Riordan Manufacturing: Strategic Business Plan Outline

I.                   Introduction: Company History

A.    “Michael Riordan, Ph.D., President and CEO” (Apollo Group, Inc., 2009, p. 1)

B.     Riordan Plastic founded in 1991, Company name changed to Riordan Manufacturing founded in 1993 (Apollo Group, Inc., 2006, para 4-5).

C.     Classification of Stakeholders – According to Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson (2009) “People who are affected by a firm’s performance and who have claims on its performance” (p. 21)

1.      Capital Market Stakeholders

2.      Product Market Stakeholders

3.      Organizational Stakeholders