Using the SWOT analysis, what general corporate strategy would you recommend for Wish You Wood? Should the store continue or change its current approach?

Wish You Wood is a toy boutique located in the main shopping

strip of a resort town near Piney Lake. People who

own cabins near the lake or come to visit the local state

park enjoy browsing through the town’s stores, where they

pick up pottery, landscape paintings, and Wish You Wood’s

beautifully crafted wooden toys. For these shoppers, Wish

You Wood is more than a store; it is a destination they associate

with family and fun.

The store’s owners, Jim and Pam Klein, personally select

the toys from craftspeople and toymakers around the

world. They enjoy their regular customers but believe selling

mostly to vacationers has limited the company’s growth.

They decided that the lowest-cost way to expand would be

to sell toys online. However, after several years, they had to

admit that traffic to the store’s website was unimpressive.

Thanks to e-mail and Facebook reminders, they were luring

some of their loyal in-store shoppers to the site to make

off-season purchases, but few other people looking for toys

ever found Wish You Wood online.

Jim and Pam concluded that the next-best way to sell

online would be to partner with Amazon.com. Amazon’s

Marketplace service lets other retailers sell products on

Amazon. The Kleins signed an agreement to list the store’s

most popular items with Amazon. For example, if a shopper

is searching for wooden dollhouses, Wish You Wood’s dollhouses

will be included in the search results. A customer

who chooses to buy from Wish You Wood places the order

right on Amazon’s website. Under Amazon’s participation

agreement, the listings must be honest and may not link to

Wish You Wood’s own website or invite phone calls from

customers. In exchange for giving the products exposure on

the site, Amazon charges a monthly fee plus a commission

on each sale.

Initially, Jim and Pam were thrilled about their decision

to partner with Amazon. They tracked each month’s

sales and compared them with in-store sales. In the first

five months, sales jumped 45 percent, mainly because

of sales on Amazon. Then, suddenly, sales of popular

toy train sets, which were particularly profitable, stopped

altogether. Puzzled, Jim visited Amazon to make sure the

train sets were still listed. To his surprise, he found that

the train set was there, at the usual price of $149, listed

right after the same set available directly from Amazon,

at $129. He and Pam concluded that shoppers were now

buying the product directly from Amazon. It appeared that

their store had helped Amazon identify a product  consumers

value.

The Kleins worried that they needed a new strategy.

If they matched Amazon’s price, they would lose most of

the profit on their most popular items. Wish You Wood was

too small of a business to negotiate better prices from its

suppliers. If the store didn’t match Amazon’s price, it would

continue to lose sales at the Amazon site. Jim and Pam wondered

whether they should pull out of Amazon altogether

or find a way to continue working with the partner that had

become a competitor. They also considered rethinking

which toys to offer on Amazon.

Discussion Questions:

1. Prepare a SWOT analysis for Wish You Wood toy store, based on the information given.

2. Using the SWOT analysis, what general corporate strategy would you recommend for Wish You Wood? Should the store continue or change its current approach? (PFA image for to develop ideas)

Discuss potential advantages and disadvantages for vulnerable populations in seeking these resources.

Locate a minimum of three community or national resources for your illness group chosen in Week 1, preferably in your community. Study these resources and write a report about them in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document. Include in your response all the information the patient should know about them (the specific services they offer, fee schedules, if and when appropriate, criteria for eligibility, and any other important information). Discuss potential advantages and disadvantages for vulnerable populations in seeking these resources.

Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations.

Develop a business continuity plan for your organization. Describe the basic activities that must be managed by the BCP. Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Provide a reflection of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment.

If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.  ( Sub: Telecomm Network Security) 

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

What is the effect of all of the products and brand names that Lasn includes in this article?

 1. What is the function of the story that opens this reading? What feelings does the story evoke in you?

2. What is the effect of all of the products and brand names that Lasn includes in this article?

3. How does Lasn define the term “Cult”? How is his definition different (and similar to) the common usage of the word?

4. Thinking rhetorically: In this article, Lasn uses the rhetorical strategy of direct address— that is, he uses the pronoun “you” and directly addresses readers of the article. Why do you think Lasn uses this strategy? What effect does it have on you as a reader? How does the strategy of direct address contribute to (or detract from) Lasn’s argument?

5. Thesis: in one sentence, summarize Lasn’s main point in this selection. Then discuss if you agree or disagree with him and why you feel the way you do.

What are the childhood conditions that produce a positive sense of self-worth?

Respond to any combination of the following questions in a minimum of 175 words: What are the childhood conditions that produce a positive sense of self-worth? How important is it for us to have a stable self-concept? How important is it for our internal feelings to match our self-concept? What do we do when feelings are in conflict with our self-beliefs? Freud viewed motivation in terms of tension reduction, the pursuit of pleasure, and intrapsychic conflict. Is it possible to view human motivation, instead, in terms of personal growth, self-actualization, and feelings of congruence? Summarize the Phenomenological Perspective briefly, Thoughts?

Review the Roles of Line Management and Social Network and Information Technology sections.

Review the Roles of Line Management and Social Network and Information Technology sections. Note the various roles in the organization and note the similarities and differences within each role. Also, note how innovation technology management shapes how we communicate amongst coworkers within an organization.

Explain the difference in the profit realized under the two situations (the price in each market or in the two markets combined.)

Explain the difference in the profit realized under the two situations (the price in each market or in the two markets combined.)

Make sure you include the profit with and without price discrimination  in your answer.

Time Warner could offer the History Channel (H) and Showtime (S) individually or as a bundle of both.

Suppose the reservation prices of customers 1 and 2 (the highest prices they are willing to pay) are presented in the boxes below.

The cost to Time Warner is $1 per customer for licensing fees.

Preferences

Showtime

History Chanel

Customer 1

Customer 2

 

Should Time Warner bundle or sell separately?  Your answer needs to include the unbundled and bundled profits.

Suppose Time Warner could sell Showtime for $9, and History channel for $8, while making Showtime-History bundle available for $13. Should it use mixed bundling. i.e., sells products both separately and as a bundle?

Write a paper on the following topic: In the discussion of babies as relational, what are some of the relational or attachment behaviors that babies display?

Write a paper on the following topic: In the discussion of babies as relational, what are some of the relational or attachment behaviors that babies display? Does it make sense to you that this idea could be extrapolated to people of all ages as having an innate drive to “attach” with God? If so, how do you see this drive lived out by people?