A Change Initiative for Wal-Mart Jennifer Ratcliff Kaplan University This paper will focus on a change initiative for Wal-Mart. Next‚ this paper will analyze how this change will impact the people‚ products‚ and processes. Then this paper will focus on the people portion‚ and provide recommendations to position this change initiative in a manner that results in high performance. Finally this paper will conclude with a summary of how the recommended approach to the change initiative
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in probably one of the most unlikely settings‚ the farmlands of Bentonville‚ Arkansas‚ a low-wage region of America. During the formative stages‚ some useful strategies were employed that started this super store on the right track to the extraordinary success it is today. As explained by author Nelson Lichtenstein of The Retail Revolution: How Walmart Created a Brave New World of Business‚ founder Sam Walton was lucky to begin the journey during the 1960s and 70s‚ when there was a tremendous surplus
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III. External Environment: Opportunities and Threats A. Societal Environment 1. Wal-Mart’s general environmental forces‚ which greatly impact the task environment‚ include technological‚ socio-cultural‚ economic‚ political‚ and legal forces. These forces tend to be challenging to identify and are affecting both the corporation and the industries in which it competes. Because they are indirect forces‚ which for the most part are out of management’s control‚ they may present threats and expose
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Executive Summary for Wal-Mart Bridgette Smith ACC280/Principles of Accounting November 21‚ 2010 James E. Gajda Introduction There are large and small businesses all across the country‚ with many different public and private accounting firms that handle their accounts. Many of these businesses are raking in millions and millions of dollars a year. Wal-Mart is one of them. We will be exploring Wal-Mart and how it came about as a business‚ along with examining their balance sheets‚
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problem for this case is: How can Wal-Mart improve its image and show consumers that they are moving towards a sustainable future? We analyzed several key points in this case. The first point we looked at was the transparency of Wal-Mart’s supply chain. Wal-Mart’s decisions and goals for the future were vague and hidden from the public eye. Because of this factor‚ many opponents of Wal- Mart have bashed out against the large corporation to say that Wal-Mart is not doing what they are
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Wal-Mart‚ the number one retailer in the world‚ persistently maintain three fundamental beliefs—respect everyone‚ total-solution service‚ and in search of highest quality—to shape their unique corporate culture. They insist lowest price every day‚ carry out total solution services‚ effectively control the cost of global logistics‚ fully leverage information technology to become e-company‚ powerfully motivate employees to work and share knowledge and adopt a play-safe strategy in internationalization
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Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term‚ which achieves advantage in a changing environment through its configuration of resources and competences with the aim of fulfilling the stakeholder’s expectations. Strategic Decisions are about: The long-term direction of an organization The scope of an organization’s activities Gaining advantage over competitors; Addressing changes in the business environment; Building on resources and competences (capability); Value
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US based Wal-Mart ranked first in the global Fortune 500 list in the financial year 2001-02 earning revenues of $219.81 billion. Wal-Mart is one of the largest retailing companies in the world. The company has grown larger then than its competitors‚ such as Target‚ Sears‚ K-Mart‚ and many more. Now‚ Wal-Mart operate more than 3‚500 discount stores‚ Sam’s Clubs and supercenters in the US and more than 1‚170 stores in all major countries across the world. So‚ one has to wonder‚ how do Wal-Mart’s supply
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The Good and the Bad of a Wal-Mart World: Wal-Martization in America By Annamarie Bailey Submitted for Rob Wells Abstract By examining the pros and cons associated with the effects Wal-Mart has on America‚ this paper will focus on why this corporation is good and bad for America. I will explain the history of Wal-Mart and it’s enormous success today. The first point is about the effects outsourcing has on American jobs. Secondly‚ a point will be
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