UNIVERSITY - BANGLADESH Faculty of Business Administration BBA Program BBA 2212: Operations Management (Section - B) Summer 2012 - 13 Case Study on Capacity Planning Due Date - 17.06.2013 |Name: |ID: | Outsourcing of Hospital Services Due to financial pressures that many hospitals face‚ the Deaconess Clinic in Billings‚ Montana‚ decided to outsource
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“Outsourcing of Hospital Services” 1. In some instances the outsourced service occurs in a different location‚ while in others it takes place inside the organization doing the outsourcing‚ ad the food service did in this case. What advantages were there in having the outsourced work performed within the hospital? Suppose a different hospital outsourced its food service but decided not to have the work performed in- house. What might its rationale be? The advantages in having the outsourced work
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Pyrex Case Study The current dilemma with World Kitchen is to continuing making Pyrex themselves‚ or to contract the manufacturing out and buying it that way. This problems has arisen because of the aging Pyrex plant in Charleroi needs an upgrading and they have decided to look at it to see if it is better to outsource it or to upgrade the plant and continue to make it. Pyrex was first started in the early 1900’s by Corning Glass Works. It was made by mistake when Bessie Littleton the wife
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Case Study in Management Information Systems Submitted By: Ronald Jay Villamer Submitted To: Engr. Romwell Dumag INTERACTIVE SESSION: MANAGEMENT On April 4‚ 2008‚ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)‚ a leading global information technology services provider‚ announced it had signed a multi-year‚ multi-million dollar outsourcing contract to provide Chrysler LLC with a comprehensive set of information technology services. Was this a good move for Chrysler? Tata Consultancy
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to budget cuts‚ the number of engineers on the team had reduced and they were working part time on other projects too. * The technical team was not concerned with the legal aspect of it which Baio was pushing for * Gerson wasn¶t sure the offshore software development would be reliable. * Merz wanted a modular design but O¶Brien wasn¶t ready to change the design * There were space issues in the current design which weren¶t resolved * Project was behind schedule for the launch in
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Lewis From: Overseas Consulting Group Date: December 9th 1990 Subject: Manifolds Retention vs. Outsourcing Analysis Our team of financial analysts has taken an in depth look at the consultant’s recommendation to potentially outsource the manifold production line. Through our analysis you will see that the consultants have not considered the full financial impact that this outsourcing would have on the company. This is likely because the recommendation has not taken into consideration the
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1. State any business problem that the enterprise needs to resolve: Darden Restaurants needs to manage a supply-chain of highly perishable items such as seafood‚ over 35 countries‚ while managing costs and product quality. Furthermore‚ the company needs to ensure a strict protocol of inspection and quality assurance throughout the supply chain. 2. Briefly summarize relevant background information from the case. Darden restaurant owns popular brands such Olive Garden and Red Lobster‚ comprising
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LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY CASE STUDY Cevdet KIZIL Master of Science in Organizational Leadership Program 1- Knowing that its managers are willing to trade off some economic efficiency in order to operate according to their collective view of what is “ethical”‚ would you buy shares of stock in this company? Why or why not? First of all‚ I think we are experiencing a paradox in this situation. Because‚ the company is trading off economic efficiency in order to operate‚ but it’s
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Case # 4 – Zara Zara is the flagship company of Inditex‚ an international clothing retailer. Zara began its business as a small retail store in Spain founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. In the following decades Zara has grown to nearly 450 store location in 29 countries by the year 2000. Zara consistently accounts for more than 80% of Inditex’s net sales as indicated by Figure 1; linking the success of Inditex to the success of the strategies of Zara. Figure 1 Inditex Net Sales by Concept
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to expand into new end markets as well as provide a significant benefit to customers. It should also be hard for competitors to replicate. Ans – 3 One topic that interested FlexCon managers was a discussion of how core competencies relate to outsourcing decisions. FlexCon management commonly accepted that a core competency was something the company "was good at." This view‚ however‚ is not correct. A core competence refers to skills‚ processes‚ or resources that distinguish a company‚ are hard
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