Capacity Case Studies Samples For Students

Capacity planning is a very common activity done by several IT organizations. It is done to manage the performance of the systems is by ensuring that the system offers the best services to the users. System administrators normally restore the system functionality whenever there is a problem. It is good for the system administrator to plan in advance for such issues to avoid performance bottlenecks. Capacity building tools can be used to forecast in advance to plan how severs will be organized to handle the workload. The main aim of capacity panning is to ensure that quality services are offered to ...

Strategic challenge #1

In which venue should the Fame Kills Tour proceed?
The original plan for the Fame Kills Tour was to hold the concerts in arenas in 34 target cities around the United States. Arenas have capacities of 16,000 to 20,000 seats, which can charge average ticket prices of $100 to $150 (Elberse & Christensen, 2011). Based on scheduled venues, the tour will be held in arenas with capacity of 12,000 (Mandalay in Las Vegas) to 23,500 (Greensboro Coliseum).
Kanye West tours, particularly those with appearances by Rihanna, N*E*R*D, and Lupe Fiasco logged the highest ...

Analyzing Case Study about Adolph Coors in the Brewing Industry

Section I: Introduction
Adolf Coors started his brewing company in 1873 in Golden, Colorado. Primarily, the beer product was not intended to be as it is today because of the prevailing regulation on alcoholic drinks during that period. However, as soon as the prohibition was lifted Adolf Coors’s company started to make the actual beer product and immediately sold 90,000 barrels. The success of the company allowed them to expand distribution territories by appointing independent wholesalers in Colorado and Arizona. Soon after, Adolf Coors’ company is selling beers in 44 states by 1985 with annual uninterrupted ...

A Case Study on Shouldice Hospital Limited: Practical Marketing Solutions

Critical problems/issues
Shouldice Hospital Limited, a Canadian hospital specializing in hernia operations is considering whether and how to expand capacity and reach of its services while maintaining the quality of service delivered.

The hospital also faces the paradox of change given the current manager is 6o years old.

Assumptions
Increasing capacity of the facility will increase the profitability of the firm because they will be able to serve many customers.

Increasing capacity will help in reducing waiting lines because currently, there are no operations scheduled during weekends.

Expanding the capacity of by beds by 50 percent would enable the organization schedule the operating rooms more heavily.
If not well implemented, increasing capacity could compromise the quality of service offered by the hospital.
It is assumed that the hospital is ...

Deciding Which Market to Enter

A case study of Taco Bells
Introduction
A company with objectives of entering into new markets must implement strategic decisions on the type of market and the entry mode. Typically, global business enterprises enter new markets through exportation, obtaining market licenses, the formation of joint ventures, or sole venture entry (Keegan, 1989). Any of these entry modes require a firm to commit some resources to succeed in the market entry. Thus, initial strategic decisions as to the category of the market and appropriate entry mode are essential. High competition, industrial organization, and international market imperfections tend to impede the ...

Abstract:

The paper below examines the Pacific Systems Corporation case study. From the case, Pacific Systems Corporation is a technology manufacturer. The company outsources different parts and assembles them in its factory. This paper therefore provides the recommended sourcing strategies for the company. From the case, four suppliers have been shortlisted as possible suppliers for this case. Of the four possible suppliers, two are located in the United States and two are located in Asia. Pacific system wishes to source for DVD dries for its new line of computers. It is estimated that 500,000 pieces will be sourced in ...

Introduction

Identification of talent in athletes is challenging, but important, because it can lead to the potential for understanding the lifelong development of athletes who compete for prolonged periods of time. In analyzing these conditions it is evident that there is a benefit to understanding the underlying principles associated with lifelong development. This demonstrates the fact that “it takes eight to twelve years of training for a talented athlete to reach elite level” (Balyi 2001, p. 1). Understanding the physical and mental conditions under which athletic talent can thrive is essential in developing a commitment to these priorities and their ...

- Why did Coors's competitive position in the U.S. brewing industry deteriorate between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s?

Sales of Coors’s beer declined for the first time in two decades in 1975 by 4%. But the sales performance of the company was quite impressive from the beginning mainly because of quality and geographic advantage. In 1873, Adolph Coors, Sr. started to sell beer in Colorado. In 1933, four years after the prohibition was lifted, the sales volume was 90,000 barrels. Year by year compounded annual sales growth of the company was 11.2% from 1933 to 1974. Exhibit 1 summarizes the position of Coors compared to its competitors.
Coors had several strategic and operational disadvantages ...

