10.1 Operations Potential questions‚ Students learn to: Examine contemporary business issues into: * Discuss the balance between cost and quality in operations strategy. * Examine the impact of globalisation on operations strategy. * Identify the breadth of government policies that affect operations management. * Explain why corporate social responsibility is a key concern in operations management. Investigate aspects of business using hypothetical situations and actual business
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general info Key: Big Blue Heading = syllabus italics Underlined blue = syllabus points Underlines Light blues = syllabus sub h Light blues = headings Bold Purple = definitions Normal = general info Operations Notes Role of Operations Management Operations refers to the business processes that involve transformation or‚ more generally – ‘production’ Combining aspects of the following: * The production of goods and services * The production controls and associated quality
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The three main functional activities in a business are: • operations • sales and marketing • Finance. The sales and marketing function work to find and create demand for the company’s goods and services by understanding customer needs and developing new markets. The need for marketing and operations to work closely together is particularly important as the marketing function will provide the forecast of demand from which operations can plan sufficient capacity in order to deliver goods and
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TASK1 OM is one of the three major functions of any organization‚and it is integrally related to all the other business functions.All‚organizations market‚finance‚and produce‚and it is important to know how the activity functions. OM let us understand what operations managers do‚regardless of you job in an organization‚you can perform better if you understand what operations managers do. OM provides a major opportunity for an organization to improve its profitability and enhance its service to
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Globalization and its Impact on Poverty in Pakistan Sohail J. Malik Ph.D. Islamabad May 10‚ 2006 The globalization phenomenon • Globalization is multidimensional and impacts all aspects of life – economic social‚ cultural and political. • globalization in production and labor markets is leading to increasing outsourcing of parts‚ components‚ and services • the drive towards market liberalization has rapidly accelerated the pace of globalization during the past decade. From Globalization
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The impact of globalization on poverty in Bangladesh Working Paper No. 65 S.R. Osmani Policy Integration Department National Policy Group International Labour Office Geneva November 2005 Working papers are preliminary documents circulated to stimulate discussion and obtain comments Copyright © International Labour Organization 2006 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless‚ short excerpts
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logistics solutions provider. At the same time‚ TASCO Berhad also launched the new company logo. To meet more customer needs and satisfaction‚ TASCO Berhad strengthened their international alliances with NYK Group to facilitate one another’s business operations within and outside Malaysia. At the same time‚ NYK Group had expanded the company’s logistics solutions‚ staff strength and domestic network to serve more customers. The founder of TASCO Berhad is Tan Sri Datuk Asmat Bin Kamaludin. He also the Non-Independent
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The Global Impact of Child Poverty Child poverty has affected every area of child’s development in developing countries whether it is social‚ educational or personal. Child poverty refers to children who live in state of poverty. The children from poor backgrounds and orphans are raised usually with limited state resources. These children fail to meet acceptable standard of life. Usually‚ in developing countries these children suffer more hardship and poverty because their family has been living
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ONLINE BUSINESS Introduction Social media is used to connect to other people‚ search through web and as an instrument of entertainment. Aside from these‚ the most important feature of social media is to use it as a business‚ they called it online business. Online business is often assumed by internet marketers that all business is done online by using internet as a medium for marketing products and services. People engage in this kind of business because it is convenient to use and a way for
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problems that we face‚ poverty is the most pervasive of them all. Despite the effort of many of these countries to try and eradicate poverty it continues to account for the slow pace at which these countries develop. Commenting on the Caribbean‚ Carlson (1999) points to two key factors which have greatly impeded the spread and potential for economic growth and development; inequity in the distribution of income and wealth and the access to social development; and high rates of poverty. Many authors have
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