analyzed and presented in class by teams. You should read and get yourself familiar with the case before the class‚ READINGS – You will be assigned 2 articles to discuss in class. PROJECT – Identify an emerging technology as a team and develop a forecast using Technology Forecasting Tools. Examples of such projects will be provided.Your team is required to present the progress and results of your project during the scheduled times in class. Progress presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and
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KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) INTRODUCTION: KFC is a fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ United States‚ which specializes in fried chicken. An "American icon"‚ it is the world’s largest fried chicken chain and the second largest restaurant chain overall after McDonald’s‚ with over 17‚000 outlets in 105 countries and territories as of December 2011. KFC was founded by Harland Sanders‚ who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin‚ Kentucky during
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ID 310973 Contact Details: Contact Person Address Telephone No. Fax No. Email Mr. Tan Hwa Seong 3 Jalan Datuk Sulaiman 2‚ TTDI‚ 6000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia +60 122862816 +60 377107300 roysten.tan@gmail.com STRATEGIC BUSINESS ANALYSIS MCDONALD ’S CASE STUDY Table of Contents EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW............................................................................................. I-4 TASK I. 2003 SWOT ANALYSIS....................................................................
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structures and the latter definition highlights the creative potential of communication to construct new possibilities for organizing. McDonald´s is a company who developed one of the most successful communication strategies and the first organization which was concentrating on families when constructing the eating facilities. Mission statement of the company McDonald ’s mission is to be the world ’s best quick service restaurant experience. Being the best means providing outstanding quality‚ service
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EMPLOYMENT The next critical issue is Employment. We see employment as an issue because McDonalds though it employs over a million people has gotten a bad reputation as an employer. This is because employees are seen as expendable and made to work long hours for low wages and under bad conditions. They are hired to do task that require them to follow already set exact programs that tell them when to do every task. This means there is very little room for individualism and still building (2)
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McDonalds 2012 Kanika Markland McDonalds SIC # 5812 NYSE: MCD Revenue 2011: $27‚006M McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants‚ serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States‚ the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles.
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generated USD 27 billion in revenue from its global operations and USD 8.5 billion of operating profit. Headquartered in the United States‚ McDonald’s Bar-B-Q restaurant was opened in California in 1940 by brothers Richard (Dick) and Maurice (Mac) McDonald as a typical drive-in featuring a large menu and car hop service (where customers stay in their car and are served their food). In 1948 the brothers closed the business for three months of renovations and reorganised the business as a hamburger restaurant
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and served over forty barbequed items. In October 1948‚ after the McDonald brothers realized that most of their profits came from selling hamburgers‚ they closed down their successful carhop drive-in to establish a streamlined system with a simple menu of just hamburgers‚ cheeseburgers‚ french fries‚ shakes‚ soft drinks‚ and apple pie. The carhops were eliminated to make McDonald’s a self-serve operation. Mac and Dick McDonald had taken great care in setting up their kitchen like an assembly line
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An Analysis of McDonald ’s Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 I. Background and History of McDonald ’s 4 II. Analysis of McDonald ’s 5 The industry environmental Markets 5 External Environmental 7 SWOT Analysis 10 Company performance over time– financial outlook – stock analysis 12 Strategy/Five Forces Framework 15 III. Issues involving McDonald ’s 20 Advertisement
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fast food war‚ is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants‚ serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries across 35‚000 outlets. It has defied recent difficult economic conditions and continued to experience strong sales and profit growth‚ and has been able to successfully increase revenues and profits in spite of much negative publicity and an increasingly health conscious public. We apply Porter’s 5 Forces as an analytical framework for assessing McDonald’s competitiveness
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