budget * Human resource plan - Staff number - Staff role -Staff acquisition - Staff training and development - Employment contracts 88 words 2. Goals 2.1 Short-term goals: 2.11 To establish a customer basis in the wider area by receiving a thousand likes on Facebook and 500 followers on Instagram, within 12 months so to establish the brand and product name and create popularity amongst younger generations. 2.12To create goodwill within the local area by creating a regular business rate as part of peoples morning routines via either morning discounts or loyalty coffee cards, so to ensure the businesses reputation is positive and therefore create a good atmosphere in association to the store and returning customers, all within 12 months. 2.2 Long-term goals: 2.21 To become the sole bookstore within 50km radius due to directing the target...
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...Characteristics of Business Management The purpose of this paper is to show a comparison of two successful businesses. Borders Books and Amazon.com are two companies that both sold books but used different methods in operating their businesses. Even though they both were successful businesses, both companies had different leadership styles, visions and goals. Out of the two businesses, only one remain successful and present today. In this paper, I will show how both businesses started, how the leaders differ in leadership styles and techniques, and how Amazon continues to be a great success today. Description of the Businesses I will describe each business and how each business started. I will also describe three main challenges each company faced while establishing or running the business. Amazon.com was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore. As CEO he has built it into the largest retailer on the web, selling everything from groceries to electronics and shoes. Jeff Bezos was working in a quantitive analysis group at an investment firm, when he saw an opportunity to sell books on the internet. In 1994 he went on a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle to start Amazon. He typed his business plan as he went. And he picked up $300,000 dollars from his parents in Fort Worth, Texas. He set up his business in his garage and began selling books via the internet. His business became worth $4.4 billion according to Forbes' latest billionaire...
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...Noble is a Fortune 500 company, and a leader in their field. The business is multi-faceted; in addition to their paper & ink product offering, the company also has a strong DVD, magazine, and eBook base; the wide variety of products offered may help the company to continue exhibiting strong growth in the future. In 2009, Barnes & Noble introduced the Nook e-reader, a device that would allow the company to enter the quickly growing market of electronic books. The Nook was an instant success, with sales of the device and of electronic books skyrocketing for the first few years. Barnes & Noble responded to this success by pouring additional resources into the Nook product line, enhancing the device and partnering with other tech giants in order to ensure the Nook remained the best e-reader on the market. However, as other competitors entered the market with lower prices and different options, Nook sales began to fall. This paper examines the history of Barnes & Noble, the evolution of the Nook product line, and the current questionable profitability of the Nook line. Barnes & Noble is a large and successful business with humble origins. The company was originally established in the early 1900s by the son of an Illinois book-printer, and was acquired by Leonard Riggio in 1971. Riggio was an innovative bookseller and entrepreneur, who at the time owned and operated a highly successful chain of college bookstores. When he purchased the floundering Barnes & Noble name, Riggio instituted...
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