How Kohl’s is surviving retail disruption
The general structure of all critical analyses:
1. Describe the business situation, including the macro-environmental and micro-environmental conditions facing the organization.
2. Develop the problem statement: the opportunity or threat facing the organization.
3. Identify at least three alternative strategies and programs the organization should consider to deal with the opportunity or threat to the organization. Present each alternative in sufficient detail to give the reader an idea of why it may be beneficial in solving the problem or taking advantage of the opportunity.
4. Recommend one or more of the alternatives you have identified. Inform the reader of your reasons for this recommendation.
5. Describe tracking metrics to determine whether your recommended strategies and programs are effective. Be sure to include both intermediate (short term) and conclusive (long term) metrics to guide management’s redirection of ineffective strategies.
6. Summarize what you have learned from your critical analysis. You will need to conduct external research on the industry or the company as a context for your analysis.
Sample Solution
career Quaid I Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah minutely observed the developments in the Muslim world especially in the modern Turkey of the ancient Ottoman Empire. Quaid e Azam eulogized the services of Mustfa Kamal in these words, ‘ He was the greatest leader of the modern Islamic World and entire Mulsim Ummah will profoundly mourn his death.’
In December 1938, during his presidential address in the 27th session of All India Muslim League at Patna, Muhammad Ali Jinnah paid his heartiest homage to this charismatic leader of Turkey in these words, ‘Another great figure; a world figure, who passed away is Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. His death has come as the great blow to the Muslim world. He was the foremost figure in the Muslim East’ (Haq, 2010).