...The definition of Ripple Effect according to our text is, “A chain reaction that begins in one part of a system and spreads across an entire system.” In the movie Hoosiers, one can see an example of the Ripple Effect take place within the townspeople. With the team’s star player not returning, there are many opinions and suggestions being made as to how the Hickory Huskers should be coached. When the new coach Norman Dale seems to brush the opinions of the townspeople away, they become hostile and agitated with him. George Walker, who is the obvious leader of the concerned townspeople, decides that he will step in and become the assistant coach. When George is denied the role of assistant coach, there is immediate hostility. George rallies fellow parents and townspeople to observe practices and gets them riled up about the new coaching techniques Coach Dale uses. When Coach Dale decides to recruit the town drunk as his assistant coach, George convinces the people to go as far as taking a vote to get Coach Dale removed from his position. The anger and frustration from one person ended up radiating throughout an entire town, and although some people may have never acted on their feelings, the actions of one man caused the Ripple Effect of actions through many. The Ripple Effect doesn’t always lead to a negative outcome. At the town meeting to have the coach voted out of his position, Myra Fleener, who is a fellow teacher at Hickory High, stands before the people and tells them that...
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...Hoosiers Film Adaptation ????? MGT311 Professor Williams Hoosiers Film Adaptation The movie Hoosiers was a great story that dealt with many of the topics covered in our readings for this week. The story is about a small-town Indiana basketball team that overcomes many challenges to win the state championship. The main character of the movie is Norman Dale, a passionate basketball coach that faces many obstacles in his attempt to teach his players about the benefits of working together as a team. The movie dealt with many team oriented topics such as team development, interdependence, group cohesiveness, intergroup problems, and confrontation. The movie begins with Dale making his way to the small town where he receives a very apprehensive welcome from a school staff member, the townspeople, and the basketball team. The small town and its people are very set in their ways and are reluctant to change. Coach Dale stirs things up by altering the way things are done with the team by using his version of team development. He makes his players practice without a ball and tries to teach them the importance of communication, setting goals, and the functioning of the group as one. His methods are met with criticism from both the players who are not accustomed to change, and the townspeople that held regular meeting to discuss the coach’s approach to the team. One of Coach Dale’s biggest lessons to his team involves interdependence. According to Brown (2011), “interdependence...
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...As the film moves on we see a turning pint for Coach Dale. After an unsuccessful first part of the season, there is a community wide petition being passed around with a referendum to remove him as coach. At this meeting it was almost certain that the coach would be fired until Jimmy showed up. Jimmy gave the community an ultimatum “I play coach stays, coach goes I go,” and ultimately the coach was voted to stay. From there the team started to gel and both the players and the community started to believe in the coach. The team goes on to make the playoffs and eventually win states and be the Cinderella story, a small town school goes up against the big boys to win the Indiana state basketball championship, a David vs. Goliath story. I believe perseverance and desire, desire to not give up and that nothing is impossible is the intended message the movie is trying to get across. A coach persevering with the whole community and his players, and the players and coach having the desire to believe they can win and that they belong. The Major Characters The biggest character in the movie was played by Gene Hackman as Coach Norman Dale. Norm was an old college basketball coach who returned to coaching after twelve years to coach at a small High School in Indiana. The next major character was Myra Fleener, a fellow school teacher that looked after Jimmy and did not treat Norm very well at first. She eventually respects him and believes in the coach and they form a relationship. The...
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...Hoosier Burger SDLC Approach Hoosier Burger, a restaurant owned by Bob and Thelma Mellankamp, is running the business with errors occurring frequently because of the nonexistence of an organizational information system. The systems analysis consultant that is hired to help Hoosier Burger should utilize the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies to develop and support the organization’s information system. There are four key steps to the SDLC: (1) planning and selection, (2) analysis, (3) design, and (4) implementation and operation. The first phase in the SDLC is when the organization’s total information system needs are analyzed and arranged. The result of this phase is a potential information systems project is identified. The systems analyst prioritizes and translates the needs of Hoosier Burger and translates the needs into a written plan. The fact of the matter is that Hoosier Burger is processing business by a method of paper-based system, suggesting a valid argument for continuing with the SDLC approach. Systems analysis, the second phase, is when the analyst will thoroughly study the organization’s current procedures to perform the tasks. The analyst must work with users to determine what the users want from the proposed system. For Hoosier Burger, the tasks are inventory control, customer ordering, and management reporting. The systems analysis phase of SDLC is when an alternative replacement system is proposed. Phase three is...
