Scenario- program to increase marketing majors at university by increasing the number of community college dual enrollment students

implementation and evaluation- briefly explain what steps, resources would you as a college would imply for success of dual enrollment. How would you determine your success or failure in a timetable manner?

Crank Ltd

Crank has been in business since the 1920’s and have three locations in the UK. Their Head Office and main manufacturing site is in Leicester. This site makes complex tubular assemblies for defence organisations, oil and gas and transportation. There is a site at Southampton making tubular shafts for golf clubs, and a site in Glasgow manufacturing aerospace Duct assemblies up to 8″ diameter.

The procurement organisation is currently decentralised. At Leicester, there is a Purchasing Manager, whereas at Southampton and Glasgow, each site has a Chief Buyer in charge of small procurement teams. There is a new Chief Executive of Crank who fervently believes that he needs a new approach for the Group in the way procurement is structured. Over the past month, he has, quietly, been obtaining some salient facts.

The more important ones are

• Each site operates as a ‘Profit Centre’ and the Site Director has to deliver a targeted Return on Capital Employed;

• There are no Group purchase contracts;

• Five major purchases account for 61% of total Group expenditure – they are all raw material including different specifications of tubing;

• There are more than 40 suppliers for the five major purchases;

• No formal tendering has taken place, on any site, for more than two years;

• Capital equipment is purchased by the Group Chief Engineer;

• The company has embraced modern logistics practices including JIT and OTIF (On Time In Full);

• There is no savings plan for purchasing;

• The purchasing teams do not liaise.

The Chief Executive intends to consider an alternative purchasing structure that can deliver benefits for the Group and each operational site. On the basis of your knowledge and the salient facts above what advice could you give him?

Tasks

(c) What alternative structures could be considered?

(d) What are the potential obstacles to change?

(e) What business benefits could accrue from a changed purchasing structure?

How do these factors: cause a widespread usage of high frequency trading?

• Increase in competition

• New models for market access

• Fragmented order flow

Should public health and not-for-profit organizations set priorities for programs? Why?

Granite Housing Association Granite Housing Association (GHA), a charitable organisation, is a Registered Social Landlord (RSL). Its operations are part funded by the Government. GHA is based in the South East of England and manages 30,000 properties. It was created from 7 other RSLs with portfolios ranging from 1,800 to 14,600 properties. Five of the original RSLs had their own maintenance workforce while the other two used external contractors. 30% of the inhouse workforces are also tenants. Each workforce has remained on its own terms and conditions of employment and operates independently of each other. Activities associated with the workforce fell into three main areas: 1. Reactive maintenance 2. Void management and refurbishment 3. Programmed capital works Reactive maintenance requests are initiated by the tenant requesting repairs for damage to property, broken locks, leaking windows, etc. Void management is triggered when a tenant leaves. Typically, the property needs to be made secure, which may involve boarding windows and doors and/or installation of alarms. While the property is vacant prior to a new tenant arriving and dependent upon the condition of the premises, they may need full or partial refurbishment which may include central heating upgrades, kitchen and bathroom replacements. Programmed capital works includes the significant upgrading of a number of properties in a locality which may, for example, include replacement double-glazed windows. Two years remain on the framework agreements for the supply only of plumbing materials and supply only of building supplies, and four years remain on framework contracts for the supply and fitting of alarms, the supply only of kitchen units and the supply only of glazing products. The accountant, James Andrews, has undertaken an analysis of a new government scheme to encourage renewable forms of energy and has proposed that a major capital programme can be undertaken to install solar panels on properties with a south facing roof. For 8,000 properties the scheme is financially viable, for a further 7,000 properties the cases further work would require additional investigation to determine economic viability. The programme will be beneficial both to the tenant and to Granite. However, the in-house workforce does not have the capacity to undertake this activity.

Tasks

You are the Procurement Manager for GSA and you have been asked to consider:

(a) Initiating the procurement of an externally managed programme of installation of solar panels

(b) Outsourcing the three categories of activities undertaken by the in-house workforce.

1. What would you need to consider in relation to both the above initiatives?

2. What contractual matters would need consideration in the relation to the outsourcing initiative and the existing frameworks?

Why was Affirmative Action put into place?

Do you think Title VII and Affirmative Action are still necessary? Why or why not?

