...Acme Mexico City Project Management Plan Version 1.0 January 21, 2014 Prepared by: Team S.A.L.T TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Executive Summary 4 2 Scope Management 5 2.1 Work Breakdown Structure 5 2.2 Deployment Plan 5 2.3 Change Control Management 5 3 Schedule/Time Management 6 3.1 Milestones 6 3.2 Project Schedule 6 3.2.1 Dependencies 6 4 Cost/Budget Management 5 5 Quality Management 5 6 Human Resource Management 5 7 Communications Management 5 7.1 Communication Matrix 5 8 Risk Management 5 8.1 Risk Log 6 9 Procurement Management 6 10 STAKEHOLDER Management 6 Appendix A: Project Management Plan Approval 7 APPENDIX B: REFERENCES 8 APPENDIX C: COST/BUDGET DETAIL 9 * * 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As of 2012, Acme Home Improvement has 125 stores and annual sales of $5.4Billion. With the net income of $280Million, Acme Home Improvement has an operating margin of 5%. In an interest of seeking greater profits, Acme Home Improvements has decided to expand to first Mexico and Canada in the future. The commercial and residential real estate market has grown since 2011 and continued growth is expected. A joint venture has been setup in Mexico known as Acme Home Improvements de México, SA de CV. This project management plan was created on January 21, 2014 upon approval of the program charter for Acme Mexico City. The project duration is 12 months starting on February 1, 2014 and completion date set for January 31, 2015. The target store opening...
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...(ISM) plan for Acme Mexico City. In doing so, the section completes the work tasked as Assignment 4 in the Four Assignments Package to be found in Content/General Information. Additional Instructions: In view of our time constraints, this will be a draft ISM plan. Acme corporate headquarters will have standards, policies, and expectations with which Acme Mexico City (AMC) must comply. These may be hypothesized. Acme Mexico City will need to support both store-internal and -external IS needs Internal needs will include support of at least store Business processes and operations Decision mak ing by employees and managers Strategies to gain competitive advantage Human resource needs External needs will include at least: Reporting to Acme corporate Meeting Mexican and US government regulatory requirements Fulfilling supplier and customer expectations in this business sector in Mexico City Any format that logically and succinctly addresses that above needs may be used A sample IM (=ISM) plan for a health services organization follows below. It is deliberately for such an organization because: Health services is another important business sector supported by IM (ISM) I do not want you to simply copy a sample format, but rather to design your own that meets Acme Mexico City's needs As always, let me (acting as Acme CEO), our TA (acting as Acme COO), and/or our volunteer Acme corporate CIO/Assistant CIO, who will be managing development of the plan, have any questions. Let the plan development...
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...AMBA 640 / AMBA 640 HYBRID COURSE MATERIALS ASSIGNMENTS Acme Mexico City and Application of World-Class Operations and Information Systems Management Techniques and Production Planning and Strategy for Toyota North America (Version 06/01/15) Background Information for Acme Mexico City Acme Home Improvements, Inc. was founded in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. By mid 2015, the company had 125 stores along the US East Coast from Florida to Maine. Its annual sales are currently ~$5,400,000,000 with $280,000,000 net income. The average store is about 100,000 square feet with an additional 10,000 square feet of outside garden center. The stores typically carry 40,000 different products from 5,000 vendors worldwide. Major US competitors include Ace, Home Depot, Lowe's, and TruValue. All four operate already in Mexico. 1 In the interests of seeking greater profits and buffering against downturns in the US market, Acme has determined to follow these and other competitors to Canada and Mexico. In the latter, it has established, in accordance with Mexican law, a joint venture with local interests, known as Acme Home Improvements de México, SA de CV ("Acme de México" or "Acme Mexico City"). (SA de CV = Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable, a Mexican corporate form.) There are five major product groups within each Acme store: plumbing and electrical supplies, building materials, hardware and tools, seasonal and garden/yard items, and paint, flooring and wall coverings. Each store...
