OVERVIEW INSURANCE- AN INTRODUCTION Meaning: Insurance may be described as a social device to ensure protection of economic value of life and other assets. Under the plan of insurance‚ a large number of people associate themselves by sharing risks attached to individuals. The risks‚ which can be insured against‚ include fire‚ the perils of sea‚ death and accidents and burglary. Any risk contingent upon these‚ may be insured against at a premium commensurate with the risk involved
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Operations Management Exam – revision notes Handles & Hinges Case (p670 of textbook) Key Points to note • Historical success based on reputation for high quality unique designs. • Architects specified H&H even in the face of alternative suppliers claiming equivalent products at less than 50% cost. Architects unwilling to potentially spoil multi-million pound projects for the sake of saving a few thousand pounds on fittings. See Garvins 5 categories of quality. • Changing
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Management by Values Values – comprise the things that are important to us. Asianizing’ Western Management Management in Asian Content 1. Tools of management remain the same. 2. Economic and business philosophy and paradigms are‚ however‚ different. 3. In search of management science and art suited to Asian condition‚ the following elements must somehow be combined. a. General management techniques b. Sectoral specialization c. Communal organization and management Business
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Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing method that assigns value to each activity resource to all products and services according to the cost of its usage. it gives indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs so that an organization can correctly estimate the cost of its individual products and services to identify and eliminate the unprofitable and lower the prices of the overpriced. Normally‚ it is used as a tool for understanding product and customer cost and profitability. But ABC has also
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INTRODUCTION Operations management has been defined as a set of activities that transforms inputs to outputs creating goods and services. It is made up of the following decision areas; service and product design‚ quality management‚ location strategy‚ process and capacity design‚ layout design‚ supply chain management‚ human resources and job design‚ inventory management‚ scheduling‚ and maintenance (Thompson‚ 2017). This paper will discuss three operation decision areas‚ Service and product design
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sector. • HPM has been the dominant player in the Australian domestic market for many years. • The company has also managed to break into a number of special niches. • It employs‚ at present‚ more than 1‚100 employees working in various factory sites‚ warehouses and sales offices around the country‚ from which it supplies over 3‚500 product lines. Goals of HPM: To effectively compete in the most challenging market that is continually evolving. To improve its product development
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An operation is composed of processes designed to add value by transforming inputs into useful outputs. Inputs may be materials‚ labor‚ energy‚ and capital equipment. Output may be a physical product or a service. A metric used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used. Displayed as a percentage‚ capacity utilization levels give insight into the overall slack that is in the economy or a firm at a given point in time. Using the data provided in the case‚ we are able
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Q1) Explain the basic competitive priorities considered while formulating operations strategy by a firm? Ans: Operations strategy is the collective concrete actions chosen‚ mandated‚ or stimulated by corporate strategy. It is‚ of course‚ implemented within the operations function. The operations strategy specifies how the firm will employ its operations capabilities to support the business strategy. Operation advantages depend on its processes and competitive priorities considered while establishing
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unit but the De-Luxe takes 10 hours per unit. There are 200 hours per week available for assembly and finishing. Market research suggests that the maximum weekly sales of the De-Luxe model will be 18 units. The products use a special component‚ of which only 1‚200 are currently available per week. Each Standard unit uses 25 components and each De-Luxe unit needs 50. You are required to: (a) analyse the current position and recommend a weekly production plan‚ showing the contribution. Whilst keeping
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Explain the similarities and differences between AT and TCE on corporate governance and criticize AT using TCE’s perspective Both AT and TCE share considerably the same assumption‚ they believe that market mechanism will not work all the time because of bounded rationality‚ opportunism‚ and moral hazard. The two theories also believe that there is no perfect contract and both rely endogenously on the board of director as a control instrument. Even though AT and TCE both share these similarities
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