Abiola Ewedairo 2016-ME-5-18 ABP - Case Report on Sugar Bowl 1. Case Background 2. Problem statement 3. Objective 4. Data analysis 5. Alternative Analysis 6. Decision Criteria 7. Decision and alternative analysis 8. Recommendations 9. Action and Implementation Plan 1. Case Background: Shelby Givens is a recent business school graduate who returned home to Raleigh to help rescue her family's ailing bowling alley - Westlake Lanes. Prior to the transformation, Givens saw a downward spiral for Westlake Lanes scarcely earning any profits and the ability to sustain a healthy business was dwindling. Buoyed by her recently acquired management skills from the business school, Givens in March of 2010 was able to persuade the board of Westlake Bowling …show more content…
Alternative Analysis: Below are the alternatives available to Givens in order to help her make a decision: • Maintain the Bowling Alley • Sell the Bowl to prospective buyer and take job in New York • Take job in New York and hire a new experienced management to run Sugar Bowl 6. Decision Criteria: Below are the criteria that will inform her decision on which alternatives satisfies her objective: • Family Legacy • Profitability of the Bowl • Fulfilment and job satisfaction • Work-life balance • Debt payback • Long term prospect of the job and sustainability 7. Decision & Alternative Analysis: In below table, the decision analysis is weight against the alternatives available to her: Maintain Status Quo Sell Sugar Bowl and take up new job Take up new job and offer employ a new management Family Legacy 5 1
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The key issue faced by general manager Shelby Givens of Westlake Lanes is whether or not to maintain the current practices of the business or seek new alternatives. She must convince the board that within her allotted one year, progress has been made in improving the business and ultimately convince them that profitability is in the foreseeable future and that their personal debt will be repaid.
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9. If you see a couple of viable options among your top choices, you may benefit from making a(n):
Are there other considerations or calculations that should be taken into account before a final decision is made?
This is a two stage process. Tiffany first lists each option and gives a value to each in the criteria categories after doing research on each one Tiffany’s chart can be seen below:
Westlake Lanes has a highly-educated general manger, Shelby Givens, who graduated from a highly-rated business school and four experienced employees who worked for a long time in the
To help narrow Stephanie decision down she used the disjunctive model approach. Regardless of the amount Stephanie spent on seeking information about each alternatives, it took very little for her to settle on her final
Principles that underlines the process of selection and the choice of techniques are two key principles;
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Step Six is to select on of the options. At this point, Roberts believes you should have enough information to choose an option. In my decision, I had all the information I needed to make my decision. While, the new opportunity offered a higher salary, the responsibilities where not tasks of interest.
We need to consider a number of relevant information prior to making the decision. The information that needs to be considered is: