...Essay Question #2: Are there any resources over-allocated? If yes, during which month(s) and what are some ways this might be addressed? Do not simply lower the percentage allocated to an over-allocated activity. A whole Latte Java has a numerous of task being over allocated by one resource; our project manager. The first task being over- allocated are researching vendors for the event. Researching the vendors is a very important part of our grand opening party and adequate time must be provided to accomplish task. Our project manager had dedicated 16 hour days from dates April 13th through April 20th to complete this task however, this has become a problem. There are many solutions that can be used to solve this, but here are two that would be more effective. The first one being the allotted time can be divided amongst other resources (members in the group) or replace this task with another resources task by providing a shorter task in substitute for a longer one. The second task being over allocated is planning the schedule for the day of the event. The Project manager has taken on this task from dates April 8th through April 22nd . Planning the schedule will help with smooth transitions throughout the day of the event. The project manager has been scheduled 8-12 hour days for this task . The solution for this would be to delay the task. Delaying the task and looking for slacks can allow for rescheduling at a later date without affecting the critical path (Estrella, 2009) ...
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...| |NutroBalance | Memo To: Alex Manager From: Martin E. Jones CC: Professor Roshonda Davis-Cheadle Date: 1/1/2011 Re: Section 1, Memo - PM587 Case Study After receiving the requirements for this project and putting a project plan together, I was able to determine that this project is set to run for 138 days, considering that we maintain our project schedule. With a commencement date of February 22, 2011, this will put us at an expected completion date of Thursday, September 1, 2011. In order to meet this date, the series of tasks that must be completed on schedule for the project to finish on schedule is as follows. If any one of these tasks on our critical path moves, the end date of the project will move as well. [pic] * Critical Tasks Report | |NutroBalance | Status Report To: Alex Manager From: Martin E. Jones CC: Professor Roshonda Davis-Cheadle Date: 2/1/2011 Re: Section 2, Status Report - PM587 Case Study With the proven success of our Ultra weight loss supplement, we at NutroBalance felt it could be a beneficial endeavor to build off that success by formulating an Ultra pill to target other segments of the work-out population. NutroBalance has decided...
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...------------------------------------------------- Subject: Red Zuma Project Resources and Resource Assignments Introduction: This part of the project deals with identifying and assigning resources and resolving over allocation of resources. Details: Part A 1. Over-allocated Resources As per the resource sheet, resources that are over-allocated are as follows: * 4 Marketing Specialist * 4 Design Engineers * 4 Industrial Engineers 2. Resolve Over-allocation of Resources Assuming that the project is time constrained, resolving over allocation by leveling slack leads to following changes: * Slack time from following tasks is used up for resource leveling. WBS | Task Name | Original Total Slack | Slack after Resource Leveling | 1.3 | Manufacturing Study | 10 | 0 | 1.5 | Detailed Marketing Plan | 179 | 134 | 1.6 | Manufacturing Process | 55 | 0 | 1.9 | Lab Test Prototypes | 9 | 0 | * The four Marketing Specialists are no more over-allocated. * All the tasks having slack (in the initial schedule) have been re-scheduled for resource leveling. 3. Impact of leveling within slack The ‘Manufacturing Process task’ and ‘Lab Test Prototype task’ do not have slack and are now on the critical path. Since more tasks are on the critical path as compared to the earlier network, it has become more sensitive due to leveling within slack. 4. Resource Constrained Implications Based on the current resource allocation and no time constraint, the project...
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...Project Deadline The project will not meet the deadline of June 30, 2012, there are numerous variables and tasks that must be completed in order to start the construction of the building. The construction of the building will begin July 25, 2011 and end in April 27, 2012. The planning phase alone will take ten full weeks to complete before the site preparation can begin. Not meeting the 2012 deadline may create a negative impact on the entire project and could potentially delay or jeopardize the introduction of the new plastic containers. The goal was to make sure that the plant was fully operational by June 30, 2012. The deadline requirement would have assured that the equipment was properly installed tested and that the plastic products were tested for quality and thus guaranteeing full production capacity by the deadline of June 30 ,2012 set by the board directors. The deadline that was set by the board of directors will be met promptly and ahead of time by six days. This will allow the production start-up to begin on June 25, 2012 and distribution by July 2, 2012. My recommendation would be, to meet with the different team leaders of the specific tasks that are within the Critical Path of the current schedule and determine the slack in all the tasks and the total slack available in the entire project. By meeting with the leaders that have first hand experience, the team will be able to better analyze the possibility of realistically shortening the duration for each...
