...supply, what other operational improvements can you suggest to HP Boise? * To improve the forecasting ability to ensure appropriate demand is met in all sector while optimizing inventory level * To create similar standardization of power supply in other product offering such as workstations and servers. It is also possible that HP can consolidate all power supply (for servers, workstations and printers) to its manufacturing partner in low cost country. The idea is to consolidate and standardize which in theory creates efficiency, and optimize all level of cost including inventory. * To reduce the risk try to be accept the other vendors as the partner apart from relying just on the single vendor in Japan * The Lead Time is very high as compared to the product Life Cycle, also under the Buy/Make framework outsourcing a key component could be risky decision. So as to reduce the risk & Lead Time it should consider manufacturing the products in-house thus saving cost & time in transportation & transhipment. What would be your recommendations about the adoption of a universal power supply? We would recommend HP to adopt universal power supply as the potential benefits outweigh the costs. * From one perspective, $30 increases in product that sale for $1000 which is only 3%. This 3% increase will eliminate a lot of marketing, manufacturing, forecasting, and logistical problem that HP is spending millions each year. I believe that by spending 3%......
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...These are study questions for the material on Test 1. If you want to have me look at your answers, please include the question and the answer and please give it to me word processed and double-spaced. Thanks, Linda Kollett Introduction 1. Define anatomy and physiology and describe related areas of study. 2. Describe the relationship between structure and function. Give examples. 3. Name the levels of organization. 4. Describe common tissue types including structure and characteristics 5. Define homeostasis and general characteristics of control mechanisms. 6. Describe negative and positive feedback systems and give examples. 7. Describe the glycocalyx and relate to cell-environment interactions. 8. Describe microvilli, gap junctions, tight junctions and desmosomes. 9. Describe types of cell-environment interactions, including cell adhesion molecules, membrane receptors, and cell signaling Integumentary System 1. Describe the structure of the skin. Be able to compare and contrast the dermis and the epidermis. Relate the structure of the skin to its function. 2. Describe the role of the hypodermis 3. Describe the structure of a hair and hair follicle. 4. Explain how hair and nails grow. 5. Describe the location, secretion type, secretion mechanism and function of the sweat glands. 6. Briefly explain reasons for differences in skin color. 7. List the......
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...Answer: 1. In order to calculate the yearly investment in DeskJet printers, we calculate the yearly investment of the printers separately and then add them together to get the total yearly cost. There are 6 versions of the printers, which are A, AA, AB, AQ, AU, AY. The total factory throughput time through the PCAT and FAT stages is about one week. The transportation time from Vancouver to the European DC is five weeks. The plant sends a weekly shipment of printers to Europe. Therefore, the lead time is L=1+5=6 weeks and review time T=1 week. Based on the data in Exhibit 13.14 in the textbook, we use Excel to calculate the average monthly demand (mean) and the standard deviation for each version of the printers (Exhibit 1). In order to calculate the standard deviation of demand over the review and the lead time, we use the formula below: σT+L=√((T+L)) σ2d Therefore, we can get σT+L for each version, which are listed in the exhibit 2. 1. Develop an inventory model for managing the DeskJet printers in Europe assuming that the Vancouver plant continues to produce the six models sold in Europe. Using the data in Exhibit 17.13, apply your model and calculate the expected yearly investment in DeskJet printer inventory in the Europe DC. Answer: 1. In order to calculate the yearly investment in DeskJet printers, we calculate the yearly investment of the printers separately and then add them together to get the total yearly cost. There are 6 versions of the......
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...1. A business model is a revenue generating partnership of the business and its customers. The business model activates the business plan. There are several questions that formulate the business model. Such as • What is our relationship with our customer? What are they offering the business? • Will this customer be in relationship for the short term or long term? • Is there one customer that controls our business? • What marketing or other strategies guarantee new long-term customers? • How do we increase the return on investment from each customer with repeat business? A business plan is a living document that presents the strategies that will drive the business toward the future and sustain it in the present. The plan lays out the mission, and the following strategies marketing, advertising, sales, and most importantly the financial health of the business. It communicates the roles, responsibilities, and goals of leadership to navigate the business into profitable territory and avoid any threats to the success of the business. 2. What are the eight key components of an effective business model? Customers--- There has to be a ready consumer. Willing to purchase your product or service. Resources and Capabilities-Access to capital, expertise in the field, suppliers, supply chain, and delivery chain These are necessary to support the business, provide innovative products and services, get the product to market quickly, and supply the product at the best possible......