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...SDLC Approach Hoosier Burger, a restaurant owned by Bob and Thelma Mellankamp, is running the business with errors occurring frequently because of the nonexistence of an organizational information system. The systems analysis consultant that is hired to help Hoosier Burger should utilize the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies to develop and support the organization’s information system. There are four key steps to the SDLC: (1) planning and selection, (2) analysis, (3) design, and (4) implementation and operation. The first phase in the SDLC is when the organization’s total information system needs are analyzed and arranged. The result of this phase is a potential information systems project is identified. The systems analyst prioritizes and translates the needs of Hoosier Burger and translates the needs into a written plan. The fact of the matter is that Hoosier Burger is processing business by a method of paper-based system, suggesting a valid argument for continuing with the SDLC approach. Systems analysis, the second phase, is when the analyst will thoroughly study the organization’s current procedures to perform the tasks. The analyst must work with users to determine what the users want from the proposed system. For Hoosier Burger, the tasks are inventory control, customer ordering, and management reporting. The systems analysis phase of SDLC is when an alternative replacement system is proposed. Phase three is systems design. This is when...
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...Hoosiers Hoosiers is a really great movie, I really enjoyed watching this movie. This movie is a true story about a guy (Norman Dale) who comes to a small Indiana town to become a high school teacher and a basketball coach. He lost his previous coaching position after hitting a student. He was put under pressure to succeed after moving to a new town. Coach Dale has to be a lot of emphasis on teamwork when he first got the new coaching position. He believed that the team could win a state championship as long as they played as a team, even if the city had no hope for the basketball. There were only a few players on the team and the best player was being forced to sit out by a teacher, so he could focus on his studies and have a successful future. Teamwork is done when the members subordinate their personal prominence for the good of the team. Members of effective teams are open and honest with one another, there is support and trust, there is a high degree of cooperation and collaboration, decisions are reached by consensus, communication channels are open and well developed, and there is a strong commitment to the teams’ goals. The Indiana high school basketball team had to use the team development process to help get through adversity of not having a community with confidence in them to succeed. There are six steps that help with the team development process. Step one is initiating the team development meet, the team’s operating problems may have been identified and...
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...The movie is about a new coach that was appointed to take over for the school basketball team. The coach is not well-liked for his methods of coaching and the town soon voices their opposition to him. Due to some pressure, the coach gets voted off the team, but is voted back on due to the star player offering to play again under him. They then rise to the state championship. There were some key concepts that were thought in class that relates to the achievement of the championship in the movie. First, the concept of leadership and the different types and bases of power. Leadership produces change and movement in an organization, it also establishes directions which create vision, clarify big pictures and also set strategies. Also a good leader always align his followers by communicating goals, build teams and coalitions and finally motivating his followers by empowering subordinates and also inspiring and energizing them not to give up. The very first type and bases of power that made impact on achieving the championship in the movie is Expert power. Expect power is the ability to influence others based on your expertise in a certain area. Coach Normal Dale was perceived as a coach with a great experience in coaching basketball. Mr. Dale made use of his expert powers to strategize his team. Relating his expert powers to the movie, Coach Dale thought his team to always pass the ball some couple of times (four times) before shooting it, he managed to use this strategy...
