Bluesky Shopping Mall

Analytical Report on coloured Sky shop midpoint executive cultivateor Summary Blue Sky shop promenade is a large shopping mall in a favorable business center in Myaynigone. However, it is in a bad mould and its growth is declining. Several positionors, such as the privation of mint and mission and long-term plan, unsuitable organisational structure, lack of tar maturate market and market strategies and the high turnover rate affect the growth of the obtain saunter. This report sets out a plan and recommendations to reinvent a new invigorating image of the shop piazza. Based on a situational analysis, it draws up an organizational structure best suited for the Mall.The organization structure explains the sheath of management needed, the importance of strong and visionary leadership, some marketing strategies and marketing mixes. Moreover, this report circulates recommendation for some aspects of human vision management. It seeks to revitalize the Shopping Mall and ma ke it a remunerative business, serving the needs of the customers best. Introduction In the beginning of the year 2013, our Chairman Dr. Patrick Hong made an acquisition of Blue Sky Shopping Mall. The Shopping mall is located in No. 7, Bargaya Road, Myaynigone, Sanchaung, Yangon.The location of the Shopping Mall is genuinely strategic in some aspects. The atomic number 18a has a thriving business surroundings with Dagon Center I and II, Gamonepwint, City Mart, and some other fashion shops, restaurants, Car Accessories Shop and Car Show Room. The Shopping Mall is a nine-storey building with a car park next to it. The Shopping Mall has eight fields, starting with store-room at the basement, Food Court, Department Store, Clothing, Sports, Cosmetics, Appliances, Housing Accessories, and Recreation (play stations, resort argona for children and cinemas) on the ninth floor. I. Business Administration 1. 1.Long-term Business Plan Situational Analysis Blue Sky Shopping Mall was estab lished in January 2010. The newly founded Shopping Mall initially enjoyed considerable reputation and generated much profit. However, now it is non doing very well. The situational analysis be diminished looks into some positive facts as well as some of the main causes of decline. A. Internal Factors Strength and Weakness a. Strengths i. There are some experienced and skilled employees with potentials for becoming leaders. ii. The majorities of employees are late, hard get goinging and eager to regard to become more competent in their jobs. ii. As each area (e. g food/clothing) occupies a floor, the interior organization of the Shopping Mall is unproblematic and easy for shoppers to search for items they need and easy to manage. iv. The quality of the retailed products is as good as those from Dagon Center I and II and Gamonepwint. b. Weakness Organizational structure i. The organizational structure dramatises a centralization approach with all the decisions made by CEO. This has a sound negative impact on the whole operation of the Mall. With as well many matters at the hand of the CEO alone and decisions could not be made in time and problems pile up. i. There is no delegation of force entrustn to supervisors of each sector. They have to wait for the decisions of CEO. The problems in each department became graver and themes and directions became long overdue. This greatly hampers the efficient running of the Shopping Mall. iii. Having too many matters in hand, the CEO could not establish good relationship with the ply. He could only inspect each sector in rare occasions. Some employees take advantage of his absence and shun their responsibilities. This causes much quarrelling among staff.And as the number of problems increase the CEO becomes stressful and authoritative and could not trust his subordinates. iv. The few numbers of security personnel at the entrance of the Mall cannot lintel with the long line of quite a little pouring into the Ma ll. As a result, people become frustrated with queuing up and gradually turn away from the Mall. v. There is no draw in job description given to supervisors, the staff in each department become confused. The direct effect of this disorientation is apparent in maintenance such as cleaning, replacing expired products, mistaken price label and shortage of well-worns. vi. The cashiers are not well-trained.They take a long time to serve the customers. This causes unnecessary long queue at the payment counter making the customers feel stressed and sometimes quarrel among themselves. vii. The lack of clear break time register among the cashiers adds another problem to the long queue at the payment counter. viii. The staffs at the customer teaching are not well trained. The consequence is they cannot give necessary and satisfactory answers or directions in effect to the customers. Their discourteous manner causes great unease and unpleasantness to the customers. ix. The staffing of gene ral inspectors is absent.These are people who go around to make sure that every(prenominal)thing in a sector is running well. When there is a need in a sector there is no one to remind or report to the supervisors. Consequently, things do not get re placed or repaired soon enough. x. The food court has few drinks and items on the menu and the waiters and waitresses are not trained. Marketing i. cardinal of the greatest helplessnesses of the Shopping Mall is that