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...Case Study Questions: 1. Provide a synopsis of the Jones and Shephard case. The Co added extra obligations and responsibilities to be managed with the addition of the ISD department, which made the work load that currently existed, be more of a deficit than a benefit to the Co. The main focus was to resolve internal projects to a satisfying level and incorporate the needs of the external customers with sufficient supported outcomes of both. 2. Highlight three enterprise management causes/considerations and three project management causes/considerations for the situation. Include what seemed to be missing. From the business objective; the implementation of the ISD department was added too rapidly, and the addition of approximately 50 new employees created a budget increase where this could have been minimized or alleviated. The business did not have a well thought out plan when they added the ISD division, with no project supervisor that could only focus on this new implementation. The business did not allow the Division Director to focus on strategic planning and policy formulation as a main focus to help enhance the company. The projects X and Y were not guided by individual project managers, which caused the Director to be solely responsible for the daily performance of them. There was no head person or supervisor in place to deal with Customer inquiries and needs. The Idea of the Matrix would seem to be a proven effective internal structure for the......
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...Question 1 If we ignore tax considerations and assume that Sally Jameson is free to sell her options at any time after she joins Telstar she has several chooses. She can either choose to take the cash bonus, either take the options and sell it, or she can take the option and keep it until it is worth use. Let’s compare the situations : 1- She takes the cash bonus and decide to invest it in a 5-year bond which rate is 6,02%. So at the end she will win 5310$ (=5000*1,0602). 2- She takes the options in order to sell it. Let’s assume that it is easy to find someone who want to buy the option at the value of the call option. Seeing the exhibit 3, the standard deviation of the Telstar common stock is 30%. S= 18,75 K= 35 r= 6,02% t= 5 σ= 30% So C= 2,9245 Assuming that she can easily and quickly find someone to buy her options, she can sell it at 3000*2,9245= 8773,5$ Then she could even invest these 8773,5$ in a 5years bond and win 8773,5*1,0602=9301,7$ 3- She keeps the options until it is worth use it and sell her shares. If she wants to earn more than she could have won by taking the cash bonus we have to find the value of the stock that would make her win more than 5301$ (X-35)*3000=5301 => X= 36,767 So when the value of the stocks is greater than 36,767, it will be worth using the option and sell the shares after. Sally Jameson will win more than 5301. If she want to earn more than she could have won by selling the options...
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...1. Human resource management consists of numerous activities. What areas were illustrated by Sam’s schedule on this particular day? One of areas were illustrated by Sam’s schedule on that day are to ensure worker requirements for the day are met with the organization needs. On that day, Sam was told that new stockroom foreman did not come to work. He was asked to find replacement for that new worker by Al Noren urgently. It because on that day, there are two cars must be unloaded. Sam agree and will find the replacement but he fails. Next areas is, training and development. This context are includes to identify training and development needs and source provision. It also consists to provide Corporate induction programs, facilitate IiP accreditation and administer corporate training provision. In this case study, Sam is instructed to devising a program to help his company. He decide to use the management by objectives (MBO) program although him realized there are will be resistance by some plant managers. But Sam confident that this MBO is good solutions to implementation at his workplace, Lakeview Plant for improve the work setting and skill level of employees. Besides that, there is also recruitment activities. Recruitment activities covering such as provide a comprehensive advice and administration service, from advertising to appointment, for all full-time and fractional appointments across the organization. It also to provide and selecting the......
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...Identification In a 3-year period, Hewlett-Packard (HP) brought in $500 million through the use of operations research (Turban, Sharda, Delen. (2011)). HP also generated billions of dollars from customers from around the world. The conglomerate produces thousands of laser printers, enterprise servers and storage products. As a result of the increased number of products that HP supplies, the company also undertakes additional cost associated with these new innovations. For this reason, HP experienced a decrease in revenue due to unplanned operational costs. HP has worked diligently towards meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Unfortunately, managing millions of new products lead to increased cost and inefficiency. HP recognized that its company was providing millions of choices for customer satisfaction without a high return on investment. HP’s marketing and sales departments requested more SKU’s, more features and more configurations to meet consumer interests. However the supply chain managers wanted less complexity and were interested in more predictable order cycle times. HP needed to implement a fact-based, data-driven tool to improve decision making. HP developed a team of individuals internally and externally from consultancies and universities to help with the challenges the company faced. This team developed a process for evaluating new products for introduction, created a tool for prioritizing existing products in a portfolio, and developed an......