Production Possibilities Frontier

The production possibilities curve is a geometric representation of production combinations of two products that can be achieved with an economy using the available resources efficiently. The resources are fixed and the technological condition in the economy constant. Any production along production possibility curve represents an efficient and full employment of the available limited resources (Fte.org, 2014).
The diagram above shows a PPC in a nation’s economy. The above economy can only produce product Y and X. If the economy uses all its resources and technological conditions efficiently, it will produce along the PPC curve (Krugman & Wells, 2006). Different points ...

- Based on the forecast consumption and resulting MDS, it can be concluded that the sales team were able to progress very well in terms of acquiring more orders particularly on the Standard HD TV model P/N 1000. It appears that the aggregated 2013 forecast for both July and August were not able to reach when compared with the booked sales order. For example, the 5 –week forecast for July is 4,725, which is a combined total of 54% PN 1000 and 46% PN1001 appeared to have a supposed average order target of 925 per week. However, the combined book ...

Delhi-Mumbai Dedicated Freight Corridor

Summary
The study is based on the basis that large infrastructure projects, like the proposed Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), are essential drivers of the state economy and have significant implications for attaining low-carbon expansion goals. The intention of the study is based on whether the DFC project would concurrently support sustainable development, reduce freight traffic, and decrease carbon releases. For that reason, it would be a worthy project supporting development policies and climate change strategies at the end. Also, other massive infrastructure of this kind could formulate a strategy background for attaining the aims of low-carbon transportation and sustainable ...

How does a manufacturer benefit from the concept of economic-order quantity?

Economic Order Quantity refers to an optimal quantity of orders that reduces total variable costs essential to order and hold inventory. The benefit of EOQ attached to a manufacturer is that EOQ tends to lower inventory costs. A firm is bound to suffer if it has too much inventory. When a company has a too much inventory, it tends to hold obsolete inventory which lowers the inventory turnover ratio. If manufacturing firm has less inventory, on the other hand, then it is exposed to stock outs and loss of client goodwill. However, for the manufacturer to increase the firm’ ...

Introduction

In recent years, there has been a phenomenal growth in wireless communications technology which is now playing a promising role to meet the ubiquitous user demands. The developments of sophisticated wireless technologies have shaped the lifestyle of common people to a distinctive level. The 21st century has transformed into a turbulent business environment. There has always been a lot of competition among wireless telecommunication companies to cope with ever increasing user-demands in providing them enhanced capacity and data-rate services. Today a significant number of the telecom services providing carriers like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile and so on attempt to influence buyers that their systems ...

Introduction

NUCOR Corporation is an American-based steel company that was incorporated in 1955 (Thompson 330). By then, the company was referred to as the Nuclear Corporation of America, and the incorporation resulted from merger. This merger was prompted by the bankruptcy that the company had experienced in 1950. The Company has its headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it was America’s second largest steel manufacturing firm by the year 2012. One of the company’s greatest reputations was the success in profitability by 2012. In 2012, NUCOR had a continuous profitability trend for decades (Thompson 330-331).
However, like any ...

Background:

American Airlines were the pioneers in the developing of complex reservation management systems. It was the year 1968; when the American Airlines first introduced the SABRE computerized reservation system. These linked all of the reservation agents that existed across the globe. This system provided the Company the ability for the accumulation of consistent and timely data on reservations. The Company introduced an automated overbooking process in 1968.

Issue(s) Identified:

The American Airlines Company that was once a pioneer in airline industry has been facing some serious issues. An assessment of the overall assessment and issues can be summarized as:
When we ...

Introduction

The Small Package Express Delivery Industry is one of the industries where transportation and logistics giant, FedEx, is heavily involved in. Small Package Delivery pertains to a service wherein a company, which in this case would be FedEx, would accept payment from customers and other business owners in exchange of guaranteeing that their small packages would be delivered on or within a specified amount of time or a given schedule to their specified destination. Door to door small package delivery services have been a common service offering in this industry. During the early 70s, at a time when electronic methods of sending and receiving packages ...

Introduction

Economics describes markets depending on the factors that define their competitive nature. In that respect, factors like the number of firms, their market share, market power, pricing strategies as being price leaders or price searchers as well as the ease and barriers to market entry. Therefore, markets are defined into categories of monopolistic, competitive and oligopolistic and have differences in their pricing and output decisions hence different effects and implication on the national economy. In that respect, governments tend to exercise appropriate regulation on the markets in order to achieve national objectives. In this consideration, this analysis seeks to ...

Question 1

Contractual capacity is the legal ability of a person to enter into contract. The capacity requires one to be of 18 years, sound mind and undue influence (Miller, 2008). The contractual capacity entails people who are not under the influence drugs or any harmful substances and should be ready to abide the terms of the contract.

