Tanglewood Case Study

Tanglewood has a strong stand within the nondurable general retail industry, which is currently having annual sales of over 4 trillion dollars. With a growing return rate of 13.1% and over 7 million in operating revenues Tanglewood has great growth potential and is very competitive. Even while competing with the major online competition and global competition. Tanglewood has the opportunity to expand their store into the global market, this would be major expansion and would help Tanglewood exceed the competition. Tanglewood has stayed rather small due to its low number of stores but can be the global leader of the nondurable industry if global expansion becomes reality.

Competitive Response and Strategy

While Tanglewood’s mission statement

Putting this IT system into place will create unity and streamline the way Tanglewood regional managers run their region and keep the original ideals of Tanglewood within each region. There also have reason for concern over the balance of Potential customer in an area verses how many employees are in the region. This ratio should stay consistent within Tangle wood. For example, if the region has a potential customer number of 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 then the number of employees should range from 4,500 to 4,900 employees. The consistency will help the managers run their regions in the same

Furthermore, it would not be the Tanglewood way to let go of midlevel managers, especially if they are contributing to the success of the organization. So the implementation of the hierarchy flatten would have to be slow, allowing midlevel managers to move up or adapt into the new system of things where there would be more department managers and no shift leaders. This is all in efforts to create a more centralized company due to the rapid growth of the