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Looking out over the next decade, estimate the likely standards of value creation. How would you advise a company like IBM or Cisco to configure and coordinate its value chain?
What type of challenges faced by many leaders of firms that have been forced to downsize lately. How do leaders continue to engage their employees in the face of layoffs and bad financial news?
Using a practical example, what are the benefits and potential problems associated with conflict? What is negotiation? What are the common negotiation pitfalls? What are the strategies to overcome the
What is the forecast for the Period 7 using a 3-period weighted moving average technique (use a weight of 3 for last period's value, a weight of 2 for the period before.
What is the value of the mean absolute deviation (MAD) for the forecasting technique whose forecasts for four past periods and the subsequent actual values are given below?
The Capital Superstore decides to track customer complaints as part of their ongoing customer satisfaction improvement program.
Formulate the problem as an integer linear programming model. Write the Objective function and the Constraints. The personnel manager wants to minimize this sum.
What type of steel should be used to construct the bridge? How will the safety of workers be ensured during construction and steel erection?
Joan is an accountant who opposes the introduction of a new financial control system. For 15 years she has worked with the old, manual system.
Why might it be challenging for organizations to effectively set and achieve social and environmental goals and objectives, in addition to their operating goals and objectives?
How might mission and vision influence organizational design? How might mission and vision influence leadership practices? (Give an example).
List the last three major contaminations (e.g., food contaminations and pathogens, etc.) that have plagued this country within the last three years.
Identify technologies we covered that can be used as part of a CRM strategy and discuss its applicability to the Fresh Foods grocery store we reviewed as a case study.
CruBrew uses 100 bags of whole bean coffee every month. Currently, CruBrew has signed a year-long contract to purchase its coffee beans from a domestic supplier (DS), located in the USA.
The manager's rationale is that with a U-shaped cost curve that is fairly flat at its minimum, the difference in total annual cost between 800 and 801 units would be small anyway.
A mail-order house uses 16,000 boxes a year. Carrying costs are 60 cents per box a year, and ordering costs are $96.
A company manufactures hair dryers. It buys some of the components, but it makes the heating element, which it can produce at the rate of 800 per day.
The Friendly Sausage Factory (FSF) can produce hot dogs at a rate of 5,000 per day. FSF supplies hot dogs to local restaurants at a steady rate of 240 per day.
The manager has assigned an annual carrying cost of 35 percent of the purchase price per crate. Ordering costs are $28. Currently the manager orders once a month.
How would you handle this as the marketing leader? What is your plan? How would you handle this as the director if HR? What is your plan?
Select a topic associated with health information that would require educating the public in your community. Consider and discuss the community group or population that you will target.
Calculate the expected duration and variance of the critical path. Calculate the probability that the project will be completed in less than 28 weeks.
If Joe sells the product at a price of $70, how many units must he sell to break even? If Joe sells 3000 units at the product price of $70, what will be his contributions to profit?
A metropolitan school system consists of three districts-north, south, and central. The north district contains 25% of all students, the south district contains 4O%.
The Senate consists of 100 senators, of whom 34 are Republicans and 66 are Democrats. A bill to increase defense appropriations is before the Senate.