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Identify areas where the KSAs and the competitive strategy are not aligned. Then, explain how these deficiencies should be addressed.
Assess how training could resolve the issues that Multistate Health Corporation (MHC) was having implementing their competitive strategy.
In the linear programming shipping problems, why was it necessary to specify some of the constraints as strict equalities, rather than the inequalities that perhaps made more sense from the perspect
what had changed for the company since the last case? 2. How do you account for the dramatic rise in Apple following the death of Steve Jobs, and its dramatic fall this semester?
1. How is Walmart deriving business value from its sustainability strategy? 2. Imagine that you are Andy Ruben or Tyler Elm, evaluating the progress of the electronics, seafood, and textiles network
What is your evaluation of Welch's approach to leading change? How important is he to GE's success? What implications for his replacement?
3. What challenges does Whole Foods face in 2006? 4. What would you advise CEO John Mackey to do to sustain Whole Foods' lead?
a) To provide 98% service level what must the reorder point be? b) If a new safety stock policy is being considered that reduces safety stock by 100 units, what is the new service level?
assume that the chairman is correct and that pi= 0.70. find the expected value and the standard error of the sampling distribution.
from a sample of 400 people who were asked if they were in favor of a proposition to ban smoking in restaurants, 320 responded yes. develop a 98% confidence interval using the sample.
each day that he practices, he shoots 150 free throws and counts the number he makes. today he made 117 free throws. what is the 95% confidence interval around his sample?
what are the mean and standard deviation of a normally distributed random variable, which has been "standardized?"
Explain how external conditions and group member resources affect group performance and satisfaction.
Why was Costco successful? a. Costco had no duty to accommodate because it could not do so without undue hardship.
what is a marketing budget and what are its importance?
What is sustainable marketing? Explain how the sustainable marketing concept differs from the marketing concept and the societal marketing concept.
What is the major difference between aggregate planning in manufacturing compared to services? G. What distinguishes pure and mixed strategies in production planning?
If the average setup and processing time is reduced to 3/8 of a day due to better training and retention of experienced employees. What are the answers to (a) and (b).
how many Kanban card sets should be authorized? What is the maximum authorized inventory?
The second subsystem consists of 5 elements in series each with a failure rate of 1/200. What is the overall reliability of the system?
Analyze the four costs associated with maintaining an inventory to determine which appears to be most controllable by any organization. Explain your rationale.
Compare and contrast the challenges involved with managing service organizations against those of manufacturing operations. Discuss which you would rather manage and why.
explain what is meant by the term global firm and list the six major decisions involved in international marketing.
Based on your synthesis of information from the text and elsewhere, describe and discuss how the sales manager facilitates long term relationships with customers.
how they might gain an understanding of this in order to make changes? What would an effective sales manager do to help a new salesperson who may need to make changes in this area?