Givens‚ General Manager- Westlake Bowling Lanes‚ Raleigh‚ North Carolina. Dear Shelby‚ Please find the attached report for the analysis for the Westlake lanes. Each options were evaluated based on various criteria and continuing the current operation and scrutinizing the costs on periodic is recommended as it is the cost effective strategy for Westlake Bowling Alley CASE ANALYSIS: Shelby Given‚ the granddaughter of founder of Westlake Lanes has taken over as general
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that outlines four different frames (perspectives) to assess organizational issues. How do the issues that Westlake Lanes face‚ fit within each of the four frames? Structural Frame: - Are there clear goals and objectives / vision / direction? – No‚ Sheila Givens consulted the employees personally and allowed them to create the vision statement due to the understanding of Westlake lanes. Also‚ the objectives were not clear due to multiple discrepancies including poor sales in food and beverages
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Key Issues The key issue faced by general manager Shelby Givens of Westlake Lanes is whether or not to maintain the current practices of the business or seek new alternatives. She must convince the board that within her allotted one year‚ progress has been made in improving the business and ultimately convince them that profitability is in the foreseeable future and that their personal debt will be repaid. Analysis External Analysis: Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Threat of new entrants:
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TO: Shelby Givens‚ General Manager‚ Westlake Bowling Lanes FROM: Exemplar #1 SUBJECT: Business Strategy for Westlake Lanes – Analysis and Recommendations DATE: March 10‚ 2010 1. Issues and Options Since 2004‚ Westlake Lanes has experienced declining revenues and increasing costs driven primarily market factors and an absence of effective cost and operations management. Despite the company’s recent turnaround under Shelby Givens’ leadership‚ it is not on track to repay the Board for
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MEMORANDUM TO: Shelby Givens (General Manager‚ Westlake Bowling Lanes - here onwards "WBL") FROM: Kumar Gaurav (Candidate # 75745133‚ UBC) SUBJECT: Recommendation towards business planning for WBL DATE: 2nd September 2013 Key Issues: Shelby Givens‚ G.M of WBL could not get the business on track to repay the funds the board had loaned it 16 months before. In Jan 2010‚ the business profited for the 1st time in two years. But‚ now she wants to decide on a future direction for the business‚ so
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Memorandum To: Shelby Givens (General Manager) From: Subject: Westlake Lanes: How can this be saved Date: March 10th 2010 ______________________________________________________________________________ As you know your business Westlake Lanes is currently not performing up to the mark. I think there are a lot of steps we can take for the betterment of the business. There are many problematic issues with the business and I have identified some of the core ones-: • It feels old‚ no major renovation
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Case Analysis Anzaldúa‚ Noé Autrique‚ Juan Alberto De Alva‚ Hugo Eduardo Esquivel‚ Rosa Gómez‚ Francisco Núñez‚ Manuel Alejandro Servín‚ Erika Identified problems and relevant facts: The company’s target market strategy is not properly set because Westlake Lanes hasn’t identified the market’s new needs and trends at the same pace that the growth of Raleigh’s population has been developing. Facts: A business profile in a Raleigh paper stated that stepping into Westlake Lanes was like
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Strategic Management 04-75-498-01 Westlake Lanes Individual Case Submitted to: Professor Fritz Reiger Submission Date: Thursday‚ February 11th 2013 Key Issues Westlake Lanes is far from being one of Raleigh’s and the United States leading marketers of bowling. Shelby Givens‚ the new appointed general manager of Westlake‚ wondered if the company was on the right path. The imperative issues facing the general manager were‚ its sales revenue‚ expenditures and accounts payable
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Lane: Good People Lane Dean Jr. is a young man of nineteen. He is just starting his life with his girlfriend. He is attending college and working with UPS. He seems to play more of the antagonist role with in the story. Lane shows weakness as his complex personality reveals his struggles in the plot of the story line. In this story Lane is faced with many struggles‚ internal and external. The struggle within his thoughts has him frozen‚ unable to move and he only becomes more still as the struggle
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This passage taken from the novel Brick Lane by Monica Ali depicts the journey and feelings of the persona‚ Nazneen in her navigation of the streets of London. Using the setting of the novel‚ mood and various literary devices‚ the author‚ Ali‚ is able to convey to readers the subject matter of the extract‚ which is the loneliness and confusion faced by the persona. The setting of the extract plays a major role in the understanding of the passage as a whole. The passage is set in London‚ England
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