...Lille Nord de France, Lille F-59000, France a Universite Artois, LGI2A, Bethune F-62400, France Abstract This paper analyzes supply chain crisis, the main blockage to effective supply chain collaboration. The research question of this article refers to how the two collaboration concepts (vertical and horizontal) in supply chain can be influenced in practice by potential risk factors. This research proposes five alternatives for a good collaboration: Information sharing collaboration, Decision synchronization collaboration, Incentive alignment collaboration, Resource and skill sharing collaboration, Knowledge Management collaboration. After a thorough research and detailed discussions, the authors identified 16 risk factors most present in literature. The research methodology was combined with the application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility ofof SIM 2013/12thInternational Symposium inin Management. Selection and peer-review under responsibility SIM 2013 / 12th International Symposium Management. Keywords: collaborative supply chain; risk factors; vertical and horizontal collaboration; analytic hierarchy process 1. Introduction Growth in world trade and corresponding movements has led companies to capitalize on global sourcing opportunities in supply chain and going...
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...Item ID: 1911 / 2 Item Description: Final Exam Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee ____________________________________________________________________________ Question #: 2 In a road accident in Times Square, Manhattan, the driver of one of the cars suffered a concussion which the NYPD deemed as requiring...
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...Communication And Collaboration Strategy Paper Developing Strategies There are a few strategies that can be helpful for creating effective communication and collaboration among certain individuals. These individuals come from a diverse background, and they have learning styles and personality traits that vary. It is a hard task to meet each learning style during one project, but individuals need to learn to adapt. For example, a visual learner must learn to adapt to writing notes during a lecture. In this paper I will develop strategies to help me, as a logical learner/thinker, communicate and collaborate well with other learning/personality styles. The Visual Learner The learning style assessment states that I am a logical learner; this means that I like to brainstorm ideas and create an outline. Being in an online class, I would be able to create an outline of ideas that the team members have come up with and post them on the computer for everyone to see. Individuals are able to post questions and responses on the computer; this is a strategy that will help visual learners keep up with what is going on. The Kinesthetic Learner A kinesthetic learner must be able to work everything through hands-on experience. I believe allowing this learner to be the one to type up the final version for an assignment would be beneficial. This will allow the individual to read the final paper while typing it up; therefore gaining knowledge from hands-on experience. The...
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...NETW583 Strategic Management of Technology Term Project Instructions A key part of this class is the Term Project – developing a comprehensive written strategic plan for a technology driven organization. The project is intended to provide students with the opportunity to integrate skills and knowledge developed in this course. The project has a value of 200 points or 20% of the overall course grade. This document will provide you with additional information about the requirements as a supplement to the brief description on the course site. General Comments The project is organized consistent with the Terminal Course Objectives. This format allows students to apply what they have learned and serves to reinforce the concepts. The Term Project has 6 sections each of which should cover a specific Terminal Course Objectives 1. Strategy (TCO F) 2. Core Competencies (TCO C) 3. Industry Dynamics (TCO A) 4. Technology Sourcing and Internal Innovation (TCO D) 5. Product Development Strategy (TCO E) 6. Strategy to protect innovations (TCO B) Each section of the project should be approximately 2-3 double spaced pages in length. Only the final paper, which is due on the Sunday ending week 7, will be graded. Each plan grade is made up of 3 components and weighted as follows: • Content (70%): how well the plan meets the objective of each section, which is organized by Terminal Course Objective. Care should be taken to ensure that your ideas are carefully considered and supported by...
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...Plan of Action Myisha Lockhart Paige Renfrow Stephen Lewis Foundations of University Studies December 17, 2013 Task | Details | Assigned Individual | Due Date | Week 4 | Rough Draft -Anticipating problems | 300-600 word paper detailing potential problems and solutions to working with teams, include cover sheet. | Steve Lewis | 12/18/2013 | Collaboration on Anticipating Problems | Team to look through initial draft of document for content additions or thoughts | Entire Team | 12/22/2013 | Certificate of Originality | Upload Certificate of Originality to Team Forum for completion by all team members. | Steve Lewis | 12/21/2013 | Week 5 | Reliable Sources | Locate 2 sources in the Library and complete the Reliable Sources Worksheet, include cover sheet. | Myisha Lockhart- Gray | 01/07/2014 | Collaboration on Reliable Sources | Team to look at initial draft of document for content and additions. | Entire Team | 01/12/2014 | Certificate of Originality | Upload Certificate of Originality to Team Forum for completion by all team members. | Myisha Lockhart-Gray | 01/11/2014 | Team Charter Personal Information | Fill out personal information on Team Charter | Entire Team | 01/07/2014 | Team Ground Rules and Guidelines | Create Initial Ground Rules and Guidelines for Team charter | Paige Renfrow | 01/07/2014 | Expectations for Time Management and Involvement | Create initial expectations for time management and involvement in the team | Paige Renfrow | 01/07/2014...
