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Part 1: Business Improvements (4-5 pages)

Analyze some of the basic details about McDonalds. At a minimum, the basic details should include: the industry and products/services the organization offers, the overall operational and financial health of the organization, and a qualitative or systems diagram summary of how the organization operates to fulfill its commitments to customers.

Analyze what you believe to be the fundamental physical, policy, or market constraints that are preventing McDonalds from moving to the next level of performance. Be sure to clearly identify each primary constraint and provide a detailed argument and evidence for why you think each is a primary constraint to organizational performance. Be sure to support your response with appropriate concepts from performance management and/or systems thinking.

For each of the fundamental physical, policy, or market constraints that you identified as preventing McDonalds from moving to the next level of performance, justify a specific recommendation for how to elevate, support, and potentially eliminate the constraint.

Using the concepts of throughput accounting and Theory of Constraints accounting measurements for each of your recommendations, evaluate how the primary metrics of T, I, and OE would be affected and why the recommendations would make sense from a performance measurement perspective.