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...ACME Furniture Crisis Management Plan 2013 NB – A crisis management template has been used in creating this plan. The template is available from http://www.brighthubpm.com/risk-management/104970-tips-and-template-for-developing-a-crisis-management-plan/ Table of Contents I. Purpose: 4 Principals for crisis management 4 II. Process: 5 III. Communication Responses Protocol (List of Emergency Contacts): 6 iii – (a) Key personnel, Legal Counsels and Advisors 6 iii – (b) Crisis Management Team 6 iii – (c) communications team 6 IV. Roles and Responsibilities 7 iv – (a) Crisis Management Team 7 iv – (b) Communications team 7 V. Critical Scenarios/Incidents of Medical Emergencies/ Attacks against ACME Furniture’s Integrity & Reputation 10 v – (a) CRITICAL SCENARIOS: 10 v – (b) Incidents of Medical Emergencies: 10 v – (c) Attacks against ACME Furniture’s Integrity & Reputation: 10 VI. Emergency Response Centre 11 VII. Employees 12 VII – (a) Office 12 VII – (b) Retail Outlet 12 VII – (c) Factory 12 VII – (d) Warehouse 12 VIII. References 13 I. Purpose: This document provides a plan of action in the event of any business disruptions or interruptions that pose threats of damages to life, property or reputation to ACME Furniture. This document contains plans for setting up and running a crisis management centre, media responses and roles responsibilities, key contacts and personnel of ACME Furniture. This document...
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...Company Overview In this plan, I will describe the process of creating a WAN for ACME Manufacturing. ACME Manufacturing has six buildings in different locations that need to be on the same network. Headquarters and the other remote locations of ACME Manufacturing share the need for constant communication with each other. Atlanta, Georgia, is the home of ACME manufacturing where they have another building across the street, their engineering facility. The other locations are in Phoenix, Chicago, New York, and China. Network Setup and Connections The LAN setup in Atlanta for the headquarters and engineering buildings will use a logical choice of routers and Ethernet cables. Using routers and Ethernet cables will provide speedy data transfer rates and reliability without costing ACME manufacturing exuberant amount money. The three distribution locations in Phoenix, Chicago, and New York will use satellite connections to their headquarters in Atlanta. The last connection is the manufacturing plant in China wills also use a satellite connection to connect to headquarters back in the United States. After to some thought of what topology to use, a star topology looks to be the best choice for ACME manufacturing. (See Figure 1) All locations will connect with headquarters by either satellite or T1. Headquarters as the central location of the WAN will benefit the network administrator by giving him or her more control of the network. ACME manufacturing benefit from...
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...com/shop/bis-261-week-1-ilab/ Please you only accept the assignment if you can do in 4 hours and 30 mnts STEP 1: Review background information Review the case study on Acme Medical Data Storage LLC, given in the Scenario/Summary section above, paying careful attention to the characteristics of the company and its IS projects. NOTE: This is an individual, not a team, iLab. In your review, make notes specifying how you would rate the following characteristics of the company and project. These notes will not be turned in, but you will use them in conducting your analysis in Step 2 and preparing your memo in Step 3. 1. Is theproject technologyextremely stable, moderately stable, or experimental? 2. At the start of the project, are theproject requirementswell known, partially known, or mostly unknown (i.e., experimental)? 3. Is theproject domainheavily regulated, moderately regulated, or lightly regulated by government or other outside agencies? 4. Is thesize of the organizationlarge, mid-sized, or small? 5. Is theorganizational culturebureaucratic, mixed, or entrepreneurial? 6. Is theorganization's competitive environmentslow-paced, moderately paced, or fast-paced? STEP 2: Analyze SDLC suitability Based on the information given in the case study, analyze the suitability of a specific Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model for Acme Medical Data Storage LLC: • If the last digit of your DSI Number is 0, 1, 2, or 3, use theWaterfall SDLC; • If the last digit of your DSI Number is4...
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...ACME Home Improvement Acme Home improvement mexico city ------------------------------------------------- project Management plan Team 2: Lisa Vidal Joshua Aaron Emhoff Valeria Kolison 10/23/2012 Table of Content 1. Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 2. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 3.1 Purpose of Project Management plan 3.2 Marketing……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 3. Scope management……………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 4.3 Work breakdown structure…………………………………………………………………………………….7 4.4 Deploment plan……………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 4. Schedule/time managemnt……………………………………………………………………………………………11 5.5 Milestones……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 5.6 Gantt chart…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 5. Cost/budget management…………………………………………………………………………………………….12 6. Quality management………………………………………………………………………………………………………14 7. Human resource managemnt……………………………………………………………………………………….15 8. comunicationmanagement……………………………………………………………………………………………20 9. risk Management………………………………………………………………………………………………………………21 10.7 risk log………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….24 10. issue management……………………………………………………………………………………………………………28 11. procurement management……………………………………………………………………………………………34 12. appendix a project management plan approval……………………………………………………….37 ...