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...Third Party Conflict Resolution January 17, 2013 Third Party Conflict Resolution In the negotiation process, the use of third-party conflict resolutions often comes into play when parties cannot seem to reach an agreement regarding resolving mutual interests. These types of third-party conflict resolutions are: arbitration, collaboration, litigation and mediation. For the Seatcor Manufacturing Company, the use of third-party conflict resolution is necessary. The researchers of Team A have reported collaborative ideas of this case by (1) analyzing the possible intervention strategies, (2) applying what is thought to be the best strategy, (3) explained how the best strategy should resolve the conflict, and (4) developed a contingency plan in case the best strategy does not work, or is rejected. Intervention strategies Possible intervention strategies include negotiation, mediation, arbitration, litigation, collaboration and hybrids. Two types of hybrid intervention strategies are mediation – arbitration and arbitration-mediation. • Negotiation - There are four elements to the negotiation process, which include managing interdependence, engaging in mutual adjustment, creating or claiming value, and managing conflict. Negotiations consist of two or more parties be that individuals, groups, or organizations. A conflict of needs and desires exist between parties and the parties chose to negotiate. Parties expect a “give and take” process that is fundamental...
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...Introduction The purpose of this Communication Management Plan is to define the communications requirements for the NM3 Consulting Project. This plan will be a guide for how any communications will be handled by all persons. It includes a communications matrix which maps the communication requirements of this project. This plan will be updated as different means and needs of communication do change. Due to the simplicity of the project this Communication Management Plan is simple in nature. Approach The members of NM3 Consulting(Team 4) will share equal project manager responsibility for this project. Team 4 will take a proactive role for ensuring that communications are effective and coherent for the entire project. As with most project plans, there will be possible changes and updates as the project progresses. These changes will occur due to possibilities of changes in personnel, scope, budget, or other reasons. Team41 will be responsible for all changes within the communication management plan. After any changes to the communication plan, Team 4 will send change requests to the Project Management Office and the Change Control Board for final approval and then distribute the updated plan to all team members and stakeholders. The methodology of the communications management plan and any changes will be consistent with the policies of the Change Management Plan. Methodology Team 1 has based the communication methods and technologies on the current hardware...
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...Service Request SR-kf-013 Paper (Preparation) Learning Team B BSA/375 Service Request SR-kf-013 Paper (Preparation) Kudler Fine Foods has submitted a service request to implement a tracking system for a new frequent shopper program. This project will “track purchases of individual customer's. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies” (Kudler, 2014). (Project Scope) “Project scope is a part of project planning that involves determining and documenting a list of specific project goals, deliverables, tasks and deadlines” (Rouse, 2014). Project scope is broken into several sub-categories: project objectives, goals, phases, tasks, resources, budget, and proposed schedule. Project Objectives – To track purchases of individual customers. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies. Project Goals and Phases – The project goal is to create a business/systems requirements document for the development of the Frequent Shopper Program system to meet the objective of this request. There are 4 phases of this project, and they are: * Phase 1: Define the scope and stakeholders associated with the...
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...Introduction Many companies set out to be the best in the field that they are in. The Riordan Manufacturing Company is no different. They have set high goals to be the leaders in their industry and have strong strategic planning to help back this up. They are a company strives to put their people and consumers first and by doing so have been able to be leaders in their industry. They have a clear mission and vision of what it will take to be the best and have strived to be leaders in their field in all aspect of their business. The Riordan Company is built their reputation on good customer service and doing what it takes to have great employees that are all working for the same thing. Mission and Vision The Riordan Company has set them up for success by understanding what it will take to be leaders in their field. They feel that strong business values are important and they are striving to reach the goals they have set forth for themselves. Being a global plastics manufacture can be a tough business to be in and to be successful the Riordan Company realizes that then need to use tools such as six sigma to help them out in problem solving as well as business decisions making. They have set standards such as meeting or exceeding the ISO 9000 standards for great business practices to insure that the products they put out will be the best on the market. They have a strong R-Dbase to help them have the latest and greatest products out on the market. They understanding the importance...
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...Language Learning. A guidebook to moderating intercultural collaboration online. M. Dooly (ed.). (2008) Bern: Peter Lang. Chapter 1 Constructing knowledge together Melinda Dooly Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. (Henry Ford) Summary In this chapter, we briefly explain what we propose as a working definition of cooperative and collaborative learning and why it is important. This chapter gives an overview of how the premise of constructivism provides an important axis for collaborative and cooperative work. We also examine how this type of approach easily fits with online language learning projects. Basic points for setting up online collaborative projects are given, however these examples are quite general in this chapter. Specific examples of how collaborative and/or cooperative learning can be explored with network-based learning are provided in Chapters 3 and 4, which describe some ICT tools in more detail. Constructing knowledge together: collaborative or cooperative learning? Collaborative learning requires working together toward a common goal. This type of learning has been called by various names: cooperative learning, collaborative learning, collective learning, learning communities, peer teaching, peer learning, or team learning. What they have in common is that they all incorporate group work. However, collaboration is more than co-operation. Collaboration entails the whole process of learning. This may include...
