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CURRENT SITUATION
This presents the current performance of the company and the strategic posture
Current Performance
300 stores nationwide which preside by Mr. Erick L. Chua (President). The company
continues to expand and strengthen its distribution network across the country. Inspira
is run by young and dynamic individuals, allowing growth and creativity to its people.
accessories like lap top bags, cellphone cases, pouches and the like.
and other gift items. But with Digibabe there are more options and choices of
items.
extensions.
Cable Monster focuses on cable wires like laptops, phone wires and extensions.
Manila. Their products can also be found in Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, Pangasinan
and as far as Baguio for North Luzon. They also have stores in Cavite, Laguna and
Batangas for South Luzon, and for Visayas Areas, they have Iloilo, Cebu, Tacloban and
In the past few years, the corporation performed well in terms of ROI, market
share and profitability through careful study of consumer behavior, meeting their needs
and product expectation, proper stock allocation and lastly, proper staff recruitment and
continuous training for employees. With the company's passion and drive for
Currently the company size is moreover 501 - 1000 employees which provide by
the benefits (Loans, Medical, Parking, Vision) they need. The dress code business are
shirts and have the working hours Mondays-Saturdays (half day) and is located at 1
Strategic Posture
Mission, objectives, strategies and policies are both clearly stated and implied on
performance. Before execution of a certain project, the company has a firm objective to
meet our target and to be able to meet that target we need to imply it on actual
performance.
The mission of Inspira is to innovate costumer’s lifestyle by providing efficient & safe
products. Their objective is to meet costumer’s satisfaction and gain their loyalty. Then,
the strategies are based on business plan or feasibility study prepared prior to the
execution of every project. Equip with proper adjustment per store location and
The policies are the most challenging part according to Inspira, internally they have
detailed guidelines and house rules, anyone who fails to follow are subject for
operations both global and multi domestic especially in our company, that involves
worldwide.
CHAPTER 2
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
This chapter discusses the board of directors of the company and its top
management that handles the operations and governance, as well as its corporate
transaction.
Board of directors
The president is on top of the board which is the main owner – internal member
and has share significant shares of stocks. The stocks are privately held and not yet
open for public trade. Stocks are based on the amount or percentage of shares of the
requires international experience but not in literal term of education background. This
requires board member’s global market study and implication. They are also concerned
with environmental sustainability; this subject gave them idea whether the company is
performing well in terms of costumers’ satisfaction and avoid slow moving items
The board members are serving for almost ten years and they actively participate
and general manager. Being smart, aggressive enough for opportunities and realistic
are their chief characteristics. Everyone including staff and top management are
responsible for corporation’s performance because they are working as a team not just
for mere income but also for company’s growth and progress.
effective way for successful output. Besides final approval, top management suggests,
provides connections and accepts realistic point of view. In addition, the top
management is humble enough in terms of coordinating with lower level managers even
with staff. They interact with same level of respect with the board.
Their strategic decisions are ethical and made in sustainable manner. The top
executive don’t own amount of stocks, but they received monthly salary in return. And
they are more than skilled enough for future challenges; they can easily cope up with
the landscape.
CHAPTER 3
EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
This chapter discusses the natural physical and societal environment forces that
are currently affecting both the corporation and the industries in which it competes in
The forces from the natural physical environment that are currently affecting both
The company is being place in a place that is far from sea or ocean, therefore it
is not currently being affected by rises of sea levels. Thus, it won’t be affected by the
solar phenomena such as sun spots and solar winds concerning their business. The
natural forces that may affect the corporation and the industries in which they competes
is:
This may affect the operation of business, knowing that the location of the
company is in Manila wherein today there is a water crisis and also in terms of
storms, there are severe floods that could affect the employees, and also the
management.
Societal Environment
The general environment forces that are currently affecting both the corporation
Technological
Because of the nature of the business, this general environment force greatly
affects the corporation and the industries. The industry’s status is not constant,
as it change, the company would probably change. Also, as the industry go with
the progress of the technology, the companies under should cope this changes in
In general, the external factors that greatly affects the corporation and the
The corporation should be in update about the trends of the industries so that,
the progress would not be stagnant. The changes is not constant, this means that in
today the changes in technological factors would be for example having a computer that
Another, the corporation should always be cautious of what could happen. Every
wrong decisions of the top management could affect the corporation. Also, the
corporation should be updated of news and already forecasts of the future events.
