Mrs. Fields Cookies is a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8‚000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage of MIS resources. The company uses information systems extensively in its processing‚ communications‚ and other management functions‚ including operations of the stores and hiring sales employees. 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’
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Situation: In 1977‚ Debbi Fields opened her first Mrs. Fields ’ store in Palto Alto‚ California. The Mrs. Fields store concept quickly expanded to a national and international level. With more than 500 Mrs. Fields ’ cookie stores in 25 states and five countries on four continents‚ Mrs. Fields ’ Cookies was dependent on a corporate structure that was technologically advanced. The company ’s organizational strategy included a flat organizational structure feel and a management control system that
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Case-Study 1 : Analysis and Report Mrs. Fields’ Cookies By‚ Group 7 (Section B) Richa Sethi (11DCP091) Rishabh Chaudhary (11DCP092) Sandeep Satishchandra (11DCP094) Sashi Kanth (11DCP095) Sourabh Gehlot (11DCP096) Shalini Mukerji (11DCP097) Sudhanshu Sharma (11DCP098) Contents General Overview................................................................3 Practical Implementation of the Information System in Mrs. Fields Cookies............................................
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Q.1) Describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies in term of its complexity‚ formalization‚ and centralization. Complexity: Basically‚ as such there is not much complexity with in an individual store of Mrs. Fields’ cookies‚ as the organizational structure is flat‚ but spatial differentiation is definitely there as the location of an organization’s facilities are personal are dispersed geographically. It is mention in the case that Mrs. Fields Cookies is operating in 37 states the location of the organization
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Mrs. Fields’ Cookies – Case Analysis. Mrs. Fields’ Cookies is a case that was initially created in 1989 and revised in 1993. Even though it is nearly two decades old it contains a lot of educational value by providing look into an international company that has grown from just one small store to a huge organization with over 500 stores in 25 United States‚ and five countries on four continents. The company was created by Debbi Fields who opened her first store in Palo Alto‚ CA and grew her business
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Question#1 Describe a typical day at work at Mrs. Fields’ Cookies for Store manager‚ District manager‚ Regional director of operations‚ Store controller and for Debbi and Randy Fields. Answer to question#1 Store manager performs the following tasks at work: ➢ Enters workday characteristics for the system to structure overall tasks. ➢ Schedules production‚ including inventory management. ➢ Hires new employees. District manager performs the following tasks at work: ➢ Manages 6 stores (6
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Mrs. Fields’ Cookies 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of a functional hierarchy structured along traditional functional lines or more of an IT-enabled network consisting of tailored business processes? I would describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of an IT-enabled network. In the text it says the Fields’ believed that the less hierarchy the better and they acted upon that. There weren’t a lot of employees who had to answer to different managers. They kept it pretty simple
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Hello Cookies‚ Welcome to the Martha Cook Building for the fall of 2010. We hope to be able to meet many of you on Move-in Day. Please stop by our ice cream station in the main hall that afternoon and let us serve you. We look forward to helping to make your experience at MCB this year a memorable one. You may not know that the Martha Cook Building is the only dorm on campus that is supervised by a Board of Governors consisting of five women who were formerly residents of MCB. The Board of
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Micro-environmental Factors (SWOT) Strengths Mr Bean is the market leader for soya bean related food and beverage in Singapore It is a well-respected brand‚ clinching many awards including the Established Brands Award and the Most Popular Brand Award for the third consecutive year It has a strong market presence with 56 outlets island-wide. Only the finest ingredients and highest grade of NGMO (Non genetically modified) soya bean is used in its products Weaknesses There is minimal product
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Table of contents 1. Introduction. 2. Competitor analysis. 3. New product life cycle. 4. About the Oros Brand. 5. Planning and launch of Oros Ice-cream. 6. Marketing objectives. 7. Target audience. 8. Distribution channels. 9. Oros Summer Party 10. Advertising strategy and planning. 11. Marketing and communication mix. 12. Conclusion. Indroction. This marketing article seeks to discuss the launch of the Oros Brand Ice cream which will be effectively entered into the South African
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