...ACCUAIR Suspension SWOT Analysis I. Accuair was founded in 2001 by two brothers who have a passion for investing more design, engineering and testing into the art of controlling air suspension for all types of vehicles. Accuair Suspension has the best product available and stands behind their product by way of the best technical support and customer service. Their portfolio of customers includes Boeing and Daimler Chrysler. II. Organizational Strengths and Weaknesses A. First Organizational Strength- Accuair’s first strength is the ability to control all aspects of their system in house. The only product they use that has not been developed by Accuair is the compressors they include (VIAIR). These VIAIR compressors have been in use for many years and have been used by most if not all of the car manufactures until today. Every product like the air tanks, eXo mount, VU4 manifold, speed A.M.P. controller and components are designed, tested, researched, manufactured, and assembled in their 12,000-sqft facility in southern California. This strength is very distinctive because they do all or their R&D in house and test it on specific vehicles the product has been designed for. This allows Accuair’s products not fit the one size fits all companies in the market. B. Second Organizational Strength-Accuair’s second strength is there brand name and the initiative to use social media to market and introduce their product on the market worldwide. Accuair has been seen...
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...Relatório Final de Projeto de Iniciação Científica DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UMA METODOLOGIA PARA A ANÁLISE DE RISCOS EM PROJETOS DE UMA EMPRESA JÚNIOR Aluna: Sullyen de Almeida RA: 104102 Orientador: Eduardo Paiva Okabe Local de execução: Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas – UNICAMP Vigência: agosto 2011 a julho 2012 1. Introdução e Objetivos Este projeto de iniciação tem o objetivo de desenvolver a aplicação de ferramentas, FTA (Análise da Árvore de Falhas) e FMEA (Análise de Modo e Efeito de Falha), na estimativa e no Gerenciamento de Riscos de projetos da empresa júnior INTEGRA. Esta empresa júnior (EJ) da Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas da UNICAMP presta serviços de consultoria em Engenharia e Gestão, e a inserção das ferramentas no processo de construção de novos projetos contribuirá para o desenvolvimento e estruturação de seu departamento de projetos. O pouco tempo de existência da EJ, aproximadamente 15 meses, permite que os integrantes tenham essa oportunidade, porém, também faz com que os dados armazenados para fins de comparação e controle sejam extremamente escassos. Nesse contexto, um dos processos que apresenta maior dificuldade de mapeamento e controle dentro do departamento de Projetos de uma EJ é o Gerenciamento de Riscos, tomando como referência os resultados de um questionário P3M3 de maturidade em projetos respondido pelas EJs pertencentes ao Núcleo de empresas juniores da UNICAMP. Isso se deve ao fato de que alguns riscos são caracterizados...
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... Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 11(2), -0, April-June 2009 701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey PA 17033-1240, USA Tel: 717/533-8845; Fax 717/533-8661; URL-http://www.igi-global.com This paper appears in the publication, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Volume 11, Issue 2 edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour © 2009, IGI Global IGI PUBLISHING ITJ 4874 implementing “Customized” Erp in nine Months and within Budget Avimanyu Datta, Washington State University, USA Cisco systems: ExECutivE suMMary This case illustrates the importance of vendor selection, top management support, and team structuring in implementing a complex ERP system. While most organizations choose the de-facto brand as their product, Cisco and its consulting partner, KPMG, went against this perception and selected Oracle who was a newcomer in ERP business. For Oracle this was a golden opportunity to enter a market dominated by SAP and get its ERP modules litmus tested by an industry leader. Cisco on the other hand agreed to help Oracle to market its latest releases to potential customers, in lieu of the successful implementation. Oracle even allowed changing some of its modules to fit Cisco’s purposes. The implementation team comprised the best people from Cisco, KMPG and Oracle. To have the customized ERP up and running in nine months the team blended the robustness of sequential life cycle model with the flexibility of the iterative prototyping. [Article copies are available...
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...HISTORY AND THEORY STUDIES FIRST YEAR Terms 1 and 2 Course Lecturers: CHRISTOPHER PIERCE / BRETT STEELE (Term 1) Course Lecturer: PIER VITTORIO AURELI (Term 2) Course Tutor: MOLLIE CLAYPOOL Teaching Assistants: FABRIZIO BALLABIO SHUMI BOSE POL ESTEVE Course Structure The course runs for 3 hours per week on Tuesday mornings in Terms 1 and 2. There are four parallel seminar sessions. Each seminar session is divided into parts, discussion and submission development. Seminar 10.00-12.00 Mollie Claypool, Fabrizio Ballabio, Shumi Bose and Pol Esteve Lecture 12.00-13.00 Christopher Pierce, Brett Steele and Pier Vittorio Aureli Attendance Attendance is mandatory to both seminars and lectures. We expect students to attend all lectures and seminars. Attendance is tracked to both seminars and lectures and repeated absence has the potential to affect your final mark and the course tutor and undergraduate coordinator will be notified. Marking Marking framework adheres to a High Pass with Distinction, High Pass, Pass, Low Pass, Complete-toPass system. Poor attendance can affect this final mark. Course Materials Readings for each week are provided both online on the course website at aafirstyearhts.wordpress.com and on the course library bookshelf. Students are expected to read each assigned reading every week to be discussed in seminar. The password to access the course readings is “readings”. TERM 1: CANONICAL BUILDINGS, PROJECTS, TEXTS In this first term of...
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...OVERVIEW UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FISCAL YEAR 2014 BUDGET REQUEST APRIL 2013 OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) / CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Preface The Overview Book has been published as part of the President’s Annual Defense Budget for the past few years. This continues for FY 2014, but with modifications as proposed by congressional staff. From FY 1969 to FY 2005 OSD published the “Annual Defense Report” (ADR) to meet 10 USC Section 113 requirements. Starting with the President’s FY 2006 Budget, this report was no longer produced. Subsequently, the Overview began to fill this role. This year to ensure compliance with Section 113, new chapters are added to include reports from each Military Department on their respective funding, military mission accomplishments, core functions, and force structure. Key initiatives incorporated in the FY 2014 Defense budget. Our budget is formulated based on aligning program priorities and resources based on the President’s strategic guidance. This year’s budget involves key themes to: achieve a deeper program alignment of our future force structure with resource availability; maintain a mission ready force; continue to emphasize efficiencies by being even better stewards of taxpayer dollars; and continue to take care of our people and their families. Implementing Defense Strategic Guidance. The FY 2014 budget request continues the force structure reductions made in the FY 2013 budget request. Following...
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...Learning with Cases INTRODUCTION The case study method of teaching used in management education is quite different from most of the methods of teaching used at the school and undergraduate course levels. Unlike traditional lecture-based teaching where student participation in the classroom is minimal, the case method is an active learning method, which requires participation and involvement from the student in the classroom. For students who have been exposed only to the traditional teaching methods, this calls for a major change in their approach to learning. This introduction is intended to provide students with some basic information about the case method, and guidelines about what they must do to gain the maximum benefit from the method. We begin by taking a brief look at what case studies are, and how they are used in the classroom. Then we discuss what the student needs to do to prepare for a class, and what she can expect during the case discussion. We also explain how student performance is evaluated in a case study based course. Finally, we describe the benefits a student of management can expect to gain through the use of the case method. WHAT IS A CASE STUDY? There is no universally accepted definition for a case study, and the case method means different things to different people. Consequently, all case studies are not structured similarly, and variations abound in terms of style, structure and approach. Case material ranges from small caselets (a few paragraphs...
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