...Production and Operation Management Cheng Guoping Chapter 1 Introduction 1. Production System 2. Production and operations in the organization 3. Function and jobs of POM 4. Decision Making in POM 5. The emergence of production and operation management 1. Production System Production and operation management (POM) is the management of an organization's production system, which converts input into the organization 's products and services. 1.1 Production system model Inputs conversions subsystem output Feedback Feedback Figure 1 A production System Model 2. Common ground and differences between manufacturing and services 1.2.1 Common Ground: • Entail customer satisfaction as a key measure of effectiveness • Require demand forecasting • Require design of both the product and the process • Involve purchase of materials, supplies, and services • Require equipment, tools, buildings, and skills, etc. 1.2.2 Differences: • Customer contact Service involves a much higher degree of customer contact than manufacturing does. The performance of a service typically occurs at the point of consumption. Manufacturing allows a separation between production and consumption. • Uniformity of input Service operations are subject to more variability of inputs than manufacturing operations are. Each patient, each lawn, each TV presents a specific problem. • Labor content of jobs Manufacturing ---capital...
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...Emory University Portfolio Management Plan Contents Emory University Background 4 Strategic Plan 6 Strategic Capacity Plan 7 Portfolio Management Process 7 Project Selection Criteria 8 Program Management Plan 9 Conflict Resolution Plan 11 Change Management Plan (CMP) 13 Resource Utilization Plan 16 References 18 Appendix A 19 Emory University Background Emory University was founded by an original charter that started the school in Oxford, GA, Newton County on December 10, 1836. It was hand-written on two pieces of notebook paper, front and back. By 1914, the Methodist Church was looking to create a university in the South, and Emory College was looking to expand. Asa Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, wrote the "million-dollar letter" to offer seed money, and he sweetened the deal by donating land in Atlanta. Emory University received a DeKalb County charter to build at its present location in 1915. The soft drink company president's brother was Emory alumnus and former president, Methodist Bishop Warren Candler, who returned to serve as its first chancellor on the new campus. The Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company has given rise to family fortunes for the Candlers, the Woodruffs, the Goizuetas and others who have been extraordinarily generous to Emory. The philanthropy of these and other donors has enabled Emory's growth and empowered its ambition to become one of the nation's leading universities. It's unofficially considered poor school...
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...MIS in action 3 1. Microsoft Office Live is a discontinued web-based service providing document sharing and website creation tools for consumers and small businesses. Office Live consisted of two services, Office live workspace which consists in storing and sharing documents online and Office Live Small Business which is designed to assist non-technical users with the creation of a professional-looking website. 2. Windows Live was the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft part of their software plus service platform. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services. 3. The difference between them is that Microsoft Office Live was aimed for professional and business use and Windows Live was created for individuals and general publics. 4. SkyDrive (officially Microsoft SkyDrive, previously Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live Folders) is a file hosting service that allows users to upload and sync files to cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser or their local device. It is part of the Windows Live range of online services and allows users to keep the files private, share them with contacts, or make the files public. Publicly shared files do not require a Microsoft...
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...chapter 3 3.1 2. change system properties, View network connection, configure remote desktop 5. yes, go to windows firewall on the right side of the security information, never 15. window server techcenter. 17. Event viewer, Reliabilityand performance, Device performance. 3.2 7. overview of printer services, Migrate Print servers, Control Printer Driver security update printer Drivers, and resources for print management. 3.4 5. General- intel(R)82578DC Gigabit network Connection link speed- Link Speed and Duplex settings. Advanced- Advanced Adapter setting. Power Managemenet- Power Saver and Wake on LAN options Teaming- Adapter Teaming VLANs- Virtual LANs Driver- intel(R)82578DC Gigabit network Connection.basically updating drivers or uninstalling Details- intel(R)82578DC Gigabit network Connection, Details about the network adapter Resources - intel(R)82578DC Gigabit network Connection, Memory range and IRQ. 6. No conflics, Maybe update the driver or check if the network connction is ther or not. 3.5 2. /OFFBOORDIR= and /OFFWINDIR= 3.8 2. 16 GB 6. Automatically is checked off total paging size for all drivers min allowed : 16MB Recommended: 24474MB Currently Allocated: 16616MB. 3.10 4. user variable - TEMP %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp TMP %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp system variable- comSpec, Path,and others, Click New to add new variable 3.14 2. REG_SZ 3. REG_SZ, REG_DWORD, REG_DWORD...
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...KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : * "Knowledge management is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of an enterprise's information assets. These assets may include databases, documents, policies, procedures, and previously un-captured expertise and experience in individual workers." * Knowledge Management, (KM) is a concept and a term that arose approximately two decades ago, roughly in 1990. Knowledge Management may be viewed in terms of: * People – how do you increase the ability of an individual in the organisation to influence others with their knowledge * Processes – Its approach varies from organization to organization. There is no limit on the number of processes * Technology – It needs to be chosen only after all the requirements of a knowledge management initiative have been established. * Culture –The biggest enabler of successful knowledge-driven organizations is the establishment of a knowledge-focused culture * Structure – the business processes and organisational structures that facilitate knowledge sharing. LITERATURE REVIEW: At present knowledge management is consider as an asset for the firm but according to (Jones, 2009) knowledge management is also related to organizational culture of the firm. This study characterized organizational culture as clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy culture types, however according to (Swanson,...
