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sometimes...helping investor/competitor helps...the orgs..in long run...

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:26 -0700

As a BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT…MY RESEARCH ON STARBUCKS…..
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www.starbucks.com
---Does the company have its monthly journal…
---Or a newsletter…in which the employees…who are university educated…submit montly articles….alhamdulilah..with suggestions boxes and ideas…submitted
---Or the feed back…system….to improve….
---Does the company gives employess…on the job…a virtual chat room to…chat with employees of other branches…..so they can…gossip about the organization….on the servers…maintained by the organization……open discussion…sometimes…saves orgnizations….if monitored….by net work…admin
---chat room gossips….are fun time for some employees….
---its easy to dismantel six hundred locations…but to setup them again…..
---does star bucks…provide internet or hot spot or wifi connection to customer on some price….and what profit sharing does the employee…gets….[ does the branch employees have skills other than…coffee making…to…fix and trouble shoot the computer problems…]…improving on skills….carrear growth….
---pg 337...sometimes..the most hardworking…chores doing employees…have the vision…cos they are serving the customer….in person…getting feedback…like the sales persons….
---keep in mind the company is “ service orgnizations…” although serving a “ tangible product” which includes a number of tasks….” a Job= set of tasks…” ,
Job = task 1,+task2 + task3...+ task n…
==Coffe = heat water + mix sugar+ put milk+ …etc etc…s[ if you count these task from manual point of view…..than..there are around twenty two 22 tasks…in making and serving tea./coffe to the customer in the third…world…enviornment…..
===Coffe= Kitchen= fetch cups+ fetch plates + fetch spoons +fetch coffe jar+ turn oven on + fetch match sticks+ fetch the kettle + put water in the kettel+ than let it heat+ than fetch milk+then put the coffe and sugar in cup use spoon + wait for water to boil.+ put hot water in cups…+ put prepared coffe in cups..+ than serve the coffee…[…..Starbucks like orgnizations with automate systems…should think on these lines…too….]

===The employee is serving the customer…..in real time….putting his energy and effort….

----pg 383.…star bucks success…..in hiring the right baristas or coffee makers…something the company is far more likely to do that a franchise . Using company owned channels also allows the company to expand or contract sites without being bound by contractual agreement with other entities. A final benefit is that the company owns the customer relationship….
The fact if star bucks open a shop …in the third world like country…they wont be able to find the educated staff…that can serve the organization….in the manner they want…..I.e. due to the low university educated white collar staff….downsizing is easy….but ask the employer in the thired….world..with…low educated staff….

-----why don’t star bucks have a Internet or computer Magazine….like the Pcmagazine or computershopper for its….seventy percent of internet users….that the employees…at every branch can search at home …..articles…and…they launch the magazine…..s

---increased readership means….attracting advertisements…and increase in profits….

Page 384
Vision= something to experience in a coffehouse
Baristas= one hwo prepares and serves coffee

SPECALIZED SKILLS---If you lay down six hundred shops with twelve thousand employees….where does these skills=baristas end up…..[point to ponder]
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As many as four hundred ot five hundred employees per month nationally are carefully trained to “ call triple -tall nonfat mocha”
a)make drinks
b) clean espresso machines
c) deliver quality customer service..

“ coffe Knowledge”
“ How to wipe oil from the coffe bin, …so the coffee tastes…just right
-- social responsibility…to teach customer how to use the esprsso machines and coffe they buy to replicate the product they get …..
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SERVICE STANDARDS
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No pot of coffe sits on a burner for more than twenty minutes…
-- an espresso machine with unused coffee must be purged regularly
--no one goes home at night unless a)every thing is completed , b)cleaned, and c) polished …according to service manuals…three tasks
---using such standards ensures both Service and Quality are maintained….[ maintaing standards are not easy…if the employee gets ill….point to ponder…

STAR SKILLS:[ WHAT are these star’s for…they usually give them…to armed forces…boys….if you all have these stars….than…what a waste….
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To hire, keep and motivate the very best[ service industry university educated] employees, star bucks has three guidelines for on -the-job interpersonal relations:
1) maintain and enchance self esteem
2) listen and acknowledge….but what about feed back, what about virtual backup to the server or the windows point of Sale software I.e. the feed back goes to the…main server….that should be monitored by SECP….so that…the company can be taken out of hard times…in times of recessio0n….. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/rms/purchase/pricing.mspx

Question why not Microsoft as an experiment….implements /install this system… on concessioanl or for research basis…. On these branches…. In order to improve productivity….
3)ask for help..

