OPERATIONS STRATEGY Instructor: Gad Allon Contact: g-‐‑allon@kellogg.northwestern.edu Class 1 Description Framework for operations strategy Tailoring operations strategy Investor/External view of operations: - Operations Forensics - Linking to Financials (ROIC tree) Asset strategy‚ operational hedging and risk mgmt. Sourcing strategy: Global networks and offshoring Strategic sourcing and supplier relations Reading
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Capitalizing Operating Leases The principal advantages perceived by companies who enter into leases are: • They are able to use the assets in their business without showing the related debt. Companies improve the utilization of their assets via leasing since they can add capacity‚ as needed‚ a lot more easily by leasing rather than committing to own the assets. • They show no interest expense or depreciation in the income statement‚ although both of these are part of the “lease
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What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Fed’s operating procedures that were used after October 6‚ 1979? In 1979‚ two factors impacted inflation. The oil shock resulted in prices spiraling out of control. With higher production costs‚ the companies have to maintain profits margins by increasing prices to consumers (inflation). In addition‚ the weakness of the US dollar aggravated inflationary pressures as well. The weak dollars results in rising of the price of imports and reducing the price
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Strategically‚ operations management involves the long-term planning and structuring of work. Indeed‚ the task of operations strategy is to design the operating system‚ which is the joint configuration of resources and processes‚ such that its resulting competencies are aligned with the organization’s desired competitive position. In other words‚ operations strategy focuses on how to best enable and implement the organization’s strategy. (For for-profit organizations‚ “best” can be measured as maximizing
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Barahim ID: 200921080 Airline Operations‚ Semester 2‚ 2010/11 For: Dr. Baba Yerra Due Date: 30 May 2011 Topic: Research Project Title: Comparative Study and Analysis of FAR and CAR regulations Table of Contents 1. Introduction | 3 | 2. Methodology | 4 | 3. Findings | 5 | 3.1. Operations Specifications | 5 | 3.2. Airline Organization: Required Management Positions | 6 | 3.3. Operating Manual | 9 | 3.3.1. Operations Manual Requirements under FAR 121
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Which companies are operating sweatshops? Many of the companies directly running sweatshops are small and don’t have much name recognition. However‚ virtually every retailer in the U.S. has ties to sweatshops. The U.S. is the biggest market for the garment industry and almost all the garment sales in this country are controlled by 5 corporations: Wal-Mart‚ JC Penney‚ Sears‚ The May Company (owns and operates Lord & Taylor‚ Hecht1s‚ Filene1s and others) and Federated Department Stores (owns and operates
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animistic religions. Attributes that might affect the operations of a foreign company trying to operate in Uganda. • Language Barrier Uganda is a country which has a multi ethnic‚ multi religious and multi language background. Even though it is stated that English is the official language as mentioned above many people speak indigenous languages such as Bantu and Nilotic. Hence resulting in a risk to the operations of the company by not being able to communicate with
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results and to improve revenue earnings despite difficult operating conditions in the business environment. This essay seeks to give a general understanding of operations management framework‚ also evaluate the contribution of performance measurement to the effective and efficient management of operations. The activity of managing the resources and the processes which are used to produce and deliver goods and services is known as the operations management (Slack and Lewis‚ 2002‚ p.4). It is the systematic
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Vicki Hinton 03/21/2011 The Administration Process SEC/370 Michael Scott University of Phoenix Operating Budgets Paper Budgets are systematic plans that organizations use to manage objectives and goals. They are important documents that bring out important aspects of the organization and provide information to direct that organizations activities (Johnson‚ 2005). They are basic planning tools that help managers make decisions within the organization. Budgets vary in different organizations
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Winter 2013 Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 2 MB0048 – Operations Research - 4 Credits (Book ID: B1631) (Roll no: 1305009661) Q.1: Discuss the various stages involved in the methodology of Operations Research. Briefly explain the techniques and tools of Operations Research. Ans: The basic dominant characteristic feature of operations research is that it employs mathematical representations or models to analyse problems. This distinct approach represents an adaptation of the
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