Overview of Management Assignment
Introduction
Chapter 1, Management Challenges from the book Management and Its Evolution
discusses the overview of management and focuses more on the four major functions of
management and how individuals, teams and managers incorporate them at job settings.
Chapter 16, Managing Information systems provides summary of the components of a firm
information technology and role of software and how its development is changing business
operations. The 13th chapter, Strategic System and Reorganization by authors, explains
strategic information systems, its advantages, Porter five forces and how IT improves
competitiveness. This paper will first explore the management functions at Kudler Fine
Foods virtual organization; second, explain how technology and the Internet are utilized by
Kudler currently and how that affects its management; and third, cite an example from
Kudler illustrating each of the five forces from Porter Model.
Kudler Functions of Management
Kudler Fine Foods is a food store established by Kathy Kudler. The story behind Kudler
Fine Foods is Kathy wanted to provide a food store where a shopper can find all the
recipes and fresh ingredients to prepare a gourmet meal. She was frustrated from driving
across town looking for ingredients to prepare her gourmet cooking. Kudler Fine Foods
has three locations and the stores are stocked with domestic and imported food stuffs. The
store is divided into Fresh Bakery and Pastries; Fresh Produce; Fresh Meat & Seafood;
Condiments and Packaged Foods and Cheese and Specialty Dairy Products.
The four management functions Kudler utilize to manage the three stores are planning &
strategizing, organizing, leading and controlling. At Kudler Kathy Kudler, the president
