1.) Define what situational awareness really means in a modern EOC (Emergency Operations Center). Please provide references/APA style.

Describe three different types of warehouses and the advantages of each?

SELLING MEDICAL ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA
by Linda Trevi~no and Alessandro Gubbini
Asurprisingethicaldilemmaaroseforayoungengineerduringhisfirstbusinesstripto Asia towork with customers of his company’s ultrasound imaging technology. On the long airplane ride, Pat was dutifully reading a travel book to learn more about Korean and Chinese cultures when hewas shocked to learn how ultrasound technologies were being used in these countries. A technology that he had always considered to be a way to help people by diagnosing disease was being commonly used to intentionally identify andterminate pregnancieswhenthefetuswasfemale.Asanengineer,Pat had been trained to be passionate about innovation and problem solving. He was used to thinking about these technologies as innovative high-tech solutions to serious health problems. He was also committed to developing higher-quality, more efficient, affordable devices so that they could be used more widely. It had never occurred to him that in some Asian cultures, where overpopulation combined with a strong patriarchal culture led to a preference for sons over daughters, this technology that he considered to be innovative, helpful, and supportive of people’s well-being might be used to eliminate female lives. As ultrasound technology has advanced and become more available, it has been used more widely in decisions to abort female fetuses in favor of sons. After some more research, Pat learned that this practice has become quite common in China, which controls population growth by allowing families to have only one child. In India, female children are more costly to families because the culture requires the family to bear the expenses of their daughters’ weddings and dowries. By comparison, an ultrasound exam is a small expense even for these poor families. Pat was further surprised to learn that using ultrasound technology to identify fetus gender and abort the fetus based upon gender information is unlawful in most of these countries (for example, in India doctors are forbidden from disclosing the gender of fetuses). However, the enforcement of such laws is difficult and spotty, especially in clinics that are far away from citiies and regulators.The problem is being exacerbated because many ultrasound machines are being sold on the second-hand market, thus making ultrasound more available and more affordable to these clinics. The increasing use of the technology to abort female fetuses is beginning to create a huge societal problem because males are outnumbering females, distorting nature’s careful gender balance. There are estimates that more than 150 million women are“missing”from the world as a result of sex-selective abortions and female infanticide. That’s equivalent to missing every woman in America! The 2001 Indian census demonstrated a huge drop in the number of young girls relative to boys(927 girls for every 1,000 boys compared to 945 to 1,000 a decade earlier) ,and the problem continues to worsen as the use of ultrasound technology increases. According to UNICEF, China now has only 832 girls for every 1,000 boys aged 0–4. Looking to the future as these children grow up, some have predicted increasing trafficking of women for prostitution and violent crime as young males compete for the smaller number of available females. In thinking through what he had learned, Pat found himself considering the patients, the healthcare practitioners, and the healthcare industry as well as his company, other technology developers, and the broader cultures involved. Patients benefit from access to life-saving technologies that can identify diseases at an early stage so that they can be treated more successfully. But patients can also be harmed if, due to early identification of their child’s gender, mothers feel forced into abortions against their will. In these cultures, many mothers apparently do feel compelled by cultural or family pressures to abort female fetuses.Medical practitioners benefit from the ability to do faster and more accurate diagnoses, but they too can be pressured to use these systems for unethical purposes. The industry and the developers (including Pat’s company)certainly profit from the production and sale of more of these products. But the company and industry risk sullying their reputations if they are found responsible for selling these systems to unauthorized users for unlawful purposes. Imagine what the media could make of that story. According to a prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet (2006), the unlawful use of diagnostic ultrasound technologies is contributing to an estimated 1 million abortions of female fetuses every year.Yet, these diagnostic technologies still greatly benefit society world wide in saving and improving the lives of many millions of patients. How should Pat think about this? Do the benefits to society of the technology outweigh the harms? Even if they do, does the company want to be connected to a practice that many people find immoral and that is illegal in many countries?Pat found this practice particularly distasteful when looking at it from the perspective of the females who would not be born simply because of their gender. Pat wondered, “Is this practice fair to them? And aren’t we all facilitating the practice by looking the other way? What would happen if such gender discrimination were globally accepted as normal practice? Could that ever be the right thing to do?” What would international health organizations such as the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB), which provides training and education to doctors worldwide, have to say about such practices? Pat wondered what his wife would think if she knew that his work involved this unexpected result? Would she expect him to do something? What is his individual responsibility here? What is his company’s responsibility? Because Pat felt so confused by what he had read, and he didn’t fully understand the legal or cultural environment, he never mentioned the subject to his Asian clients. But it remained in the back of his mind. When he returned home, he kept thinking aboutit.Therewasnoformalstructureforhimtosurfacetheissuewithinthecompany, so he decided to discuss the subject with some trusted colleagues. He wondered whether they were aware of the issue and what they might think about it. Were they as bothered as he was? It turns out that they were as unaware of these practices as he had been. It also seemed more distant to them because they had not traveled to Asia as he had, and there was no agreement about what to do. Engineers tend to think about products only in technical terms—the potential for technical flaws and dangers that might harm patients. They rarely encounter the ultimate end users, and they’re not trained to think about cultural implications. Asa Westerner, all of this was particularly hard for Pat to deal with. He was caught completely off guard. He asked himself: “What do I need to do, if anything? I’m scheduledtoreturntothesecountriestosupportourclients’useofourtechnology, so I won’t be able to avoid the issue for long. It seems almost ridiculous that I became aware of this issue through a travel book. If it hadn’t been for that book, I probably never would have thought about the issue at all. My company had not prepared me. It offered no special training on cultural or ethical issues for employees they send to work overseas. It seemed like the company’s values of providing people with the opportunity for earlier diagnoses prevented us from exploring the potential misuse of our product. The company and industry focus on how to develop technologies to identify life-threatening conditions earlier, better, and faster. We like to think of our selves and our technologies as saving lives,not risking them. The company’s stated value is to provide healthcare solutions to patients worldwide. But, in this case, our technology was being used to both save and end lives.Do our values need to change? I think of our company as being good and ethical, but we were obviously unprepared in this case. We had not done our homework.” Even if the company wanted to do something, Pat wondered what they could do. The company is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), meaning that it doesn’t sell directly to the end users. Therefore the responsibility for putting these technologies into the wrong hands is widely dispersed across different manufacturers, distributors and local institutions. Pat also wondered whether and how the company couldinfluencethesedifferentpartiestotakeactionevenifitdecideditwasrighttodo so. On top of that,the company is in the United States, and these end users are halfway across the world.

