The Starbucks experience Print Letter October 24‚ 2006 Dear Artist‚ Recently I wrote a letter about the similarity of running a business and being an artist. As usual a whole bunch of artists agreed with me‚ and a whole bunch of others told me I’d been drinking my turps. Then yesterday I picked up a reading sample--that’s book-talk for a preview of an upcoming book. The Starbucks Experience‚ Five Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary by psychologist Joseph Michelli will be
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Pro-forma A Value of the product/service for the customer 1. Name of Company: Starbucks Coffee Company Starbucks was firstly opened by three partners at Seattle on March 30‚ 1971. At the beginning‚ it was only a small store selling freshly roasted whole bean coffee. But now‚ by the tremendous effort from the chairman‚ Howard Schultz and every partner (employee) of Starbucks‚ it is an international company having more than 16‚000 stores around over 50 countries over the world. They take great
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Starbucks Case: Starbucks’ Value Chain A value chain is used to identify key areas of a corporation‚ including their resources and what they may achieve. The value chain is made up of key primary and secondary activities‚ which differentiate a business from others and creates a competitive advantage. The primary activities include inbound logistics‚ operations‚ outbound logistics‚ marketing/sales‚ and services. Secondary activities are made up of the firm infrastructure‚ human resource management
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Value Chain Analysis Inbound Logistic 1. Farm : Coffee Bean begins at the farm on coffee trees. After trees are planted‚ it takes between one and three years for the trees to bear coffee "cherries". Than the farmer will harvest the coffee trees to get cherries. After that‚ they will use coffee mills to process the product from cherry to bean. 2. Exporter : The coffee export process varied greatly depending on origin country and buyer. In some countries‚ beans were exported through government
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labor." --Howard Schultz Founder and CEO of Starbucks According to this statement‚ the human resource is the number one resource in Starbucks Corporation. Schultz believes that happy employees are the keys to competitiveness and growth. In 1996‚ Starbucks employed approximately 16‚600 individuals‚ including roughly 15‚000 in retail stores and regional offices. * All of these "happy" employees help account for another of Starbucks ’ intangible resources--the company ’s reputation for
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Book Review [THE STARBUCKS EXPERIENCE] * Summary * Summary of this book‚ A Few companies have rallied an employees to participate in a corporate vision that creates a worldwide story of business success. Starbucks has been given access to the Starbucks experience. They are just offering us an in-depth look at every level of the company. * This book is just offering us: * A rare blend of boardroom strategies‚ * Employee motivation tips‚ * Community involvement and
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THE STARBUCKS EXPERIENCE An Impacting Journey towards Globalization 1. An Insight to the Starbucks Company: ➢ Formed in 1971 ➢ Current position- 12‚440 + stores across 37 countries ➢ Average is more than 35 million customers per week ➢ Loyal patrons visit 18 or more times a month ➢ If you invested $10‚000 in 1992‚ it would have resulted in an income of $6‚50‚000 by 2007-08 ➢ Value of leading company’s since 1992- S&P= 200% rise‚ Dow= 230% rise
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Starbucks: the keys to creating value Starbucks is probably one of the biggest names in the coffee business and they have a clear mission. Their mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit: one person‚ one cup and one neighborhood at a time (Starbucks‚ 2011). Therefore the enterprise value of Starbucks is divided in two main parts. They want to offer the best quality coffee and they want to create a unique customer experience. The value of quality is offered by serving great Starbucks coffee
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Value Chain Analysis (Starbucks) Primary Activities: • Inbound Logistic: Starbucks had its agents travelled regularly to coffee – growing countries to establish relationship with growers and distributors. In sourcing green coffee beans‚ it was increasingly dealing directly with farmer. It normally offered high prices to ensure that the poor small coffee growers have enough money to cover their production cost and for their families. To buy coffee beans‚ Starbucks used fixed price purchase
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Starbucks Value Chain Analysis Companies can attain competitive advantage when the value chain is heightened by organizing these activities to gain profit greater than the cost of performing the value chain activities. Primary Activities Inbound Logistics This involves Starbucks agents going to coffee farmers with the best coffee beans in the world where they purchase and make contracts with Farmers. Most of these farmers are from Africa‚ which Starbucks still pays‚ a reasonable fair price
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