What do you consider to be the most important influence on Toyota’s Lean Production plan? (18 marks) Lean production is a manufacturing technique used to enhance efficiency and profitability. Its primary focus is speed of output by waste elimination. Waste is anything that does not add value to the end product. Many industries aside from manufacturing are now adopting lean principles. Lean productions consists of techniques such as Just in time (JIT)‚ Critical path analysis (CPA)‚ Kaizen and Time
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing computer games teaches us about life. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer With times changing‚ there are some newly released computer games designed not only for people to relax but also allows them to live in a virtual world. Some said that these games can expose people to latest innovations‚ improve their reactions‚ and do what they are forbidden to do in the real world. However‚ I disagree that playing computer
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Do you know the Chinese traditional festival? Do you know how to the Mid-Autumn festival the Chinese traditional festival? Nowadays‚ I want to tell you something about my favorite Chinese traditional Festival-the Mid-Autumn festival‚ which is on the 15th august in China’s lunar calendar. When it comes to the Mid-Autumn festival‚ we have to recall the moon. The moon is the symbol of the Mid-Autumn festival. The people celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival by doing every thing about the moon. For
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Do you think that advertising influence teens? You have probably come across this question a dozen times in your life but could never come up with a conclusion‚ right? Well being a teenager myself‚ I strongly believe that it does not affect teenagers as an individual point of view and based on the information I have gathered; which consists of poverty and the awareness that schools bring to students. When you read “poverty” you were probably thinking‚ what that is supposed to mean. What I mean
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You are never too old to do anything People that think that elderly people are too old to do the things which the younger generation are quite capable to do are guilty of both; lack of conviction and uncertainty. Long-standing people are just as capable as we are of fulfilling their dreams and living the way that they want to live due to them being more experienced than us in life for which they know more than the younger generation. Undoubtedly‚ there will be differing opinions from their family
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great sibling rivalries. Sibling rivalry is a common theme in the works of Shakespeare. A number of Shakespeare’s plays display incidences of sibling rivalry including the way King Lear provokes rivalry among his three daughters. In The Taming of the Shrew‚ Sisters Kate and Bianca are shown fighting bitterly. In Richard III‚ the title character is at least partially motivated by rivalry with his brother‚ King Edward. In As You Like It‚ there is obvious sibling rivalry and antagonism between Orlando
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first pages‚ Clifford tells the story of a shipowner whose ship sank and drowned all aboard. Clifford things the shipowner is guilty of their deaths even though he sincerely and in all good conscience believed the ship was sea- worth. What do you think? Do you agree with Clifford? Why or why not? Answer: I think that Clifford is absolutely correct in the scenarios that he provided. Quickly‚ Clifford made it clear that the shipowner was fully aware that his ship had not been built well‚ and because
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Imagine an occupation where the primary responsibilities are to inspire education in others and perform research in a field of particular interest. This description can be attributed to the career of a postsecondary teacher. The job of a physics professor is one of the most mind-captivating careers one can occupy. Although the education requirements are much more than the average occupation‚ anyone with ambitions to become a physics professor would not worry about the long education because of
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its anthropological origins and lack of clarity undermines its value to our understanding of organizational behavior. It is too ambiguous a concept for the effective day-to-day management of the organization.’ Do you agree? What role do you think culture plays in the management of your own organization? I partly agree with the statement the proliferation of definitions and explanations of culture and lack of clarity undermines its value to our understanding of organizational behavior. Most of
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Title : What do you understand by the term globalization? Why has interest in globalization intensified in recent years? Introduction If searching on Google website and type the word "Globalization"‚ just 0.22 second you will receive a substantial number of nearly 24 million results. This shows that "globalization" is a word being most mentioned in our world today. Globalization has been defined with numerous and widely differing meanings dating back to 1870 as "economic integration through
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