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Develop multiple alternatives/options for actions to solve the problem. Evaluate the alternatives by considering if the company can afford it; whether it will evoke a response from competitors; how employees/customers/ stakeholders are likely to view the change; and how the alternative fits with organizational culture, vision, mission, and goals.
Problem Statement
The problem at Papa John’s is the toxic culture. While the industry has shown growth, Papa John’s has experienced a decline that started back in 2017 with the controversy around Schnatter’s comments about the National Football League (NFL) hurting Papa John’s sales to most recently his use of derogatory terms on a conference call.
Strategic analysis
To Improve and solve Papa John’s problem the business needs to pursue objectives and strategies that analyze both the competitive environment and internal organization, to ensure the organization’s resources are fully utilized to achieve its goals and objectives.
The toxic culture at Papa Johns has made its financial performance both at the stock market and business level to deteriorate, and the public spat between Schnatter and the board also means investors are shying away from the stocks. To overcome the problem Papa Johns’ investors faces, return measures should be enforced with the Price/Earnings Multiple strategy which shows what the market is willing to pay today for a stock based on its past or future earnings and how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings . When Papa Johns’ stocks are undervalued buy-and-hold investors buy the stocks and wait for the stock market to improve and use the investments to fix the business and improve its financial needs.
Opportunities
Opportunity 1: Papa John’s has certainly made their business from using the best high-quality ingredients that there can be in the world.
Opportunity 2: Papa John’s business is still considered new in the pizza market.
Opportunity 3: Papa John’s need to take the opportunity that they have in marketing areas which they have already established store locations with more coupons by attracting more customers to their business to boost their sales.
Having the Price/Earnings Multiple Strategy is one that can make anyone that has ownership over the company either stay or sell their shares. The customers are the key business makers in purchasing the products. Papa John’s has several pizza giant competitors like Mr. Gatti’s, Pizza Hut and Dominos. The competition can be a factor of how the pizza business does such as an example with vendors. A vendor can either make or break your business. If Papa John’s does not have a quality working relationship with the vendors who provide quality ingredients for their menu, then the business will lose money which will trigger stockholders/investors to sell their shares of the company because they are losing money. One thing that also can seriously affect Papa John’s business or any business is having serious negative publicity that can affect the value of the stockholders. This tool shows that consumers react to any negative publicity, either from televised news, social medias such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If consumers notice of any negative publicity, they will be less likely to buy the product which result in loss of sales and investors. If there are positive publicity news of certain pizza shops, consumers will be motivated to purchase the pizza. Which will result in the increase of business sales and attracts investors to invest money into the company and secure profitable gains.