Operations management and operations strategy are two very important undertakings for any company that is involved in the production of products and services. This is because operations management ensures that raw materials are successfully converted to finished goods‚ while operations strategy makes sure that whichever goods or services produced have a competitive advantage over similar products offered by rival companies. It is from the business strategy that the operations strategy is derived
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Case 1: Daikin China (word count 983) Daikin? Maybe you are not familiar with this brand. It doesn’t matter. When Daikin entered China market in 1990‚ many Chinese consumers always asked same questions‚ “What is Daikin?”‚ “Where does Daikin come from?”‚ “What products does Daikin operate?”‚ or “Is it a Korea brand?”. But now‚ Daikin becomes the No.2 air-conditioning manufacturer in the world which is only fall behind Carrier‚ the US air-conditioning giant who was the inventor of air-conditioning
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OPERATION LINEBACKER II 1. What do you think of when you drive by that big B-52 at the museum? Being the history buff that I am‚ I think about Vietnam‚ where that old "Buff" was used the most. "Why should I care about Vietnam?" you ask yourself. Well‚ last time I checked there’s a history section in the PFE guide‚ so there might be a test later! The intent of this paper is to inform you about Operation Linebacker II. I’ll explain the events leading up to the operation‚ discuss the strategy
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Under Joint Task Force (JTF) 7‚ the combined efforts of other Services (Air Force‚ Marines‚ and Navy to support General MacArthur with operation reach in Operation Chromite was possible only through effective joint planning. The Navy (also alongside the British) supported General MacArthur with operational reach by providing the successful bombardment by carrier planes and shelling by cruisers‚ destroyers and other naval gunfire support ships days prior to beginning joined by the Marines. The Marines
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which the circulation or subscription can be increased. The Audit Bureau of Circulation in a study has compared the circulation of newspapers from May to October 2004 and 2009 and found out that
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obviously incompatible with independence. One immediate effect of the adoption of Operation Bootstrap as an economic development strategy‚ however‚ was the new position taken by the PDP on the status issue. Autonomy - political‚ social and cultural - was postulated as compatible with economic integration: Puerto Rico‚ we were told‚ could have the best of both worlds. This‚ of course‚ did not prove the case. Operation Bootstrap‚ which relied on U.S. capital and technology for the development of an
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terrain that would influence the enemy and ultimately lead to their defeat. This is the Historical Case Study of the Battle of Takur Ghar in Afghanistan. It was later dubbed Roberts Ridge‚ in order to pay homage to the battle that ensued
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Operation Reindeer In 1978‚ an operation was designed to ‘diminish the guerillas movements in view of possible internationally recognized movements.’ Botha wanted to diminish SWAPO’s military capabilities before elections and by April a plan had been formulated: attack two SWAPO bases in Angola‚ Cassinga (north of border and known to SWAPO & SADF as Moscow) and Chetequera (close to border and known as Vietnam.) (SADF‚ 1989) The problem with attacking Casinga or ‘Moscow’ was that it would be difficult
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Operation PLUTO: An Essential Aid in Winning WWII and an Advancement for Offshore Drilling In World War II‚ the Allies needed a steady and reliable supply of petrol (gasoline) for their armor (tanks and armored vehicles)‚ trucks‚ and airplanes. After months of work‚ they had a concrete strategy‚ Operation PLUTO (PipeLines Under The Ocean); a plan to build the first major undersea pipeline to transport massive amounts of fuel across the English Channel. The fuel would be used to supply the Allied
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prioritize the aspects he was about to present at the meeting of the executive committee on strategic positioning. The key issue of this meeting was the benchmark report which compared SIG Combibloc to its main competitor Tetra Pak. The results of the study were striking: “Whereas both companies are head to head in all major qualitative aspects‚ SIG Combibloc lags behind in speed of implementation of new printing designs and customer order lead time”. Senior management was obviously very uncomfortable
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