Pepare a strategic analysis and recommendation for a given company (Panera). For this project, all teams in the class will be assigned the same company to examine with respect to its current, real-world strategic situation. A significant portion of class material and activities will be oriented toward learning how to perform quality strategic analyses. Your consulting firm will write an in-depth analysis / strategic recommendation paper .
Strategic Analysis Paper
Your firm will conduct a strategic analysis of Panera, using publicly available information accessible through library resources, cases, and current articles. The goal of your analysis is to accurately assess its current situation and provide creative recommendations to meet its strategic needs. I will provide details about the specific formatting of the paper.
It is important that your recommendation matches your analysis of the organization's current strengths and weaknesses as well as the market opportunities and threats that you discover.
Overall Objective: Analyze Panera's current operations and provide strategic recommendations to the board of directors for Panera. The recommendations should be creative, should leverage Panera's current strengths and/or address Panera's biggest weakness, and should be supported with sound financial justification.
(2 pages) Issues and Problems :Identify the most important issues to be dealt with.
What are the company's biggest problems?
Identify the company's three biggest issues or problems and rank them in order of importance.