Category: Essays

Operations Management Applications” Please respond to the following:

Evaluate different operations management principles and techniques that can make businesses more profitable today.

Select one service company of your choice and discuss at least three operations management challenges the company is facing.

Suggest ways to confront the challenges and provide suggestions that can untimely improve sustainability in its value chain.

The Value Chain Concept” Please respond to the following:

Describe a customer experience you have personally encountered where the goods or service or both were unsatisfactory (such as defective products, mistakes, poor service, and so on).

Suggest ways for the organization to improve its goods / service. Determine the element(s) of operations management that must be reevaluated

Identify ethical issues involved in marketing to the customer.
Discuss how your company can use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to service its customers.
Discuss how value affects the purchasing decision related to the product/service you are presenting in this project.
Explain how marketing affects the buying decision for customers, organizations, governments, and businesses.
Discuss the total customer experience and how it impacts customer satisfaction.
Explain the concept of “perception = reality”, and what it means to look at things from the customer’s perspective.
Reflection: You may have known something about this company when the project started; so after this investigation identify three things you didn’t know about (maybe it is a product, market, legal or environmental issue it is dealing with, ethical perspective, how it financed growth, technical issues it is dealing with, etc.) and reflect on how they impact the marketing plan of this company.

Unit I PowerPoint Presentation

Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint Presentation that summarizes the history of waste management and regulation. Use the notes section in PowerPoint to narrate your presentation.

Be sure to address the following:

 Provide one example of how a pre-industrial (before the 18th century) society or civilization handled its waste.

 Include the main events that occurred during each of the periods defined in the textbook (post-war, globalization, and implementation and progress).

 Describe the five main international bodies concerned with waste.

 Define RCRA, NEPA, and CERCLA, and discuss how they influence waste management.

All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA style. Be sure to include in-text citations on your slides, and provide a reference slide that lists all of your sources

1. What is the relationship between your companies and their respective employees and investors?  How do these relationships affect financial performance?  Are there any issues outstanding for your companies? Provide a rationale for your assessment.
2. Compare and contrast your two companies using the financial statements for the two firms and the accumulated data and analysis completed so far.

   If you were going to make an investment in one of the two companies, which one would you select? Why? Explain your answer and include financial and nonfinancial reasons for your conclusion.

3. Prepare a comprehensive final report that summarizes your research and analysis of the two companies you selected for your Final Project over all weeks of this course. Use good form and cite all sources in APA format.
4. Create a 10-15 slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your findings and conclusions for your Final Project over the past five weeks.

Deliverables:

1. By Tuesday, December 15, 2015, submit your answers to the questions in Part One, using an MS Word document, to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Use good form, show all your calculations and conclusions, and cite all sources using APA format.

   Name your document SU_FIN4060_W5_A2_Part1_LastName_FirstInitial

2. By Tuesday, December 15, 2015, address the issues for the Final Project, Week 5 outlined in Part Two items 1 and 2. Incorporate your responses in a comprehensive final report, using an MS Word document, and submit your document to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Use good form, and cite all sources using APA format.

   Name your document SU_FIN40605_W5_A2_Part2_LastName_FirstInitial

3. By Tuesday, December 15, 2015, create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation consisting of 10-15 slides that summarizes your findings and conclusions for the Final Project over all five weeks.  Post this assignment in the Discussion Area and comment on at least two other submissions.

   Name your document SU_FIN4060_W5_A2_Presentation_LastName_FirstInitial

   ***Please see attached documents, etc. for update on what has already been turned in for this assignment (especially since this assignment may require some correspondence with these former assignments). Thank you! -hurpau

Part One: Corporate Governance

Click here to visit Southwest Airlines Investor Relations.

Review the information the company has provided including the company profile, corporate government guidelines and policies, news and events, financials, and investor resources.

Required:

Identify what Southwest Airlines sought to accomplish for its stakeholders.
Evaluate Southwest Airlines’ actions with respect to employees and customers.
Assess Southwest Airlines’ achievements in the area of corporate governance.
Have the actions and initiatives undertaken by Southwest Airlines made in a positive impact on its profitability? Explain with specific examples and financial data. Cite your sources using APA format

The student in Question 5 from Module 18 decides to conduct the same study using a within-subjects design in order to control for differences in cognitive ability. He selects a random sample of participants and has them study different material of equal difficulty in both the music and no music conditions. The data appear below. As before, they are measured on an intervalratio scale and are normally distributed.

Music No Music

6 10

7 7

6 8

5 7

6 7

8 9

8 8

What statistical test should be used to analyze these data?

b. Identify H0 and Ha for this study.

c. Conduct the appropriate analysis.

d. Should H0 be rejected? What should the researcher conclude?

e. If significant, compute the effect size and interpret.

f. If significant, draw a graph representing the data

Should the U.S. Convert to a Zero Personal Income Tax?

In a recent news article located at http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/heres-where-your-federal-income-tax-dollars-go-f654971, NBC News reported that the U.S. Government spends $3.6 trillion per year to fund Social Security, Medicare, homeland defense and safety, education, transportation, and the interest on debt obligations. In spite of the services and benefits that the government provides, many taxpayers dread paying income taxes but consider them a necessary evil. Consequently, there is much debate about the inequities contained within the tax code, due to tax shelters and tax credits provided to some taxpayers which thereby increase the tax burden on others.