I have a question…..do most of the baristas…are university educated….or …not….

STAR BUCKS AND THE INTERNET
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Starbuck has high hope for the internet
Given that it attracts young affluent , tech-savvy customers,
Seventy percent 70 % of whom are internet users.

--star bucks refused to offer internet connections in the coffe shops themselves, not wanting to create a dimly lit cyber cafes with people hunhce over machines….s

From the above statement it seems ….that most of the customers of star bucks are….Univeristy educated persons…doing corporate jobs …in the white collar industry….that means…store location….may count……

SOLUTION….FOR STAR BUCKS..
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Page 80, Smart Business.com ….November 2001
---Ikea has fifteen U.S . stores
---Ikea has 160 stores in thirty countries….

That is what I call better, stable fine…manageable business…..
Not trying to expand too, much like star bucks….the more you expand…..the more it is not possible to manage…..
Stable manageable…business..with volume sales….six hunderd branches…is number which is not manageable figure…a manager can…at the most manage five to eight people…[ principles of management ]

Now due to…that…so much skilled staff had to be lay offed…alhamdulialh…
Little better but manageable too…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/bs_nm/starbucks_dc

In January, Starbucks brought back founder and chief executive Howard Schultz to turn around the company. Soon after, Schultz targeted 100 stores for closure -- a number that grew by 500 when firm plans were announced on Tuesday.

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With cost of staple food and prices and inflation and recessions….faced by economies….

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:37:57 -0700

We are first world….we can afford the whole tablet a day….., you are third world….you should have…half a tablet ….as your purchasing power is below or low…but quality is quality….

---And also many children…would like to have….half tablets…

---Many elders…in third world would prefer half a tablet a day….something is better than…nothing….

---also price …gets…less too for the…third world user…who…would like the benefit….

-----and many children in the firstworld would prefer that…too…

----and question and logical and scientific…why shouldn’t children get the dosage their small bodies…require…why give them…an elders…diet ….[ point to ponder…]

With cost of staple food and prices and inflation and recessions….faced by economies….

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a little research on star bucks...by business..school student...

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:12:28 -0700

www.starbucks.com

---Does the company have its monthly journal…

---Or a newsletter…in which the employees…who are university educated…submit montly articles….alhamdulilah..with suggestions boxes and ideas…submitted

---Or the feed back…system….to improve….

---Does the company gives employess…on the job…a virtual chat room to…chat with employees of other branches…..so they can…gossip about the organization….on the servers…maintained by the organization……open discussion…sometimes…saves orgnizations….if monitored….by net work…admin

---chat room gossips….are fun time for some employees….

---its easy to dismantel six hundred locations…but to setup them again…..

---does star bucks…provide internet or hot spot or wifi connection to customer on some price….and what profit sharing does the employee…gets….[ does the branch employees have skills other than…coffee making…to…fix and trouble shoot the computer problems…]…improving on skills….carrear growth….

---pg 337...sometimes..the most hardworking…chores doing employees…have the vision…cos they are serving the customer….in person…getting feedback…like the sales persons….

---keep in mind the company is “ service orgnizations…” although serving a “ tangible product” which includes a number of tasks….” a Job= set of tasks…” ,

Job = task 1,+task2 + task3...+ task n…

==Coffe = heat water + mix sugar+ put milk+ …etc etc…s[ if you count these task from manual point of view…..than..there are around twenty two 22 tasks…in making and serving tea./coffe to the customer in the third…world…enviornment…..

===Coffe= Kitchen= fetch cups+ fetch plates + fetch spoons +fetch coffe jar+ turn oven on + fetch match sticks+ fetch the kettle + put water in the kettel+ than let it heat+ than fetch milk+then put the coffe and sugar in cup use spoon + wait for water to boil.+ put hot water in cups…+ put prepared coffe in cups..+ than serve the coffee…[…..Starbucks like orgnizations with automate systems…should think on these lines…too….]

