Operations Management Summary All case studies will be described using STAR technique Week 2: Introduction to Operations Management Week 3: Operations Strategy Week 4: Process design / process choice Week 5: Planning and Control Week 6: Supply Network Design Week 7: Design of products and services Week 8: Lean Operations Week 2: Introduction to Operations Management What is Operations Management? Operations Management- activity of managing the resources
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CHAPTER 1. What is strategy and why is it important. Strategic management: analysis‚ formulation and implementation in the search for competitive advantage. What strategy is : Gaining & Sustaining Competitive Advantage. There has always been a desire to outperform our competitors. In most of the situations‚ the winners are generally those with the better strategy in which strategy is formulated as the planned and realized set of actions a firm takes to achieve its goals. A firm that
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A mother’s Message Thesis: Anyone who reads this book can see the message behind the book which is an amazing message for young readers and could also inspire older readers. Introduction: Have you ever been scared and curious at the same time? Lemon‚ a 17 year old girl who never met her dad‚ moved around a lot‚ got pregnant‚ embarks on a trip to find her father. Paragraph 1: The plot of the story begins when 17 year old Lemon moves from town to town‚ state to state because Lemons mother‚ Stella
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ECONOMICS SUMMARY NOTES (From Rein‚ to you‚ prepared with loving care‚ but with scant concern for accuracy) 1. BUSINESS CYCLES The cycles from economic upswing (boom) to economic recession (Black et al.‚ Ch 19.3) A business cycle may or may not consist of the following 4 cycles (Roux): (i) Recovery Phase / Upswing • Building up of inventories / stocks in reaction to sales • Investment in capital goods (machinery‚ equipment) to satisfy increasing demand • An increase in employment • Greater
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This book is about Elizabeth Wurtzel‚ a chronically depressed Harvard graduate detailing the seriousness of her illness. Although she states in her Epilogue that she does not know what reason exactly compelled to write this memoir‚ she does delineate some elements that motivated her‚ such as the desire for people to understand the Prozac ‘situation’ as well as citing simple reasons‚ such as the need to express one’s story‚ and her own personal need to vent out on paper when so many people‚ she felt
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The Mahabharata (composed between 300 BC and 300 AD) has the honor of being the longest epic in world literature‚ 100‚000 2-line stanzas (although the most recent critical edition edits this down to about 88‚000)‚ making it eight times as long as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey together‚ and over 3 times as long as the Bible (Chaitanya vii). According to the Narasimhan version‚ only about 4000 lines relate to the main story; the rest contain additional myths and teachings. In other words‚ the Mahabharataresembles
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BMCF 5103 CORPORATE FINANCE Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh Lecture 1: An Introduction to Corporate Finance Contents What is finance? What is corporate finance? The balance-sheet model of the firm Capital budgeting Capitalstructure The firm and thefinancial markets Forms of business organisation The goals of a corporation Agency relationships: stockholders versusmanagers‚ stockholders versus creditors Managers’ actions to maximise stockholder wealth Financial management
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In the past‚ social activism was usually derived from the work of inspired believers. These believers had ideas and actions that were motivated and executed by their faith. All throughout Chapter Nine‚ Dr. Bhattacharyya‚ analyzes three examples of religiously motivated social activists. These three activists consist of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Vinoba Bhave; and Malcolm X. As discussed in the reading Bhattacharya makes a reference to the power of religion as a motivator for making an abundance
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When most see nature‚ they think of the exterior‚ and nothing more. They don’t experience the true‚ overwhelming power of nature. Mary Oliver is not one of those people. She writes about nature as if it is a dream world where nature is an omnipotent power that controls everything. Oliver allows herself to experience nature in an intimate way. She writes about both the all-consuming terror and beauty that nature holds‚ and explains the complexity of these elements through her use of immense detail
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psychologist as well as a former veteran author who is steeped in a lot of research about digital technology. Furthermore‚ this paper will review Hart’s story as well as his main arguments‚ and I will identify my personal response on this book. Summary To begin with‚ he brings up our modern dilemma which is the fact that many people do not know how to deal with a myriad of digital technology. Although our modern world has been impacted by modern technologies such as smartphone and social networking
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