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...Hoosier Castings Corporation | The Dynamics of Transitioning a Family Business | | TEAM 7 CLARK HAYS, NITHYA SUNDARAM & JADE CHEN TEAM 7 CLARK HAYS, NITHYA SUNDARAM & JADE CHEN 2/10/2014 2/10/2014 1. Burdens of Succession & Conflicts of Interest The major stakeholders for HCC are the DeWitt family members (David DeWitt 51%, Gregory DeWitt 15% and Mabel DeWitt 22%), Brendon Morris’s management team (Gregory DeWitt, Scott Rolston, Ryan Williams and Jennifer Nichols), the non-DeWitt family board members (Brendon Morris and Daniel Michaelson), as well as the HCC’s employees. Among them, only the three DeWitt family members, Michelson and Morris are the shareholders of HCC. HCC has a typical family ownership structure. The ownership and control is concentrated on the DeWitt family shareholders while currently David DeWitt serves as a chairman and consultant for the board, Gregory DeWitt is still on the top management team, and Mabel acts as an active participant in board meetings. According to Carl Magnus Bjuggren , Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Dan Johansson’s “Highgrowth firms and family ownership” article, on the one hand, concentrated ownership gives the controlling shareholders incentives as well as ability to monitor the management. On the other hand, the combination of ownership and control means that families face opportunities to benefit themselves at the expense of other shareholders. History has also proven that this power concentration has helped...
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...I chose to further examine the film Hoosiers from week 13 of class. After reviewing the film I will compare it with chapter 13 of Major Problems. Hoosiers really caught my interest as a great underdog story and that is why I chose to further study the 1986 classic. I always had heard people talk about this movie but I had never seen it. In this paper I will discuss the historical period Hoosiers is set in, compare and contrast major themes from the week, and evaluate the film based on its effectiveness. Hoosiers is a fictional movie that is actually based on real events in a small town in Indiana. It is based on a true story but does change some of the truths, as evidenced by the ESPN article. The message I gathered from the film was that anything is possible if you can work hard and accept change. The little town of Hickory was very set in its ways and uncooperative of the new basketball coach. Once the town and players learned to accept something different, the team flourished. The argument the film presents is to never count someone out. No matter how small a school or town is, hard work can trump talent and compete with the big boys. The message of acceptance resonates with the viewer and is most likely why Hoosiers is so highly regarded as a sports movie. The historical period that Hoosiers is set in is 1952 rural Indiana. In this time period, people are more centralized around common goals and the entire town knows when someone moves in. There are no...
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...Two Assignment How was the Hoosier Burger project identified and selected? What focus will the new system have? Hoosier Burger is a small restaurant that currently has no digital information capabilities. The new owners, Bob and Thelma, have just finished up product identification and selection. Now that Hoosier Burger has been open for a little while, they have a good feel for what works – and what does not – in the current system. With a solid approach to identification and selection this project will be well on the way towards an efficient execution. This project was identified as most are, which is, unfortunately, the painful way. In daily operations Bob and Thelma discovered shortcomings in inventory control, customer ordering and management reporting. These inadequacies culminate in food shortages, customer wait time and a general lack of ability to run the business smoothly. Because their business is growing, the old way of managing information by hand is insufficient. Project selection is also simple in this case, as the system simply has to be upgraded, and there are no other projects pending to choose from. In many situations there are multiple teams competing for limited resources and so projects might be evaluated based on cost-benefit analysis or any other manner of comparing the feasibility of a project, but in this case the selection is clear: Upgrade the system and keep customers coming back! Identify the Hoosier Burger project’s scope The scope...
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...Hoosier Burger Case Analysis Sarah Doppelmayr Ashford University Business Systems Analysis INF340 Mark Revels March 10, 2014 Hoosier Burger Case Analysis Having a dream since the 1970’s of owning their own restaurant, Hoosier Burger owners realized that dream when they noticed a for sale sign in the window of Myrtle’s Family restaurant while driving one day. After purchasing the business, the owners, Bob and Thelma Mellenkamp identified the need for an information system (IS) project in order to support their needs for a system that supported inventory control, customer services, marketing, and food preparation. The system has a strategic focus on improving day-to-day operations for the company, assisting Bob and Thelma in their duties as company executives. (Valacich, George, & Hoffer, 2009, p. 28) The systems development life cycle (SDLC) became an important part to the development of an effective system for Hoosier Burger. The goal of this system was to modernize the information system, by implementing four key steps of SDLC, (1) planning and selection, (2) analysis, (3) design and (4) implementation and selection. This improved system would replace the current system of paper records for the inventory control, customer orders, and management reporting systems. In addition, Bob and Thelma considered a point of sale (POS) system, which would allow them to generate reports that are more detailed and track inventory more accurately. As a family...
