Aristocrat Leisure Limited is the largest gaming machine manufacturer in Australia‚ and is one of the largest manufacturers of slot machines in the world. The company produced its first machine in 1953‚ founded by Len Ainsworth. Aside from spinning reel slot machines‚ the company also has interests in gaming systems (a computerized network systems that manage slot machines)‚ computerized card game simulations‚ electronic table games and linked jackpot system. Government Macau is a country in it’s
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INTRODUCTION: It was time when British Airways showed the world the future of travel with the opening of Heathrow Airports spectacular new Terminal 5. Opening on the 27th of March 2008‚ inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth (the second)‚ the terminal completely failed in the first two weeks of its operation. Insufficient staff training and testing‚ coupled with a disruption in the Terminals IT systems led to around 500 flights being cancelled. SEGEMENTED ANALYSIS (What went wrong): 1. Logistics and
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Chiquita in Columbia I. Overview of the Issue In 1997‚ executives at Chiquita Brands Banadex were faced with a very serious ethical dilemma‚ which would severely impact the future of the company. The executives were confronted by the leader of one of the most powerful terrorist groups in the state of Columbia and the company had a significant choice to make; Chiquita could pay the terrorist group a penny for every dollar of bananas exported in return for the safety of their employees or they
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Plastics Ltd 1. It is batch production because they are producing on a relatively large scale but they are also producing to orders. They are producing in bulk but they are producing lots of different products. They do not produce goods just in case as they don’t receive the order for the same product on a regular basis. It is not flow production because they produce lots of different products and it is not job production because they produce multiple products at once. 2. One advantage is that
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has been using the Qualitative method rather than Quantitative method. 2. What is the importance of accurate forecasting for YFHC? Justify with case specific information and avoid general comments. (5 marks) (max.150 words) 3. What should be an appropriate forecasting horizon (duration)? Justify with one specific example connected to the case. (5 marks) (max. 150 words) 4. Please draw the graph of 4 years demand data and write down your observations (5 marks) (max.100 words for observations)
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Is Isom’s business vision responsive to the situation? In general‚ most of the companies in property and casualty insurance business would want to be high performing specialists rather than generalists. Yes‚ in this case however his vision was responsive to the situation. He had a good view of the situation and knew that radical shift in the divisions strategy is required to turn around the future. P&C was a low performing generalist insurance division • Years of
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Ducati & TPG – A “Wild Ride” LBO Case Study December‚ 2010 Q1. The nature of the opportunity and the question of brand expansion 1.1 The situation of the target firm Positives: (1) The Ducati brand was world famous;(2) The product was great in terms of technology and quality and it had won the 1990‚ 1991‚ 1992‚ 1994‚ and 1995 World Superbike championships against strong competition;(3) Ducati’s product family was broad offering 15 models in four families based on seven different engines;(4)
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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