...Report of strategies and recommendations to improve the hospital’s financial status In my analysis of the problems now facing the hospital, I have pointed out key areas that continue to lose money for the hospital and ways to improve on the now running systems to improve efficiency. It is clear that the hospital continues to lose patients and with the patients significant income. There is an array of issues causing this in my opinion but I very well agree with the recent audit. In this spirit I present this report which in my best opinion will go miles to overcome our current situation and even better it. I believe that it is high time the hospital undertook a serious bench marking exercise. It is important to keep the hospital trendy and up to date with the latest in modern healthcare practices. This will not only help us in competing better in the market but will also increase the efficiency of our services and the general company outlook. A good example is with the fitness and wellness center currently running in one of our competing hospitals. Having a fitness center in the hospital will definitely increase the flow of patients and with that our financial situation. Encouraging members to take up membership to the wellness center that will tag along with free medical checkups and discounts on services once you are a member will also widen revenue streams. It is also paramount that we look at our labor force. In order to run an efficient business it’s important to keep a...
Words: 828 - Pages: 4
...Strategic Analysis Report Guidelines Applied Strategy Inc. – Fall 2011 Company: Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) Overall Objective: To analyze Tesla’s current operations and provide strategic recommendations to the board of directors of Tesla in order to answer how to protect and strengthen a current competitive advantage, or to create a new competitive advantage and then protect and strengthen it. The recommendations should be creative, should leverage Tesla’s current strengths and/or address Tesla’s biggest weakness, and should be supported with sound financial analysis and justification. Refer to the financial analysis provided by Paul Gregg, ASI’s CFO, and use this as your financial model for all analysis and projections. Introduction (up to 1 page) Executive Summary Please provide an executive summary in the front of the report outlining in a concise manner the most critical aspects of your analyses. Formatting for readability will be important in this section. Your executive summary should identify your most critical findings and then highlight key components of your strategic recommendation. Consider your audience here – based on your research for Tesla and the industry, what does the CEO or Chairman of the Board of Tesla need to know to achieve the company’s goals? Part 1 (2-4 pages) Identify Tesla’s current mission and analyze Tesla’s strategy In less than one page, identify Tesla’s mission. Consider all of the parts of Tesla when you reflect on the vision and mission statement...
Words: 2052 - Pages: 9
...Strategic Analysis Report Guidelines Applied Strategy Inc. – Fall 2011 Company: Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) Overall Objective: To analyze Tesla’s current operations and provide strategic recommendations to the board of directors of Tesla in order to answer how to protect and strengthen a current competitive advantage, or to create a new competitive advantage and then protect and strengthen it. The recommendations should be creative, should leverage Tesla’s current strengths and/or address Tesla’s biggest weakness, and should be supported with sound financial analysis and justification. Refer to the financial analysis provided by Paul Gregg, ASI’s CFO, and use this as your financial model for all analysis and projections. Introduction (up to 1 page) Executive Summary Please provide an executive summary in the front of the report outlining in a concise manner the most critical aspects of your analyses. Formatting for readability will be important in this section. Your executive summary should identify your most critical findings and then highlight key components of your strategic recommendation. Consider your audience here – based on your research for Tesla and the industry, what does the CEO or Chairman of the Board of Tesla need to know to achieve the company’s goals? Part 1 (2-4 pages) Identify Tesla’s current mission and analyze Tesla’s strategy In less than one page, identify Tesla’s mission. Consider all of the parts of Tesla when you reflect on the vision and mission statement...
Words: 2024 - Pages: 9
...analysis should be written and structured in report style using an appropriate reference convention, table of convention, table of contents, list of figure, diagrams, appendices etc. This coursework is supposed to be structures as a report. Don’t explain what each model is about. Don’t discuss on the models. Just implement them for the company/ industry/ market you have selected, always trying to adopt the correct perspective for each one of them. THE REPORT SHOULD FOLLOW: Executive Summary: The last to write. In ten lines, summarize everything you have done in your coursework. Imagine that I am your manager and I don’t have time to read your report. In these 10 lines you have to make me understand what you have done in total. Introduction: Write a few lines about the company. What the company is about? What is the company’s size and area of activity? What is the vision/ mission/ main strategic goals of the company? In which industry(-ies) it belongs? Which market(s) it targets? Corporate Strategy is the Strategy shaped for the company as a whole. However, I am giving you the opportunity to choose just one market and/or one industry to analyse. For example, if you had to analyse ‘Samsung’, you could create a strategic review for Samsung as a globalized company (all industries and markets included) or you can just choose to analyse the industry of ‘smart phones’ in the US market. In any case, it would have been good for your report to state in your introduction what will...
