Business School Master of Science in Global Operations ISOM 5700 Operations Management Fall 2014 Instructor: Professor Albert Y. Ha Department of Information System‚ Business Statistics and Operations Management Room 4023‚ LSK Business Building (852) 2358 7724 imayha@ust.hk http://www.bm.ust.hk/~isom/staff/imayha.html Teaching Assistant: Edmond Ho imhcf@ust.hk Course web site: http://lmes2.ust.hk Course Description Operations management is the management of business processes
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FOREWORD M.V. VALE LIWA belongs to OMAN SHIP MANAGEMENT COMPANY bulk carrier fleet. The employment for VALE LIWA is the long term charter to VALE INTERNATIONAL. Vessel is a VLOC (4‚ 00‚000DWT) gearless bulk carrier with seven cargo holds to carry iron ore fines grade PPFT. PREPARATION OF HOLDS Prior to hold cleaning‚ it must be understood that there is a need for a complete discharge of cargo‚ especially that the vessel is gearless. Otherwise‚ difficulties will be presented of sweepings
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The article ` HSBC weights pros and cons of a move´ written by George Hay published Monday‚ April 27‚2015 in the International NY times deals with the current situation of the HSBC bank and informs about the reasons why the bank would move from Great Britain to Asia. Hay (2015) names the high levy fee from the government used since the financial crisis in 2008. The levy is especially directed to banks which put their focus on international operations and oversea payments. Therefore HSBC had to pay $1
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why Carrefour has had a prosperous business in the marketplace of Taiwan‚ but languishing in other Asian markets. Competitive advantage established by Carrefour‚ relative to both inter- and intra- institutional competitors‚ may account for its success in Taiwan. Following the contention of the extant marketing and strategy literature‚ this study asserts that the essence of establishing competitive advantage comes from delivering superior value offering to customers. Thus‚ the concept of customer
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The Fear of Success http://www.black-collegian.com/news/student_correspondents/fearofsuccess501.shtml by TaKeshia Brooks Success means different things to different people. It is something to which we all aspire. Or is it? Do some of us intentionally ruin opportunities to reach our goals? Do we find ways to fall just short of obtaining short-term or even long-term goals? Believe it or not‚ some people may just do so. Such actions may actually be a part of a fear of success. Fear of
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|Lecturer: | |5 |34 |May15th‚ 2013 |Anthony Mensah | |Unit Title: Operation Management in Business |Submission Deadline: | | |
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An operations strategy focuses on specific capabilities of the operation that give the company a competitive edge. Factors used in developing an operations strategy includes: Cost Competition is used when a company uses cost as a strategy by offering a product at a low price relative to the prices of competing products. Take for example: Wal-Mart‚ this company is cost competitive often outsourcing their labor to impoverished countries that are willing and able to make any product for mere pennies
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department can assist the engineering department. 6. Inter departmental harmony: materials department management deals with almost all departments in the company. It can greatly contribute to the success of every other dept at the same time‚ the success of materials mgmt dept depends on co-operation from the personnel of other departments. 7. Forecasts: in order to manage materials better some conception of the future outlook for prices‚ cause and general business activity is necessary.
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invasion. The next thing that they needed was a commander. In December of 1943‚ General Dwight D. Eisenhower was chosen. General Eisenhower had led many allied operations in both Italy and North Africa. He took his new position in January of 1944. Next‚ the invasion was given a code name‚ Operation Overlord. This battle would be the factor between winning and losing the war. To get ready for such a massive invasion‚ many military divisions came together from many different countries. This became
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and effort and practice that it takes to ‘Delegate for Success. Providing the tools to develop those skills is what this training course is all about. Training needs Analysis: The aim of this training needs analysis is to identify the areas in the skill set of the managers within the targeted business sector in relation to staff development and more specifically the level of delegation skills evident in the day to day business operations. The goal is to determine if there is a training need
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