Assignment:
DISCUSSION
You learned that there is, in fact, enough food available to feed everyone in the entire world every day. However, this is not happening for various reasons. We have only to look at the wealthy and resource-rich Venezuela to see how food storages begin and the destruction they can cause.
Look at the community you live in. If food became inaccessible to your community, how would that affect your day-to-day life and that of your community?
DISCUSSION 2
Review Case Study 8: Dr. Pepper Snapple Group 2011: Fighting to Prosper in Highly Competitive Market found on page 115 in the back of your textbook (the text is broken into 4 Parts - - check the index at the front and you will find there are 2 pages 115).
Please respond to the following:
The case study outlines six specific strategies that the firm has chosen to support its strategic direction.
1) Determine which strategy is most likely to benefit the firm.
a. Explain your rationale.
2) Briefly outline at least one other strategy the firm could take to support its strategic direction.
a. Illustrate why this new strategy would be successful.
The contextual investigation, "Dr. Pepper Snapple
Group 2011: Fighting to thrive in a profoundly Competitive Market", outlines techniques that the firm upheld its pivotal bearing. The companies illustrated by the firm are to:
• Build and improve driving brands
• Focus on circumstances in high development and high edge classes
• Increase nearness in high edge classes
• Leverage its incorporated plan of action
• Strengthen its appropriation channels through acquisitions
• Improve working productivity
Of the procedures that which may profit the firm is the technique to reinforce its dispersion channels through acquisitions. Through securing, the firm will have the capacity to ready to have its items accessible to an expansive number of individuals. This will help to expand markets.
Write a four to six (4 to 6) page paper in which you:
Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose either a strategy OR tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy OR tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
Determine the company's tangible and intangible resources, core capabilities, and core competencies.
Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
Choose two (2) forces of competition that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these) forces in the recent past, going back no further than five (5) fiscal years.
With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
Identify what you consider to be the greatest external threat to this corporation. Discuss how the corporation should address this threat. Justify your explanation.
Identify what you consider to be the greatest opportunity presented to the corporation, and discuss how the corporation should take advantage of this opportunity. Justify your explanation
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify.
•Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
•Identify the five forces of competition.
•Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
•Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm's competitiveness.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
•Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.