it has no clearly defined target market. ii. In effect, there is no proper marketing plan. iii. No promotion such as new product launch, seasonal sale events, and special items sales and so on are carried out. v. Due to the centralization approach to management with nearly all the responsibilities resting on CEO, he could not give time to do market Survey. Human resource management i. The recognition and rewarding of certain workers in terms of their achievement is not carried out consistently. It is done casually and arb itrarily and indeed leadership failed to throw out hard work and celebrate achievements. ii. The lack of continual capacity building of the staff, as was seen with the cashiers and the staff in customer in clayation sector, has severe negative set up on the growing numbers and demand of customers. ii. The pay and benefits of the workers are not clearly designed, thus lack incentive for workers. iv. The morale of the staff begins to decline. This affects the spirit of wait on given to customers. All the mentioned weaknesses create a high turnover rate. B. External Factors Opportunities and Threats Opportunities v. Lets go shopping. is a popular phrase among people these days. When they opine that they usually mean going to a shopping mall. Even when not buying, people alike(p) to just stroll in the Shopping Mall to get air-condition, or a meet their friends in it.It is a good rendezvous because it is clean it is easy to reach by ordinary transport it offers affordable prices a nd thus makes it very convenient. In other words, it is a very good place to attract people, especially the young, to spend money. vi. As more and more young people meet their friends or watch movies at shopping malls, the social posture is somehow synonymous with having money to spend. The young could be very reliable and profitable target customers. If the Mall is designed to cater to them in terms of ambience, products, prices and services they would flock to the Shopping Mall. ii. Given a good pay and good work environment, many young people can be recruited to contribute to the rapid attainment of the objectives of the Shopping Mall. Young people are energetic and creative. If only their potentials were channeled into the chastise direction, they could make up a very strong and efficient workforce. viii. The location of the Mall is very strategic. It is located in a thriving business area. The existence around the area is quite dense. There are many schools, training and lang uage centers in the areas. Young people make up the bulk of the population.Many forms of public transportation reach the area. The car park is a major asset to the Mall. All these conditions offer a tremendous opportunity for the Mall to be very successful. Threats i. The main rivals near Blue Sky Shopping, Dagon Center and Gamonepwint and City Mart are doing very well. They could take all customers and gain their loyalty. ii. Recently there has been heavy traffic congestion near Myaynigone area. This could turn away potential customers to other less(prenominal) congested shopping malls. Long-term Business Plan Vision To be a leading Shopping Mall creating space and value for the young.Mission Through young, energetic, and creative workforce, we know the needs of customers and fulfill them with delivering the latest quality products at feasible price, at convenient location and provide a perfect rendezvous and best customer services. Objectives 1. Strategic objectives i. To reinven t a new image of the Shopping Mall with a new name and a new organizational structure in 6 months ii. To attain 10% market share at bottom a year and increase it yearly 2. Tactical objectives i. To put in place the new management system ii. To build workers capacity for skills and services ii. To give space for young leaders with their creative ideas and promotion to win loyalty of young people 3. Operational objectives i. Run the new management system effectively in three month. ii. Conduct human capacity building for supervisors, conductors in 3 months. iii. Expend capacity building to the rest of the stuff in a year. iv. Elect at least 30 new potential leaders in a year 1. 2. Organizational Structure CEO Finance tutor Marketing manager Human imagery manager General Manager Purchase manager Security manager Senior accountants Sale promotion manager HR executives Engineers Supervisors Supervisors Junior accounts event manager supervisors Supervi sors sector cracks Staff Auditors Advertisement team Trainers sector heads staff Cashiers Public relation team staff staff Sector head sector head staff staff Since all the sectors operate almost daily routine retailing, the organization is re-structured as seen in the graph preceding(prenominal).Clear job description and special authority are given to sector heads to make key decision as they are more familiar with every day market and situation. They ordain work closely with the CEO in attaining the Shopping Mall goals and sales targets. In this sense, decentralization is more conducive to the Mall success and fit more into the management system. The chain of command, which means, an unbroken line of authority that links all individuals in the organization and specifies who reports to whom, can be seen from the organizational structure.In a Shopping Mall setting, daily retailing of a wide range of pro ducts need to have a very strong and clear scalar principle, which clearly defines authority and responsibilities. Span of Management gaffer Cashier Staff 1 Staff 2 Staff 3 Staff 4 Chief Standby Staff 1 Staff 2 Staff 3 Staff 4 Replace inspector Staff 1 Staff 2 Staff 3 Staff 4 Customer service Staff 1 Staff 2 Staff 3 Staff 4 Sector Head Since the business is retail and each floor containing one sector, it is easier to organize the span of change.Each sector has a sector head with standby inspectors, cashiers head, replacing head immediately under him/her who would supervise about ten staff. In diagram one sector would look like this. 1. 