Management Report for the Roman Catholic Church
Our plan for a return to strong future growth
INTRODUCTION
The Roman Catholic Church (hereafter the Corporation) was for nearly one thousand years the most successful business the world has ever seen. In recent centuries, however, a variety of factors have resulted in the Corporation being depositioned in several key markets. This Report will first analyze the primary factors that have resulted in loss of market share, and then will make several recommendations intended to enable the Corporation to halt its decline and, where possible, begin to re-establish its brand and thereby re-invigorate its revenue stream.
OVERVIEW
The Corporation was an early innovator in management practice, centralizing and establishing a functional hierarchy long before potential competitors adopted similar business models. One central feature of the early years of the Corporation was a highly pragmatic mix of centralized decision-making combined with a significant degree of local autonomy. In this way, the core marketing messages of the Corporation could retain a general consistency while being adapted to the needs of local markets.
This combination of doctrinal orthodoxy mixed with market-specific adaptations enabled the Corporation to expand rapidly in…
