• How can organizations, such as NASA, respond more effectively to ambiguous threats? For this question, specifically focus on how to encourage dissenting views.

You are working for a small company that has developed an electric scooter that is lower cost, lighter, and has longer battery range than most existing electric scooters on the market. What strategies might your company pursue to try to increase your company’s success?

What will the Border of the future look like? Will there be a physical "border?"

Discuss technology's impact on border security.

In the future, will Border Patrol Agents spend more time in a UAV (drone) trailer than on horseback patrol?

Discuss the future, both in North America and worldwide.

How have you incorporated the skills of critical thinking throughout the semester? Did this workshop change your approach? Please provide a summary (not 2 sentences) of your experience and how you could have done it differently using these new skills. The workshop that I had was about Workbased Learning-Critical Thinking it was a power point.

List the top few leaders (at least 4) at a company that will be involved in the product marketing of a dessert/cake bakery company: List the Title and 1 or 2 sentence description of how they will be involved.

Create a SWOT analysis for K-Mart/Sears, prioritize and quantify each point

Q1: Golden Gopher Airline issues thousands of aircraft boarding passes to passengers each day. In some cases a boarding pass is spoiled for various reasons and discarded by the airline agent before the final boarding pass is issued to a customer. To control the process for issuing boarding passes, the airline has sampled the process for 100 days and determined the average proportion of defective passes is .006 (6 in every 1000 passes are spoiled and discarded). In the future, the airline plans to take a sample of 500 passes that are issued each day and calculate the proportion of spoiled passes in that sample for control chart purposes.

• A. What is the sample size (n) for this problem? Is it 100, 500, or 1000? Explain the significance of the 100 days used to determine the average proportion defective.
• B. Calculate the CL, UCL, and LCL, using three standard deviations for control purposes.

Colonial State College is considering building a new multipurpose athletic complex on campus. The complex would provide a new gymnasium for intercollegiate basketball games, expanded office space, classrooms, and intramural facilities. The following activities would have to be undertaken before construction can begin:

1. Which project network is correct?
   

   (i)		(ii)
   (iii)		(iv)

   
   
   
2. Identify the critical path.
   
   B-C-D-G-H
   
3. Develop the activity schedule for the project. If your answer is zero, enter “0”.
   
   

   Earliest

   Latest

   Earliest

   Latest

   Critical

   Activity

   Start

   Start

   Finish

   Finish

   Slack

   Activity

   A

   B

   C

   D

   E

   F

   G

   H

4. Does it appear reasonable that construction of the athletic complex could begin one year after the decision to begin the project with the site survey and initial design plans? What is the expected completion time for the project?
   
   
   
   Project Completion Time is  weeks.

Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. Assume that the move time between machines is one hour. Sequence the jobs in priority order 1, 2, 3, 4.

Which department is the bottleneck?

Calculate the machine utilization?

you will prepare a comprehensive 3-page proposal based In this Company HP you must find additional funding necessary to purchase the company (not just to invest), and as an owner you need to identify what innovations (think beyond the obvious) are necessary to help the company achieve an improved financial status, increased global market share, and set new goals for a 5 year growth plan. As a leader, what change initiatives would you create and why? Provide a professional rationale using evidence. Include an introduction, a conclusion, and a references page Use a minimum of 3 credible sources that are cited within your proposal. I chose HP company.And provided detail information with introductions,refernces,conclusion

Parks and Recreation: A Case Study

Pace is a beautiful, peaceful, and rapidly growing county in the heart of the Sunbelt. One winter day, Joseph Andraseli, MPA, an assistant city manager in a northeastern town, decided that he would answer an ad for the position of county manager in Pace. The county commission liked him, and he liked what he saw of the area.

At 9 a.m. on his 10th day on the job, his secretary, Meg, came into the office and said, “Mr. Andraseli, there are five park employees here waiting to see you. They seem angry.” Andraseli had a busy schedule, and besides, he was six organizational levels removed from the park employees. But he reconsidered, as he had interviewed on the notion that he had an “open-door” policy. He asked Meg to send them in.

Parks and recreation workers were among the lowest paid and least skilled workers on the county’s payroll. Their occupation most of the time involved working outdoors. These five workers, all of whom were older employees, wished to complain that their supervisor, who was much younger, always assigned them to the worst parks in the county. The younger employees, who also were “friends” with the supervisor, were able to choose the parks in which they worked. The older employees never were given any say on their assignments, and they wanted this changed.

Andraseli obviously was in a tough position. The grievance had clear overtones of discrimination and had the potential to escalate. Yet he did not want to undermine the authority of the managers and supervisors that stood between him and the five angry men seated across from him. He had not met the supervisor and had only had a limited introduction to the department director.

The union that represented the parks and recreation workers also was a possibility for these employees, but Andraseli did not want the union to represent these workers if he could solve the problem. These workers obviously had not gone through the chain of command, but what could he do to keep this from escalating?

Please answer the following questions thoughtfully on a 2 paged memo.

In this case you are Andraseli. What will you do next?

1. First, diagnose what the specific problem is. Who are the stakeholders, and what roles do they play? What assumptions or attributions are you making about the problem and the circumstances under which it occurs?

2. Second, are there secondary problems? identify the facts and what special considerations must be taken into account. What are the strategic factors that must be satisfied to solve the problem.

3. Third, determine what are the options (recommended procedures, practices, and techniques) for dealing with or solving the problem.

4. Fourth, make a recommendation or decision. These decisions need to be provided with supporting analysis and evidence that explains or justifies why the decision was made.

5. Fifth, focus on the generalizable assessment of the case study or simulation reflecting on the takeaways, lessons and insights derived from it.

Using appropriate mapping symbols develop a swim lane process map for purchasing a present for a family friend.

Make creative use of at least to decision loops and two alternate paths.

Your swim lane process map should have a minimum of four swim lanes and a minimum of twenty-five operations and decision points.

Q2: We have taken 12 samples of 400 letters each from a typing pool and found the following proportions of defective letters: .01, .02, .02, .00, .01, .03, .02, .01, .00, .04, .03, and .02. A letter is considered defective when one or more errors are detected.

A. Calculate the control limits for a p control chart.

B. A sample of 400 has just been taken, and 6 letters were found to be defective. Is the process still in control?

what is the difference between knowledge worker and learning worker? what are the characteristics of a " learning worker"? (200 minimum)