1) Create a basic organization chart for Robin Hood and The Merrymen. Write each person’s name and what they are responsible for doing. Basic organization chart for Robin Hood and The Merrymen 2) Perform a basic SWOT analysis on the situation Robin Hood is in. List the top 3-4 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that Robin Hood faces.
SWOT analysis on the Robin Hood situation:
Strengths:
* Robin ruled supreme. * The band was increasing in numbers. * Very strong management team which covered the structure and finances of the organization.
Weaknesses: * Growing numbers of the men are leading to fast depletion of the food supply from the forest. * Discipline was becoming harder to enforce and vigilance was in decline. * Supplies were starting to become scarce.
Opportunities: * Robin could have accepted the invitation to join the Barons, who had set out to collect the ransom that would release King Richard, the Lionheart, from his jail in Austria in return for Robin’s future amnesty. * Kill the Sheriff and thereby ending his reign in Nottingham. * Change their policy of out-right confiscation of goods to one of a fixed transit tax.
Threats: * The Sheriff was growing and was beginning to harass the band, probing for its weaknesses. * Robin didn’t know half the men he ran with, which would make it a huge threat because Prince John had spies everywhere. * Merchant travelers were also taking alternate routes to avoid having their goods confiscated by Robin and his which resulted in a loss of revenue for the band.
3) Do Robin Hood and the Merrymen need a new plan? Is continuing with the present course of action an option or is that now obsolete?
I believe that Robin Hood and his band of Merrymen definitely need a new plan. Continuing in the same course they are currently in would be obsolete. Robin Hood is currently faced