1. Competitive Advantages
Presentation by Denny Tabula, Edward Charfauros,
Ivalani Sombelon, and Rowen Kamaunu

2. Overview
• Introduction
• About Riordan
• Environmental Scanning, Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation,
and Evaluation & Control
• Strategic plan for Riordan. Why it’s important?
• Role of ethical and social responsibility in Riordan’s strategic management
plan.
• Competitive advantages & strategies used to improve innovation and
sustainability.
• Domestic and International applications
• Measurement guidelines verifying strategy effectiveness
• Internal dynamics along with cultural and structural leadership.
• Influence on business continuity
• Assessment and Feedback Controls
• Altering the strategic plan: when and how?
• Conclusion
• Questions? Answers!

3. About
History
Founder
AboutRiordan

4. CompetitiveAdvantages

5. EnvironmentalScanning,StrategyFormulation,Strategy
Implementation,andEvaluation&Control
Environmental Scanning (SWOT)
• Strength
• Culture oriented
• Global locations
• Employees
• Technology
• Custom plastic design
• Weakness
• Shipping and handling
• mergers
• Opportunity
• Environmental safety
• Innovation in medical
equipment
• Shareholders value/economic
growth
• Threats
• Economic change
• Lifestyle and trends

6. StrategicplanforRiordan.Whyit’simportant?
Strategy Formulation
• Mission
• Objective
• Strategies
• Policies
Strategy Implementation
• Programs
• Budgets
• Procedures

7. Roleofethicalandsocialresponsibility
inRiordan’sstrategicmanagementplan
Ethical and Social Responsibility
• Make the products a donation item (% of sale donation)
• Use recycled material to make products and use excesses
trimming
• Use environmentally friendly disposal methods
• Bio-degradable plastics products
• Improve international
• working conditions, benefits, and wages

8. Competitiveadvantages&strategies
improvinginnovationandsustainability
Competitive Advantages
• Domestic operations
• Innovators of the plastic industry with use of polymer
• Very cheap plastic raw material to make the plastic products
• Taking over a suppliers operation (backward integration)
• Recycle excess materials
• International operations
• Build international manufacturing conditions
• work conditions, benefits, and wages
• Quality products, operational efficiencies, and profitability

9. DomesticandInternationalapplications
Domestic and International applications
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• Level 5 Place Holder

10. Measurementguidelinesverifyingstrategyeffectiveness
Measurement Guidelines
• Steering controls
• Measuring internal variables influencing profitability
• Behavior controls
• Input controls
• Output controls
• Performance controls
• Measuring external outcomes of service activities and results from
product sales.

11. Internaldynamicsalong
withculturalandstructuralleadership
• Internal dynamics along with cultural and structural
leadership.
• And Indented Levels
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• Level 4 Place Holder
• Level 5 Place Holder

12. Influenceonbusinesscontinuity
Riordan Continuity
• Budget for the worst
• Communication
• Back up data
• Preform restoration
• Keep employee and assets as a priority
• Benchmarking

13. AssessmentandFeedbackControls
Assessment and Feedback Controls
• Direction of organization
• Awareness
• Implement Changes (if any)
• Learn and Grow
• Improve
• Succeed

14. Alteringthestrategicplan:Whenandhow
Altering the strategic plan: when and how
• Point to implement alternate strategic plan
• Alternate strategy

15. Conclusion
• Success relies upon employee motivation and retention
• Create planning career development programs
• Create a feedback and coaching process
• Update reward systems
Conclusion

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