THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 SEMESTER 2 COURSE OUTLINE COURSE CODE & TITLE: MGMT 2006 Management Information Systems I LECTURER’S NAME: Terence Brunton OFFICE: Rm. 206 Management Studies Building OFFICE HOURS: Monday 11:00am-12:00pm. and Wednesday 12:30pm-1:30pm. TELEPHONE: Ext. 83305 E-MAIL: terrence.brunton@sta.uwi.edu LECTURE VENUE: TCB 31 & 32 LECTURE TIME: Wed. 9.00-12.00
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Past Year Questions OPM 530 COMPILATION OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2012 – OCTOBER 2006 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity JUN2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any five (5) challenged faced by today’s operations managers (10 marks) APR 2011 a) Define operations management with the aid of appropriate diagram. b) Discuss any
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Past Year Questions OPM 530 COMPILATION OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2014 – APRIL 2007 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity DEC 2013/JAN2014 a) Define Operations Management (2 marks) b) Explain any for(4) reasons why we need to study Operations Management (8 marks) JUN 2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any
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NICMAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION APPLICATION FORM Instructions to Candidates 1. Fill the forms in your own handwriting. 2. No column should be left blank in any Form. 3. All candidates are required to fill all the required information in the Application Form neatly and correctly. 4. On the Acknowledgement Card‚ write your address on the reverse and affix a Rs.5/- postal stamp. 5. Enclose a self addressed envelope
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Article: How can we train leaders if we do not know what leadership is? - Barker - problem: Leadership is usually not defined‚ there are multiple definitions (skill‚ ability‚ role‚ action‚etc…)‚ the focus on the leader rather than upon the process of leadership - new revolutionary paradigm: transforming leadership - definition leadership: leadership is the reciprocal process of mobilizing‚ by persons with certain motives and values‚ various economic‚ political and other resources in a context
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Chad Ogle MGMT 620 HBS Case 9 Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service History In 1971‚ Starbucks started as a small coffee shop which targeted a specialized market of coffee purists. Howard Schultz‚ who later owned the company and initiated the high growth period‚ joined Starbucks’ marketing team in 1982. Main concept of Schultz marketing strategy was too make Starbucks “America’s third place” considering home and work the two other places where Americans spend
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 24: 491–517 (2003) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/smj.314 STRATEGIC PLANNING IN A TURBULENT ENVIRONMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE OIL MAJORS ROBERT M. GRANT* McDonough School of Business‚ Georgetown University‚ Washington‚ DC‚ U.S.A. The long-running debate between the ‘rational design’ and ‘emergent process’ schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms’ strategic planning processes
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software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store‚ and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad. Top Mgmt CEO – Tim Cook Senior VP‚ Retail and Online Stores – Angela Ahrendts Senior VP‚ Internet Software and Services – Eddy Cue Senior VP‚ Software Engineering – Craig Federighi Senior VP‚ Design – Jonathan Ive Senior VP & Chief Financial Officer –
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single-celled prokaryotic cells‚ such as bacteria. Multicellular life evolved over a billion years later and it’s only in the last 570 million years that the kind of life forms we are familiar with began to evolve‚ starting with arthropods‚ followed by fish 530 million years ago (Ma)‚ land plants 475Ma and forests 385Ma. Mammals didn’t evolve until 200Ma and our own species‚ Homo sapiens‚ only 200‚000 years ago. So humans have been around for a mere 0.004% of the Earth’s history. View the Tree of Life Jump
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Interdependence in Conflict Resolution is a concept seen in the aspect of Starbucks vs. Chinese and Korean culture. Planning and Decision making: “On average‚ companies with plans have larger profits and grow much faster than companies without plans” (MGMT pg. 89) Starbucks developed a plan in the hopes of achieving a long-term goal of opening a total of 30‚000 stores both internationally and domestically. With opening the outlets in Beijing’s Forbidden City
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