Organization choice

Module Assessment 1 Choose an organisation that you work for, or are familiar with. - Briefly in" rel="nofollow">introduce the organisation and the products and services it provides. For Example: Morrison’s is a food retail busin" rel="nofollow">iness that operates more than 500 stores, 130 M local stores and onlin" rel="nofollow">ine home delivery. The busin" rel="nofollow">iness is main" rel="nofollow">inly food and grocery and produces a lot of the food they sell from their own manufacturin" rel="nofollow">ing plants givin" rel="nofollow">ing close control to quality and provenance, every week 12 million customers pass through the doors and are served by 125,000 colleagues (Morrison’s 2014). Morrison’s has expanded and come a long way from the very first store openin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in 1899 to now boastin" rel="nofollow">ing the fourth largest retailer in" rel="nofollow">in the united kin" rel="nofollow">ingdom. [Introducin" rel="nofollow">ing the Organisation] Recently within" rel="nofollow">in the food in" rel="nofollow">industry has been the in" rel="nofollow">influx of new competitors such as Aldi and Lidl, these have changed consumer preference by more people lookin" rel="nofollow">ing towards the discount retailers. This has caused Morrison’s to lose market share and customer base and change needs to be done to be a real competitor within" rel="nofollow">in the food retail in" rel="nofollow">industry. [Problems the organisation facin" rel="nofollow">ing] These changes below are designed to encourage consumers to shop at Morrison by reducin" rel="nofollow">ing queuin" rel="nofollow">ing, addressin" rel="nofollow">ing empty shelves and reducin" rel="nofollow">ing the cost to shop onlin" rel="nofollow">ine. [Your proposal] 2 Investigate your chosen organisation to evaluate how it is currently performin" rel="nofollow">ing, and identify three operational areas that require change. - Start off by briefly in" rel="nofollow">introducin" rel="nofollow">ing your chosen organisation and explain" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing what 3 changes you have identified and why you believe they should be made - For Example: [You can describe the proposed changes and analyse them] - Change 1: - Change 2: - Change3: Another change that could be implemented is doin" rel="nofollow">ing a free delivery charge for non-peak times as currently Morrison’s charges £1, £2, or £3 delivery charges dependin" rel="nofollow">ing on the time of the day also you will have to spend over £40 to receive the shop, whereas Tesco offer under £25 you in" rel="nofollow">incur a £4 charge but there is no min" rel="nofollow">inimum spend and if the shop is over £25 pound there is no cost (Tesco 2015). Sain" rel="nofollow">insbury’s also offer a lower min" rel="nofollow">inimum basket spend of £25 pound but do in" rel="nofollow">incur a £6.95 pound delivery if under £40, if the shop is over £40 then a charge of between £2.95 and £5.95 is in" rel="nofollow">incurred (Sain" rel="nofollow">insbury’s 2015). So one change for Morrison’s is to lower the total basket spend from £40.00 to £30.00 and to offer no charge for non-peak times. 3 From the changes that you have identified, select one change that you want to make. - Review the literature on project / in" rel="nofollow">investment appraisal and identify what methods / criteria can be used to do this. At least 4 academic references are required to underpin" rel="nofollow">in this literature review. - From the review, choose the project / Investment appraisal criteria and evaluation method(s) that are appropriate for your changes and organisation - Evaluate all proposed 3 changes, usin" rel="nofollow">ing the same evaluation methods / criteria, and from your analysis choose the change that you will plan to implement