Your paper should not exceed 5 pages, single-spaced, including the cover sheet with your name, class, date, etc. Include references. Paper content is below.
(1) Identify three qualitative forecasting methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages.
(2) Write a description (in the same format style) for a badly designed product that is not described at that website. Ideally, describe a badly designed product that you own or have experienced yourself. You can include graphics or digital photographs of the product, if you wish.
(3) How can a public school system control the quality of its output (that is, its graduates)? (NOTE: if you have a good idea here, you can make a fortune from it!).
(4) What are the advantages of standardization? What are the disadvantages? How can innovation and variety be encouraged and accomplished, especially in a new technology, while maintaining standardization?
(5) Assume that you own a chain of ten retail ice cream stores in the Washington-Baltimore area. What would be the specific (to this business situation) advantages and disadvantages of installing an ERP system for your ice cream company?