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The firm has 20 projects per year and each senior designer can handle 6 projects per year. What is the current labor utilization of the senior designers? What do you recommend?
"Metal window boxes are manufactured in two process steps: What's the capacity at stamping? What should the batch size be?
What is the total time in the system for this service? Determine the average number of people waiting for the service.
When do you need a person with a strong technical background to lead a project? When do you need someone with a strong business background?
Cultural sensitivity is crucial to local and global success. It is very difficult to be aware of and sensitive to issues and traditions about which we are ignorant. How can we decrease our own ignor
Explain why transport rates typically vary by 1) the weight of the shipment; 2) the distance a shipment is transported; and 3) the value of the transport service.
Implemented for internal customers. What are some other project types that are for internal customers? Is managing their expectations different? If so, how?
If plant was designed to produce 7000 hmmers per day but it is limited to making 6000 hammers per day because of the time needed to change equipment styles of hammers . what's the utilization?
EOQ or POQ assumptions of instantaneous replenishment or noninstantaneous replenishment are appropriate in any company's environment.
If so, what can organizations do to change this? What is our personal responsibility in making positive changes and reducing intolerance?
Most project teams tend not to be chosen by the project manager, but are assigned or are volunteer teams. Do you think that is an effective way to develop a team?
Which action would yield the greatest increase in process capacity: (1) increase the capacity of Operation 1 by 15 percent; (2) increase the capacity of Operation 2 by 10 percent.
While running, each machine can turn out 50 pieces per hour. Find: The probability that a machine will have to wait for an adjustment.
How can transportation managers be involved with other operations of the firm. Please support your answer with an example.
Describe the key stakeholders who make up Panera's specific environment. What potential conflicts among stakeholder interests might cause problems for Panera?
For teams you have been a part of, what types of positions typically emerged? should these roles be more structured and assigned?
You are the project manager. How would you balance your efforts to get the project done with your efforts to help team members use their work on the project to develop themselves professionally?
You are the Shipping/ Receiving supervisor of a chain super market. One of your employees came to you and said they have just opened a trucks cargo doors of a load of dairy proucts.
How could a business leverage its investment in information technology to build strategic IT capabilities that serve as a barrier to new entrants into its markets?
How could a business use information technology to increase switching costs and lock in its customers and suppliers? Use business examples to support your answers.
Suppose you are a manager being asked to develop computer-based applications to gain a competitive advantage in an important market for your company. What reservations might you have about doing so
Why do you think these key qualities are admired across all cultures? Are there any others that you think might be valued across all cultures? Explain.
Should businesses use target pricing? Do you think target pricing can only be used for manufactured goods, or can it also be applied to services?
The machine has a sample mean of 4.001 inches with a standard deviation of 0.002 inches. Calculate the CPK for this machine.
Machine downtime represents a cost of $70 per hour; operator cost (including salary and fringe benefits) is $15 per hour. What is the optimum number of operators?