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... Part B……………………………………………………………………………………...5 a. Situational Analysis……………………………………………………………….5 b. Internal Analysis…………………………………………………………………..5 i. Resources………………………………………………………………….5 ii. Capabilities………………………………………………………………..7 iii. Core Competencies………………………………………………………..8 iv. Competitive Advantage…………………………………………………...9 c. Strengths and Weaknesses……………………………………………………….10 d. Internal Opportunities……………………………………………………………11 3. Part C…………………………………………………………………………………….11 a. Situational Analysis with regard to Information and Communication Technology………………………………………………………………………11 4. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….12 References………………………………………………………………………………………..14 Executive Summary This is a marketing strategic report, which is divided into three parts. Part A describes about the mission, current value strategies and the market definition of the Commonwealth Bank. This bank is the second largest bank in Australia which is providing financial services. The study identifies numerous strategic variables which significantly influence the performance and the profitability of the bank. Part B, describes the vital strategic variables that form the part of internal analysis like: Resources, Capabilities, Core competencies and Competitive...
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...the following questions: 1) What is a resource? People, equipment & materials necessary to complete a task 2) Why aren't resources assigned to summary tasks? Summary tasks are simply a grouping for a set of related tasks. The indiv tasks require resources but the summary task is just a compilation of those resources. 3) What is the difference between Start, Prorated and End in association with costs? Start – cost applied at the beginning of the task Prorated – cost applied as work is completed End – cost applied when the task is completed 4) Give a real-world example of the difference between a fixed cost and a cost per use? Give a real-world example of the difference between a fixed cost and a cost per use? Fixed Cost: (buy equipment) company bids $500 to clean carpet, cost of airline ticket… Cost Per Use: (rent equipment) Hourly rate on moving van, rental of shampoo machine, landing fee each time plane lands… 5) Why is a fixed cost entered with the task and not the resource? Because the cost is the same no matter how many people, hours, materials used. Not dependent upon the amount of time or number of resources it takes to complete. 6) Why is the resource cost for the Wiring Contractor $0.00? Because the installation of the wiring is a fixed contractual price of $4000 – it will not matter how many hours the contractor takes – still the same price. 7) Which resource is Overallocated and why? Systems Administrator...
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...already examined their external environment and will now look inwards towards their internal environment. This involves looking at their resources, their capabilities, and then their core competencies. Resources An organization’s resources can be divided into two types, tangible and intangible. Tangible resources are those that can be seen, and touched, and measured. These include financial resources, physical resources, and technological resources. Intangible resources are those that are not touchable and not easily quantified. They are comprised of human resources, knowledge capital, organizational structure and brand or reputational resources. NITL’s tangible resources begin with their financial resources. While this resource was previously a strength of the organization, it has become a weakness and the main reason why they are reaching out for help. During the recession of 2008-09 the league lost a good deal of its membership and many have not renewed now that the economy has made a turn for the better. As far as physical resources, the league is run out of an office in Washington, D.C.. The proximity of the office to Capitol Hill makes it more convenient and cheaper for the CEO to work with legislators and lobbyists. The office equipment seems to be sufficient for the type of work that the organization does. One of the technological resources that the firm possesses is their website. This may be seen as a weakness as the site is fairly pedestrian...
