progressive organizations are adopting best practices in IM/IT service management‚ while many IM/IT departments continue to rely on informal‚ “seat of the pants‚ “ error-prone processes. This leads to reactive “fire fighting” operating norms within IM/IT departments‚ when formal‚ proactive approaches would be more effective. Recent studies suggest that one of the most accurate indicators of IM/IT departmental effectiveness in delivering quality services is the percentage of unplanned work in which the departments
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MBA SEMESTER-4 ASSIGNMENT set 1 Name :……………………….. Registration No. :………………………. Learning Center :………………………. Learning Center Code :……………………… Course :………………………. Subject :………………………. Semester :………………………. Module No. :………………………. Date of submission :………………………. Marks awarded :………………………. Directorate of Distance Education Signature of Sikkim Manipal University Center Signature of Evaluator II Floor‚ Syndicate House Manipal- 576104 Signature of Coordinator Important Note to the Students: The student
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Hong Kong Environment Light Sound Temperature Humidity Man Machine/Technology Posture Fatigue Physical comfort 1 A little about me … • Calvin Or • Assistant Professor‚ Dept of IMSE • BEng.‚ Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management • MSc‚ Industrial Engineering • PhD‚ Industrial & Systems Engineering Contact Information – Tel: 2859-2587 – Email: klor@hku.hk – Office hour: By appointment 2 Course syllabus 3 About my teaching and class • Teaching is about sharing
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http://fp05-527.web.dircon.net/ikea_company_profile.html Profile: ikea IKEA is the world’s most successful mass-market retailer‚ selling Scandinavian-style home furnishings and other house goods in 230 stores in 33 countries and hosting 410 million shoppers per year. An acronym for founder Ingvar Kamprad and his boyhood home of Elmtaryd‚ Agunnaryd‚ IKEA began operating in Sweden in 1943 and continues its original ethos based upon cost obsession fused with design culture. No design‚ no matter
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT MGCR 472 ASSIGNMENT # 1 (Total 100 points) Due on 7th October (Thursday) by 5pm Make sure to write the name‚ student # and section # for each student in the group on the cover page of the assignment 1. Suppose you/your group is the owner of a company that produces e-readers. The present production rate is 1000 e-readers /day and the selling price is $210/unit. It requires 200 workers working 8 hours/day to produce the e-readers and they are paid $20/hour. The material
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Project Management • • • • • Introduction to project management Critical path method (CPM) Crashing Uncertain activity durations Reading: Page 760 – 794 Project • Project: – A special type of process / transformation – A series of related jobs directed toward some major output – Require time and resources – Examples • MS Windows 2000‚ Fund raising‚ Preparation for a private party‚ Building a new airport… The Campus Wedding Reserve Church (1) Church Notice (17) 1 Decorate Church
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TRUE or FALSE 1. T F It is impossible to develop a process that has zero variability. 2. T F Assignable variations in a process are also called natural variations. 3. T F An x-bar chart would be appropriate to monitor the number of defects in a production lot. 4. T F The central limit theorem provides the statistical foundation for control charts. 5. T F If we are tracking quality of performance for a class of students‚ we should plot the pass/fail result on a p-chart. 6. T F Sample
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Management Manifesto Management Philosophy What is management? According to Kinicki Williams textbook “Management‚ management is defined as the pursuit of organizational goals efficiently and effectively by integrating the work of people through planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling the organization resources (Ch. 1‚ pg. 5 Management: A practical introduction). I believe in order to be an effective manager you must be a positive‚ goal orient‚ organized individual. I also believe an effective
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1. A manufacturer’s average work-in-process inventory for a certain part is 1‚000 units. The workstation produces this part at the rate of 200 units per day. What is the average time a unit spends at this workstation? 2. The Wilcox Student Health Center has just implemented a new computer system and service process to \improve e±ciency." As pharmacy manager‚ you are con- cerned about waiting time and its potential impact on college students who \get no respect." All prescriptions (Rxs) go
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MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE 802 MANAGEMENT PROCESS PLANNING BY: KEYA Moses Reg. No. MBA/G/31/12 & KIILU Joseph Mutisya Reg. No. MBA/G/28/12 MANAGEMENT PROCESS PLANNING Definition and nature of planning Schermerhorn‚ 2010 defines planning as the process of setting objectives and determining how to accomplish them. This involves setting performance expectations and goals for groups and individuals to channel their efforts toward achieving organizational
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