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...recreational activities for its re stores that sell business furniture, Briefly sum marize your findings. idents. The retirement village is locally owne and managed; however, a residents' advisor board has Significant input when changes ~~o. /::5:h. :2. Hoosier Burger The Hoosier Burger project development team recommendations to the retirement village a contemplated. has met several times with Bob and Thelma Mellankamp. During these meetings, Bob has stressed the importance of improving Hoosier Golden Age Retirement Center's manager Mary Lou Tobias, has recently approached y for help with the retirement center's outdate Burger's inventory control, customer ordering, and management reporting systems. Demand for information system. Currently, the retirement office has five employees, including Ms. Tobia Hoosier Burger food is at an all-time high, and She explains that all data concerning residents this increased demand is creating problems for financial matters, suppliers, employees, an Hoosier Burger's staff, creating stock-out prob lems, and impacting sales, During busy periods, customers sometimes wait 16 minutes to place an order and may wait an additional 26 minutes to receive their order, recreational activities are kept manually. Th ...
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...state Indiana. Hazel Crosby was a big supporter of all Hoosiers and automatically loved the person if they were a hoosier. "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers," said Hazel but they've sure got something".(Vonnegut 55) In Cat's Cradle this is one of the biggest granfalloons in the book. Hazel said to John "whenever I meet a young Hoosier, I tell them, 'You call me Mom".(Vonnegut 55) When Hazel said this, she was taking being a "Hoosier" a little to far. Hazel represented "Patriotism" and Vonnegut was almost making fun of people who take that stuff to seriously. When Hazel meets a Hoosier she gets excited and feels better about life. She only does this to connect to something, so there is something...
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...Hoosier Burger [pic]As college students in the 1970s, Bob and Thelma Mellankamp often dreamed of starting their own business. While on their way to an economics class, Bob and Thelma drove by Myrtle’s Family Restaurant and noticed a “for sale” sign in the window. Bob and Thelma quickly made arrangements to purchase the business, and Hoosier Burger Restaurant was born. The restaurant is moderately sized, consisting of a kitchen, dining room, counter, storage area, and office. Currently, all paperwork is done by hand. Thelma and Bob have discussed the benefits of purchasing a computer system; however, Bob wants to investigate alternatives and hire a consultant to help them. Perishable food items, such as beef patties, buns, and vegetables are delivered daily to the restaurant. Other items, such as napkins, straws, and cups, are ordered and delivered as needed. Bob Mellankamp receives deliveries at the restaurant’s back door and then updates a stock log form. The stock log form helps Bob track inventory items. The stock log form is updated when deliveries are received and also nightly after daily sales have been tallied. Customers place their orders at the counter and are called when their orders are ready. The orders are written on an order ticket, totaled on the cash register, and then passed to the kitchen where the orders are prepared. The cash register is not capable of capturing point-of-sale information. Once an order is prepared and delivered, the order ticket is placed in...
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...registration and advising. * Boundary- the physical boundary of the campus I think could be the logical boundary for the university. There is also technology-based distance education across the globe and off-campus facilities. * Purpose- Providing education, conducting research, and serving their communities. * Equipment- Textbooks, classes * Input- High school transcripts, applications, tuition payments, and state and federal regulations. * Output- Diplomas, transcripts, billing statements, and inventions. 2. Task #2 Case Problem a. The systems development life cycle may be used to analyze, develop, and support Hoosier Burger’s Information Systems. From the systems planning and selection process, Bob, Thelma, and the analyst recognize their business system needs improvement. In systems analysis, the analyst examines Hoosier Burger to deduce the system requirements, refine and structure these requirements and come up with alternative design strategies. Next is system design. During this process both logical and physical designs are prepared. In logical design, the analyst concentrates on the business aspects of the company. During the physical design, the logical design is translated into the physical design. Next comes systems implementation and operation. The design now becomes a working system. Modifications are consistently made when needed during this process. b. Component- the ordering system. Interrelated Components- the order and inventory systems...
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