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...com/shop/bis-261-week-1-ilab/ Please you only accept the assignment if you can do in 4 hours and 30 mnts STEP 1: Review background information Review the case study on Acme Medical Data Storage LLC, given in the Scenario/Summary section above, paying careful attention to the characteristics of the company and its IS projects. NOTE: This is an individual, not a team, iLab. In your review, make notes specifying how you would rate the following characteristics of the company and project. These notes will not be turned in, but you will use them in conducting your analysis in Step 2 and preparing your memo in Step 3. 1. Is theproject technologyextremely stable, moderately stable, or experimental? 2. At the start of the project, are theproject requirementswell known, partially known, or mostly unknown (i.e., experimental)? 3. Is theproject domainheavily regulated, moderately regulated, or lightly regulated by government or other outside agencies? 4. Is thesize of the organizationlarge, mid-sized, or small? 5. Is theorganizational culturebureaucratic, mixed, or entrepreneurial? 6. Is theorganization's competitive environmentslow-paced, moderately paced, or fast-paced? STEP 2: Analyze SDLC suitability Based on the information given in the case study, analyze the suitability of a specific Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model for Acme Medical Data Storage LLC: • If the last digit of your DSI Number is 0, 1, 2, or 3, use theWaterfall SDLC; • If the last digit of your DSI Number is4...
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...Acme’s headquarter located in Atlanta, Georgia and quickly expanding to China and then across the United States, Acme Manufacturing is a top tier company that in turn needs a top tier WAN network to help tie together it’s various locations. Along with Acme’s many other needs they also want to install a telecommunications technology like PBX or VoIP to facilitate interoffice communication. Acme Manufacturing wants to build its network on the principles of security and usability. The following is an outline of the recommendations for their WAN implementation for this company. Network Design 1. Topology The first consideration for Acme’s new network is the topology to be used. The Atlanta office serves as Acme’s headquarters and because the company is quickly expanding across the globe I believe that the star topology is the most suited for their needs. Star networks are easily expanded upon and doing so does not interrupt the other locations. Centralized administration is a strong selling point for this topology as well. A powerful mainframe computer and an array of Cisco Catalyst switches will serve as the network’s hub. Figure 1 below represents the proposed WAN topology: Figure 1- Proposed Acme WAN topology Figure 1- Proposed Acme WAN topology ATL (HQ) T1 T1 T1 PHX CHI CHINA NY ATL (HQ) T1 T1 T1 PHX CHI CHINA NY 2. Connection Types Acme should strongly consider leasing fractional T1 lines to connect its hub location to each of the offices in Phoenix...
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...Three Case Study Questions Trina G. Stevens trinagstevens@bellsouth.net Part III of the Course Project for PM598 Nov10 Contract and Project Management Presented to Instructor Robert Davy of DeVry University December 5, 2010 RUHLING MANUFACTURING COMPANY QUESTIONS Question # 1: Why might negotiation be favored over competitive bidding in certain procurement situations? A buyer or a procurement section of an organization, or business might choose negotiation over competitive bidding when a project is small, not planned, or an emergency. There are some situations in which a buyer would favor negotiation rather than competitive bidding. For example, when the buyer is contracting for part of the seller’s services rather than a product. Also when there are ambiguities involved with the project. Another reason to use negotiation is when cost and risk cannot be correctly identified early within the project. Negotiation is used a lot when there are new, or unexpected ideas introduced to solve a problem within the project. Negotiation is usually cheaper and quicker than competitive bidding. Question # 2a: Considerations of Epsilon's alternative proposal: a. What is the applicability of a requirements contract from Ruhling’s point of view? - Assume that Epsilon will still make a profit resulting from economics of long runs and learning curves The applicability of a requirement contract from Ruhling’s point of view is that they would agree...
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...and retention procedures 13 Styles and attributes needed for leadership 27 Trait theory and behavioral theory 27 Acme and Omega Case Study Application 30 The leadership and management style 31 A comparison of leadership and management style 31 The application of leadership and management style in Acme and Omega case 33 Leadership styles in different situations 35 Blake and Mouton’s managerial style 35 LPC contingency theory: different leaders for different situation 38 Situational leadership theory: leaders should adapt to situation 42 The suggestion improvement for Acme and Omega leadership styles 45 Motivation theories and the application 46 Alderfer’s ERG Theory of Motivation 46 Mcgregor’s Theory X and Theory Y 47 Expectancy Theory 49 The application of motivation theories on Acme and Omega case 52 Working effectively in a team 55 References 56 Appendix: Acme and Omega Case Study 59 Introduction The assignment focuses on the recruitment, selection and development of individuals and teams. The employee recruitment and selection practical excises is used for the objectives of the course is to develop the learner’s skills in employee recruitment, selection and retention. The assignment will inform the results from the recruitment. Next chapter of this assignment is the development of leadership style. The application of Acme and Omega Case Study (shown on appendix) on the different leadership theories will be shown to help the understanding...
