Susan has a part-time "cottage industry" producing seasonal plywood yard ornaments for resale at local craft fairs and bazaars. She currently works a total of 5 hours per day to produce 10 ornaments. --What is her productivity?
Please see attached file for full problem description. A problem often of concern to managers in the process industry is blending. Consider the task facing the procurement manager of a company that manufactures special additives. She must determine the proper amounts of each raw material to purchase for the production of a ce
The managers of your company are deciding whether to develop a brand new product not yet seen in the marketplace or a version of a competitor's product that has already been launched into the marketplace. Management has called a meeting to discuss which way to go. They want to know if they should follow the "first-mover" or
How would you define Google's Strategy?
What are ten strategic actions a manager can take to improve sales staff productivity? Explain. Please provide reference(s).
I need to develop constrained optimization model using integer variables. The type of integer situation here is a facility location problem. Binary variables are used to determine which specific location will provide the optimal solution. I need to configured an integer solution. There are five potential server locations, one
I need help with the following problem: You are New Business manager of a small firm that manufactures and markets in the US, high-quality, premium priced, luxury branded clothing. The CEO has decided to see what the opportunities are for exporting to Brazil or to contract manufacture the clothing line in Brazil and has asked
Daily demand for packages of five videotapes at a warehouse store is found to be normally distributed with mean 50 and standard deviation 5. When the store orders more tapes, the ordering cost is $42 and the orders take 4 days to arrive. Each pack of tapes costs $7.20 and there is a 24% annual holding cost for inventory. Assume
Are health care organizations different than most other organizations? Provide at least three (3) specific reasons for your agreement or disagreement to this question.
Should entrepreneurs attempt to achieve "strategic fit" and use the available resources to gain a strategic competitive advantage? Answer question in 250 word response using peer-reviewed, scholarly references.
See attached Scenario for background information 3-4 pages Details: You are conducting an annual benefits review for your company. You must determine what, if any, changes should be made for the following plan year. This is a great opportunity to design and implement a benefits package that includes more than what is curr
I need assistance in coming up with a term project topic and feasibility. I have to propose a regression model which will estimate the relationship between variables appropriate to the student's college major (I am majoring in Information Systems Management). I have no idea where to start. Looking for any suggestions that migh
Please show detailed solutions in excel. Terry Burton, a college sophomore, is opening a small computer upgrade business in an empty bedroom of the house he rents. His plan is to limit his business to installing second hard drives, larger hard drives, and new media devices like CD and DVD burners. He believes his volume will
Conduct a brief organizational analysis of Coca Cola in order to answer these two questions: 1. Which of the two types of international strategy does it seem to follow? 2. Does the company make use of work teams?
Which device has more features, Apple Ipod Touch or Sony PSP? Explain. What are the features of each one? Which is better?
Passionate about gourmet cooking and frustrated at having to travel all over town to gather the ingredients for one simple meal, Kathy Kudler decided to open her own gourmet food shop. Her vision was to create one store that would stock a wide selection of the freshest ingredients as well as all of the tools a gourmet cook could
Request any information you can provide on the topic below How has Apple Computers, under Steve Jobs' leadership, managed to become a major world company, since 1997 (10 years)? Case Instructions: Please read required article (s) and conduct additional research. Study the Background Materials to assimilate and differ
Identify several companies that have demonstrated strategic thinking about issues that are similar to those faced by Pfizer Inc. Provide an overview of the issues, identify a total of five different strategies utilized by those companies to address them, and discuss the outcomes. Based on the five strategies, explain how y
A financial analyst at a mutual fund company (i.e., a buy-side analyst) is assigned to value, say, the stock of Walmart. You look around at what famous analysts have written and you find one who says that the stock is overpriced at its current price (roughly $42/ share as of October 9, 2007). Another, not surprisingly, thinks
Discuss why an entrepreneur should avoid over-reliance on one or two customers. Support the view that the strategy should be to do everything possible to build other parts of the new venture in order to reduce dependence on a single, large customer or two. Please use peer-reviewed and textbooks to support your 200-250 word r
OTA, I have learned thus far in my Economics course regarding Elasticity being a vital concept. From the standpoint of a manager and as a typical consumer, explain in your own words, based on your experience and education, how elasticity was a tool for managerial decision-making at Southwest Airlines at a time when airline price
Problems: 6-17 6-18 6-21 6-31 6-37 6-36 6-42 6-51 7-14 7-16 7-18 7-19 7-22 7-23 7-28 7-29 See attached for above problems 7-6.1 Explain how the ABC analysis can be used in construction. Include a table similar to table 6.8 (attached) of the text in the answer. 7-6.2 Develope a Bill of Materials and a Mater
Here's the problem I need help with: Determine the mean, median and standard deviation. c. Determine the coefficient of skewness using Pearson's method. d. Determine the coefficient of skewness using the software method. Listed below are the salaries in $000, for a sample of 15 chief financial officers in the electronics
Here is the problem I'm stuck on and need help understanding: Dennis Industries has primary earnings per common share for the past 5 years, $2.68, $1.03, $2.26, $4.30 & $3.58. The annual report of Dennis Industries also gave these returns on stockholder equity for the same five-year period (in percent) : 13.2, 5.0, 10.2, 17.
Please see attached file for full problem description. Cris Turlock owns and manages a small business in San Francisco, California. The business provides breakfast and brunch food, via carts parked along sidewalks, to people in the business district of the city. Being an experienced businessperson, Cris provides incentives
The breaking strengths of cables produced by a certain manufacturer have a standard deviation of pounds. A random sample of newly manufactured cables has a mean breaking strength of pounds. Based on this sample, find a confidence interval for the true mean breaking strength of all cables produced by this manufacturer. Then c
I am having trouble with the following problem: The Humans Relations Director at Ford began a study of the overtime hours in the Inspection Department. A sample of 15 workers showed they worked the following number of overtime hours last month: 13 13 12 15 7 15 5 12 6 7
Compare and contrast secondary and primary data. Give an example of how you would collect secondary data. How do you create primary data?
What kind of research study would you suggest using if a new vaccine needed to be tested to confirm its effectiveness? Please explain.
"Products for which demand is predictable and relatively stable are called staples. Products for which demand is unpredictable and which have relatively short life cycles are referred to as innovative products. Identify examples of staples and innovative products and explain whether MRP-II or JIT manufacturing is appropriate for