1. Define Lawn Care’s current strategic mission, strategy, competitive priorities, value chain, and how it wins customers. What are the order qualifiers and winners? Draw the major stages in its value chain without an application service.
Lawn Care company mission statement is “highest quality grass seed and fertilizer in the world”. I believe that statement is also hand in hand with their competitive priority, to produce the high quality goods and have it delivered to customers in a timely fashion. It wins the customers that actually know how to apply the fertilizer correctly and had their landscape looking amazing which makes them a billion dollar company. The value chain was designed by Lawn Care to put all of its efforts to provide their customers with high quality products so then customers would not go to competitors. The order qualifier is the up to code fertilizer and the winner is having a high quality one. The stages in the value chain without the application service: Designing what the fertilizer is composed of, gathering the raw materials, manufacture and designing the good, promotion of the product and making sure it being delivered and accessible to customers.
2. What problems, if any, do you see with Lawn Care 's current strategy, vision, customer benefit package and value chain
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80) Operations needs to be good at being about to take on additional responsibilities to meet the new demands of the company. With now offering services and not just the supplies they have to be ready to execute it by getting quality equipment and tools to do the lawn services and finding qualified employees to work it and offer training prior to sending them out to work. This may potentially increase their expenditure but will increase long-term