You are sitting down with the president of the company to discuss the objectives for hiring an operations manager. It is important that you and the president be in agreement so you can do a good job in the recruitment and selection process. Objectives need to reflect the values, ethics, and diversity practices of the company.
Scenario: You are a project manager of two projects for a facial care product development firm, ZJZ Cosmetics. ZJZ Cosmetics creates products for other firms to brand and market; they do not sell the products they create to the final customer, only business-to-business. You are in the research and development department and you
Research professional publications (HBR, Leadership Quarterly, Sloan, Mckinsey, etc) for global trends in strategy and change management. What are some current issues facing organizations? How are they dealing with these issues? What are some emerging trends? Please include references. Also prepare as if you are the CEO o
General Project Deliverable Guidelines As a management consultant you make a living by providing management advice to senior level managers with regard to management problems that they are experiencing within their organization. Your role is to analyze the situation and then apply your experience, general business knowledge,
One of the "rules," if you will," of strategic planning is that structure must follow strategy. What does that mean? Give an example to explain your rationale. Give an example of how you would benchmark a best-practice (i.e., explain it using an example).
1. You have been appointed project manager for TQM. One of the main functions of TQM project manager is to develop a detail plan TQM implementation, process improvement and value to the organization. Present the details of your plan and justification for a TQM program. 2. Your company is under going major change due to a sev
Summarize the story below. Which of the companies grand strategies will be threated? Is Mc Neries micro-managing a total risk to the firm? What long term objectives are discussed and describe them? Classify 3M's grand strategy or a combination of strategy. Since McNerney has boarded the company what is he doing to make the strat
A. Compute the failure rate for six transformers that were tested for 600 hours each, three of which failed after 100, 175, 350 hours. b. The MTBF of a circuit is 1,200 hours. Calculate the failure rate.
The life of a watch battery is normally distributed with a mean of 1,000 days and a standard deviation of 60 days. a. what fraction of the batteries is expected to survive beyond 1100 days? b. what fraction will survive fewer than 880 days? c. sketch the reliability function d. what length of warranty is needed so that no
The problem I am having trouble figuring out is the following: Suppose that a process with a normally distributed output has a mean of 55.0 and a variance of 4.0. a. If the specifications are 55.0 +/- 4.00, compute Cp, Cpk,Cpm. b. Suppose the mean shifts to 53.0 but the variance remains unchanged. Recompute and interpret
These questions go along with the attached excel worksheets Thirty samples of size 3 were taken from a Wilmer Machine Shop machining process over a 15 hr period. Prob 7-1 in the attached worksheet a. compute the mean and standard deviation of the data b. Compute the mean and range of each sample and plot them on control cha
There is a excel worksheet attached for these problems Analyze the cost data in the worksheet prob 3-2 in the excel workbook attached. What are the implications of this data? Jeans Are Us Inc has a distribution center in Cincinnati where it receives and breaks down bulk orders from supplier's factories, and ships out produ
As the production manager for an electronic circuit company you have encountered the following situation. Part 1 A process for producing electronic circuits has achieved very high yield levels. An average of only 10 defective parts per million is currently produced. What are the upper and lower control limits for a samp
Can you help me get started with this project? You have been invited by the human resources manager of a medium-sized company to prepare a "report" on "In Groups and Out Groups." The report will be distributed to departmental VPs and directors. 1. Introduce the concepts of In and Out groups. 2. Describe a situation
How to determine sigma level and what would these examples be? an insurance firm has set a standard that policy applications be processed within three days of receipt. If, out of a sample of 1,000 applications , 50 fail to meet this requirement, at what sigma level is this process operating? Over the last year 1,054 inject
How might Kotter's eight steps for leading organizational change apply to a banking organization?
I need to understand which tools have been most utilized in one of the following companies: United Airlines, American, Federal Express, General Electric, Ford, GM, the Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Mars, Inc., Pugeot - Citroen, Schindler Elevator, Syngenta (seed corn supplier), Jan de Wit Company (fl
1.) Please identify KLI's internal supply chain customers and describe both what they will require from you so that they can do their jobs, and how you intend to organize yourself so that you will satisfy those needs. 2.) Describe the components that you believe are present and/or absent in the KLI organization as of that dat
Develop documentation for human resources professionals to manage a specific employment position. The materials you create would assist human resources professionals to choose, train, and develop successful employees toward helping the company meet its goals. - Reference at least one human resources journal and at least one r
Please help me with the following: 1. Yahoo! Designs Quality Services with Customers (Visit Yahoo!:www.yahoo.com) 2. What parallels do you see between developing a high-quality service product and a high-quality manufactured product? Make your answer as substantive as possible. Thank you.
As you develop the management track for WJI, you recognize that there will be resistance to implementing this change in the organization. There will be someone who will object to the requirement of having to complete this course. What can you do to manage this change? In your answer, consider the various groups that will be affe
Describe how organizational change may be successfully managed through appropriate managerial processes and initiatives. What effective change initiatives will assist in guiding organizations to growth and sustainability?
What you expect to find when you arrived in Oregon. Here is some more information you have obtained from management: Facilities P and T both claim that parts from the S facility sometimes do not arrive on time, causing costly production shut-downs which periodically lead to missed contractual ship dates. The S facility has
What is the relationship between Six Sigma and statistical process control?
Define process variation. What types of variation exists in organizations today and what are some ways to identify and deal with the variation? How does General Electric deal with variation and its affect on quality management initiatives?
Please read through the assignment and take a look at my presentation make sure that I have answered every question ...review my notes and make additions to them.... ****You have heard that many companies use Operations Management (OM) tools. You asked your supervisor what he thought about this. Your supervisor requested th
Please help write a paper on GE. Identify some of their strengths and weaknesses.
QUESTION: Relating to operations management state how "Throughput, Inventory & Operating Expense relate to successful & in some cases unsuccessful business operations practice" ADDITIONAL INFO: Throughput means the rate at which an organization generates money through sales, if something has been produced but has not be
Define total quality management (TQM). Include a description of the impact of globalization on quality. Also, compare and contrast traditional management styles with quality focused management styles. Explain how TQM applies or should apply to organizations.
Can you help me defend Six Sigma and identify a specific TQ method in an organization' leadership so that they can incorporate it into the organization's strategic planning process?