Respective Case Study Of Security Breach

Running Head: CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
Case Study Analysis
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS1
Question 1.According to the respective case study, the major managerial function is based on
controlling and planning. After facing the issue of security breach within the organization, the
next initiative adopted by the CEO Greg Steinhafel was regarding the process of approaching the
breach caused. According to the case study, the first planning step adopted by them was
regarding the function of providing identity-theft and credit monitoring insurance on a free basis
to all customers associated with the organization with a time frame of one year. This was the
suggestion of the CEO under the method of initiating the plan. Under the respective planning
stage it was important for the CEO in the part of addressing the actual situation and coming up
with suitable solutions which lead to the part of achieving the goal.
The function of controlling was also considered to be an important segment in the case
study, because meeting based on daily status was conducted in order to evaluate the progress
which was undertaking. From the process of conducting these respective meeting the CEO
decided to push the date related to transition on chip readers. This can be regarded as the basic
example of him clearly evaluating the current condition, understanding the progress and making
necessary changes required. In the case study, managerial function in the area of organizing and
leading were not evident.
Question 2.Under the respective case study it is understandable that the management team of
Target faced seven core major challenges in their management operation within the organization.
In this respective part, it is understandable that the success level of the organization completely
varied for the challenges caused. The first challenge is associated with the system of managing
competitive advantage. At the time of breach, it was important for Target to give more emphasis
under the area of managing the system of competitive advantage. In the case study it is
understandable that the organization was not successful in the part of handling this respective