ROBINHOOD

1. What is their mission? What should it be? Their mission rob from the rich and give to the poor. Their mission should be to sustain provability through keeping update to current economic conditions while never forgetting their founding believes.

2. What are the objectives and what should they be?

There objectives are to get the sheriff out of office.
Steal from the rich and give to the poor.

There objectives should be
Recruit only those most willing to the cause and are skilled in their craft
Never change their believes
Pursue other ways to gain revenue

3. What are the strategies and what should they be?
Corporate- They currently use a Concentration strategy because they are using the same strategy of pursuing rich merchants and refusing to pay taxes and trying to get rid of the sheriff .
Robin hood should use a Diversification strategy because with his growing overhead expenses he needs to peruse other areas of income.
Business- Robin hoods uses a Focus/Niche strategy because his only source of revenue is stealing from the rich.
He should use a Differentiation strategy to get more sources of income. Maybe not taxes but they could venture into selling game or setting up nonprofit gambling centers. Functional- HR- Recruitment through people hearing about what they do and they getting volunteers.
Management- Robin hoods run the merry men with absolute authority while delegating other responsibilities to his most trusted men.

SWOT:

Strength- Strong brand name, Recruitment is easy,
Weakness- Expenses are growing faster than revenues
Opportunity- With the growing number of employees they can divaricate their strategy and allocate resources towards other ventures.
Threat- The sheriff is in close with prince john and instead of becoming weaker with the marry men present he has become stronger.

4. How are they presently implementing their strategies?
They implement their strategies through Robin Hood having overall command and delegating responsibilities to his most trusted men. Little John- Head of HR, Will Scarlett- Head of R&D, Scarlock- CFO, Much Miller- Payroll officer

a. Capable organization- Structure- Robin Hood absolute command and he delegates duties to his top executives. Competencies- Robin Hoods Core competencies are they company value of caring about the less fortunate. Recruitment/Personnel- They do not have to worry about Recruitment because they have such a strong brand image that people approach them to become a merry man.

b. Budget resources- Allocation and Control for resources Training and development of people- Little John trains their troops and keeps them motivated to train on their archery.

c. Support systems- Information systems- Will Scarlett uses direct research to learn about the competition. Policies, rules and guidelines-The Marry Men follow the managements verbal rules and commitments Functional area activities such as accounting etc.- Scarlock keeps track of finances and Much pays the men.

d. Leadership- Styles- Robin is the absolute leader Entrepreneurship- Robin is looking to implement a tax to increase revenues Values and Culture building- Give to the poor take from the rich

e. Commitment- Rewards and incentives –Employees get commission by what they steal and management offers food rewards Motivation- More they steal the more they get

5. How can the organization improve in the areas of implementation, (what should they have been doing in the light of new mission, objectives and definition of strategies)?
Robin hood could look into other areas of Revenue he is thinking taxes but he should use his managers input and think of another way to get other sources of income.
a. Critical activities needed to implement strategies are?
Give more responsibilities to managers so its not all on his shoulders. Have Scarlett go to the barons and people and see how they feel about a tax

b. Recommendations- Overall look into other sources of revenue and have more than one source of income. Like I recommended before maybe a nonprofit gambling center for the rich and even sell any game or deer they hunt.