CHAPTER 4
INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
This chapter discusses the corporation’s structure, culture and resources that
can affect the company internally with regards to its strengths and weaknesses as part
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
The decision making is based on centralized one group and the corporation is
organized through combination of all functions, projects and geography. The structure is
to achieve the goal of the company. Through careful study and implication of
competitive analysis, they can know their capacity and how they can improve that in
case that they are not able to reach the standards or level they set.
CORPORATE CULTURE
There are emerging culture composed of shared beliefs, expectations and values
in the corporation and they are consistent in balancing the resources and technology,
this makes their position on environmental sustainability. Also, there are continuous
resource allocation, efficiency for every project, acceptance & creativity and they
consider the values of every nation they operates, it is one of the most critical issue that
they focus on because consumer behavior plays a lot for our products to be patronized
by the market.
CORPORATE RESOURCES
Marketing
performance and budget. Reason behind this are the continuous changes in terms of
profits per location, nation culture and different construction concerns per project.
Luckily, the corporation are performing well when it comes to 4P’s, due to brand names,
they are dependent enough to few customers, the size of market depends on location,
market shares is gaining, shares on developed nations are about 70 % while the
remaining 30 % goes to developing nation, the current products in the product cycle are
competition in retail industry are the trends that emerge from analysis. Those trends
affect present market in terms of product uniqueness & excellence and future product
expectations of consumers.
corporations, through little steps our brands are patronized by public. All the above
mentioned techniques are studied carefully and applied to actual performance of the
corporation. Also, it adjust to the conditions of each country they operates which
according to them they give a lot of focus and they give importance to the environmental
sustainability.
Aside from selling, marketing managers plays a big role in strategic management
process, they are in charge in maintaining the equilibrium between gaining sales and
gaining the hearts of the potential customers, they executes plans for our products to be
FINANCE
losses, strategies are based on analytical preparations of cash flow, financial & income
statement, which they are merely stated and consistent with the corporation’s mission,
objectives, strategies and policies and with the internal and external environments.
Based on recent reports, the company are currently operating well, if the data is
to be analyze:
preparing statements
Constant calculation and dollar reports are not that different. They are
In a good way this trend makes preparation way easier and faster, but in
Compared to other corporations, they only have few financial critics that
evaluates the report, by this way higher management can decide faster whether to
continue or cease the operations on that area. Also, they consider financial concepts to
be able to have effective techniques and evaluate efficiently. Since the reports are more
on quantitative base and not on locational side, they are not in able to adjust with the
other countries. In strategic management process, aside from analyzing the computed
They depend on the budgets the projects to be made and still consistent on the
mission, objectives, strategies and policies and with internal and external environment.
handling their works in minimal time frame to come up a reliable data. They mix of
applied and engineering research which are still appropriate to corporate mission and
strategies of the corporation. And lack of R&D will lead to company’s irrational decisions
In terms of return and investment, R & D helps the company to minimize the
volume of ineffective products that leads to area losses. Also, the corporation is
R&D projects have stated budget and they do not spend lavishly in creating new
that are equipped for innovation & competitive advantage.in addition, they are
considered to have environmental sustainability in terms of packaging, and they use
eco-friendly materials
R&D manager serves as an aide to stop the high volume of slow moving
products in the market, they are indeed the brains behind successful products &
inventions.
management. Strategies and policies are based on close monitoring and proper
shall do and what are their function. Still they are consistent with the mission,
objectives, strategies and policies and with the internal and external environment.
maintaining harmonious working environment both internal and with external clients.
Stating exact amount of domestic and international products are quiet confidential for a
brief idea, they have balance supply for both markets and they are outsourcing and
purchasing products which they used in their product and services to satisfy the
customer.
successful items they consider computer powered equipment with the help of
continuous mass production and proper coordination with the suppliers, manufacturers
and distributors. The equipment and manufacturing facilities are vulnerable to natural
substantial cost increase of materials, and nationalization of the government and these
are applied to all manufacturers we need to consider the third parties since they are
product.
costs and JIT logistics are top components. Competent use of skills and an intermittent
coordination emerge from this analysis. Based on past performance, the trends affected
traditions. This supports our past and pending strategic conditions and lead the way of
Operations managers efficiently use those techniques since each concerns plays
significant role in business cycles. They made adjustment in order to cope up with the
other countries culture and tradition and have the appropriate decision needed by the
corporation.
