Strategic Planning – Scenario Planning

Part 1: Determine the organizational structure. Using the research you did on the pizza (PAPA JOHNS), food chain from Week 1, use this company to determine its organizational structure. This process will help you understand how similar companies function by examining the relationship between different people in various roles.

Part 2: Use a scenario to create a planning strategy. Choose one of the following three scenarios and, on the basis of the scenario chosen, write PEST and SWOT analyses for your client's company, keeping in mind that this is only one of the factors in PEST and SWOT. However, each will have a serious impact on the client's short- and maybe even long-term strategic planning.

Scenario 2:

Your client's company has invented a new machine that can make pizza dough twice as fast as the competitor's dough-making methods. This will allow your company to increase profits by 30%; however, in test markets, the customers have mentioned that while they like the taste of the pizza made using this dough, the consistency of the crust is not as good as the competitors' pizza crust.

PART 3

Part 3: What must the client consider? On the basis of your PEST and SWOT analyses, suggest five things that the client must consider in its strategic plan in order to proactively plan for the next year.