Identify an international business you think is interesting

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Description/ Focus: Essay (Report Style)

Word limit: -3000 - 4000 words

Over recent years, a number of key challenges have become very significant to Operations Managers. Six of these concepts are:

Changing Technologies
Continued Globalization of markets including 1st and 2nd world entrants.
Changing customer expectations
Changing job designs
Quality management
Global manufacturing

Your task is to:

1. Identify an international business you think is interesting and briefly discuss how each of the above challenges might impact that business in the future. (Suggested minimum 1200 words)

2. Choose a minimum of three of the following areas of Operations Management that you think are likely to most impact the success of your chosen business and justify your selection of each. (Suggested minimum 2000 words)

Goods and Service design
Process Selection, Design and Analysis
Facility and Work Design
Supply Chain Design
Capacity Management
Managing Inventories
Resource Management
Quality Management

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