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...applying at some colleges and I just thot I would tell u all about the resources at my skool. The best part prob is the fact that I can do my school work at my leisure this wud b gr8 4 U bc u hav kids. When I applied they wer so kewl and ez to deal with unlik the crap your dealin w/ @ the community colleg. They took care of everyth w/ ease. Now that Im in skool and learnin I thot id share all the thing I think make UOP ezer to graduate. For starters the library is filled with unlim resourc’s that make research a piece of cake. Since ur horrbl in math, Phoenix maks it ezer to undrstnd, evryth is hands on step by step, tutorials to mak sur u dont fail. Community College doesn’t offer that! Plus we can be study buddys. Holla Keathen Part 2: Dear Fellow Classmates; I am writing because I feel we deserve to know the importance of all the resources we have at the University of Phoenix. There are so many, we should capitalize on them and make our school life easier, with a much more enjoyable graduation experience. Every page you click on, there are resources- if you look carefully. Sometimes we can become overwhelmed with all the links to click we get lost and don’t know where to look. Tutorials can make the difference between knowing where to look and for what. Every Resource could not be described within 150 words, and all the resources couldn’t be described even if everyone in the classroom chose a resource. So with this in mind, we should all be investigating every option...
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...Week Eight Checkpoint Energy Resource Challenges SCI/275 Cindy Walker Conserving energy is a key factor in the improvement of the planet in which we live. I practice conserving energy by doing little things such as turning lights off when I leave the room and turning the heat or the air conditioner down a little lower than I normally would. I believe if everyone in the world would take these little steps we can make a momentous impact on the environment. Natural gas and oil are the most common natural resources used to run our homes efficiently. Consequently, these natural resources can and will run out in the future if we do not begin to conserve today. I have challenged myself to reduce the size of the ecological footprint which I put on the earth. I am proud to say that I am a recovering shopaholic. You see, I am a mother of three little girls and love for them to look their best at all times. So, I would go out and buy them new clothes for just about every occasion. During this time I thought I was being resourceful by purchasing cheap trendy clothes for them to wear instead of the more expensive higher quality clothing. However, after completing an environmental science course, I realized I wasn’t being resourceful; instead I was being quite wasteful. I realized that buying a large amount of cheap trendy clothes was costing me more money and creating more trash than buying higher quality clothing. I noticed that the cheap clothes could only be worn a couple...
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...Wikipedia Workforce Planning Definitions[edit] Workforce Planning is the business process for ensuring that an organization has suitable access to talent (potential candidates that have the ability to undertake required activities including decisions making) to ensure future business success. Access to talent includes considering all potential resources (employment, contracting out, partnerships, changing business activities to modify the types of talent required, etc.). The cycle of workforce planning includes filling resource requests, analyzing resource utilization, forecasting capacity, managing and identifying the resources (human) to fill that capacity, and then restarting the cycle.[2] Strategic Workforce Planning is the framework applied for Workforce Planning and Workforce Development, where the links between corporate and strategic objectives and their associated workforce implications are demonstrated. Strategic Workforce Planning takes into account the projected loss of knowledge through employee exits and the projected knowledge requirements for sustaining and progressing the business. Knowledge requirements may include technology, new skills, new roles, documentation of key workforce intelligence or new business demands. Operational Workforce Planning is initially processed based and focused on building understanding and capabilities in Workforce Planning, supported by simple tools, templates and techniques. Once established and practiced, these tools, templates...
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...Business Resource P3 With Examples, you are to describe the main physical and technological resources required in the operation of your selected organisation. In this assignment I will describe the main physical and technological resources required in the operation of Tesco. Physical Resources Physical resources are resources that the business needs to maintain in order to carry out its activities. They mainly include things like facilities, buildings, machinery and more. These are resources that are available to a business’s organisations in form of buildings and other machineries needed for the day to day running of the organisation. Tesco have many physical resources such as their toilets, buildings, trolleys, CCTV’s. Toilets is a good resource to have within a good organization as it can attract more customers to not feel rushed into shopping because they need to go toilet they can shop at their own paste and use the toilet when they feel to. Another physical resource for Tesco is the car park so customers can park within Tesco’s car park and not have to worry about receiving a ticket, or checking their time to get back to the car before they get a ticket, this will also attract more customers to shop within Tesco. A recent physical resource that Tesco has brought in is the self-checkouts; this is good for customers that want to quick shop as Tesco can be quite busy on some days they don’t want to wait in the long queues so they can use the self-checkout which is...
