Operations Management Course contact information • Instructor Dr. Chetan Soman Office & Phone: 4-J, 4839 e-mail: chetan@iimahd.ernet.in Objective of course: To gain an appreciation of the strategic importance of operations and how operations relate to other business functions To develop a working knowledge of the concepts and methods related to designing and managing operations Organizational Functions Finance Secures financial resources at favorable prices and provides
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of rivalry within the industry. In responding to this condition, it is imperative for AirAsia to continuously identify new sources of cost advantage so that it can provide the lowest possible price to the price sensitive customer and improve its market position. In this project, Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system is recommended as the new source of AirAsia’s cost advantages. Using Venkatraman and Henderson’s model APS fits smoothly to the Technology Transformation Perspective where business
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Managing IT for Business Continental Airlines: Outsourcing IT to Support Business Transformation Questions: 1. Why is it necessary to have top management support for the implementation of technology innovations? Innovation implementation require adequate resources including money, but more importantly, people and time. These resources will not be formed without top management support. Top management support is essential for the project since it is they who allocate the funds which
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AIAA-2005-0001 The Impact of Information Technologies on Air Transportation R. John Hansman* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA The Air Transportation System and several key subsystems including the Aircraft, Airline, and Air Traffic Management are modeled as interacting control loops. The impact of Information Technologies on each of these subsystems is evaluated through the performance of these control loops. Information technologies are seen to have a significant
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Airways Ltd Group. Qantas has recently undergone a huge transformation with the reduction of 5000 jobs. Competition paves the way to downsizing and reorganisation changes which meant that QE was going to reduce its workforce from 500 to 180 engineers. The main cause for this reduction in engineering was benchmarking the QE organisation with engineering organisations of other major competitor airlines such as Emirates airlines, Singapore airlines and British airways, retirement of ageing aircraft, reliability
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Introduction Information and communication technologies (ICT) refer to several forms of information exchange between two or more computers through any of the several methods of interconnection. These technologies provide speedy, inexpensive and convenient means of communication. The adoption of these technologies in many countries by different sectors of the economy have been found to have direct positive impact on the organizations's efficiency and have led to more rapid acceleration of development
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Table of Contents * Executive Summary 2 * Company Profile 3 * Business Model 3 * Strategy 4 * Market Environment Analysis * Carbon Tax 4 * Tourism 5 * Industry Outlook 5 * SWOT Analysis 6 * Financial Analysis * Profitability 9 * Liquidity 16 * Solvency 17 * Comparison With Virgin Australia * Profitability 19 * Liquidity 20 * Solvency 21 * Conclusion and Recommendation
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most developed route network airlines, CSA tightly around the goal of building an international scale network carriers strategic transformation, actively promote the three network construction as "hub routes network, sales and marketing network, service support network", extensive brand service, strengthen the construction of information technology, to maintain the innovative edge. (China Southern, 2012) In 2011, the Group ranked first among all Chinese airlines in terms of its fleet size, flight
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Malaysian Airlines: A Business Turnover Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Malaysian Airlines: A Business Turnover Summary Malaysia Airlines ranks among the top government-run agencies in Malaysia. The organization is the national carrier for the country flying to over 100 destinations in six continents across the world. It is based at the Kuala Lampur International Airport where its core operations are run, and recent statistics indicate that it has the strongest influence
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Five Star Value Carrier: Business Transformation Plan (BTP 2) Disclaimer This Business Transformation Plan (BTP 2) document is issued to staff and external stakeholders with the following disclaimer in line with Bursa Malaysia guidelines: 1. These headline Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the BTP 2 are targets/aspirations set by Malaysia Airlines to reflect transparent performance management practices. To all intents and purposes, financial figures referred to as ‘forecasts’ and ‘estimates’
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