Name: Keisha Teixeira
Student ID: 2424543
Course Number: MGT 215-SP
Course Name: Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
Title of the Assignment: Assignment 1
Date: February 10, 2013

References

Heizer, Jay & Render, Barry (2005). Operations Management, Flexible Version (7th Edition). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.

What is the WTO? http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm . Accessed on 10 February 2013)

Hartman, Stephen Dr. Production and Operations Management. New York Institute of Technology. http://iris.nyit.edu/~shartman/mba0299/pom0299.htm. (Accessed on 10 February 2013)

(1) Select a technology from 1850 to the present. Describe how it has affected productivity.
Let us examine the evolution of the portable music devices; from boom boxes, cassette players, CDs, MP3 Players to present time of iPods. The transition from a bulky and heavy portable device to a much smaller and lighter machine could have been based on understanding the customer needs, economic change, sociological and demographic change, political/legal change or even changes in the market standard. Or the changes could have derived from any of the following other reasons; the original design of the boom box wasn’t robust enough that even the smallest of change such as adding a port for private listening; headphones, may have driven the price from an economical item to one of luxury. Furthermore, the inventor or mass producer of these portable devices could have been affected by the modular approach; did the boom box failed to offer flexibility in both the production and marketing aspect? Typically, when someone thinks of a boom box, you are immediately drawn into an overpopulated area that tends to be lower income restricted. Unlike the cassette players and its successors; the owners of these newer versions were from the inner cities,