Report of CanGo Veronica Perla BSN460ON Senior Project Dr. John Martin September 7‚ 2009 Overview CanGo is an Internet startup company that retails an exciting array of products and services‚ ranging from books and videos to online gaming‚ and prides itself on providing the best customer service in terms of product delivery and support. The company’s Web site is fun and easy to use; employing the latest technology in Web site development‚ product innovation‚ and services is how CanGo strives
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Analysis Inc. CanGo Business Analysis Team B DeVry University BUSN 460 Table of Contents Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4 SWOT ANALYSIS.........................................................................................................................5 FINANCIAL
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expects global games industry revenues to rise from $60.4 billion in 2009 to $70.1 billion in 2015. The importance’s of our consultant firm are to analysis and make recommendation to increase revenues‚ increase growth‚ and produce effective results. CanGo are involved in three kinds of electronic industries‚ which are elaborated into one company that includes e-books‚ digital media‚ and the online gaming industry. To develop a better understanding
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CanGo has moved from a small startup to a recognized growth company having a recent IPO offering. CanGo is currently lacking in a critical area for any business. It needs to focus on Strategic Planning. Strategic Planning will benefit CanGo by allowing it to: 1. Clearly define its goals consistently with its Mission and Vision statement. 2. Communicate effectively its goals to all of the organization. 3. Provide a foundation on which to direct future efforts. CanGo has the layers for a hierarchical
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SWOT is an acronym that stands for strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats. The SWOT analysis will help CanGo understand the opportunities that are available and what threats may affect its operations. Before moving forward CanGo needs to assess the position they currently have in the market place. The use of a SWOT analysis technique will be beneficial at this point and will serve as the baseline to elaborate on a strategic plan for the organization. Be Bold has been observing CanGo’s
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Problem: CanGo has never prepared a SWOT analysis. This can lead to poor decision making and ineffective goal determination. Solution: Prepare a SWOT analysis which shows the company’s strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses are often internal factors while opportunities and threats are external. CanGo needs to do a SWOT analysis in order to identify where they are strong and where they are vulnerable. To do a SWOT analysis CanGo needs to ask themselves the following
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. Lack of communication between departments * Observations-Issues: Lack of business planning and communication between CanGo departments were observed where the employees are not working together to give updates and status reports on which work has or has not been completed or which needs completion. * Analysis-Recommendations: Mandatory weekly meetings with each department managers‚ supervisors and key employees on project updates should be conducted. Communication is tremendously important
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This competitive analysis was conducted to aid in the development of CanGo‚ an online gaming website. This analysis focused on three competitors: Big Fish Games‚ iWin.com‚ and Pogo.com. The existence of these competitors indicates that there is indeed a market for online gaming. All of these competitors offer free online game play‚ game downloads‚ chat rooms‚ club memberships‚ and some type of prizes. This suggests that CanGo may be benefit from extending the online gaming website to include these
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Financial analysis of CanGo CanGo has been growing rapidly ever since its formation. It experienced a greater than expected growth in revenues. However‚ the company is faced with some financial difficulties and so there is a need to take certain financial decisions. Also‚ it faces problems of controlling logistics related to growth. Rapid growth seems to be a blessing. However‚ it depends on the company’s ability how they deal with it. The holiday season of 2009 showed the company’s inability to
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Assumptions: 1. At the beginning of 2009‚ CanGo purchased the online gaming company. This purchase was for cash‚ paid for through the proceeds of the IPO and results in goodwill. 2. 90% of the online book sales comes from JIT‚ the other 10% through the inventory which CanGo possesses. 100% of the CD/DVD/MP3 come through CanGo inventory. The result is that 80% of ALL sales is JIT and 20% is inventory. 3. There is one warehouse for shipping of books and one plant for manufacturing
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