Case Study on McDonald’s Environmental Strategy Bipul Chandra Saha Brajesh Kumar Dhirendra Kumar G.B.Chandramouli G.V.Ramana Overview on McDonald’s History Started business in 1948 at California with single drive–in Restaurant Owned $13 billion of the $ 93 billion fast food industry in 1991 Operation of 12400 restaurants in 59 country till 1991 and serving 18 million people per day in US only Second best known global brand Known brand for formulating and implementing its strategy for
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Scamoail Ahmed - Project Mgmt assignment no 2 Q No 1 : What is meant by Project Crashing? How you incorporate Project Crashing through PERT-CPM? Definition 1. Project Crashing is a technique / process by which a project can be expedited by compressing the project schedule. Explanation 2. When we say that a project completion time is XX days‚ we generally mean that the project will normally takes these number of days within a specified resource / budget constraint. We could make it take less
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McDonald’s The Hamburger Price Wars 1. How serious is McDonald’s U.S. situation? Why is the company having problems? McDonald’s U.S. situation is rather bad as the sales declined in the first three quarters of 2002 with strong competitive pressure and low consumer satisfaction. Looking at its financial performance in 2002 (Table A)‚ it can be observed that McDonald’s SG&A had increase disproportionately in Q3 which resulted in lower operating income. Even though McDonald prides its success in its simple
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staff well versed in Customer service skills (hamburger University) Positive company social-image (Ronald McDonald House) Impressive core competencies in franchising and logistics Target market is children and teens Weaknesses Fast Food is viewed by many as poor quality and unhealthy‚ often associated with “cheap and greasy‚” especially the baby boomers who built the brand in the 50’s and 60’s less than 6% of the over 100 item entrée menu is less than 200 calories more than half the entrees are high
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McDonald’s fast food chains occurred in 1983. Thirty-three years later‚ McDonalds still abundantly sells Chicken McNuggets to a variety of audiences. Of those two audiences‚ children and adults are easily targeted by McDonalds and its advertisements. With this being said‚ tons of chicken McNuggets are sold by McDonalds to both the youth and the adults as a quick and easy meal or a snack on the go. However‚ many customers are unaware of how chicken nuggets are made and the health concerns that surround the
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LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT Emad Elbeltagi‚ Ph.D.‚ P.Eng.‚ Professor of Construction Management Structural Engineering Department‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Mansoura University Construction Project Management 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means‚ or stored in a data base or retrieval system‚ without the prior written permissions of the author. PREFACE In the Name of
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Primary activities – create customer value Inbound logistics – routines and processes that bring resources into the organization Because McDonald’s criteria is very high‚ so they require the products are of top quality base on the low cost. They purchase raw vegetables and other raw materials from its fixed‚ pre- defined suppliers only‚ some like local grocery and farm‚ to make raw materials is fresh. For example the soft drinks‚ the only supplier is Coca-Cola. McDonald’s has practiced a backward
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shorter. Using PERT or Project Evaluation and Review Technique method‚ we are required to show the solution regarding this case. Program evaluation and review technique (PERT) is a technique adopted by organizations to analyze and represent the activity in a project‚ and to illustrate the flow of events in a project. PERT is a method to evaluate and estimate the time required to complete a task within deadlines. PERT serves as an management tool to analyze‚ define and integrate events. PERT also illustrates
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------------------------------------------------- CASE ANALYSIS REX V MCDONALD AND MCDONALD St Qd [1904] 151 ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION In order for criminal liability to be placed‚ an accused must not only commit a specific act but also a breach of a duty concerned1. This concept was brought to the forefront in the case of R v McDonald and McDonald St R Qd [1904] 151. The Supreme Court of QLD2 was called to consider the case of Angus and Flora McDonald‚ appealing against joint charges of
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CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CEE 320 – VDC SEMINAR) 4 February 2009 Jesse Santiago & Desirae Magallon Overview Background & History CPM Defined The CPM approach Definitions Class Exercise Background & History Developed in the 1950s by the US Navy Originally‚ the critical path method considered only logical dependencies between terminal elements Since then‚ it has been expanded to allow for the inclusion of resources related to each activity‚ through processes called activity-based resource
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