CASE ANALYSIS: SHOULDICE HOSPITAL LIMITED Executive Summary: The Shouldice Hospital‚ Ontario‚ Canada is a pioneer in the field of treating patients suffering from external abdominal hernia. The speedy ambulation coupled with its reasonable price rates leads to satisfied patients publicizing the hospital by word of mouth. The issues that confront the hospital management are: ·Deciding on ways to meet the backlog of operations‚ by expanding the hospital’s capacity‚ while still maintaining control
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CASE 1 Shouldice Hospital Introduction Shouldice Hospital‚ set up in 1945 by Dr. Earl Shouldice‚ is located near Toronto. It follows the business model of focus on a single standardised service for a narrow target of consumers‚ rather than to provide customised solution (as in a general clinic or hospital). It focuses on providing quick‚ convenient‚ and reliable cure for external types of abdominal hernias. The Hospital uses its own technique‚ called the Shouldice
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Hospital is a place where we find only the sick and the disabled. The smells of medicines‚ the sight of the doctors and nurses running here and there‚ and wheelchairs rolling from one end of the hospital to another is all that we see in a hospital. The aura is ever so depressing and disheartening. Some people even get nausea or faint with the effect of the pungent smells hanging in the very air of the hospital premises. Once when my grandfather was very seriously ill‚ and was hospitalised I
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Software Requirements Specification for HOSPITAL MIS Version 1.0 approved Prepared by ‚ Agha farooq‚ INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR PREPARING SRS (IMSRS). TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction 1.1. Purpose 1.2. Scope 1.3. Definitions‚ Acronyms‚ and Abbreviations 1.4. References 1.5. Overview 2. General Description 2.1. Product Perspective 2.2. Product Features 2.3. User Characteristics 2.4. General Constraints 2.5. Assumptions and
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Strategic Management – trategic Industry Analysis Assignment SUBMITTED TO PROF. S. SRIRAM SUBMITTED BY APARNA PARTHASARATHY Aparna Parthasarathy PGXPM -05 –Term 5 05 10/1/2009 Strategic Management – Industry Analysis Assignment 2009 INSTRUCTIONS FROM PROF. SRIRAM PDF of INDIAN TV Industry is circulated as a sample for your reference. The take home assignment for the SM course is as follows: 1. Please do a analysis of your Industry using the five force framework. 2. Identify a cost leader/differentiator
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FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS WORKSHEET Exhibit III-1 Five Forces Affecting Industry Structure ENTRY BARRIERS Economies of scale Proprietary product differences Brand identity Switching costs Capital requirements Access to distribution Absolute cost advantages Proprietary learning curve Access to necessary inputs Proprietary low-cost product design Government policy and international treaties Expected retaliation RIVALRY DETERMINANTS Industry Growth Fixed (or storage) costs/value-added Intermittent overcapacity
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2 Service 3 3 China Market Analysis 3 3.1 PEST Analysis 3 3.2 Target Market 4 3.3 Competitors in the Market 5 3.4 Barriers to Entry in the Market 7 4 USP of Doll’s Hospital 8 5 Marketing plan 8 5.1 Product 8 5.2 Place 9 5.3 Price 9 5.4 Promotion 10 5.5 People 10 5.6 Process 11 5.7 Physical Evidence 11 6 Conclusion 11 7 Recommendations 11 8 References 13 1 Executive Summary The feasibility of launching Doll’s Hospital is assessed thoroughly in this
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Australian work force is a reflection of the characteristic of the Australian society‚ the analysis of the human resource environment can give some challenges that the companies face nowadays in a multicultural society such as Australia. The Australian workforce describes a old-fashioned human resource management as a result of the competence produced by migration strategies which affect directly or indirectly the policies and procedures in today’s Australian companies. Its work force also requires
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An Introduction to Model Building 1.1 An Introduction to Modeling Operations research (often referred to as management science) is simply a scientific approach to decision making that seeks to best design and operate a system‚ usually under conditions requiring the allocation of scarce resources. By a system‚ we mean an organization of interdependent components that work together to accomplish the goal of the system. For example‚ Ford Motor Company is a system whose goal consists of maximizing
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