3. Leadership 1. 3 The Importance of leadership in a rapidly changing world The importance of a leader in an organization can be compared to the skipper of a ship. The captain not only directs the ship where to go, he/she encourages the crew member, supervise the crew to serve the people on board, and look forward to the danger, take the route that would give maximum satisfaction during their ride on the ship.Without a leader with excellent management and interpersonal skill as well as with a clear vision toward the future, the crew will be disoriented, the ship would not get to its destination, the journey would be unpleasant, and the ship might even sink amidst the prevalent dangers in the sea. Due to the weakness of leadership in many areas as mentioned in situation analysis, the Blue Sky Shopping Mall got into a bad shape and is not reaping profit. In this age of rapid change in technological advances in telecommunication, social transformation, mass media culture and globalization, leadership must unceasingly accommodate to these changes.If leadership in an organization could not keep abreast with the paces of these changes, that organization will certainly fall behind. The case of Blue Sky Shopping Mall is an example of the failure of leadership to respond to changes. The number of customers increased in the first yea rs however few security personnel could not cope with increasing numbers. As the number increased it demanded better and efficient services. In this respect also the CEO failed to respond. Moreover, CEO could not respond rapidly to a number of problems, which were actually, opportunities especially he failed to look into the market demand of the young.As more and more people are becoming more aware health and environment issues the retailed products should co-respond to these shifts of expectation. In terms of ethical issues, the low wages of the staff in proportion to the hours of work, the Blue Sky earn a bad image in the publics eye. When the CEO became too distant from the staff, and failed to share the values and views of the customers and the employee, the dynamic of the organization was very much weakened. All these shortcomings pointed out that leaders should constantly cooperate in the organization they lead. In other words, leadership is the lifeblood of an organization. . 4 Organizational Control As seen in the organizational structure chart, individuals at the book binding management will work closely with all the employees. Since the organization will continue to use existing employees only serving more or less the same products, the organization control focus will be on concurrent control and feedback control only. II. Marketing Marketing Strategies A. Segmentation Considering the opportunities in situational analysis, the strategic location of Blue Sky in an area which is populated by young people and people of white color jobs, we segment our market in the following categories. . Location 2. Age group 3. Income B. Targeting Since Shopping Mall gives retailing services, the most profitable portion of customers would be young adult, especially women, given the fact that the working population of young adults in Yangon is female aged between 16-35. Another target is families. Not only newly-wed but also families with children can be assumed to ha ve a certain regular income. They make up a significant portion of population compared to people age-group below 18 and above 60. Still another target within the income group is people with middle income. They have considerable income to spend.Therefore, the Shopping mall should create value for this class of people. C. localisation Shopping Mall can meet the needs of the market tremendously since it retails a wide range of products. Therefore, the military position becomes very important. According to the text book, military position means a product should have a clear, distinctive, and desirable place in the market (Pre-MBA marketing Principle, p 24). Since Shopping Mall retails many kinds of products to distinguishable target of customers, it is very crucial to consider and plan positioning with great care and in great detail.To have a clear positioning, the Mall should stock all the relevant products to meet, at the maximum satisfaction, the needs of the targeted groups. Sho rtage of stocks or lack of varieties of certain products could affect customers expectation and could lose their loyalty. Thus, the supervisor of each sector should immerse themselves into the market and constantly try to fulfill the market needs. It could use the slogan We have what you need. Another element of positioning is the product must be distinctive. In this sense, the Shopping Mall should cater to the targeted customers.The Shopping Mall should earn a reputation that fulfils the