Need to develop a short "tutorial" on customer satisfaction (with recommendations as applied to your company) in the manufacturing and services industries. Can information/bullets be provided for the following 1. Need to create a 5 - 7 slide presentation. 2. Include a portion regarding how pursuit of customer satisfacti
1) Define the different degrees of price discrimination. Provide one real world example for each. 2) Define the concepts of creating and capturing value. Which is easier to accomplish? 3) Define economies of scope. Provide two real world examples.
Present a good example with detail information supporting both sides of the given argument/debate and recommendation as to how we would implement an SE approach to achieve project success. Project Management topic of debate: Systems Engineering (SE) implementation - Do you need an SE approach within your project? Research
What is the "boiled frog phenomenon"? How does it apply to business and, particularly, strategic management? List an example of a situation where this has occurred? What could the company have done to avoid the effects of the phenomenon?
The Milinder Recycling Company has experienced significant growth over the past two years. Due to this growth, the company is currently encountering problems in the following areas: 1. Especially among new hires, there is an extremely high turnover rate. 2. People who have worked for the company for short periods of tim
The Milinder Recycling Company has experienced significant growth over the past two years. Due to this growth, the company is currently encountering problems in the following areas: Especially among new hires, there is an extremely high turnover rate. People who have worked for the company for short periods of time (sometim
I am having problems with journalizing. 4. (Work Sheet, Balance Sheet, Adjusting and Closing Entries) Noah's Ark has a fiscal year ending on September 30. Selected data from the September 30 work sheet are presented below. NOAH'S ARK WO
1. What four basic conditions characterize a competitve market? 2. The short-run marginal cost of the Ohio Bag Company is 2Q. Price is $100. The company operates in a competitve industry. Currently, the company is producing 40 units per period. What is the optimal short-run output? Calculate the profits that Ohio Bag is losin
Currently, you’re only funding for your business has come from your rich relative. What are the risks involved in this funding situation? If you didn't have a rich relative upon whom to rely for start-up funding, you could have pursued any of the following options: Bank loans Small Business Administration (SBA) programs (
What are the positives of "groupthink" in business? What are the symptoms of groupthink and ways to avoid it from occurring?
Please help answer the following questions. When should you use humor in a presentation? When should you not? Can you think of an example when a presenter used humor in a presentation and it was considered inappropriate? What other factors, such as humor, must be considered when delivering a presentation?
You have just met with the director of purchasing. He has been attempting to reduce his costs by placing fewer orders(but larger)orders for raw materials. You suspect that his dept.'s actions have been contributing to the company's DOS. I need to calculate EOQ/ELS for the following two questions. I need to show the full calc
We are planning an event for next June. If we choose an outdoor venue, we make 350,000 dollars, but if it rains we lose 40,000. If we choose an indoor venue, we make 150,000 rain or not. It rains 1/3 of the night in June. We can buy a forcast for 15,000. The track record of the forcaster is as follows: When rain predicted:
For clarity, please answer each question in detail. 1. How might the Internet job sites impact on the unemployment rate? 2. If there is an impact, what type of unemployment may be affected?
You will be a member of the newly-formed project staff team. This team will need to realize process gains within its first three months. You want to help, not hinder, the team's progress, so you decide to do some research upfront. You bring up your challenge at your managerial networking meeting. You pose the following questions
What are the differences in Leadership at Green River and FMC Aberdeen? Will work groups & teams work at Green River, why or why not? How does the communication process differ between Green River and Aberdeen? Could Green River effectively use the unique communication process adopted by Aberdeen?
Use Harvard Business School Case "Pilkington Float Glass-1955" ID # 9-695-024 Examines the development of the float glass process at Pilkington in the mid-1950s. Pilkington has pursued the development of a radically new process for flat glass production, but has experienced serious problems at each stage of development. The
Help identify some of the challenges of manageing a virtual (remote) team. Please elaborate.
Your boss recently returned from a executive development conference and has taken a new interest in forecasting. He asks you the following questions. ? Should your division be using moving average, weighted average, or exponential smoothing in forecasting calculations? ? What are the advantages of moving average? What are t
Need some ideas/recommendations to succinctly propose a plan for implementing DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) within your supply chain organization. Based on following company info. You are the Operations Manager for a $50,000,000 (sales) subsidiary of a $750,000,000 corporation. You report to the Divisional Vice President. Your
See the attached file. Your boss recently returns from a conference and wants to start forecasting. He asks the following: 1. Should the division be using moving average, weighted average or expotential smoothing in forecasting calculations? What are the advantages of all options of forecasting. 2. The Director of Su
1. Can a presenter really change their "image" from presentation to presentation? (Image means more than personality and attire) 2. If so, how? Provide specific examples of how a presenter can change their "image". 3. Is it ethical?
For selected financial statements for Micro Chip Computer Corporation see attach file MicroChip.pdf. Answer questions 1 and 2 below based on the financial data. 1. Determine the year-to-year percentage annual growth in total net sales. 2. Based only on your answers to question #1, do you think the company will hit its sa
Forecasting: Seeking Financial Altitude in a Cloudy Sky LEAD STORY-DATELINE: The Australian Financial Review, May 17, 2002. Qantas has a lot riding on remaining dominant and profitable in the Australian domestic market for air travel and freight, as well as remaining profitable on its overseas routes-particularly the "K
You have been working for the internet matchmaking company, People, people who need people.com . In recent months the company has been forced to downsize. This downsizing has resulted in numerous layoffs. In order to select the employees who would be laid off management reviewed past performance appraisals and selected those ind
Your boss recently returned from a executive development conference and has taken a new interest in forecasting. He asks you the following questions. 1. Should your division be using moving average, weighted average, or exponential smoothing in forecasting calculations? 2. What are the advantages of moving average? 3. Wha
Accounting and Forecasting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the attached financial statements for Micro Chip Computer Corporation I need to answer questions 1 and 2 below based on the financial data. 1. Determine the year-to-year percentage annual growth in total net s
For the attached financial statements for Micro Chip Computer Corporation I need to answer questions 1 and 2 below based on the financial data. 1. Determine the year-to-year percentage annual growth in total net sales. 2. Based only on your answers to question #1, do you think the company will hit its sales goal of +10%
Draft a performance action plan for a company to follow when providing discipline in response to complaints of sexual harassment.
Evaluate each of the following approaches that a business firm could use to gather information about competition. For each approach, mark your feeling about its appropriateness using the following scale: 1. definitely not appropriate, 2. probably not appropriate, 3. undecided, 4. probably appropriate, and 5. definitely appro