Words: 1098 - Pages: 5
...KHOI KHOI | Module Code: MKT_ 306 | Module Name / Title: Marketing Strategy | Centre / College: UTE Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam | Due Date: 10 October 2014 | Hand in Date: 10 October 2014 | Assignment Title: DEVELOPING MARKETING STRATEGY FOR ACB’s CREDIT IN VIETNAM MARKET | Students Signature: (you must sign this declaring that it is all your own work and all sources of information have been referenced)PHAN KHOI KHOI | Marketing Strategy MKT – 306 Assignment Guide – 2014 -15 Module Leader: Karen Wharton Email: Karen.wharton@sunderland.ac.uk Please read all instructions and information carefully. You are required to submit your work under the University Infringement of Assessment Regulations. Your assignment must be submitted to your Study Centre in hard copy with an accurately and clearly completed Assignment Cover Sheet, and an electronic copy on CD in an envelope [hole punched or safely secured into your plastic file or assignment wallet]. Please do not include a plastic CD case/box and remember to write your student code and assignment code clearly onto the disc and envelope. All your assignments must be submitted in conjunction with a Turnitin© report (only if your centre provides the facility). You will need to achieve an overall mark of 40% in order to successfully complete this module. Karen Wharton Module Leader - MKT 306 Mode of Assessment: | Individual Report | Weighting: | 100% | Module Assessor: | Karen Wharton | Issue...
Words: 1556 - Pages: 7
... | | |Report Status: |Draft/Final | | | | |Date/s of Review: |dd/mm/yy to dd/mm/yy | | | | |Draft Report Issued to SRO: |dd/mm/yy | | | | |Final Report Issued to SRO & |dd/mm/yy | |Copied to Centre of Expertise: | | | | | |Overall Report Status: |Red/Amber/Green ...
Words: 1126 - Pages: 5
...Chocolates, Mr. Steve Parkhill has asked that you evaluate strategic growth options available to the company and make recommendations that will allow the company to achieve 200% - 300% growth within the next 10 years. Your recommendations should be based upon the results of an industry and competitive analysis of the premium chocolate industry and an analysis of Rogers’ Chocolates internal situation. Please prepare a report not exceeding 10 pages that identifies a specific growth strategy that weighs the pros and cons of each avenue of growth and sets forth an action plan for the most viable option. Your recommendations should be supported with specific statements linked to your analysis. Exhibits such as a Five Forces model, key success factors, driving forces, SWOT analysis, and financial analysis should be attached to your report. Research in Motion: Managing Explosive Growth Research in Motion (RIM) has employed you as an analyst in its corporate offices in Waterloo, Ontario. Your first assignment is to assist senior management in developing a plan to sustain its innovation-based competitive advantage. The specific options for managing its growth and expanding its research and development staff include: (1) Do what we do now, only more of it; (2) Grown and expand existing geographies; (3) Increase acquisitions; and (4) Go global. In arriving at a recommendation you should first examine the economic characteristics of the mobile communications industry, the strength of the...
Words: 571 - Pages: 3
...Marketing Strategy MKT306 Guidance on the Assignment Task This assignment is a single report in two parts. (As a guide only; each part should form approximately half of the final report) a) Investigation and analysis Choose a brand of wristwatch either a single product or a product line. Investigate and evaluate the marketing strategy of the producer/brand owner using contemporary marketing tools and techniques. This may however be illuminated using examples from other companies/ organizations. You can demonstrate the effectiveness of the reported policies for the chosen company by giving performance data against competitors in the market (e.g. market share, sales, profitability, etc.). b) Recommendations Your remit is to put forward your own suggestions covering changes in marketing strategy that will improve the future performance of the brand/ product/ product line for the benefit of the parent company and its stakeholders. Justify your choices again using contemporary marketing methods and techniques. These suggestions should be your own ideas but may include marketing tactics and strategies used by other successful organisations but in different industry sectors. You will put these suggestions, forward in a written report. Please do not just restate the strategies used buy your chosen firm but outline your own ideas for improved performance. What should your assignment contain? * Title page * Table of contents * Summary * Introduction ...