Gilbert Moss and Angela Pasaic spent several summers during their college years working at archaeological sites in the Southwest. While at those digs, they learned how to make ceramic tiles from local artisans. After college they made use of their college experiences to start a tile manufacturing firm called Mossaic Tiles, Ltd. They opened their plant in New Mexico, where they would have convenient access to a special clay they intend to use to make a clay derivative for their tiles. Their manufacturing operation consists of a few relatively simple but precarious steps, including molding the tiles, baking, and glazing. Gilbert and Angela plan to produce two basic types of tile for use in home bathrooms, kitchens, sunrooms, and laundry rooms. The two types of tile are a larger, single- colored tile and a smaller, patterned tile.In the manufacturing process, the color or pattern is added before a tile is glazed. Either a single color is sprayed over

the top of a baked set of tiles or a stenciled pattern is sprayed on the top of a baked set of tiles.The tiles are produced in batches of 100. The first step is to pour the clay derivative into

specially constructed molds. It takes 18 minutes to mold a batch of 100 larger tiles and 15 minutes to prepare a mold for a batch of 100 smaller tiles. The company has 60 hours available

each week for molding. After the tiles are molded, they are baked in a kiln: 0.27 hour for a batch of 100 larger tiles and 0.58 hour for a batch of 100 smaller tiles. The company has 105 hours

available each week for baking. After baking, the tiles are either colored or patterned and glazed. This process takes 0.16 hour for a batch of 100 larger tiles and 0.20 hour for a batch of 100

smaller tiles. Forty hours are available each week for the glazing process. Each batch of 100 large tiles requires 32.8 pounds of the clay derivative to produce, whereas each batch of smaller

tiles requires 20 pounds. The company has 6,000 pounds of the clay derivative available each week. Mossaic Tiles earns a profit of $190 for each batch of 100 of the larger tiles and $240 for

each batch of 100 smaller patterned tiles. Angela and Gilbert want to know how many batches of each type of tile to produce each week to maximize profit. In addition, they have some questions about resource usage they would like answered.

A) Formulate a linear programming model on excel for Mossaic Tiles, Ltd. to determine the mix of tiles it should manufacture each week.

B) For artistic reasons, Gilbert and Angela like to produce the smaller, patterned tiles better. They also believe that in the long run, the smaller tiles will be a more successful product.

What must the profit be for the smaller tiles in order for the company to produce only the smaller tiles?

C) Mossaic believes it may be able to reduce the time required for molding to 16 minutes for a batch of larger tiles and 12 minutes for a batch of the smaller tiles. How will this affect

the solution?

D) The company that provides Mossaic with clay has indicated that it can deliver an additional 100 pounds each week. Should Mossaic agree to this offer? Explain.

Until three years ago, Slater was the sole shareholder and director of Lockley Quarries Ltd., a small corporation that owned a quarry and produced trimmed limestone blocks. Then an opportunity arose to purchase a second quarry at a very good price. Slater did not have sufficient funds and persuaded Mason to come into business with him and to help finance the purchase of the new quarry. As a result, Mason became a 40 percent shareholder and a director of Lockley Quarries. Slater and Mason got on well together and the business prospered.

A few months ago, Slater was approached by an old friend, Chalker, who proposed

that they – Chalker and Slater – purchase and operate a gravel pit that had come

onto the market. Slater agreed, and a new corporation was formed to acquire the

gravel pit, with Chalker and Slater as equal shareholders and directors. Mason has learned of the dealings between Slater and Chalker. He considers that he should have been given the opportunity to participate in the new gravel pit venture.

Do you agree? Does Mason have any remedy against Slater?

D4/MIS: Please make sure the answer should be in your won words. I would appreciate if you provide the articles Read four (4) academically reviewed articles on Net Neutrality and Summarize all four (4) articles in at least 30 sentences words or more.

Company ‘A’ has used Performance Benchmarking to compare its product ‘X’ with the competitor’s product ‘Y’ and found out that the product ‘X’ is priced slightly lower, but it also has fewer features than product ‘Y’. The company recognized that in order to win a larger market share and establish itself in the market, it has to increase the number of features in its product while keeping the price at the same level or even decreasing it. To achieve this, the company ’A’ has set up a team that investigated product ‘X’ value chain analysis. Use the following benchmarking tool step by step and apply to the above situation.

Balanced Scorecard Framework

NPS

Operating profit margin

1. What do you expect from a company that implement a combination Lean management and Six Sigma?

How does quasi-experimental research differ from experimental research?