Question 2

One of the conditions that defeat the contractual capacity is intoxicated persons. This is ability of a person not being able to sign a contract in his right self and not able to comprehend the consequences of the contract. The other thing that can defeat the ...

Business Commerce Law

Distinguish between libel, slander, defamation, trade slander, and deceit, indicating in what situations each would apply and the significance of the distinction.
Libel, slander, defamation, trade slander and deceit are legal terms that are often interchanged by lay persons. While these words may seem related and almost similar, there are several ways in which they are different. Here is a discussion of what these different terms mean and situations to illustrate their meaning:
Defamation is a broad term used to refer to any published statement that is a false accusation and is detrimental to a particular person’s reputation. The plaintiff ...

Describe the challenges faced by the company. What were the drivers for change to the supply chain?

The strong competition in the home appliance market, alongside customers’ increased demand sophistication, created the premises for Whirlpool to change its supply chain structure and organization. Looking at Porter’s five forces framework, the main forces that impacted Whirlpool’s supply chain redesign were the intensity of the industry rivalry and the bargaining power of consumers (Porter, 1985). As the case study informs, Whirlpool Corporation needed to transform its supply chain so that it could better satisfy its customers through improved quality of its products and services (“Whirlpool Supply Chain”, n.d.).
With this market requirement, the company addressed the ...

Introduction

In their study, “Effects on Leaders of an Art – Based Leadership Intervention”, Julia Romanowska, Gerry Larson and Töres Theorell (2013) present an interesting primary research conducted on Swedish leaders, for understanding how the art – based, or the Shibboleth leadership intervention, affects leadership style, as compared to the conventional intervention. The study performs a comparison between the art – based and conventional leadership interventions, presenting the results of a research that lasted 18 months. Both intervention methods were evaluated in terms of Sense of Coherence - SOC (resilience to stress) and Agreeableness (social supportive behavior), as well as Laissez – faire ...

Company Law

Question One
First, the issue in play is fueled by two elemental components. That is, the Beanstalk Ltd Company has a constitution that limits the sale of the agricultural products by the company in Queensland. In addition, the board of directors of the company implemented the policy that the board should approve all the transactions of the company over $100,000. Nevertheless, Jack, who is the managing director of the company, attended a trade fair in Victoria that saw him sign a purchase agreement worth $150,000 with Giant Ltd. This aspect has led to the disagreement of the viability of ...

Company Law

Question One
First, the issue in play is fueled by two elemental components. That is, the Beanstalk Ltd Company has a constitution that limits the sale of the agricultural products by the company in Queensland. In addition, the board of directors of the company implemented the policy that the board should approve all the transactions of the company over $100,000. Nevertheless, Jack, who is the managing director of the company, attended a trade fair in Victoria that saw him sign a purchase agreement worth $150,000 with Giant Ltd. This aspect has led to the disagreement of the viability of ...

Mod3Case Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling.

Capacity evaluation is essentially an all-inclusive investigation into a given utility to determine the capacity of the evaluated to function in any required circumstances. A company needs computer capacity evaluation when its computing power has been transferred to cloud-based systems so as to help the company management understand what is needed of them, it involves determining the needs of the company, both current and future. As part of moving to a cloud-based computing environment, the company uses evaluation, planning processes and tools so as to improve speed to system deployment, achieve cost reductions and improve systems availability. These tools and processes ...

Recommendations: Purely should focus on developing a consistent brand image by clearly identifying the marketing mix. Commercial users should become the main target market. Promotion expenditures should be kept to minimum to free up capital for capacity expansion.

Short/Medium Term – Immediately to One Month

1) Purely should focus on commercial users. Firstly, fewer competitors exist in this market. Moreover, servicequality, competitive prices, and word-of-mouth advertising are effective for these users. Longer-term contracts reduce demand volatility and facilitate forecasting.
2) Expand newspaper advertising to publications used by businesses and leverage current network in the Filipino community to penetrate and further expand in the commercial business segment. ...

This paper is committed to determining the optimal plan of product of two shelves types, S and LX. It highlights which combination of shelves to allocate optimally the capacity available to help the organization maximize its total profits. Besides, it undertakes to carry out sensitivity analysis to help in understanding how total profits changes as selected inputs are changed, that is, the selling price and the material cost.

Executive summary

This paper is concerned with the determination of the optimal decision variables, that is, the number of production units for every shelve model that helps the company maximize its profits and ...