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...Running head: IMPROVING TEAM COLLABORATION April 9, 2015 Improving Team Collaboration As a home health care nurse multi-disciplinary collaboration regarding a specific patient can be very challenging. With the increasing number of complex patients, patients can have care provided from several different professionals with very different goals. These disciplines include: skilled nurse, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social worker, and home health aide. The lack of consistent communication between health care providers can lead to poor outcomes, such a falls, decreased patient satisfaction, and unplanned hospitalizations. For example if a patient has a medication change causing weakness or unsteady gate that is not communicated to the therapist, the therapist may send patient to hospital concluding it is a functional change instead of a medication side effect. This is just one of many things that can occur when poor communication occurs within a multi-disciplinary team. As previously mentioned home health care has seen a significant growth of increasingly complex patients requiring multiple disciplines in the home. Each member of the healthcare team has patient centered goals. It is necessary for each discipline to be aware of the goals that each discipline is working on to form a seamless plan of care. Due to the increased complexity of the plan of care it is necessary for the team to meet via conference call or in person to collaborate...
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...Jay Grand Productions, Inc Brieana Yates CMGT/554 November 9, 2015 LARRY SCHREIDER This project plan for Jay Grand Productions Inc. is a 3 year plan which is to begin December 2015 and has a projected end date of December 2018. This document will outline the improvements to the current information technology throughout the organization. The need for information, knowledge and collaboration sharing has become very important to the success of this business. Clients, collaborators, artists, and investors are interested in being able to access music files, data, email, and master recordings pertinent to their specific projects. Programs such as Final Cut, Logic Pro X, and Office 365 (Saas – Software as a Service) are three of the main technologies that we need to implement for information sharing capabilities. These programs are necessary to create music, create the coordinating video files, and communicate via email. The current system is a star topology using an Ethernet connection on a Cat5 cable. All individual nodes are connected via a wireless LAN on a centralized access point; peer-to-peer infrastructure. The current WAN system plan allows for 350 GB of data with 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps upload speeds. My recommendation is to increase the amount of data to 700 GB with 100 down and 10 upload speeds. I am also making the recommendation to hire additional IT personnel to assist in implementation, maintenance, ongoing support, and operational needs. It is also my recommendation...
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...of flows of products, information, and funds throughout the supply chain Supply Chain Stages A typical supply chain may involve many different trading partners, called stages Stages may include: – Suppliers – Producers – Wholesalers/Distributors – Retailers – Customers Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1-3 Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1-4 SCM Activities SCM activities include: • Coordination – coordinate the movement of goods, services, and funds through the supply chain Managing Flows Through the Supply Chain Managing Flows of Products, Information, and Funds: • Flow of Products – from the beginning to the final customer – Reverse Logistics • Information Sharing – share forecasts, point-of-sale data, planned promotional campaigns, and inventory levels • Collaboration – jointly plan, operate, and execute business decisions as one entity Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1-5 Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1-6 1 10/15/2012 Managing Flows Through the Supply Chain Continued • Flow of Information – simplified supply chains utilize data from point-of-sale back to suppliers – real time information reduces uncertainty and inventory levels The Bullwhip Effect Fluctuation and distortion of information increases as it moves up the supply chain – each stage of the chain carries progressively more inventory –...
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...system of creative methodology for collaboration. The selected article highlights the importance of “scores”, which are representations of the creative, design and decision making processes. Thus, “scores” are very indispensable in the entire RSVP circle. In these two selected articles, Halprin thinks scores are the key link in the entire RSVP circle. I believe this is correct because scores directly influence the final design and decisions and also encourage public participation before the performance is fixed. In the entire RSVP circle, the “score” is ideally a collective process of “doing”, which is also the design or decision making process. Scores describe the processes leading to performance, which is an instruction for the work, such as the master plan in landscape. Scores can be used as a means of communication tool, such as the words or plans. Scores can be the means of control, such as a set of construction documents. In the phase of the “score,” all of us can be involved in the decision making process. For example, there are typically public comments made during the development of landscape master plans. Landscape master plans can be considered as a “score” and are typically the outcome of a standardized “design process”. The standard rational design process is a step-by-step method that considers the environmental constrains, opportunities, client goals, and the principles of design. This process directly influences the final decision and can be considered as...
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...Conflict Management Plan MGT/311 Version 1 1 University of Phoenix Material Conflict Management Plan 1. Identify the available conflict management strategies and their strengths and weaknesses. Strengths Strategy Weaknesses Could potentially cause poor relationship between competing parties. Reach solution at the expense of others. Time consuming to gain agreement on solution. Mandates effort for all parties involved. Competition Provides a quick resolution. Confront unpopular actions. Collaboration Avoidance The ability to solve initial issue. Builds relationship for future projects. Shared responsibility of resolution. Less stressful because of win-win outcome. Avoids disruption. Buys time to gather thoughts. Failure to reconcile differences of original conflict. Negligence of having a resolution. Temporary solution. Management puts his or her goals on hold so others can achieve their goals. Requires extensive cooperation. Temporary solution. A potential lose-lose situation because parties might not be satisfied. Need for monitoring to ensure that each party lives up to their end of the bargain. Can not be used for complex issues. Accommodation Compromise Allows the ability access the situation from every angle. Preserves future relationships. Ability to prioritize issues that are more important. Efficient resolution. Effective for non complex issues. 2. Which of the available conflict...
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