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...DSG Internetwork Solutions NET 226A, Belski April 14, 2014 Case Study 1 Case Study #1: Corleone Marketing Firm Mr. Hagen, the IT director at Corleone Marketing Firm, manages the upgrade and migration of the network to newer technologies. He has two network administrators working for him that manage the servers, desktops, and network hardware for the company. The company is understaffed, and the administrators are overworked. They currently use no network management software to monitor the network. The firm has two locations, one in New York and one in Chicago, specializing in corporate advertising. A MPLS WAN link exists between the sites. Each office has approximately 250 workstations. The company expects only 4 percent network traffic growth in the next two years. Computers at each office are connected to 10/100 hubs. A router in New York provides connectivity to the Chicago office and to the Internet via a local ISP. The current routing protocol is RIP. The MPLS link is a T1 line and utilization usually hovers around 80 percent. The Ethernet segments currently run at an average 50 percent utilization; occasionally, network utilization will burst to 65 percent utilization. Users complain of slow response time through the day. The firm uses MS Office suite including MS SharePoint for word processing and exchanging documents. E-mail and HTTP are highly used as well. The firm also uses database servers for marketing information. IP is the only protocol......
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...CASE STUDY MAY 1, 2005 CMA helps Hewlett Packard Implement Solutions Marketing Strategy in Government By Ken Jones, Vice President, CMA, kjones@cmai.com COMPUTER MARKETING ASSOCIATES, INC. 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 720 Vienna, VA 22182-2707 Main: 703.883.0728 Fax: 703-917-7733 www.cmai.com Solutions for Government Technology Companies • Market Development • Business Development • Contract Services • Consulting The Client Hewlett Packard is a company unlike any other. It serves everyone - from consumers, to small and mid-sized businesses, to enterprises and the public sector – with an extensive portfolio of market-leading solutions. Today HP is a leading IT company with worldwide revenues of $79.9 billion in fiscal year 2004 and a team of 150,000 employees. HP also leads in the Public Sector marketplace and is one of the largest companies in the federal market. The merger in recent years of major Information Technology companies such as Tandem, Digital, and Compaq into the HP family resulted in the amalgamation of a wide range of products and solutions. This represented a significant challenge to the marketing and sales organization. The answer to the challenge was the adoption of a solutions-based marketing strategy. CMA and HP in Public Sector market CMA has been one of HP’s primary partners for the past four years in helping implement a solutions-based strategy. Today, the HP Federal Enterprise Division has defined five major solutions sets to......
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...Case Study Objectives and Discussion Questions Week 5 Case 6: Dell Inc. in 2008 [Objectives] Provides sufficient information for students to complete a thorough SWOT analysis and to develop a solid list of key success factors and driving forces [Discussion questions] 1. What is your evaluation of Michael Dell’s performance in his roles as Dell’s CEO and Chairman? How well has he performed the five tasks of crafting and executing strategy that were discussed in Chapter 2? 2. What are the elements of Dell’s strategy? Which one of the five generic competitive strategies is Dell employing? How well do the different pieces of Dell’s strategy fit together? In what ways is Dell’s strategy evolving? 3. Does Dell’s expansion into other IT products and services make good strategic sense? Why or why not? 4. Is Dell’s strategy working? What is your assessment of the financial performance that Dell’s strategy has delivered during fiscal years 2000-2008? Use the financial ratios presented in Table 4.1 of Chapter 4 (pages 104-105) as a basis for doing your calculations and drawing conclusions about Dell’s performance. 5. What does a SWOT analysis reveal about the attractiveness of Dell’s situation in 2008? 6. Which company is competitively stronger—Dell or Hewlett-Packard? Use the weighted competitive strength assessment methodology shown in Table 4.4 of Chapter 4 to support your answer. 7. In what respects, if any, is Hewlett-Packard’s strategy...
