In strategic management, the purpose of the external assessment is to develop a list of opportunities that could benefit a firm and threats that should be avoided. What are the threats and opportunities has COVID 19  created for the airline industry? For example, DELTA AIRWAYS in the USA? Briefly discuss your answer?

WEEK 4    "Sources of Innovation" please respond to the following:

1. Discuss the two sources of Innovation classified as knowledge push and need pull. Provide an example of each classification and discuss two driving factors that encouraged the development of these innovations.
2. Select a type of innovation, discussed in the text, and present a strong argument why this source of Innovation would be most effective in developing a competitive advantage for a specific company or industry of your choice. Be sure to explain in your response why you selected this innovation

Week 4 Discussion

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"Sources of Innovation" Please respond to the following:

Discuss the two (2) sources of innovation classified as knowledge push and need pull. Provide an example of each classification and discuss two (2) driving factors that encouraged the development of these innovations.

Select a type of innovation, discussed in the text, and present a strong argument why this source of innovation would be most effective in developing a competitive advantage for a specific company or industry of your choice. Be sure to explain in your response why you selected this innovation.

Think of a company that you admire and consider how well they are competing on the operations front in terms of sustainability. List the company in your post and discuss how you think they are doing in at least one facet of operations that is related to sustainability. You may have to do a little extra research in regard to the relationship between operations and green or sustainable manufacturing. So, start with the company that you admire and then determine how they are doing on the green front.

Discuss the effects of cultural sensitivity on international services.

Given U.S.: International strategy for cyberspace- policy priorities:

sustain a free trade environment

protect intellectual property

primacy of interoperable and secure tech standards, determined by technical experts

promote cooperation

reduce intrusions/disruptions of us networks

robust capabilities for infrastructure

cybercrime policy development

budapest convention on cybercrime

combating illegal activities/not restricting access to the internet

denying terrorists/others the ability to exploit the internet for attack planning

adapt military needs for reliable and secure networks

enhance military alliances in cyberspace

pristine opens and innovation

preserve global security/stability including dns

promote and enhance internet governance issues

build cybersecurity talent globally

develop and share best practices

support civil society/freedom of information/expression

encourage international cooperation for effective commercial data

privacy protection

end-to-end interoperability of an internet accessible to all

Are the policy priorities outlined by the United States where the government's focus should be with regard to shaping the cybersecurity environment? Explain.

Federal Scanline, Inc. uses a scanner on a conveyor line which scans 1,000 packages per hour. Packages which have defective labels or detectable damage to the package are automatically offloaded and hand-sorted by severity of defects, on a scale of 1-5. A minor defect is a 1, such as a single num- ber missing from a zip code. A 3 would be a mod- erate defect, such as a missing addressee name or partially missing address. A 5 would be a critical defect, such as a severely damaged package or missing address label. Construct a c-chart for the 30 samples showing critical defects from the data in the table in the worksheet Prob. 8-46 in the C08Data.xlsx file and interpret the results.

Parrot Palace

Parrot Palace works with TV and movie producers who need birds that can perform special tricks, such as playing dead, reciting poetry, ladder climbs, and various other tricks. Parrot Palace has about 50 birds and a list of 20 tricks from which to choose. Each bird can perform one or more tricks, and many tricks can be performed by more than one bird. When a bird learns a new trick, the trainer assigns a skill level. Some customers insist on using birds that score a 10, which is the highest skill level. As an IT consultant, you have been asked to suggest 3NF table designs. You are fairly certain that an M:N relationship exists between birds and tricks.

1. Draw an ERD for the Parrot Palace information system.
2. Indicate cardinality.
3. Identify all fields you plan to include in the birds and tricks tables. For example, in the bird table, you might want species, size, age, name, and so on. In the tricks table, you might want the trick name and description. You will need to assign a primary key in each table.
4. Create 3NF table designs.

Rewrite the sentences below. Follow the examples to make each of the sentences specific. You can make up these facts for the purpose of this exercise, just make them specific made-up facts.

EXAMPLE: “Either as an addition to a home or as an integral part of a new home, sunspaces have gained considerable popularity locally.” (This might be OK as an introductory sentence, but it wouldn’t fly as a technical fact.)

Choice 1. Numbers. “Sunspaces are included in 13 out of 45 new home plans used by the top three construction companies in Salem, up from 2 out of 42 five years ago” (Salem Homebuilders Association, 1999).

Choice 2. Precise Words. “Architects from five Salem firms report that residential home buyers are beginning to ask for a sunspace, which is an enclosed room of a home with windows covering three walls and sometimes a portion of the ceiling.”

1. There are good and bad results of growth.

2. Farmers are being squeezed more than ever between falling crop prices and rising costs for machinery, labor, and other services.

3. The landslide which made U.S. 101 impassable was large enough for the mass of an elephant herd.

4. For the growing soy industry, the school lunch program offers a vast new market and a way to introduce families to the expanding array of new, better-tasting products that have been developed in recent years.

5. This project will enable thousands of businesses, farms, and ranches to continue to compete in the world marketplace.

6. The federal government has grossly violated its duty to diligently maintain a trust fund system for American Indians.

Toyota (GB) have implemented the Entropy System at their head office in Epsom, two training centres in Salford and Nottingham, and two vehicle distribution centres in Portbury and Burnaston. It provides a centralised system for data capture and is used for HSEQ task management. It is also used to manage a range of internal audits for HSEQ regulatory compliance, HSEQ standards compliance and internal process verification/validation.

