What is the Formal Structure of the Organization and how is the change of environment going to impact how work is organized and coordinated? Describe how this will look as an Organizational Design for the future. Please provide academic references and scholarly insight to support your suggestions.

A craftsman builds two kinds of birdhouses, one for wrens and one for bluebirds. Each wren birdhouse takes 3 hours of labor and 4 units of lumber. Each bluebird house requires 2 hours of labor and 10 units of lumber. The craftsman has available 80 hours of labor and 100 units of lumber, and he wants to build at least 6 wren houses. Wren houses profit $8 each and bluebird houses profit $16 each. How many of each kind of birdhouses should be built in order to maximize total profit?  Formulate this as a linear programming problem (i.e., DO NOT solve it.)

If there are alternatives available, why would firms that compete with Amazon in some businesses use Amazon anyway?

Links to two news items and a short video discusses the Blendtec's success in its content marketing program. The company is now aiming that program at social media influencers.

News Article 1: Making a Splash Felt Around the World

News Article 2: Splash Corp. Accelerates Entry in another Product Categories

Video: Splash Corporation AVP

Critically analyze the information contained in these sources. Then write well-thought out responses to following questions (about 1-3 pages in length, at least 600 words):

1. Describe Splash Corporation’s corporate strategy and business strategy.
2. Summarize Splash Corporation’s strategy by creating the the strategy diamond tool (see Section 10.4 "The Five Elements of Strategy" of the text). Make sure that it includes details of the following components: Arenas, Differentiators, Vehicles, Staging and pacing, and Economic logic (see page 346 of text). [You may draw the strategy diamond tool by hand and take its photo to include in your submission.]
3. News articles 1 and 2 discuss Splash Corporation's foray into other product categories and its overall international expansion approach. Discuss, whether or not Splash Corporation’s international expansion strategy is sound. Justify your rationale in either case.

If you were to create a social media policy including Slack, what types of rules would you include and why? Write three rules and explain the reasoning behind them. Do you think the use of technology can more often than not help or hinder communication among individuals and groups?

Please explain in depth, why you think lawyers have such a bad reputation?

Product A's annual inventory turns is 4 and product B's annual inventory turns is 6. Which product has the higher amount of inventory, measured in dollars?

• A

• B

• Cannot be determined (could be either one)

taking into account the time value of money and assuming that 100 percent of a customer will have experienced attrition once the net present value of annual profits per customer falls below Y100, what is the lifetime value to MBC of the following customers? Assume that a customer's lifetime extends up to and including the year in which the net present value of annual profits falls below Y100.

a. little leaguer

b. summer slugger

c. elite ballplayer (print ad)

d. elite ballplayer (party) i. should MBC throw the gala event?

e. entertainment seeker

This discussion has 3 parts:

1. What effective time management tools should human resources managers use to make effective use of their time when it comes to coping with demands, constraints, and choices confronting them?
2. What experience do you have with team building? What methodologies have your used with your teams as they pertain to organizing, controlling, planning, leading, and staffing? What obstacles did you face working with your teams? How did you work through them?
3. How do human resources managers identify and develop a strategy to deal with employee and organizational development?

IB Business Management HL 2  

You are the COO of our mask company and the CEO has asked you some questions about our processes. Please answer these questions:

• Going forward (after the crisis), should we employ JIT or JIC inventory control? Why?

• Can you draw a stock control chart to show what likely happened from January to April of this year?

• What is our capacity utilization likely at right now? What is the disadvantage of this?

SWOT Analysis for safety in the Delivery of Dialysis Services in Facilities & At Home.

What are the principles of Kaizen?

5.      Explain the 9 general steps in a Kaizen event.

6.      What are techniques to determine the voice of the customer?

7.      What is a SIPOC? Describe each element of a SIPOC

8.      What are the elements of a Swimlane value stream map? What should be added to each task box or note beyond the description of the task? What are the key metrics at the bottom of the Swimlane Value stream Map?

9.      What is Lean? What are the key elements of the lean transformation methodology?

10.    What is the lean concept of waste? What are the 8 forms of waste as defined in lean and be able to give an example of each.

11.    In lean terms – what is ‘lead time’?

12.    Explain Little’s Law. Be able to calculate lead time.

13.    What is WIP or work in process?

14.    Explain what process cycle efficiency means. Be able to calculate a PCE (process cycle efficiency).

15.    What is a pull system? What is the value of a pull system versus the typical way that work is distributed?

16.    What are the keys to creating an effective pull system?

17.    What is Kanban? What are the 3 rules of Kanban?

18.    What is the Lean 20/80 rule?

19.    Explain how both SOAP and REST based web services work and differences between them. Contrast these web services with messaging queuing middleware like IBM MQ or Java Messaging Services

20.    Be able to explain the value of a loosely coupled software architecture

21.    Explain what an architectural quantum is and how it applies to loose and tight coupling architectures

22.    What is an unstructured monolith architecture and why is it difficult to change?

23.    Explain the value of a layered monolith or an unstructured monolith.

24.    Explain how an ESB and services oriented architecture work and what value they bring to the services used in the application

25.    Explain what a microservice architecture is and how it enables loose coupling and the possibility of adding features on a daily basis to a major application.

Apply PESTEL analysis to identify the general environment trends impacting space launch. What are the most important to SpaceX’s strategy?

Evaluate the competitive forces for the space launch industry to identify the forces controlling its profitability (e.g., Five Forces analysis). Is SpaceX positioned for long-term profitability?