1. Does this use of our technology breach a core value? Or is this a case where we should respect local cultural practice? Is there some compromise position in between?
2. How might the company think about our responsibility from a supply‐chain perspective? Might they learn anything from companies in other industries that have had to deal with this issue? For example, would it be appropriate to initiate a policy to engage with customers who certify that they will sell exclusively to authorized users? Even if the company did that, how could they be sure customers were complying?

I have a project and I will talk about selling bedspreads on website only .
I want you to write for me about two things

Who and where is the target audience ? Explain the demographics , lifestyle ,consumption ,patterns ,etc

Chrwcterize the market place size,growth, demographics, structure

Complete a business leader profile using PowerPoint.

First, select a business leader that you know. Explain why you decided to focus on this person as a leader and make a post on this discussion board. The post should be at least one paragraph. This step is due by the end of week 4.

Second, Gather enough information that you are able to learn the traits that help them be a good leader and traits that undermine their leadership abilities, which leader power they use most frequently, which leadership theory most closely resembles their leadership style, how they drive change, and how they motivate their followers.

Third, compile your information and develop a PowerPoint presentation about your leader. Ensure that you cite references for the material you use in your presentation. You will receive 2 bonus points if you narrate your PowerPoint presentation.

Fourth, post your presentation as a post in the Module 7 discussion board. This step is due May 3rd in the module 7 discussion board.  

I already have my leader chosen. I do not understand how to evaluate the second part. I just need to know what the different traits, leader powers and leadership theories there are and what it means to drive change and motivate followers.

Please answer all of them

Pough Publishing Company produces books for the retail market. Demand for a current book is expected to occur at a constant annual rate of 7200 copies. The cost of one copy of the book is $14. 50. The holding cost is based on an 18% annual rate, and production set up costs are $150 per set up. The equipment on which the book is produced has an annual production volume of 25,000 copies. Pough has 250 working days per year, and the lead time for a production run is 15 days. Use the production lot size model to compute the following values:

1. Minimum cost production lot size
2. Number of production runs per year
3. Cycle time
4. Length of a production run
5. Maximum inventory
6. Total annual cost
7. Reorder point

Martin, the director of HR at Austin Designs, is meeting with the career development team. The firm's CEO has decided that the company needs to invest the time and effort into improving the direction and development phases of the current career development program; however, development funds are limited. The CEO and most of the executive management team are self-made professionals who believe strongly in individual responsibility. The organizational structure of Austin Designs is very flat. The company has a wide variety of jobs but few levels of high responsibility. Feedback from employees suggests that they don't know when promotional opportunities are available. 1. Answer the following questions: A. What would be best directional tool for addressing the employees' complaint? Justify your answer.

How has NAFTA affected trade among the U.S., Canada and Mexico? Is NAFTA good for domestic U.S. and Mexican producers?

What would be the best organizational structure of AirAsia to support their strategic choices in the world market? Briefly explain. (Under 100 words)

Use this textbook to supplement the below scenario and answer the below questions: Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson's Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization 13th Edition

Scenario

•Sally has spent the last six months working as part of a team that has developed a piece of software to control a widget grinding machine. The software is due to be completed within one week but Sally knows that it will take at least one month to fully test the software. Sally accompanies her boss, Liz, at a meeting with the client who commissioned the software. The client has just landed an important order, and is anxious that the software is delivered and installed on time. At the meeting, Liz says to the client, "Sally and the rest of the team have done an excellent job on this software. It has all of the functionality you asked for and it can be delivered and installed next week. Isn't that right Sally?“ Sally knows that the software may still contain bugs that could cause machine to malfunction and be dangerous to its operators. If Sally contradicts her boss in front of the client she knows it will be the end of her career with that company - a well paid job that she enjoys. What should she do?