Using the Internet or Strayer Library, research at least two (2) countries that have a zero income tax rate.

Write a four to five 5 pages paper in which you:

Analyze the way in which the two (2) countries that you have researched provide services and benefits to its citizens without collecting personal income taxes.
For the countries that you have chosen, determine whether or not the U.S. could adopt their taxation model without reducing its total amount of revenue generated by collecting personal income taxes from individuals and business. Justify your response.
Suggest at least three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of the U.S. adopting a zero income tax model. Provide a rationale for your response.
Create a proposal for where the revenue would be derived if the U.S. were to adopt a zero income tax model. In your response, provide specific recommendations concerning the following:
The proposed tax base.
Whether or not tax payers at certain income levels should be exempt from taxation.
The primary way in which the IRS would calculate the tax rate in order to ensure that the same level of tax revenue would still be collected.
The primary way in which your plan will achieve equity.
Speculate on the primary way in which the federal government could make up any shortfalls if it does not collect its targeted revenue from personal income taxes, and ascertain the most significant way in which the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through the IRS, can still adhere to its fiscal and monetary policies. Justify your response.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Examine the types of taxes imposed at the federal, state, and local levels; the federal tax formula; and the rules for arriving at personal and dependency exemptions.
Analyze the concepts of gross income and distinguish between the economic, accounting, and tax concepts of gross income and strategies to minimize gross income, maximize deductions, and minimize disallowance of deductions
Use technology and information resources to research issues in federal taxation.
Write clearly and concisely about federal taxation using proper writing mechanics

Read the “Corporate Solutions at JLL” case study and answer the below questions. Do not use bullet points. You are required to write at least 5 pages (font: 12; line spacing: 2).

· What advantages and/or disadvantages does a single point of contact at a service provider have for Bank of America (BofA)?

· What are the advantages and disadvantages of restructuring Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to create a corporate real estate services/account management function?

· Should the account management function be a cost center or profit center? Why?

· Should Peter Barge recruit an internal or external candidate to be the BofA account manager?

· Based on your previous discussion of advantages and disadvantages to client and JLL, do you recommend JLL to restructure and for BofA to work with JLL as single service provider?

· If you were Peter Barge, how would you go about convincing Bank of America that you were serious about account management? Propose a clear action plan on next steps Peter Barge should take to win the ongoing Bank of America business.

This assignment must be done on Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg West Virginia.

Make revisions to the Week 4 assignment based on your instructor’s and peers’ feedback. The assignment from Week 4 is listed below:

Deliverable Length- SWOT analysis and 3–4 paragraphs on the Joint Commission (Part I)

Part I

Review The Joint Commission standards for the type of health care organization that you chose in Week 1 and that you have used throughout this course.

Identify at least two sections of the standards (e.g., environment of care, leadership).

Describe how these sections are implemented in your selected health care facility.

Make recommendations for improvement.

Part II

An integral part of the strategic planning process is to gather information. One method of doing this is by conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. Now that you have reviewed your chosen standards, you will examine the impact of both internal and external forces on your chosen facility.

Conduct a SWOT analysis for your chosen facility that examines the forces that may affect the facility.

· Be sure to pay particular attention to the issues of financing, productivity, and marketing, as well as others you feel have the potential to impact the facility.

Present your SWOT analysis using a standard SWOT analysis matrix.

· Below your SWOT analysis, identify and discuss at least one issue from each section of your SWOT analysis in further detail in an effort to analyze why you feel the chosen issue may have the greatest impact on the facility.

· When discussing your weakness and threats, be sure to include:

1–2 goals that should be created to improve in these areas

A brief description (1–2 paragraphs) of a plan of action to improve in these area that includes how you will accomplish the goals that you set in the first bullet point. In an action plan, there is usually a time frame, steps to how you plan to meet the goals you set, and how you will measure the goals.

Please download the case material here: Link (Case2_PetFoods-2 )

After you read it, consider the following assumptions:

Let’s suppose the company wants to position and promote our new product as a premium canned dog food alternative.

Let’s further assume that the target market will be in the Boston area, and the product will be sold as a premium price and through supermarket channels only (Make sure you know the implication of all the assumptions that are highlighted.)

Based on the case information and the assumptions above, answer the following questions:

1 What brands are our main competitors? What are their prices per unit?

2 What is our product’s variable cost per tube?

3 What is the advantages of selling this product as a premium dog food?

4 How much is the total annual sales revenue ($) in this selected target market? (i.e., the size of the target market)

5 If the company sets the retail price (MSRP) of the product at $3.75 per tube, what is its gross profit per tube for the company?

6 How much sales units are needed to break even the suggested advertising and promotion spending for this new product in its target market area? (Don’t forget there is a slotting fee as well, and there are two different promotion spending options.)

7 What are the break-even market shares (%) for these two suggested promotion plans?

Compared with competitors’ brand image, advertising spending, and market share, what would you recommend this company do? 

Submit your Word file before the due date and make sure when there’s a formula involved, it should clearly indicated in the document, such as the break even analysis.