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World Perfume
Pattern description
Pattern description
World Perfume is a perfume company based in Dallas, Texas. The president of the company, Johnny Whitworth, was once a distributor for Scentura. World Perfume distributors buy perfume from headquarters and recruit salesmen with newspaper ads. Door-to-door salespeople are paid based on their sales commission, with no salary.
Inventive problems
Inventive problems
The company should be large and have a complex structure to perform a large number of diverse operations for the development, production, and delivery of a complex product to the customers.
The company should be small and have a simple structure in order to:
- reduce the variety and complexity of the company activities;
- focus on a small number of core operations;
- have a small stuff;
- minimize the cost of development, production, sale, and delivery of products to customers.
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