Describe and give examples of three major functions of informative presentations. How is a demonstrative presentation organized? What are its strengths and possible weaknesses? What is a listener's perspective? Why is it crucial to take a listener's perspective when making a persuasive presentation? How can opinion leaders
1.Consider a manager developing a logistics strategy. Discuss specific situation for which the best approach would be to a.Employ internal logistics expertise. b.Acquire a company with this expertise. c.Develop a strategy, and then employ specific suppliers to carry out well-defined portions of the strategy. d.Develop th
Hugh Leach Corp., a producer of machine tools, wants to move to a larger site. Two alternative locations have been identified: Bonham and McKinney. Bonham would have fixed costs of $730,000 per year and variable costs of $16,000 per standard unit produced. McKinney would have annual fixed costs of $850,000 and variable costs of
In Cambodia, six laborers, each making the equivalent of $2.75 per day, can produce 40 units per day. In China, 10 laborers, each making the equivalent of $1 per day, can produce 45 units. In Billings, Montana, two laborers, each making $61 per day, can make 100 units. (a) Based on labor costs only, which location would be m
Mary Jones does not believe that the International Fisher effect (IFE) holds. Current one-year interest rates in Europe are 5 percent, while one-year interest rates in the United States are 3 percent. Mary converts $100,000 to euros and invest them in Germany. One year later, she converts the euros back to dollars. The current s
A bus company believes that it will need the following numbers of bus drivers during each of the next 5 years: 60 drivers in year 1; 70 drivers in year 2; 50 drivers in year 3; 65 drivers in year 4; 75 drivers in year 5. At the beginning of each year, the bus company must decide how many drivers to hire or fire. It costs $4000 t
What are the key challenges in strategy implementation? What barriers might prevent strategy implementation?
Why is international strategy important. What is the difference between domestic and international strategic planning?
The Dulac Box plant produces 500 cypress packing boxes in two 10-hour shifts. What is the productivity of the plant? 25 boxes/hr 50 boxes/hr 5000 boxes/hr none of these not enough data to determine productivity
Given an actual demand of 61, a previous forecast of 58, and an of .3, what would the forecast for the next period be using simple exponential smoothing? A 45.5 b 57.1 c 58.9 d 61.0 e 65.5
What is the expected output for a plant with a design capacity of 108 chairs per day, if its effective capacity is 85 chairs and its efficiency is 91%? ____________ chairs Round your answer to the nearest whole number; for example, 12 .
How is it helpful to assess various scenarios as a part of developing forecasts?
The differences between aggregate planning in manufacturing and aggregate planning in services are discussed. Also included are the following: * definition of Aggregate Planning * short description of aggregate planning in manufacturing * short description of aggregate planning in services What is the major difference bet
The below makes a good point about the difference between domestic and international strategy is the culture and different techniques they might use to get what they want. It mentions about making modifications to the product in order to sell it elsewhere? Please answer: What are some the issues when companies have to do this?
How does your organization distribute its product?
With so much productive capacity and room for expansion in the United States, why would a company based in the United States choose to purchase items from a foreign firm? Discuss the pros and cons.
Blackburn, Inc., an equipment manufacturer in Nashville, has submitted a sample cutoff valve to improve your manufacturing process. Your process engineering department has conducted experiments and found that the valve has a mean ( ) of 8.00 and a standard deviation ( ) of 0.048. Your desired performance is and . What is the
The overall average on a process you are attempting to monitor is 57 units. The process standard deviation is 1.22. Determine the upper and lower control limits for a mean chart, if you choose to use a sample size of 5. Set . Round your answers to 2 decimal places; for example, 12.34 . Please see the attached problem.
What product would be suitable to export to Mexico solely on Mexico's location, climate, topography, and natural resources? What effect might teh economic and socioeconomic forces within Mexico have on the product's potential?
I am presenting an analysis on SWOT regarding a company to four directors and the co-presidents. What is the proper way to address all 6 people? I don't think Dear Sirs/Madam is appropriate. Can anyone provide the correct format?
Can levels of significance and the decision rules (correlation analysis and regression analysis) be altered after a study is underway? Why (or why not)? What about sample sizes? Why? When two variables are correlated, does this mean that we can conclude one variable caused the other? Why -- or why not?
My selected organization: AT&T List companies that show strategic thinking about problems similar to the ones AT&T faces. What are these issues? Give 5 strategies used by those companies to address them and describe the outcomes. How would you adopt these strategies into AT&T?
A facility is designed to make 7000 hammers per day, however is limited to making only 6000 hammers per day because of the time needed for changeovers. For the past month, the facility has only made 4500 hammers per day because of material delays, employee illnesses and so forth. A. What is the utilization? B. What i
Daily high temperatures in the city of Houston for the last week have been as follows: 82, 87, 83, 87, 91, 96, 101 (yesterday). (a) Forecast the high temperature today, using a 3-day moving average. Round your answer to the nearest whole number; for example, 12 . (b) Forecast the high temperature today, using a 2-
A check-processing center uses exponential smoothing to forecast the number of incoming checks each month. The number of checks received in June was 40 million, while the forecast was 44 million. A smoothing constant of .2 is used. What is the forecast for July? ____________ million checks Round your answer to 1 decimal p
Mop and Broom Manufacturing estimates that it takes 4 1/2 hours for each broom to be produced, from raw materials to final product. An evaluation of the process reveals that the amount of time spent working on the product is 3 hours. Determine process velocity.
I am looking for a list of possible risk to this sort of business with which I can build a Contingency plan around. This is a fictitious business and I will name it later. This list needs to be of the nature that would help a business to form a sound contingency plan around those risk.
Why is "concentrated growth" considered the least risky strategy? When is concentrated growth not a good strategy to employ? If you use any resource please provide references.
Aztec Furnishings makes hand-crafted furniture for sale in its retail stores. The furniture maker has recently installed a new assembly process, including a new sander and polisher. With this new system, production has increased to ninety pieces of furniture a day from the previous sixty pieces of furniture a day. The number of
A company that makes kitchen chairs wants to compare productivity at two of its facilities. At facility 1, six workers produced 240 chairs. At facility 2, four workers produced 210 chairs during the same time period. Which facility was more productive?