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...Rothaermel Exercise Assignment 2 Shane Taylor BUSI 690 Liberty University Rothaermel Exercise 2 Assignment 6.1: There are drawbacks and risks of both broad generic business strategy and focused strategy. Focused strategy’s lowcost could be a potential drawback and risk. Especially if the competition is able to lower their cost offering there product and service at a comparable price. Acording to the text, the product/service cost can be difficult in industries where economies of scale play a significant role. And as technology increases and companies become more innovative competition is likely to increase and close in. Another drawback addressing the focus strategy low prices may also result in a negative potential customer mind-set towards the quality of the product. “Low cost leadership when combined with low prices can bring about to a disadvantage which is less customer loyalty” (Vokurka & Davis, 2004). Other risks of focus strategies include the ease of imitation. The potential drawback is the niche may no longer be a niche. On the contrarary, the broad market strategyfirm will adapt its product and services for competing directly. 6.4: Value Chain Components consist of five key firm activities. The first activity of the internal value chain is the supply chain management. This consist of the receiving of merchandise and products, warehousing, and the firms inventory control system. Operations which are the value creating activities that transform...
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...BRAND AUDIT REPORT 2012 Brand Managemenet Brand Managemenet Submitted To: Sir Goher Raza Submitted by:Sagar Paryani and Sarah khan Chandio Dated: 15-12-2012 By BBA-7 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE # TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................................................... 2 CHAPTER 1 BRAND INVENTORY 1.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... ...3 1.2 BRAND ELEMENTS ......................................................................................................... 4 1.3 MARKET SEGMENTATION...........................................................................................5 1.4 SUPPORTED MARKET PROGRAMS..........................................................................5-6 1.5 POPS AND PODS.................................................................................................................7 1.6 BRAND MANTRA......................................................................................................... …..7 1.7 BRAND PORTFOLIO..........................................................................................................7 1.8: Organizational culture and people development.................................................... 8 CHAPTER 2 BRAND EXPLORATORY 2.1: Brand Attributes..........................................................
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...©Smart Investor http://www.jagoinvestor.com Email : manish.pucsd@gmail.com All other content © 2007-2009 Jagoinvestor.com - All Rights Reserved Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. Difference between Fundamental and Technical Analysis How to use Support and Resistance How to use Trendlines to find Support and Resistance How to use Oscillators to BUY an SELL Who must Read this Book This book is going to teach you some basic and most important concepts of Technical Analysis . Anyone who trades or Invests in any Markets like Stock Markets , Commodities , Currency etc, can use these concepts . These Concepts in themselves do not guarantee any success , there is much more than Technical Analysis which you need to understand and Learn like Money Managemenet , Investment or Trading Psychology and Discipline in Stock Markets . Important Points ● ● ● ● Each Chapter has example's to help reader understand the concepts well. You are Free to share the content “provided” you link back to http://www.jagoinvestor.com and give proper credits to Author ie. Manish Chauhan . If you have any questions or concerns , mail me at manish.pucsd@gmail.com Do not Use this ebook or its contents for any commercial Purpose . Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis There are two important questions which you have to answer when you want to buy shares ? They are "What to buy" and "When to buy" ? You may be familiar with Fundamental Analysis , Fundamental Analysis answers the question "What to buy"...
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...Impact of E-Banking on Capital Bank and local area banking industry in India Coursework- Technology in Business and Society Shahbaz Singh Samra - B022337 Executive Summary The task commissioned was to assess the application of a technology to support organizational change. This report concentrates on how electronic banking (e-banking) has contributed to Capital Local Area Bank (CLAB) and the local area banking industry in India. Focus lies upon CLAB’s operations and how the bank incorporated e-banking to revolutionize and set standards for transparent and efficient banking in the state of Punjab. E-Banking gives strategic value to the organization and the industry because it adds a new dimension to the bank to offer its products and services. It gives the organization a comparative advantage over its rivals. However, local area banks might have to suffer loss of business done through their physical branches especially in urban and more developed areas. This, however, would be a positive for CLAB as the overall business generated would be higher and it gives its customers a facility that is yet to be provided by its competitors. E-Banking t is very cost effective for the bank. A bank, in order to expand efficiently, would be better off investing in e-banking rather than expanding its customer outreach through increasing the number of physical branches. Inevitably, e-banking does have some issues and challenges than an organization would have to overcome to...