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...CISM 4136 A- Global Information Resource Management Case Questions Carol V. Brown, D.W. DeHayes, J.A. Hoffer, W.E. Martin,&. W.C. Perkins, Managing Information Technology, Seventh Edition, 2012, Prentice Hall. Case Study 1 - Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (A): The Role of the Operating Manager in Information Systems 1. Identify the key players in the case and describe their respective roles. Are these the right roles? What roles in particular should be modified? How might such role modifications be accomplished? 2. Focus on the role of the software vendor- Unitrak Software Corporation. Was it an appropriate role? Did Unitrak act responsibly? 3. How much is Kovecki to blame for this situation? 4. One of the recurring themes of this book is the importance of information systems politics. To what extent does IS politics explain the situation that has developed at the Midsouth Chamber of Commerce? 5. The case involves what appears to be a fairly routine use of information technology to support a service organization. Yet the Midsouth Chamber of Commerce encountered major problems in bringing up its new system. Is there a lesson here for organizations seeking to adopt new information technology? What is it? 6. What should Lassiter do now? Case Study 11-1- Vendor-Managed Inventory at NIBCO 1. What was the catalyst for NIBCO to develop a VMI program, and why was it able to respond? 2. Describe what types of transactions are involved in NIBCO's VMI......
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...Jocelin Butler Kristinia Coombs Shelby Harman Devony Jones Lesley Kuffour Cara Turley Billy Lott Franklin Wilson MGMT 2209 - 02 Jocelin Butler Kristinia Coombs Shelby Harman Devony Jones Lesley Kuffour Cara Turley Billy Lott Franklin Wilson MGMT 2209 - 02 4/22/2014 4/22/2014 HP Cancels the Board and the Beautiful HP Cancels the Board and the Beautiful No one will make it through life without facing struggles and challenges. These occurrences are what shape us and determine are character, morals, world views, etc. How we overcome and rebound from these challenges is vital; it almost indefinitely leads to our future success or failure. This holds true not just for individuals, but for companies and businesses as well. The company Hewlett-Packard recently came face to face with a series of such challenges and took drastic measures to overcome them, eventually resulting in the replacement of four members on its board of directors. The board of directors is a vital role in any company and such an overhaul is rarely seen. Such people can be difficult to replace and their leaving may unexpectedly damage inner workings of the company. It was the through the work of HP’s new chairman and CEO, Raymond Lane and Leo Apotheker respectfully, that the bold decision to initiate this massive change was made. This was certainly a risky move, but so far seems to have been well worth it. What is it exactly that makes a board of directors so......
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...Question 1 The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines “prejudice”, definition 2c as an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, group, a race, or their supposed characteristics. Prejudice, to me is having an unfavourable attitude toward someone without good reasoning. For instance, an example of gender prejudice is men earning more money than women on average -- even if they are similarly qualified and performing the same tasks. Rather than paying their workers based on their performance and experience, many employers pay a fraction of their employees more simply because they are male while the others receive less due to the fact that they are not. This is not the only factor that plays in role in the sharp contrast in pay between males and females, however it does play a part. There have been many forms of prejudice throughout history that exist even to this day and have become more widespread such as colorism, ableism, sizeism, religious intolerance, racism, and nativism. Colorism is a form of prejudice based on the color of a person’s skin. It is prevalent among people who share the same ethnicity or race but it can also occur in multi-ethnic and non-white communities. In most cases, colorism is in favour of those with lighter skin tones. Albeism, yet ......
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...People to Know | Places to Know | Terms to Know | SpinozaAstruc | | Documentary TheoryCovenant History | Study Questions: Answer the following questions (based on the reading), save it and then submit it to the professor. 1. What is the Documentary Theory? The Documentary Source Theory states the belief that Torah was not written by Moses, but rather, four independent authors. (Ch. 1 Pg. 21 ) 2. Give the “contributions” Spinoza and Astruc made to this theory. Spinoza developed a "higher criticism" of the Bible to analyze its contents internally, rather than through the text, which is tagged "lower criticism". (Ch.1 Pg. 21) 3. How does Davis refute this theory? Because it takes everything God made as a farse considering there is scientific evidence to back up this theory 4. Give several examples of external evidences for Mosaic authorship? The external evidences are contained with in the Torah, which contains references to Mosaic authorship. Exod. 17 :14; 24:4; 34:27; Num. 33:1, 2; Deut. 31:9. Numerous references :n the New Testament also allude to Mosaic authorship, and many are direct quotes from Christ Him- self. For example, Jesus asked the Sadducees, "Have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?" (Mark 12 :26). (Ch. 1 Pg. 24) 5. Give several examples of internal evidences for Mosaic authorship? The Internal evidences are...
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