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...Wide-Area Network Design – ACME Manufacturing Axia College of the University of Phoenix August 7th, 2011 ACME Manufacturing Company Overview One of the biggest challenges in technology today is creating a solution based upon a company’s needs while trying to be economical. ACME Manufacturing is a growing company that has 5 different locations throughout the world. Company headquarters is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Three distribution centers are located in Chicago, Illinois; Phoenix, Arizona; and New York City, New York; with a recent plant coming online in China. The challenge comes by identifying what the company needs. Beyond the obvious networking requirement the company also wants a diverse set of services available at all locations. The company requires the following services to be available: * Network - Local and Wide-area * Voice Communications (VoIP or PBX) * Video Conferencing * Remote Access * Department connectivity over WAN (VLAN) The plan will be to interconnect all locations stateside and connect China into the Atlanta office allowing further contact with all other satellite offices. Atlanta will be the center location due to the headquarters being at this location. All departments will be interconnected via the network to include three distribution locations, Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. Engineering in Atlanta office will be connected to HQ, manufacturing plant in China, and the three distribution locations...
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...Growing Acme Fireworks Derex. D. Moore Instructor Shawn Grimsley BUS 311: Business Law June 30, 2014 Growing Acme Fireworks There is much to consider when expanding a business. How will you make, market, and distribute your product. Are you willing to take full liability for your product and understanding the legalities of what happens if your product is defective? Once that has been established, it’s important to make sure that your business dealings are in order. The strength of the contract and what all it entails. Knowing that the legal document is important more so when things tend to go downhill. Above all is deciding which type of business entity the company will select especially if the company starts out small and looks to expand. Which entity will best serve the growth of the company such as Acme Fireworks? Some years ago I watched a movie called fight club. The movie dealt with a ton of social issues. One of the characters worked for a car company that would fly out their employers out to the areas where there were car accidents. They worked almost as an insurance adjuster that would come and appraise a vehicle once it has been in a wreck and determine, based on the damages how much they would award the car owner. However in the case here the employees would view accidents all over the country and decide if it would cost more to recall the product or pay the total fee for the said accident. If the cost was too much to do a recall then the company...
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...MBA Program Week 1 Assignment Chapter 1: 1. Potential ethical issues faced by the Acme Corporation, as I see it, are as follows: a. Salesperson Frank Garcia is providing bribes and kickbacks, disguised as gifts of entertainment to the buyer. b. Frank’s manager Amber, not only does not stop him from unethical behavior, but actually encourages him to do so. 2. In order to make ethics as part of its core organizational values, Acme Corporation should take the following actions: a. Institute companywide educational initiative regarding ethical behaviors. b. Require all employees to participate and certify understanding and acceptance of these initiatives. c. Provide reporting and support mechanisms for ethics related issues. 3. Frank needs to be aware about ethical issues related to bribery. 4. From Frank’s point of view, there is a big advantage to him and to his company in providing bribes in form of entertainment to potential buyers. Acme Corporation is getting orders and in turn rewards Frank for his successful sales. There is also a big downside for such an unethical behavior. First of all, company is opening its self up to potential law suits, negative publicity and negative consumer reacton. Chapter 2. 1. In my opinion, there is an ethical issue with employer asking an employee to ignore personal or religious convictions. On the other hand, if the game with nude contents is properly labeled and marketed, there...
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...ACME Case Study 2011 CLASS NOTE: - WALKED THROUGH THE VARIOUS ANALYSIS SECTIONS - MISSING PROJECTED INCOME CALCULATIONS? - PROVIDED EXTRA RESEARCH, WITH REFERENCES - 4P'S? FULL DETAILED STRATEGY - IMPLEMETATION (TIMELINE, TASKS)? ACME Case Evaluation This report analyzes the market potential of the dog shaped letter holder in the black, chrome and gold-plated coloring. Qualities and potential of the product include the following. The dog shaped letter holder has a huge target market spanning the entire globe since everyone could use a letter holder .It has high potential demand and a huge profit margin. This means the letter holder gets a great return on any initial investment placed into it. The letter holder is durable, attractive and unique from all others in the industry making it difficult to imitate. Acme is an experienced company having been making letter holders for ten years with high economies of scales on them. This means that ACME can turn out a huge number of these letter holders at a very low cost. A huge target market exists for this product ranging from dog owners to just about anyone working at a desk. Anyone would love this product to liven up their workspace. The letter holder does have a lot of competitors so it will have to be well priced and advertised to take a large market share. Though this really shouldn’t be an issue with the high quality and brand name associated with ACME. The company has a huge potential market in front of them ranging...
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