Introduction

Public administration revolves around a complex set of correlated ideologies that surmise public administration. Part of the public administration includes the implementation of state policies and public governance. This report focuses on the functioning of public administration with a particular interest in public management and leadership. Various reforms and transformations in the public administration have impacted on the leadership and management of public offices. Extensive research studies have been done on public administration and management in providing an insight on transparency and efficiency. Challenges in public management and leadership have resulted in the enactment of reforms in the administration ...

Background of the Case

Globalization and the internationalization of business brings a number of opportunities to the companies, which, at the same time, come with the challenges to deal with governance structures and keeping the business operations under control, given the growing complexity of the business in general. Whirlpool Corporation is the leader in the global home appliance industry. During its over 100 years history the company have experienced tremendous growth, applying different strategies, from organic expansion to Merger and Acquisition (M&A) strategies, resulting in building a wide portfolio of brands, such as Brastemp, Whirlpool, KitchenAid and Maytag among others, outlining the focus ...

IEG 330: Supply Chain & Logistics Engineering

Section: F2
Summer 2016

Abstract 3

Introduction 4
Objectives of the Project4
Literature Review4-5
Description of the Collecting Data Process5-6
Description of the Collected Data6-7
Mapping the Supply Chain Network of the Company8
Performance Measurement8-11
Tools, Techniques and Approach to follow11-12
Challenges Expected12
Conclusion12
Gantt Chart13
Reference14
Abstract
This report presents an analysis of Kuwait indo Trading Company’s (KITCO) supply chain. Supply chain analysis and management is an imperative aspect for the business. This is mainly the results obtained help improve the bottom line of all members of the supply chain (manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers). The improvement results from ...

Abstract:

This report presents an analysis of Kuwait indo Trading Company’s (KITCO) supply chain. Supply chain analysis and management is an imperative aspect for the business. This is mainly the results obtained help improve the bottom line of all members of the supply chain (manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers). The improvement results from a reduction in transport, logistical, holding, and other costs associated with the transport and handing of goods and raw materials within the supply chain. It also increases the bottom line by streamlining all processes involved in a supply chain. This includes periodic product and raw material ...

With the rising technological advancement and the need for efficiency in operation for any company, there is always a need for the development of a solution to meet these needs. In the case of Catacombs Inc., there are various technological solutions that will need to be implemented to make it competitive, deliver great customer satisfaction and increase its efficiency. This study is going to discuss the requirement, solution and the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed solution.

Requirements Analysis

The requirements for the company to implement an efficient solution are discussed as below:
There is the robustness requirement in the system. This ...

1. How can the disease described above create a mismatch between ventilation and perfusion? Use your understanding of alveolar dead space and physiologic shunt to explain your answer.
In coal-miner’s pneumoconiosis, respirable coal dust that are inhaled for long periods of time trigger hyperactive immune responses that lead to destruction of the lung. At the beginning, coal dust particles are expelled out of the lung through the function of pulmonary macrophages beneath the epithelial layer of airways and near capillaries (Kopf, Schneider & Nobs, 2015). These macrophages phagocytize the dust particles and transport them to the lymphatic tree or ...

Written Strategic Audit

(For The Recalcitrant Director at Byte Products, Inc. Case)
I. Current Situation
- Current Performance
Byte has been a market leader for the past 6 years with steady annual income of 12% and a total turnover of about $265 million. Byte also has a market share of 32 percent. However, upsurge in demand has attracted entry of new firms placing its market leadership in jeopardy.

B. Strategic Posture

- Mission
- Objective
- Strategies
- Increase production capacity by constructing a new production plant that will significantly increase output in the long run.
- Maintain its market leader position ...

Introduction

Economics is a field which has its active recognition n almost every walk of life and it is an important thing as well . Alfred Marsha and Adam Smith are known as the founder of Economics who invented it. According to both of these individuals, Economics is the name of how to earn the money and how to consume it in a perfect and well organized position.
There are two different branches of economics, which are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is the branch of economics that deal specifically with the economics of individuals while macroeconomics is the name of economics that ...

UP express trains takes 25 minutes with brief stops at Bloor and Weston GO stations. When the departure of UP train is after every fifteen minutes and travel time twenty-five minutes, the train will only make a back and forth service in an hour period. Taking the vehicle that moves to Toronto from Pearson to be three and each vehicle having a capacity of sixty seated passengers, the number of passengers that can be transported by UP express can be calculated as
60 × 2 × 3 = 360 passengers
The planned service will require more vehicles to be able to meet ...

