Archive for February, 2011
McDonalds Business Analysis
In the 1990s managers will be judged on their ability to identify, cultivate, and exploit the core competencies that make growth possible – indeed, they’ll have to rethink the concept of the corporation it self.’
C K Prahalad and G Hamel 1990
Organizations do not exist in vacuum. They operate within a competitive industrial environment. Analyzing its competitors not only enables an organization to identify its own strengths and weaknesses but also help to identify opportunities for and threats to the organization from its industrial environment. SWOT analysis is a systematic analysis of these factors and the strategy that reflects the best match between them.
Maryland Legislators and Lawyers Propose Franchise Rule Change
Recently the Maryland State Legislature thought it prudent to require more disclosure than is already required by law and a complete audit of each franchisee of every company, which was franchising in their state and providing jobs and tax base. It is the typical thing dumb politicians do when they have no clue as to how free enterprise models work. There ought to be a test for all Maryland State legislators and lawyers on the reality of the market place. The entrepreneurs cannot build as fast as the lawyers and bureaucracy is stealing from us. Caesar was right, maybe we should follow his thought process on this one. Here is an excerpt of a letter, I, an entrepreneur had to write the legislature to get that stupid bill killed in committee which was proposed by some moron politician there. Read it and think
The competitive market will provide more jobs and the good franchisors through success will win the consumers hearts and expand and the illegitimate ones will exit the market place. This Bill is similar to making a Law to prevent International Terrorism such as It is allowed for anyone to fly an aircraft into a building. No kidding, that is already a law, but did that stop the International Terrorists Franchise registration laws in Maryland duplicate The FTC little franchise acts anyway. The laws are already on the books and are hurting Maryland in so many ways. More may kill it and certainly destroy the small business sector of which 68% of our population is employed, that’s right and you thought the government employed everyone didn’t you
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