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...M1 – How the management of human, physical and technological resources can improve the performance of Tesco Physical Resources Tesco have many physical resources within their organisation including building and facilities, materials and waste, plant and machinery, equipment and maintenance and refurbishment. All of these resources can help improve the performance of Tesco. The management of Tesco’s building and facilities and the location of these can help greatly help Tesco. Tesco need to make sure that they consider the location of their distribution centres and their shops as if these buildings are too far from each other, they can find that it is harder and takes longer for their stock to reach the stores and can decrease the performance of Tesco and the efficiency of the way they run. Tesco are determined to make sure that they are doing what they can for the environment and look at what they are using in waste and materials and see if they can change what they do in order to improve their performance. To help improve their environmental performance, they make sure that they make sure that they recycle all materials that they can and have brought in many different schemes to help them improve their performance, including battery and mobile phone recycling schemes and Together for Trees. The machinery and plants that Tesco use can also help to improve their performance. The plants are where the manufacturing of Tesco products takes place and is a large factor in improving...
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...Why Organizations Must Secure Continual Resources By Kai McLemore Columbia Southern University MBA6001 Abstract If an organization is going to succeed, it must depend upon its resources, core competencies, and capabilities. These just happen to be the foundation of competitive advantage. The organization’s resources are structured towards organizational capabilities. This paper will discuss how an organization must compete for resources along with the concerns and cost of securing these resources. This paper will also cover how resource attainment differs with the organization itself, and not set on one set of standards, to include the organization’s environment. An organization’s success will depend on a variety of things but heavily relies on three main areas of concern; resources, core competencies, and capabilities. These are the base of any organization’s competitive advantage over their adversaries. These capabilities are the baseline of the organization’s core competencies which will ultimately put the organization ahead in the competition (Dess, Lumpkin, & Eisner, 2009). The invention of competitive advantage establishes that most important aspect of competition is ultimately related within the leadership of organizational resources. The word resource covers a wide range of social, organizational, and individual sensations. When an organization relies solely on resources, they are failing themselves. Resources itself does not lead toward an advantage...
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...Unit 20 P6 - Diary Introduction In this assignment I will monitor three physical resources in classrooms which I am in, I will monitor these resources over a three week period. The three resources I have chosen to talk about are: smart boards, lights and air conditioning. I have monitored whether these resources have been working over the last three weeks and I have interpreted this data into three tables. Each tables represents a week at the table is set out so the date can be seen as well as the rooms I have monitored. Working/Not Working |Date |Room |Smart board |Lights |Air Conditioning | |24/11/2014 |WA114 |1 working |10/10 working |Working | |26/11/2014 |WA114 |1 working |10/10 working |Working | |27/11/2014 |WA114 |1 working |10/10 working |Working | |24/11/2014 |WA117 |1 working |16/16 working |Working | |25/11/2014 |WA117 |1 working |16/16 working |Working | |24/11/2014 |WB102 ...
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...What resources does Argos use? 2.1: Describe the main physical and technological resources essential in the operation of a selected organisation by outlining the following: A): Resource used: Physical Resources | Technological Resources | P1. Equipment | T1. Music | P2. Premises | T2. Software licences | P3. Shelves | T3. Tills | P4. Forklift | T4. Protection via patents | P5. products | T5. CCTV | P6. Trolleys | T6. Online catalogue | B): How each resource is being maintained / protected? Physical Resources P1. Equipment Equipment is what is used by businesses and organisations to help them get the job done. For example Argos keeps these by using stuff such as shelves and tables to store the items on. Argos keeps their equipment by having insurance on most of the expensive equipment such as Laptops and Computers etc. P2. Premises Argos has have hundreds on stores so they would have Subcontractors to maintain the stores, for instance if there was an emergency the manager would call the shops subcontractor to provide immediate assistance and the subcontractor should be able to attend within a maximum of 1 hour. Also CCTV is a form of security to help subcontractors maintain security and safety as people monitor these cameras P3. Shelves/Tables Argos use Shelves to store All their products in and to organise them behind the till so when a customer order is ready they can pick up their products after...
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