and Operations Management incorporates several suggestions offered by our colleagues and students all over the country. In this edition we have endeavored to strengthen the basic characteristics of the book. The subject matter has been presented systematically in ten chapters‚ which can enable the reader to master the topics covered without any additional guidance. In keeping with the basic objective of making the learning of the ‘Concept and Principles in Production and Operations Management’‚ the
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Chapter 10 Groupon: Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! – Discussion Questions 1. What are the key decisions that Andrew Mason has made during Groupon’s brief history? How have these decisions influenced Groupon’s evolution as an Internet-based business? Andrew Mason’s key decisions during Groupon’s brief history have been the following. 1) The decision to form an internet based company. 2) The decision to offer coupons in the unique way at a group rate. 3) The first major key decision that Mason made
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analysis; Recommendations that are based on your analysis; Report style – i.e. clear sections with headings and sub-headings; Logical conclusions. The troubled history of the Airbus A380 _______________________________________________ Operations in Practice: The troubled history of the Airbus A380 It is perhaps inevitable that a major new and complex product like a passenger aircraft will experience a few problems during its development. But the history of the Airbus A380 was a long and
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Operation management is concerned with the bunch of activities that design and produces goods or services by the input-transformation-output process. (Slack 2001) Operation management can also be defined as the process of transforming different resources or inputs (labour‚ capital‚ machinery‚ land and buildings‚ materials and information) that are used in the operational activities of an organisation to the output (value added product and services)for the customers in a controlled
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Financial management decisions: 1. Capital budgeting (investment) – the whole process of analyzing projects and deciding whether they should be included in the capital budget. Spending capital on assets that will yield highest return for comp over desired time period What to buy so that comp will gain most value 2. Capital structure (financing) – the manner in which a firm’s assets are financed; that is‚ the right side of balance sheet. Capital structure is normally expressed as the percentage
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OM 1. As a service business‚ the operations management activities of an airline company have nothing in common with the operations management activities within a bicycle manufacturing company. True False 2. Operations managers are responsible for managing systems that produce goods and/or provide services. True False 3. Effectiveness refers to achieving intended goals whereas efficiency refers to minimizing cost and time. True False 4. Operations‚ marketing‚ and finance function
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BA365 Intro to Operations Management Question 1 a) A hospital emergency room averages 50 patients per shift. A shift is 8 hours long‚ and the average patient requires 20 minutes in the exam room. 8*60/20 =24 would equal the number of patients for a 8 hour shift Average number of patients=50 b) Discuss whether you think a 30% capacity cushion is appropriate for a hospital emergency room. What factors would consider when setting this cushion? A 30%cushion
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Step 2 : Review the current process 10 3) Step 3 : Speak to job holders about the current process 11 4) Step 4 : Draft process maps based on the current process and obtain job holder feedback 12 5) Step 5 : Feedback review workshop 12 6) Step 6 : Hold a process improvement Workshop 13 7) Step 7 : Draft new and improved process flows 14 8) Step 8 : Provide the client with the final documentation for review 14 9) Step 9 : Process roll out 15 10) Step 10 : Ongoing Review and recommendations
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Management Decision Making Final Exam: August 2013 1) Research discussed in class shows that interviews are not nearly as predictive (e.g.‚ about future performance at your firm) as most managers believe. Nevertheless‚ almost all firms spend a great deal of time and money conducting interviews every year. a. With this result in mind‚ focus on one or two major biases that may influence the interviewing process in your firm‚ and propose a revised interviewing process that minimizes and
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------------------------------------------------- The Production/Operations Function In Business A. True/False 1. Production/operations Management refers to creation of goods whereas production refers to the creation of services. 2. All organisations‚ including service organizations such as banks and educational institutions‚ have a production function. 3. Production is a creation of goods and services. 4.
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