peculiar(prenominal) needs of the young adults, the middle-incomer, and the families. For instance, for the female young adults, to get the latest fashion and cosmetics, they should associate the Shopping Mall with their needs. Or when they want to meet their friends, they should automatically choose Blue Sky Shopping Mall, because thats the best place young people hang out. Excellent service should be another distinctive feature of Blue Sky Shopping Mall. The last element of positioning is desir able. What could be more desirable for customers value than low price?Since the target group is the middle income group, the low price positioning would appeal and meet groups need. In summary the marketing strategies can be shown in table as follows. Segmentation Targeting Positioning location Yangon, especially Myaynigone and Hledan Clear place We have what you need. Age-group Young adults and adults Distinctive place young and lively ambience Income Middle income group Desirable affordable to low price Marketing Mix a. Product/customer solution Retailing service is considered as a product. In fact, it creates the best value or solution for customers needs and problems. b.Price/customer cost As mentioned in marketing positioning, we consider affordable to low price to be attractive to our targeted customers. c. Place/convenience Blue Sky Shopping Mall. A convenient place where all the public transport can reach, an ambience especially designed for and cater to the young, a pla ce of great value to customers where their needs are fulfilled with the best service. d. Promotion/two-way communication In line with our objectives and target customer needs, promotions in the form of fashion shows, movies festivals, today special food, and some other creatively appealing to the young populace should be carried out.Frequent sales could promote the interest of the customers. III. Human Resource Management To respond to the high turnover rate, besides installing a new organizational structure, the following issues should be addressed adequately. The Human Resource team up should tackle the following areas 1. Job, role, competency and skills analysis The first step in planning a workforce to fit into a new organizational structure, a comprehensive job, role, competency and skills analysis of the existing resources should be carried out in order to allot them in the areas they are best at.That way the organization will move smoother and faster to achieve its goal. 2. Training and Development After the analysis of job, role, competency and skills, a careful plan should be drawn up to train and develop the employers beginning with the most critical teams such as section heads, security personnel, cashiers and customer information services. 3. Creating a clear work schedule Part of the problem we saw in situation analysis was the lack of clear schedule, which causes much confusion and even quarrels among the workers. A schedule with reasonable touchstone of rest and clear timetable for lunch shift should remedy the chaos. . Pay, benefit and reward system As an incentive to promote high performance, reasonable pay match to competency and skill should be clearly made known to employees. Besides, benefits such as holidays, medical insurance, bonuses plan should be put in place and put on them consistently and transparently. Rewards for extraordinary performance as in sales or customer relationship or taking up responsibility with good attitude shou ld be promoted. This will not only encourage them to realize their potentials but also motivate the workforce to strive toward better performance. 5.Opportunity for personal development Since the volume of the employees are young people, the management could pick from the large pool of talents to drive forward the organization with momentum and efficiency. In this regard, potential workers should be handpicked and trained for specific task, within a framework. This is beneficial not only to the employees but also for the organization. 6. Warm and creative work environment enlivened by shared vision Most importantly, the employees are not just paid workers. They are human beings with feelings and emotions. And work has value for their lives.Thus work should give them meaning for their lives. To that end, the work environment should be warm and there should be space for their creativity as the worker population is young. If a vision of the Shopping Mall could be shared, it would faci litate the process. One important point is that unlike the top-down management, the people in higher position should show care, concern, and intimacy with all the employers. Only then, work environment could be warm and creative. Conclusion The business plan for Blue Sky Shopping Mall shows the overall plan of how to revitalize the Shopping Mall.The report points out areas of weakness where the Shopping Mall needs to tackle to improve its growth. The report believes that the recommendation gives a picture of what the Blue Sky Shopping Mall would look like after re-structuring the organization and imputing vision, mission, marketing plans and plans to reshape the workforce. There is a great chance that Blue Sky Shopping Mall can regain its fountain glory. Reference list * MBA premaster course of business administration * http//www. capitaland. com/about-capitaland/our-mission * http//www. capitamallsasia. com/corporate/our_vision_mission. aspx