Another, operations managers strictly oversee the production and ensure that the
company is running well with efficiency to meet the expectations and needs of
customers. With the help of different techniques mentioned on this item, product
HR’s objective is to recruit potential employee fit for specified job description and
compensation.
They are implied on performance regarding the function and policies. They are
consistent to do the mission, objectives, strategies and policies and with internal and
external environment.
The company had been able to manage all the mentioned forces, building
harmonious relationship between employer and employee is a big help. Trends that
emerge are the attitude towards work, high salary vs. balanced work load and
sustainable work environment. The impact of those trends on the past and future
performance could be seen on how responsible a certain employee could be. In terms
of decision, there are times that we didn’t able to support the company’s decision. Since
both company’s side & employee’s rights and HR still provides competitive advantage.
It’s not about how many times you’ve recruited an educated one, it’s about how well
the employee carries his/her self-ethically and professionally. The HR managers’ uses
management performance.
In managing the work force diversity, they need to reconsider the step by step
process from recruitment to development in order for them to attain success they need
to mold the employee ethically and professionally while ensuring the harmonious
relationship between the management and the employee. The HR department ensure
that they are flexible enough to do the tasks and objectives of the department and the
connection related concerns for other HR sub department like payroll and training
development division
relations, HR policies, programs, practices that are beneficial for both the employee and
the management.
Its objective is to ensure that every database, computer hardware, software are
in good working condition and those are implied on budget, due to continuous
objectives, strategies and policies and internal and external environment depends per
performing well, they can see that since every network are running smoothly and
change how users interact with the world, transparency and reliability in every output.
Those trends have high impact in terms of present data transparency and the challenge
in future capabilities for more relevant firm value which could represents more growth
In general, the internal factors that currently affect both the corporation and the
order to sustain the projects budget, satisfy the needs of the customers and increase
Finance is also concern regarding the company’s performance. The way how it
handle the capital expenditures, how it allocates the budget per department and
assigning people with skills and knowledge to do so the function and objectives of the
department well.
increase with the services they provide and have the new trends to give with the
customers. They are the one who search for the new updates of the world, what is the
wants and needs of the customers. They are also in able to have the progress regarding
are the employees they have. In this department, they have the manpower which
corporation and how should it be handle. They are the one who hires the employees
and assures that they will do the tasks properly. They allocate budgets in the
department so that the mission and objectives will not set aside.
The corporation’s structure and culture greatly affects the growth and progress of
every company, but still there’s a lot of internal factors that affects the current
CHAPTER 5
This chapter analyze the strategic factors that affects the corporation through
performance in terms of the profitability and growth, the return on investment and
expands the market share they have. Thus, it is expected that the company would
maximize their strategies and objectives for the sustainable growth and progress. Also,
for years now, the performance of the company would be great as what the above
mentioned.
In terms of strategic factors, they may affect the company’s present and future
performance, but they assures that the strategic management they have is well-
developed and can follow the trends of the today’s world. However, there are still factors
The mission and objectives are consider as the key of success by the company.
In order to meet that, they should properly done the tasks and made the right decision
and safe products and have the objective of, to meet costumer’s satisfaction and gain
their loyalty. They need to consider the mission and objectives of the company in order
to gain trusts and loyalty from the customers. Also, the employees should be well-
This chapter enumerates the strategic alternatives and recommend the suitable
Strategic Alternatives
competencies so as to the difference from the other companies, having these makes
them to lead the way and continue to have progressive performance. Inspira Prime
quality mobile clothing, gadget accessories and novelty items. Currently, they assure
that they would probably in contact of the customers. They put their stores to the
crowded places so that the customers would notice the products they offer. Inspira
prides on its exclusive brands which includes Halo Mobile Clothing, Digibabe,
Swisstech, Cable Monster, Screen Secure, Techno, Toshi and several others. With the
company's passion and drive for excellence, employees get to experience exciting and
challenging careers.
Recommend Strategy
alternatives that the proponents may recommend for the operations and performance of
Inspira Prime International Corporation as a whole. First, the corporation should update
its website in order for the researchers and customers to know the progress they met.
corporation, must include the names of the board of directors and the top management
Third, give a lot of seminars and trainings for the employees so that they are in
IMPLEMENTATION
includes the assessment of the recommended programs associated with the strategy,
its feasibility and the new standard operating procedures that should be developed.
recommended strategy?