Words: 829 - Pages: 4
...Marketing Strategy MKT306 Guidance on the Assignment Task This assignment is a single report in two parts. (As a guide only; each part should form approximately half of the final report) a) Investigation and analysis Choose a brand of wristwatch either a single product or a product line. Investigate and evaluate the marketing strategy of the producer/brand owner using contemporary marketing tools and techniques. This may however be illuminated using examples from other companies/ organizations. You can demonstrate the effectiveness of the reported policies for the chosen company by giving performance data against competitors in the market (e.g. market share, sales, profitability, etc.). b) Recommendations Your remit is to put forward your own suggestions covering changes in marketing strategy that will improve the future performance of the brand/ product/ product line for the benefit of the parent company and its stakeholders. Justify your choices again using contemporary marketing methods and techniques. These suggestions should be your own ideas but may include marketing tactics and strategies used by other successful organisations but in different industry sectors. You will put these suggestions, forward in a written report. Please do not just restate the strategies used buy your chosen firm but outline your own ideas for improved performance. What should your assignment contain? ■ Title page ■ Table of contents ■ Summary ■ Introduction ...
Words: 827 - Pages: 4
...an executive summary summarizes, or reviews the main points of, a longer document or report for a reader that does not have time to read the entire report. An effective executive summary analyzes and summarizes the most important points in the paper or report, and will often make a recommendation based on the analysis. Executive summaries are “stand alone” documents that are almost always read independently of the reports they summarize. When writing executive summaries, always remember who will be reading it. You must take into account that the main purpose of your document, main topic and idea and why you need to showcase it. Remember we’re doing it from a marketing point of view. So here are some pointers to consider when writing your summary: * Who will read your executive summary? Sometimes your executive summary may have an “intended” audience: your professor might require you to write it for a CEO, department head, or supervisor, for example. On other assignments, your audience won’t have a specific identity, but always keep in mind that the reader of an executive summary needs to know all of the important information in the main document without reading the actual document. Even if you know that your instructor will be reading everything that you submit, write the executive summary as a “stand alone” document. * What is the main document’s main topic, theme, or idea? Most reports have a “thesis” or central point that they are seeking to communicate. Try to sum...
Words: 1036 - Pages: 5
...speaking countries. Many reports before the Rose Review done in the year 2006 provide evidence of other methods used in teaching early reading. (Sheerman, 2009, p.36) Compares non-phonics and accurate systematic phonics programs and notes a slight difference in their effectiveness with non-phonics being on the lower margin. Other reports have proved beyond any reasonable doubt the existence of other strategies for teaching early reading. The studies reported some of the strategies as being more efficient than others. However, according to Annette Karmiloff-Smith (2009, p. 300), reading is a various area of knowledge with diverse needs that cannot be addressed by a single approach. Therefore, the teachers taking pupils through early reading must be familiar with various teaching strategies and understand when to apply the different methods. These teachers must also understand the reasons that contribute to the usage of particular teaching strategies (Adamuti-Trache & Robert, 2013). The above reports support the use of different approaches in contrary to systematic synthetic phonics. They both realize the diversity nature of children mind hence the difficulty of applying one approach in teaching the pupils how to read. Even though other practical methods are available, all of them cannot be implemented equally to all students. Therefore, the teachers must be in a position to use the strategy the best suits the particular students. Reporting about Rose report of 2006, Brandimonte...