Toyota (GB) have built their need for compliance systems over a number of years. In 1991 it was felt that for Toyota to compete within the UK fleet market, it would be beneficial to achieve compliance with the quality standard BS5750, which later became ISO 9001. In 1995 a quality department was set up and the various departmental and site systems created over the past 4 years were amalgamated into one centralised management system.

In 1999, as part of their commitment to the environment, Toyota Motor Corporation announced the requirement for all manufacturing sites to achieve compliance with the environmental standard ISO 14001; a second directive soon followed requesting all overseas distributors to follow suit.

In 1999, a new health & safety standard -OHSAS 18001- was also launched and, upon review, Toyota (GB) soon realised that their system for managing health & safety compliance was not as effective as

it could have been.

Both the above events provided the catalyst for a new business objective to develop an integrated (quality, environment, health & safety) management system in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.

During the development of the integrated management system, it became apparent that their document management system was unable to record business risks, produce audit checklists, manage and report incidents, provide notification of outstanding tasks, handle objectives or manage audits and non-conformances. In 2001 a team of Toyota managers attended “the annual Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents conference” to review the range of software solutions available and the Entropy System was concluded to be the most suitable application.

The complete Entropy System was purchased in July 2001 and after an intense period of data inputting, triple certification was achieved in September 2001.

The Entropy System is both a user- friendly and cost-effective solution backed up by Entropy International’s willingness to support customer requirements. Working with Entropy International, Toyota (GB) have adapted some aspects of the System for their specific needs and found Entropy particularly helpful in this regard. One such area was the creation of a register for licences and certificates per site, such as fire certificates and forklift truck licences, to aid the management team in easily identifying expiry dates.

Toyota (GB) believe in establishing strong working relationships with their business partners; to this end they also work closely with Entropy International to develop their user- specific requirements in order to benefit other users. These include improvements such as quick identification of active/completed action plans, development of the risk assessment (particularly environmental aspect) methodology, the ability to activate/de-activate sites, removing the ability to assign responsibilities to personnel no longer employed.

Both the vehicle distribution centres employ a large number of contract staff. Despite not being direct employees, the Entropy System has allowed Toyota (GB) to track information pertinent to these contractors for corporate compliance purposes. Toyota (GB) are currently working towards providing their business partners with access to the Entropy System so they can review and input compliance data.

Recent changes in Toyota’s structure have meant that the parts logistics operation has now been transferred from Toyota (GB’s) immediate control to become part of Toyota’s integrated Europe-wide organisation. Whilst it was agreed that the system should still be managed by the Toyota (GB) compliance team, in order to provide Pan-European access, it was no longer viable to host the parts logistics data on the Toyota (GB) web-server. The data was migrated to a hosting environment at Entropy International, which now provides access to the parts logistics management team regardless of their location. Toyota (GB) is dedicated to fulfilling the expectations of their stakeholders, and achievement of the highest health, safety, environment and quality standards is central to Toyota’s philosophy. Kaizen (the Japanese philosophy of continuous business improvement) is used in every area of the business to search for a better way to increase performance, quality and efficiency and thus reduce costs. Toyota’s brand reputation, and protection thereof, is also of paramount importance throughout the organisation and their commitment to compliance is an active part of this. The company constantly review their legal obligations and commitments via the compliance team at Toyota (GB) who manage the impact to the businesses as a result of an ever-changing environment. The Entropy System has been found to deliver on all their expectations.

Question 1

According to the case’s contents, please identify the business challenges as facing by the TOYOTA.

The focus of the answer:

1. The challenging business environment for sustainability

2. which challenges that relate to car industry (Toyota). (refer to the case TOYATA facing those quality standards to meet the quality of Toyota. )

3. The legal aspect for safety  to meet Customers  expectation.

4. conclusion to link to CSR concepts for sustainability.

Does anybody belong to a union? What are your thoughts/perceptions about unions? Do you believe that unions are necessary and ethical in the marketplace? Explain why or why not.

You are the director of a radiology department. During a routine individual meeting with one of your male staff, the employee tells you that a female employee has been making suggestive remarks to him, and occasionally grabbed and fondled him in a sexual manner. He said he asked her several times to stop this behavior as he was married and did not appreciate the behavior, particularly in a work setting. The behavior continued anyway. The male employee asks you not to report this further because he did not want to get the female employee in trouble and he brought it up only for ideas how to make her stop it.

What are your ethical obligations?

What ethical theories apply to your situation, and why?

Does the work of Carol Gilligan change how we should respond in this scenario? Why or why not?

Provide a brief example from a news article or court case within the last three years that demonstrates corporate director or officer liability in the United States.

Problem 3-22

Two independent methods of forecasting based on judgment and experience have been prepared each month for the past 10 months. The forecasts and actual sales are as follows:

a. Compute the MSE and MAD for each forecast. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Compute MAPE for each forecast. (Round your intermediate calculations to 5 decimal places and final answers to 4 decimal places.)

How operation management is used in the organization? Especially in Cleaning Service Company.

Assess Amazon’s decisions to diversify into (a) e-readers (Kindle), (b) tablet computers (Kindle Fire), and (c) smartphones (Fire Phone).