Supply chain has never been Home Depot’s key strategic priorities in the past. Instead‚ the Atlanta-based home improvement’s management had always been focusing on expanding its stores. At the time‚ the company’s emphasis on expansion was appropriate considering the history of massive growth. What originally helped Home Depot’s growth was a decentralized business model where stores were populated with highly knowledgeable sales persons with backgrounds in various building trades. Regional and store-level
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The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management Introduction Established in 1979‚ The Home Depot has proved to be a leading retail company founded upon providing excellent products at competitive prices sold from knowledgeable sales representatives. Through this concept‚ The Home Depot has dominated both professional and do-it-yourself sales across the world. In 1992‚ The Home Depot was faced with a new challenge. Hurricane Andrew struck with vengeance and devastated 75‚000 homes across
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Home Depot Environmental Sustainability Audit The Home Depot is a company built under the principle of creating value for their stockholders while never forgetting the company’s main values: “Taking care of our people‚ giving back‚ doing the right thing‚ creating shareholder value‚ respect for all people‚ entrepreneurial spirit‚ building strong relationships‚ and excellent customer service”. These values were presented by Francis S. Blake (The Home Depot C.E.O.) on the company’s 2007 annual
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This section analyzes the corporate and strategy framework in Home Depot’s internal environment. The company’s mission statement‚ values and ethics‚ corporate culture‚ social responsibility‚ corporate governance‚ organizational structure‚ and the motivation‚ rewards‚ and incentive programs available for the company’s executives are identified‚ analyzed‚ and discussed. Mission Statement When discovering the idea for a business‚ an important element of the current strategy plan is a mission statement
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Marcus and Arthur Black opened their first Home Depot store in Atlanta‚ GA. The mission of Home Depot was to create a superstore for home improvement that would offer customers a variety of products at a low price that other hardware stores would not be able to match. Managers were able to order and stock products that meet the needs of their local and regional customers. Jones (as cited by Pearson‚ 2013) states “when the authority to make important decisions about organizational resources and to initiate
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IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) e-ISSN: 2278-487X‚ p-ISSN: 2319-7668. Volume 17‚ Issue 2.Ver. II (Feb. 2015)‚ PP 61-67 www.iosrjournals.org Consumer decision-making-styles for nondurable consumer goods Habib Md. Arif Khan1‚ Mirza A F M Tawhidur Rahman2‚ Sujit Kumer Deb Nath3 1 (Research Scholar‚ Institute of Business Administration‚ Jahangirnagar University‚ Bangladesh) 2 (Research Officer‚ Bangladesh Tariff Commission) 3 (Lecturer‚ Department of Business Administration‚ Prime
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Home Depot A. Executive Summary * Introduction * The Home Depot Story - First Stage (1979-2000) * The Home Depot Story – Second Stage (2000 – 2006) * Problem Identification * Case Questions Introduction * Home Depot was founded in 1978 in Atlanta‚ Georgia by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. * Both of them worked at Home Improvement Company in California and were fire by this company. * So instead of looking for a new job they decide to start up their own business
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Team Based Approach – Home Depot The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss the training issues that are likely to be faced by the selected organization‚ Home Depot. Home Depot is a leading and renowned U.S based retailing company that deals with the home improvement and construction services and products. According to the given case‚ Home Depot is contemplating to adopt and use a team-based approach‚ in order to reduce the operational cost‚ while increasing its overall productivity.
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Decision making is a cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice called a decision. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what. Therefore‚ decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or irrational‚ and can be based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions. (McGlone‚ 2000) There are several steps in the decision-making process:
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playing important role for integration the supply chain. (Wisner‚ 2009) In 2006‚ Home Depot did not focus their supply chain said Mark Holifield senior vice president of Home Depot. They pointed out that warehouse management was not the top of their improvement list. However‚ Home Depot realized that they faced a big problem due to their outdated technology for their supply chain (Maloney‚ 2009). In 2009 annual Home Depot report mentioned that transformation of the supply chain was so important.
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