Words: 1192 - Pages: 5
...Chapter 13 PLANNING REPORTS AND PROPOSALS Multiple Choice 1. Despite the variety among them, many analytical reports include a a. standard opening. b. section of recommendations. c. “this is how it’s done” quality. d. standard middle section. ANSWER: b; DIFFICULTY: moderate; PAGE: 394; TYPE: concept 2. The basic purpose of informational reports is a. to persuade the audience to act. b. to present recommendations and conclusions. c. to present data, facts, feedback, and other types of information, without analysis or recommendations. d. to convince the reader of the soundness of your thinking. ANSWER: c; DIFFICULTY: easy; PAGE: 394; TYPE: concept 3. The best way to phrase the purpose statement of a report is with a. complex language. b. an infinitive phrase. c. a controversial statement. d. jargon. ANSWER: b; DIFFICULTY: moderate; PAGE: 396; TYPE: concept 4. Which of the following is the least clear statement of purpose? a. “The purpose of this report to determine which of four alternative investments will have the highest return.” b. “The purpose of this report is to analyze four potential investments.” c. “The purpose of this report is to answer the question, ‘Which of four investments will provide the highest return?’” d. “The goal of this report is to evaluate the return on four investments.” ANSWER: b; DIFFICULTY: moderate; PAGE: 396; TYPE: application ...
Words: 4088 - Pages: 17
... Assignment #1 Introduction Loblaw Companies Limited is the largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1400 supermarkets operating under. The purpose of this report is to analyze Loblaw’s Vision, Mission, and goals, and to verify whether these statements could meet the criteria identified in the textbook. Brief recommendations are provided if any of the statements don’t meet the criteria. Vision Statement The company’s vision has three core themes: “Simplify, Innovate and Grow” (Loblaw Companies Limited, 2007 Annual report) | | Effective elements | * Memorable * Flexible * Forward- looking: Brings change and hope for the future * Graphic: Shapes the company’s strategy | Shortcomings | * Short * The language is overly broad * Not focused enough * Lack explanation about business sense | Comment and Recommendation: Loblaw’s vision statement of “Simplify, Innovate and Grow” has both strength and weakness. On the strength side, firstly the language used for the vision statement is flexible and memorable. The vision can be easily communicated. Also, it leaves room for the vision to be adjusted for different audiences. Secondly, the vision is graphic and forward-looking. It brings change, hope and a clear picture of the company’s strategy for the future. On the other hand, this vision statement also has some weakness....
Words: 811 - Pages: 4
...countries. Many reports before the Rose Review done in the year 2006 provide evidence of other methods used in teaching early reading. (Sheerman, 2009, p.36) Compares non-phonics and accurate systematic phonics programs and notes a slight difference in their effectiveness with non-phonics being on the lower margin. Other reports have proved beyond any reasonable doubt the existence of other strategies for teaching early reading. The studies reported some of the strategies as being more efficient than others. However, according to Annette Karmiloff-Smith (2009, p. 300), reading is a various area of knowledge with diverse needs that cannot be addressed by a single approach. Therefore, the teachers taking pupils through early reading must be familiar with various teaching strategies and understand when to apply the different methods. These teachers must also understand the reasons that contribute to the usage of particular teaching strategies (Adamuti-Trache & Robert, 2013). The above reports support the use of different approaches in contrary to systematic synthetic phonics. They both realize the diversity nature of children mind hence the difficulty of applying one approach in teaching the pupils how to read. Even though other practical methods are available, all of them cannot be implemented equally to all students. Therefore, the teachers must be in a position to use the strategy the best suits the particular students. Reporting about Rose report of 2006,...
Words: 1192 - Pages: 5
...the assignment students will be able to: develop conceptual skills in applying the basic concepts of marketing and its many elements such as the marketing mix, marketing environment, marketing research methods. understand the marketing environment and help develop an in-depth understanding of the marketing strategies used in actual market place. apply analytical skills to analyse their conceptual foundations with actual market practices thus giving them an understanding of how to compete effectively and face the challenges of a marketplace ASSIGNMENT QUESTION A marketing plan serves to document how the organisations strategic objectives will be achieved through specific marketing strategies and tactics with customer as the starting point. Company Overview Nestlė is the world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness company. Their mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night. Nestlé believes that it is only possible to create long-term sustainable value for our shareholders if our behaviour, strategies and operations also create value for the communities it serves. The Company was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland, where the headquarters are still located today. They employ around 280 000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. Range of Products ...
Words: 930 - Pages: 4
