Summary & Recommendation – Starbucks

The company is Starbucks. Starbucks is in the coffee and snack industry.

Assignment Instructions – Summary & Recommendation. Recommendations must reflect your industry and organizational analysis. Provide a set of recommendations based on your analysis, especially the SWOT analysis. Your recommendations must address the opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of your analysis. Prioritize the opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses that you identified. Address them in descending order in this section, addressing the most important first and in the greatest detail. Recommendations should capitalize on opportunities and strengths and minimize threats and weaknesses. Provide a justification for each recommendation. In some cases, you may choose not to take advantage of an industry opportunity. If this is the case, defend your decision. Be certain your recommendations are reasonable (that the company could implement them) and make fiscal sense. Discuss how your recommendations should be financed. You may want to give a schedule (time frame) for implementation of your recommendations.
You need to provide a summary of SWOT analysis before you give detailed list of the recommendations. Based on the above SWOT analysis, produce reasonable and justifiable recommendations in this section. In your recommendations, comment about the organization’s profit for future competitiveness and success. What does the organization have to do right to
succeed (organization’s Critical Success Factors)? What are the expected results in terms of short- and long-term profitability and survival?