Zhijian, Email: zhijianc@ust.hk, Office: Rm 4079, Tel: 34692127 TA: Ms Jia Jing, imjing@ust.hk Brief Outline The course content is divided into two components. In the first part, Business Process Analysis and Improvement, we study tools and cases that allow us to analyze, improve and design internal firm activities. In the second part, Supply Chain Management, we turn our attention to entities external to the firm and examine the activities of sourcing raw materials and delivering goods to
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After learning about motivation, perception, attitude, emotions etc in Individual Dynamics, we also need to learn how people behave in groups like how people communicate, how people conform to others in groups, conflicts etc. A recap of important concepts from Individual Dynamics is also note worthy. Session 2: (21/01/2014) The highlight of this session was THE LEMON ACTIVITY, to name it. I was surprised (as everyone in the class) when ma’am took out some lemon from her bag. A group of students
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1. What were the main lessons that you got from the Airbus video and the subsequent discussion? The main issue that the airbus video illustrated is how many parts where constantly being shipped in from different parts of the world and assembled on a relatively fast basis at their headquarters in Toulouse. First when watching the video we can clearly identify that nothing is really being produced in the supposed place “of production”, rather just assemble all of the incoming pieces to allow for
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This case covers the time period in Circuit City’s his Alan McCollough to halt the sale of appliances Schoonover to lay off 3,400 employees in 2007 sound strategic business decisions, target marketing, and customer input. points to the need for a retailer in such a competitive marketplace, with both brick and online competitors, to find its c customer value are keys to success. This case is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses in Marketing and/or Business Administration
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Case 4: Nintendo: Reviving a Company, Transforming a Market I. Case Background Nintendo is one of the household names when it comes to home video game consoles. It was a market leader until the launch of Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox. However, the launch of Wii in 2006 brought back Nintendo’s former glory and is now the company’s best-selling console. Wii focused on two things to transcend their competitors, PS3 and Xbox. First, as a low-price leader, they have a more favorable benefit-tocost
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The Vehement Link Between Video Games and Aggression Charlotte M. Roberts Liberty University Online Author Note This research paper is a short and cited, Biblically based review, of previously documented evidence on behavioral links between video games and violence. The Vehement Link Between Video Games And Aggression Researchers from the University of Innsbruck, examined 98 studies that tested close to 37,000 participants from the start of the year 2009 (this study was published in the Personality
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Unit 69: Exploring concept art for computer games What is concept art? Concept art is a form of illustration used to convey an idea for use in video games and animation before it is put into the final production. Concept art can also be referred to as visual development or concept design. Uses of concept art in games development There are many different types of levels in the production process: • Initial concept art initial concept art can be started from verbally or visually the
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Case Study 1: QuickFlix 1. Will the video store die out, or will there still be a place for it in the world of Quickflix? Quickflix's long-term plan is to wean all its customers off discs. Quickflix bought Bigpond Movies' disc-only customers when Telstra abandoned its disc delivery service, so Quickflix will be keen to convert these Bigpond refugees to streaming customers as soon as possible. Quickflix will struggle to wean customers off DVD completely until the NBN reaches critical mass and
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and its relationship with object-oriented methodologies. 8. Describe Rational Corporation's Unified Software Development Process. 9. Define parallelism, substitution and omission. 10. Describe the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and describe Use Case, Class Diagram and Interaction Diagram. 11. Describe a simplistic object-oriented methodology for applying and using the UML. 12. Describe the foundational characteristics of the UML’s Class Diagram DESIGN A generic systems development life
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