Questions

•What are Sally's legal responsibilities?

•Does Sally have any legal protection?

•Would your analysis of the ethics of this case change if Sally had been present during her boss's conversation with the client, but had not been asked to agree with his assurances?

•What if the client had asked Sally a question, the honest answer to which would contradict her boss?

•Would your analysis of the ethics of this case change if the software was for stock management rather than the control of machinery – with no potential threat to human safety?

JL.54 Altec Lansing makes a variety of speakers for computer systems and they are looking to adopt Lean Production principles into their main production facility. This production facility operates 320 days per year one of their bestselling speaker systems has annual demand of 32,000 units. They can produce up to 950 of these systems each day. It costs $14.52 to set up a work cell to produce this system. The cost of each system is $44 and annual holding costs are $11.80 per unit. Setup labor cost is $11 per hour.

What is the optimal size of the production run for this system? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number).
   

Given your answer to the previous question, how many production runs will be required each year in order to meet the annual demand? (Round your answer UP to the next whole number.)
   

How much time (in minutes) does it take to set up a work cell? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number.)
  

The large retailers who are wholesale customers of Altec Lansing are pressing the company to sell this and other speaker systems in much smaller quantities to support their JIT distribution models. For example, for this particular speaker system wholesale customers want to purchase in lots of 170. In order to meet this requirement, what would be the required setup time (in minutes) to make this order quantity an optimal production run quantity? (Display your answer to the nearest whole number.)
  

From the real international market, select a company of your choice wishing to start its activities in Saudi Arabia. The Company hired you as Marketing Manager of Saudi Arabian Region.

You have to establish a marketing department starting from the Analysis of the market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function.

Write a Marketing Plan considering the following points

1. Introduction, Goals and Objectives

To introduce this section you should include the "mission statement" of the business; an idea of what its goals are for customers, clients, employees and the consumer.

1. Introduction about the business.
2. Business vision and mission
3. Business objective.
4. Products and services offered

2. Environmental Analysis

Conduct an environmental analysis that looks at and comments on your local area and your network of business contacts, competitors and customers.

3. Target Market Analysis

Identify the target market, describing how the company will meet the needs of the consumer better than the competition does.

4. SWOT Analysis

Conduct a SWOT analysis for your chosen company based on your research.

Please Use your keyboard (Don't use handwriting)

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Critical Thinking

The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).

Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.

To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques have been employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).

Consult chapter 7 of your text book or secondary available data on internet and answer the following questions.

Question:

1. Why Companies adopted Lean Thinking and JIT model?
2. Discuss major types of Waste, companies has to keep in mind during production.
3. Assess the reasons for using lean thinking (suitable examples), what are the benefits from Suppliers to end users?
4. Due to COVID 19 emergency do you think agile supply chain is the right concept in this kind of situation? Give reason with example.

The Answer should be within 4- 5 pages.

The Answer must follow the outline points below:

• Lean Thinking and JIT Concept
• Agile Supply chain
• Their Main functions
• Reasons with suitable Examples
• Reference

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Lean Thinking is a methodological aspect of business which aims to provide innovative ways to organisations about how to organise human activities to serve the society and help indivuduals add perspective to their lives and reduce wasted. The companies adopt lean thinking to reduce the wastage of human resource and increase the productive capacity of the employees working.

JIT Model or Just-in-time Model is an inventory management model wherein the different aspects of production like labour, raw material, etc., are refiiled at the exact time when it is ultimately required. This model is used by almost all the organisations as through this model thr production is kept uninterupted and there is no wastage of time while any factor of production is exhausted.

The major types of waste that a company has to keep in mind includes mainly the wastage of raw materials, wastage of labour resource, power supply. etc.

Lean Thinking plays an intregal part in every organisation. Every organisation intends to reduce the wastage throughout the production process. Every organisation wants to keep their potential employees and a very important way is to keep the employee satisfied with the job , working conditions, pay scale, etc. Employees play the most important role as most of the production process depends on them therefore, lean thinking helps the suppliers to the end users.

Agile supply chain is a process of product distribution that is concerned with quick delivery of products, early responses to the market, cost saving, high productivity with flexibility. At this point of the emergency of COVID-19 agile supply chain is very useful as the World is under lockdown and the market is facing serious issues of scarcity of the necessity items that are demanded. As under lockdown major companies are completely shut which has resulted in the reduction in production in alot of the sectors and the Economy around the World is facing massive drop and in some countries the Economy is running negetive. This is the time to adopt agile supply chain Worldwide to save the market from reaching recession.