Department of Decision Sciences San Francisco State University FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS The sample problems below are organized by topic. Where possible‚ answers are given. Disclaimers: • These questions are questions that have appeared on previous years’ (final) examinations. They are for practice only. There is no guarantee that the questions on your finals will be the same‚ or that different professors will give the same types of questions. • Not all 412/786 sections cover the same material
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1. Introduction This report focuses on the case studies of the Levi Jeans workers and the California Auto Club reengineering customer service. It looks at operations management as a source for gaining a competitive advantage and overcoming potential problems experienced within and organisation or workplace. The questions to be reviewed are as follows: Jeans Therapy - Levi’s factory worker are assigned to teams‚ and morale takes a hit: 1. What went wrong with Levi’s move to teams in their plants
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profits span over $ 82.559bn and $15.818bn in operating income according to P&G 2011 annual report. As such a big International consumer product manufacturer‚ P&G encounters a lot of problem solving in their everyday activities like: innovation‚ operation management‚ marketing and many others. Innovation department is one of their most prosperous departments and can currently be an example to their competitors and other developing market players. That’s why the main goal of this case is to show the path
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survival. If they don’t flourish then‚ it might face sluggish demand for its product. This in essence points to high growth in demand that is there‚ along with the strong cyclicality‚ which makes long term demand projection very hard. The management believed that it was more adept than its rivals at anticipating and resolving the problems inherent in new designs and prototype production technique. Most of the company’s managers were engineers with substantial experience in electronics industry
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mainly applies to an organization‚ particularly large organizations that have become inefficient over time that finds it difficult to be competitive using the archaic systems of governance‚ organizational processes and procedures. For organizational operations‚ Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical‚ contemporary measures of performance such as- cost‚ quality‚ service and speed. The concept is not about slight
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objective of General Motors Risk Management policy? Three primary objectives: 1) Reduce cash flow and earnings volatility – this means management hedges the company’s transaction exposures and deliberately pays no attention to any balance sheet exposures or translation exposures. 2) Minimize the management time and costs dedicated to global FX management – this is as a result of an internal study that determined that the investment of resources in active FX management had not resulted in
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Mcdonald’s Use of Teams in Production and Operations Management Introduction Strategies are important for all businesses‚ regardless of the products or services that they offer. Through strategic management and operations‚ companies are able to integrate new and effective means of running their respective businesses. In turn‚ these strategies results in an increased profit of sales‚ stable market position and greater levels of customer loyalty. In the fast food industry‚ businesses such as
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Future of Technology TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY School of Economics and Business Administration Research Paper Jens-Antti Andersen‚ Tallinn‚ Estonia‚ 2013 Table of Content 1. History 3 1.1 Industrial Revolution 3 1.2 Scientific Management – Ford and Taylor 4 2. Future 4 2.1 Future Trends – Bitcoins and 3D Printing 4 3. Discussion 4 1. History 1.1 Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution started in 1770 in England‚ and spread from there to the rest of the Europe
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Case: Biddy’s Bakery Chapter 3‚ Operations Management 1. Elizabeth’s largest challenge considering her capacity needs‚ is that she outgrew her first facility’s capacity and then decided to move to a much larger facility where she realized she had considerably more capacity than needed for her business. Elizabeth is essentially paying for a facility she is not utilizing fully; therefore her sales expectations are not being met because of the bills she needs to pay with unused space. Elizabeth should
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Operations Management True/False 1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling and promoting the organization’s goods or services. Answer: False Page: 4 Difficulty: Easy 2. Often‚ the collective success or failure of companies’ operations functions will impact the ability of a nation to compete with other nations. Answer: True Page: 4 Difficulty: Easy 3. Companies are either producing
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