Competitor Analysis

Please choose who you believe is your most significant competitor and respond to the following questions.

Business Definition: What business does this competitor appear to be in? What markets do they serve, what customer needs are satisfied?

Source of Competitive Advantage: What do you believe this competitor views as their source of competitive advantage?

Strengths and Weaknesses: How would you characterize the primary strengths and weaknesses of this competitor? How can you exploit their weaknesses while defending against their strengths?

Self-Analysis: How does this competitor view your firm? Do they consider you a threat? What weakness(es) does your firm have that might be viewed as an opportunity for this competitor?

Strategic Assumptions: What moves do you anticipate this competitor will make in the next 3 years and how will you respond to them?

Below is data captured from last week’s production numbers on machining center AG-03:

Scheduled operation = 10 hours per shift, 1 shift, 5 days per week

Lunch = 30 minutes per day

Breaks = Two 15 minutes per day

Morning Huddle Meeting = 10 minutes per day

Planned 5S Activities = 5 minutes per day

Planned Maintenance = 25minutes per week

Standard cycle time = 0.5 minutes per unit

Below is the Operator Downtime Log Sheet for the Week on Machining Center AG-03

Below is the Operator Production Log Sheet for the Week on Machining Center AG-03

Calculate OEE for the week (5 days) using the data provided. Show all work.

What is your assessment of the current situation?

What specific steps would you take to improve OEE?

Describe Android open source software and how it works. Discuss the role this open source software has in management information systems.

Define, discuss, and provide examples of the needs for achievement, affiliation, and power. Be specific with the examples provided.

How can senior management ensure that financial and other resources are available to support the accomplishment of the organization's action plans, while meeting current obligations?

Provide a forecast on a new product that you will be developing. Often managers are called upon to make forecasts for these new products when they don't have historical sales data inside the company. What secondary sources of data might you find? Who specifically would provide it (e.g.: the US Census, US Dept of Commerce, ComScore, Nelsen, . . .)? How would this data be used to support your forecast?

Criston Sand is fresh manufacturing and selling sandwiches ordered by customers. The sandwich ordered is packaged with drinks, salads and fruits and given to customers. First of all, in the waiting line, customers refer to the menu on the wall and fill out the order on the order sheet and pass it on to one of the employees who are making sandwiches. Customers then go to the next location and choose the items (e.g., snacks, desserts, etc.) to order and head to the checkout counter. After paying at the checkout counter, you receive the sandwich you ordered at the guided location. Customers use an average of 45 seconds to order sandwiches (see menu, select, and fill out the order sheet). Assume that the average number of visits to all activities is one. It takes 90 seconds to make a sandwich. 60 seconds will be used to select additional orders. It takes 40 seconds to calculate at the counter. It takes 20 seconds to get the finished sandwich. Currently, Criston Sand employs two cashier clerks, six sandwich-making staff and one staff member who hand over a manufactured sandwich. Long queues are often formed, especially during busy times of the day, such as lunchtime. In this case, can increasing the number of sandwich-making staff help reduce customer queues?

300 word minimum.

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Head to the Internet and find an example of a company's organizational chart. Analyze the design and provide a summary. What is the basic design of the organization? Why might the organization have selected this structure? What impact might changing the organizational design have for the company?

It is said that net cash flow is the same as economic profit. How is it? Explain your logic.

Develop a 5-year forecast of occupational market conditions for nurses. Explain your work. (for next 5 years)

In the Kantian CI, who is meant to be included in the words, "everyone," "others," and "community?" (See point #1 in the section titled "The process of forming environmental Maxims," and also the sections titled, "Perfect and Imperfect Duties for business' Environmental Impacts," and "Imperfect Environmental duty and Its Practical Limitations.")

It has been said that technology will be the end of management. Maybe. How about artificial intelligence? Explain why yes, no, under what considerations.

Signatures, Inc. specializes in producing personalized products for companies such as coffee mugs and pens with company logos. The company generates over $60 million in annual sales and has more than 300 employees. The company is in the middle of a large multimillion-dollar SCM implementation and has just hired your Project Management Outsourcing firm to take over the project management efforts. On your first day, your team is told that the project is failing for the following reasons:

The project is using the traditional waterfall methodology.

The SDLC was not followed.

The developers and users decided to skip the testing phase so the project could be completed as scheduled.

The project plan was developed during the Analysis phase, but the departed project manager never updated or followed the plan.

Write a short APA formatted essay (3 pages would be appropriate) responding to these perceived project short comings. In addition, provide 5 specific steps you would take to get this faltering technology project back on track. (Make any assumptions about the project you would like about why the project is in trouble.) Be sure to explain the actions that you would take and the expected results of those individual actions. Assume this essay will be shared with both company executives and your management.

Two general types are addressed: organic and mechanistic. Do you believe that one type of structure (mechanistic or organic) is better? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each? How is your current/ was your former organization structured? What factors may make an organization move away from one type of these structures toward another? Do you see a military type (top-down) approach to organizational structure in organizations today??