CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT METHODS WITH SIX SIGMA, LEAN, LEAN SIX SIGMA, AND MORE

1. What is the Kaizen approach? And his elements? And his tools?

2. What is the CEDAC approach?

3. What is the Lean approach?

4. What kind of waste the Lean focuses to reducing?

5. What is the Lean approach tools?

using an internet search, research an organization that has struggled due to a lack of measurement and evaluation within the workplace. In your paper, analyze the role success case methodology would play in improving organizational success. In addition, consider how the four keys of transformational performance measurement may impact this business.

One unit of A is composed of two units of B and three units of C. Each B is composed of one unit of F. C is made of one unit of D, one unit of E, and two units of F. Items A, B, C, and D have 20, 40, 60, and 25 units of on-hand inventory, respectively. Items A, B, and C use lot-for-lot (L4L) as their lot-sizing technique, while D, E, and F require multiples of 50, 100, and 85, respectively, to be purchased. B has scheduled receipts of 30 units in Period 1. No other scheduled receipts exist. Lead times are one period for Items A, B, and D, and two periods for Items C, E, and F. Gross requirements for A are 20 units in Period 1, 20 units in Period 2, 50 units in Period 6, and 40 units in Period 8.

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This week you have learned about the importance of workplace training. This week’s learning has introduced you to both the benefits and downfalls of a training session. With your current workplace in mind, analyze the current training setting. Your response should include what works and what does not in the current setting. In addition, expand on the suggestions you might offer to create the perfect training setting that would help to improve the workplace. Explain the challenges that you might face in implementing this training into the workplace.

do small businesses often outsource project work? why or why not?

Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 50-60 words.

5. What are the methods used to collect accounts receivable?

Franchised businesses are more successful. Then why do certain people prefer to start their own businesses? Take the example of a Pizza Place for instance. (Hint- I know a pizza place in my neighborhood that withstood the onslaught from growing franchises; you can also use non-pizza business that you know which is not franchised). Franchised businesses, in general, are more successful than non-franchised ones. Why so?: Discuss a franchise that you may be interested in buying with a proper defense.

Compare a franchised business versus non-franchised business using an example.

Please write 4 paragraphs with each paragraph containing 50-60 words.

2. How does accounts receivable differ from the revenue cycle?

E-ZPass In the 1990s, a task force was formed among executives of seven regional transportation agencies in the New York–New Jersey area. The mission of the task force was to investigate the feasibility and desirability of adopting electronic toll collection (ETC) for the interregional roadways of the area. Electronic toll collection is accomplished by providing commuters with small transceivers (tags) that emit a tuned radio signal. Receivers placed at tollbooths are able to receive the radio signal and identify the commuter associated with the particular signal. Commuters establish ETC accounts that are debited for each use of a toll road or facility, thus eliminating the need for the commuter to pay by cash or token. Because the radio signal can be read from a car in motion, ETC can reduce traffic jams at toll plazas by allowing tag holders to pass through at moderate speeds. At the time the New York and New Jersey agencies were studying the service, electronic toll collection was already being used successfully in Texas and Louisiana. Even though several of the agencies had individually considered implementing ETC, they recognized that independent adoption would fall far short of the potential benefits achievable with an integrated interregional system. The task force was most interested in identifying the ideal configuration of service attributes for each agency’s commuters and determining how similar or different these configurations might be across agencies. The task force identified a lengthy list of attributes that was ultimately culled to six questions: • How many accounts are necessary and what statements will be received? • How and where does one pay for E-ZPass? • What lanes are available for use and how they are controlled? • Is the tag transferable to other vehicles? • What is the price of the tag and possible service charge? • What are other possible uses for the E-ZPass tag (airport parking, gasoline purchases, and so forth)? From a researcher’s perspective, it also seemed important to assess commuter demand for the service. However, the task force was not convinced that it needed a projection of demand, because it was committed to implementing ETC regardless of initial commuter acceptance. The task force considered its primary role to be investigating commuters’ preferences for how the service should be configured ideally. Questions

1. Evaluate the problem-definition process. Has the problem been defined adequately so that a relevant decision statement can be written?

2. What research questions might be tested?

3. Write a complete research proposal for E-ZPass.

One of the constant dilemmas being faced by organizations is dealing with employees' Conflicts of Interest. Some Conflicts of Interest (COI) are severe enough to require laws to deal with them, others are dealt with more internally through organizational policies. COIs fall into certain categories including, financial, relational, and competitive/confidentiality and others depending on the nature of the organization.   

Examples of COIs in the workplace:

Rowan, K. (214, Apr 15). Conflict of Interest Examples: Avoiding Lawsuits in the Workplace. Udemy blog. Retrieved from: https://blog.udemy.com/conflict-of-interest-examples/

For this paper:

Pick an organization (public or private) and then choose a particular type of COI that is associated with this type of organization.

Locate and describe any laws that are designed to discourage or prevent this type of COI in your country. If there are no laws particular to the type of COI you chose, discuss why this is the case.

Locate examples of organizational policies used to also discourage the particular COI and discuss how the main features of the policy around the particular COI.

Discuss ways that managers can use both policy and the existing laws in your home country to discourage employees seeking their own interests over that of the employer.

In your estimation, do laws and policies help promote ethical behavior? Do you feel that the laws, as they are currently, are sufficient and effective?

Finally, suggest ways that the laws and/or policies could be improved to both motivate employees to pursue the interests of their employers, as well as to minimize the costs of employers complying with or enforcing the laws.

Scenario: Imagine that you are working as a mid-level administrator within a healthcare system. You have been tasked with chairing a strategic planning task force to revise and update the healthcare system’s strategic plan. Your initial task is to call a meeting with your newly created strategic planning task force. Your first item on the agenda is to engage your task force in generating creative approaches to the strategic planning process.

Please briefly explain (in a minimum of 250 words) to your task force the overall strategic planning process and why creative thinking is important in the strategic planning process and how you will encourage it with your team.

Complete a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM) for Disney World, using at least 12 factors and two competitors in addition to your company - total of three (3) companies in the matrix. Please submit CPM in excel only. You must comment on the CPM results.

Study the case and list three strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to Conexia entering the U.S. market. Remember that is a SWOT analysis, strengths and weaknesses are internal. Opportunities and threats are external.

Refer to section 13-2 which discusses supply chain management. Do some research and identify a company that has successful supply chain management practices. Discuss specific aspects of their supply chain management and evaluate how these practices increase efficiency in their distribution process.

1. What are some major qualities that good managers have in common?
2. What major differences do bad managers have in common?
3. Why do you think a discussion if conflict is important in the study of organizational behavior?
4. What are some conflicts that lead to positive results?
5. What are some conflicts that lead to negative results?