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...Iranian Journal of Management Studies (IJMS) Vol 3. No.3 January 2010 pp: 91- 111 Survey of leadership styles in different cultures Gholamreza Taleghani1* , Davood Salmani2 , Ali Taatian3 1. Faculty of managemenet, Uniersity of Tehran 2. Faculty of managemenet, Uniersity of Tehran 3. Master of Arts Abstract: Leadership is in fact a process of influencing followers. Characteristics of leadership are functions of time and situation and differ in different cultures and countries. Managers of international organizations should obtain enough knowledge of these cultural characteristics and differences and should have the utmost versatility while executing their leadership tasks. In this paper we have conducted a survey of the relation between cultures and styles of leadership in different countries. At first characteristics of leadership are discussed in work oriented leadership paradigm and management regimes, in a number of different regions, including China, Japan, U.S.A, Europe, and Arab countries. We also discuss about cross-cultural leadership concept and its challenges. At the end, a comparative analysis is made over the various leadership styles. Keywords: Leadership styles, cultural differences, conceptual leadership model, cross-cultural leadership * . Corresponding Author , Tel: 09121090719 Email: Ghreza@ut.ac.ir 92 Iranian Journal of Management Studies Introduction: Leadership is defined as the process of having dominance on...
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...The Impact of Culture on Human Resource Management Practices: An Empirical Research Finding in Indonesia Suharnomo-Diponegoro University-Indonesia +628156581301 Abstract The objective of the study is to investigate and analyze the influence of culture on human resource management practices. The research is expected to answer the importance question: Are HRM practices influenced by national culture or not? It is generally accepted that the practices of management is considered to be universal until Hofstede (1980:42) published the seminal work: Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work Related Value in 1980. Hofstede’s work is the most popular in cross culture management studies so that his framework in national culture will be used in this research. The research was done by using the survey method. The respondents were 108 managers of HRM from the listed companies of Jakarta Stock Exchange 2007. Structural equation model (SEM) with Two Step Model Building Approach is used to test structural theory. It is used to test the hypotheses model statistically to determine the extent to which the proposed model is consistent with the sample data. SEM incorporates both confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regressions to estimate a series of interdependent relationship simultaneously. The results of descriptive analysis indicate that the national culture dimensions tend high for collectivism, power distance, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance...
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...MDA and Analysis of Web Applications Behzad Bordbar and Kyriakos Anastasakis School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK {B.Bordbar,K.Anastasakis}@cs.bham.ac.uk Abstract. Enterprise systems are mission critical. As a result, ensuring their correctness is of primary concern. This paper aids to the analysis of Web Applications, focusing on the aspects related to the interaction of business logic and Web browsers. The method adopted is based on the Model Driven Architecture. First, the Platform Independent Model of Web Applications is refined to create a new model called Abstract Description of Interaction (ADI). An ADI is a UML class diagram annotated with OCL statements to represent an abstraction of the interaction between the thin client and the business logic. Secondly, the ADI model is automatically transferred to an Alloy model and analysed using the Alloy Analyser. 1 Introduction Over the past two decades Web Applications have become increasingly vital, affecting almost all aspects of our daily life such as banking, retail, information gathering, entertainment and learning. Such applications are mostly mission critical [1]. Hence, ensuring the correctness of the specification and implementation is a primary concern and has received considerable attention [2–4]. To analyse these systems, it is important to create a formal model. For example, [2] uses µ-calculus to represent the model, while [3] makes use of a variant of automata...
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...The Interplay of Diversity Training and Diversity Beliefs on Team Creativity in Nationality Diverse Teams by Astrid C. Homan, Claudia Buengeler, Robert A. Eckhoff, Wendy P. van Ginkel and Sven C. Voelpel. The journal puts forth the following research question; Does diversity training increase team creativity reflecting in better team cohesion and effectiveness but only for teams with less positive beliefs of diversity. The method in which the research is conducted is through a qualitative study whereas diversity beliefs questionnaires (online) were completed by 192 participants of 41 different nationalities. All of the participants were undergraduate students who were enrolled in an international university located in Germany. One of the gaps in the study was that the study failed to understand the long term effects of diversity training along with addressing the effects of it on individuals who have not been previously exposed to diverse conditions or diverse individuals. Additionally, the diversity training was only conducted for persons within an academic setting and may suggest that people outside of academia would respond much differently to diversity training. The findings of the research suggest and support the idea that a lack of diversity in organizations may be a liability and that providing diversity training to teams and organizations with a little or no diversity can achieve positive results but at the same time, may result in a reduction of creative performance...
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...Introduction Business is about making money. Even if you’re a genius and saint, you can’t stay in business unless you make a profit. Profitability is a lot more predictable than most people realize, but failure can still result if you don’t execute consistently on your business plan--or a hundred other factors that manifest unexpectedly. Here are some steps to take before you decide to make a go of a business idea. The business plan under discussion is to launch an eBusiness website for a company ABC Inc. The company is a scientific company specializing in manufacturing of chromatography gadgets, which are used by a variety of researchers in different industries including petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, clinical research, government, forensic, toxicology, fuels, academic, industrial and commercial laboratories. The gadgets and accessories manufactured by ABC Inc. are mainly used to solve the separation and purification challenges for researchers in drug discoveries, pharmaceutical developments, food safety, petro-chemical compounds extractions, and environmental analysis. The manufactured gadgets are available for separation of different mediums including solid, liquid and gas chromatographical techniques. The company mostly sells its products through a large sales team which is specialized in different techniques of chromatography, using traditional marketing and selling strategies. The company has been doing good business in North America and has loyal customer base. Since...
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