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What are the different types of inventories maintained by a typical business entity?
· What is the significance of inventory regarding customer service levels?
· What are some of your experiences with inventories from the customer service perspective?
· How would you improve those inventories
· A number of quality-management philosophies hold that prevention costs are the most critical quality-related costs. What is the logic behind this premise?
· Would you apply this logic as an operations manager? Explain why or why not
· What is quality management?
· Why is it important for every manager to understand?
· How might a quality-management program affect productivity?
· What are the major elements of project management?
· Describe the role of the project manager in conjunction with project control.
· What are the requisite skills that the project manager must possess?
· How might materials requirement planning (MRP) be applied to the surgery suite of a hospital, scheduling university classes, a chain of restaurants, and hotel renovations?
· What are the strategic goals of supply chain management and how does procurement, transportation, and distribution affect these goals?
· Where have you seen the operational components of planning, sourcing, making, and delivering applied inappropriately?
· How might the operations manager have improved the situation?
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What are three of the primary obstacles encountered by the management team in adopting and installing a new information technology system?
We have seen many changes and innovations in the application of technology to operations management in recent years. Using information from your readings, identify the three most significant advancements in technology. Explain your choice of significant advancements.
Financial justification of a new information technology system is difficult at best because many of the advantages are intangible. Routine capital budgeting often overlooks six areas of cost savings or revenue-enhancement factors that are realized with new technology. What are four of these factors? Why are these factors important?
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How multinational corporations deal with multiculturalis
: Today most multinational corporations (MNC's) deal with multiculturalism within their own country of origin. Would you agree or disagree with this statement?
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Operant conditioning and superstitions
: Describe the principles/concepts which can be applied to explain the process by which operant conditioning can lead to the development and maintenance of superstitions.
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Peer-group dynamics and mechanisms
: Understanding peer dynamics is a very important aspect of child relationships, especially when the child reaches the teenage years. These peer group dynamics become a powerful tool for shaping behavior in positive and negative ways.
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How do tom and becky feel about each other
: How do Tom and Becky feel about each other? On what are these feelings based? In what way does the incident at the supper table affect Aunt Polly and Tom? Explain what new sides to Tom are revealed.
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Quality-management program affect productivity
: What are three of the primary obstacles encountered by the management team in adopting and installing a new information technology system?
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Byronic heroes
: A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection
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Hacking and defending practices
: Networking and Internet- how can you put your math game online in the Internet so that more kids can benefit from it
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Social movements highlight areas of society
: Social movements highlight areas of society to be changed and make valuable contribution to solving problems. However, they seldom actually solve problems. In order to mobilize sufficient resources, they need to appeal to a broad population, and t..
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Attending a college or university lesson
: What mental models do you have about attending a college or university lesson? Are these mental models helpful? Could any of these mental models hold you back from achieving the full benefit of the lesson?
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