===The employee is serving the customer…..in real time….putting his energy and effort….

----pg 383.…star bucks success…..in hiring the right baristas or coffee makers…something the company is far more likely to do that a franchise . Using company owned

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helping them helps you

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:06:01 -0700

helping your competitiors....sometimes...help you.....in the consumer indsutry city worlds.....this rule applies....sometimes passing over the idea to the comptetior...or enterpreuners....help you in the long term......

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no reengiinering thank...you not at any cost.....use or lose

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:38:01 -0700

Firstworld….dont let local university educated armed force…give any public statements….alhamdulilah…..and shoot the non-eductated militant muslim mosque staff….alhamdulilah,…6/27/2008 3:31:34 PM, esp in this block….alhamdulilah,….and no comments…same for the non-educated retailers…alhamdulilah…ASAP….

Eitehre generation X-Y or internet…..and no comments…further….

since you did not use it...lose life...alhamdulilah.....

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no reengiinering thank...you not at any cost.....use or lose

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:36:55 -0700

Eitehre generation X-Y or internet…..and no comments…further….

since you did not use....so lose life...alhamdulilah...

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how science revoltuinze ....internet Generation

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:10:46 -0700

Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Michio Kaku

the book describes the following
a)computer revolution

b)biomoleculare revolution

c)quantum revoltuion

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how to cope in hard times.....

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:32:00 -0700

1988 to 2008 The earth Climate

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/1988-2008-climate-then-and-now/?hp

NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_sc/sci_warming_scientist;_ylt=Ag1graNPqghAx7KZvXzrZtpvzwcF

the Ten worst managed companies of the U.S.

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/?fpn=the%20ten%20worst%20managed%20companies%20in%20america%20sears%20sun%20starbucks%20and%20sprint&GT1=33009

How to cope up with Hard Times….

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/business/smallbusiness/10toolkit.html?ex=1229745600&en=7bdbd5abb93ac143&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=BU-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M049-ROS-0608-L1&WT.mc_ev=click&mkt=BU-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M049-ROS-0608-L1

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how to cope in hard times.....

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:31:53 -0700

1988 to 2008 The earth Climate

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/1988-2008-climate-then-and-now/?hp

NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_sc/sci_warming_scientist;_ylt=Ag1graNPqghAx7KZvXzrZtpvzwcF

the Ten worst managed companies of the U.S.

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/?fpn=the%20ten%20worst%20managed%20companies%20in%20america%20sears%20sun%20starbucks%20and%20sprint&GT1=33009

How to cope up with Hard Times….

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how many subjects are there in school...

nobody@vox.com(Kenwas) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:09:38 -0700

Ref: report on Talibans by news services….

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Read the school books….ask the talibans…one question….

Have you ever read all the seven books of Hadiths…or not….

b) have they ever read the quran in translation of there native. language….

If not…than…they don’t know a thing about the school or university life…................…

c) how much do they know about computer technology….

d) ask them how many types of school/college/university subjects are there….s

e)how many occupations…are there in the world or globe…and how many have one person from there have changed or experienced

f)how many kinds of skills are there in the globe….and how many have they learnt….do they know how to give CPR,…can they make a chair like IKEA,…

g) Name and list the specializations and sub0-specalizations of the following

Medical school [e.g. orthopedic, ENT…etc.

Engineering School [ civil eng, artificial intellegence

Business school[ Marketing,…brand management….etc…

h) how many of them are Univeristy educated…..from, firstworld i.e. Europe and U.S…

i)how many subjects are there in school......i.e..maths physic , chemistry …etc….and one of them….is religion….question is if you read one subject all day….than…what will happen to your mind….alhamdulilah…[from scientific point of view…….offcourse you will become an extremist….and fundamentalist….cos you are not reading any other school subject at all….

You don’t know a thing about…. English comprehension , literature, physics, chemistiry…..maths, trigonometry, algebra, computer and accesoireies [ like scanner , digital camera,..etc….]

Now tell me….” Do you “ “ do you know any of the above things……alhamdulilah….if not….MYOB….= mind your own business and don’t disturb…me…

If I gabve you work in a MNC…you adults will eat my brains…out by asking school level questions…..

While I research about computer and science technology….

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