Google is a result of collaborative efforts of Sergey Brian and Larry Page; they were the students of PhD at the Stanford University. This bright idea hit them during the education, to develop a worldwide search engine, which could be used and deployed worldwide. The page ranking algorithm developed by Brian and Larry was rated as the most intelligent software as it could cater any content throughout web and could tell the importance of the pages as well. The mechanism deployed behind the Google search engine was that it uses page ranking algorithm in connection with back-linking of data. Also, the ...

Executive Summary

Although Sunset Grill at Blue is experiencing a remarkable growth rate, managing demand during the peak periods such as weekends is still a major challenge. Customers have to wait for long to the extent that some resort to alternative restaurants. The management, therefore, is considering various ways of increasing service efficiency to reduce the queues and maintain its large customer base. After analyzing various options available, this study recommends that Sunset Grill at Blue should adopt a policy of hiring part-time workers and alternative services to help in enhancing service delivery and reducing the queuing time on weekends.

Background
Since its ...

Introduction

International business environment imposes more challenges on contemporary corporations, driven by the complexity of global business, supply chain and the variety of external pressures, which shape and determine the direction in which the organizations develop. The case dwells upon the development and current strategic issues, which are set in front of the Chabros International Group management, looking at the future development of the organization on the edge of global financial crisis and drastically droppings sales. The company´s owner and the president, Antoine Chami, is to take a strategic decision whether to close part of the Serbian sawmill, re-boost the ...

A cladogram tree showing Anthropoidea, Catarrhini, Haplorrhini, Hominoidea, Primates, and Strepsirrhini.

Anthropoidea, Catarrhini, Haplorrhini, Hominoidea, Primata, and Strepsirrhini,. k
Question 1
In the scientific classification, humans and apes; chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are grouped in the same family “hominidae” while monkeys were earlier grouped in the family “Cebidae” but now in the family “Atelidae”. In accordance to scientific researches, human are said to be more closely related to chimpanzees than monkey; looking at their anatomy and genetics. Human evolution shows the evolutionary process that brought about the differences in appearance of the modern man and other hominids. Using genetics and anatomy, we can tell which of the two; ...

Question one:

A contract can simply be defined as a legally enforceable agreement. Legal enforceability denotes the existence of certain legal requirements whose absence will have an adverse effect on the enforceability of the contract. These requirements are what may be referred to as the elements of a contract and absence of any one of these elements may inevitably result in the contract being declared invalid by a court of law. There are various elements of a contract and these inter alia are: offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity, legality, lawful objective and consideration. While all these elements are important for any business that regularly gets into ...

Heat and Thermodynamics

Work out the following problems. Be sure to show your work in detail. See the "Module 5 Handout" for examples of how the problems should be solved and presented.

1. How much energy (in J) is required to raise the temperature of 500 g of water from 20 to 100C, and then turn it to steam at 100C?
Variables:
m = 500g = 0.5 Kg
Increase in water temperature, ∆T = 100-20= 800C
Latent heat at 1000C, Lv =2260 KJ/Kg
Specific heat capacity of water, c = 4.185 kJ/Kg/0C
∆Q = ?
Relationships:
∆Q = m(c∆ ...

Introduction

Climate change and environmental pollutions are the sole reasons for adoption of the green economy in the world. This forms the basic rubric upon which the Australian case study is based. This paper adopts an analytic point of view into the Australian case by investigating the reception of the green jobs economy in the country. The paper describes what green jobs are and their role in the economy of the country. Questioning of the global and the Australian stand in as far as adopting the green jobs policy is also given a highlight. The paper also develops an insightful enquiry ...

Statement of the Problem: Shelby Shelves is a small company that produces two different types of shelves namely S and LX for grocery stores. Though the company is making profits with its production mix of these two models which is (S = 400 & LX = 1400), the company is not able to meet the expenses of production costs of Product S from the revenue generated from Product S. The company is selling Product S at $1800 whereas the cost of producing each unit of Product S is $1839.

Executive Summary: Shelby Shelving case’s main aim is to maximize the profit ...

This paper is devoted to determining the optimal plan of product of two shelves types, S and LX. It highlights which combination of shelves will allocate optimally the capacity available to help the organization maximize its total profits. Besides, it undertakes to carry out sensitivity analysis to help in understanding how total profits changes as selected inputs are changed, that is, the selling price and the material cost.

Executive summary

The problem of Shelby Shelving revolves around to determining the optimal plan of product of two shelves types, S and LX. It highlights which combination of shelves will allocate optimally the ...

The ER that became the emergency

Problem Overview

Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) is one of the main hospitals in Middleville, Ohio. Although the reputation of the hospital is quite good, there have been a number of concerns in the recent years regarding the financial situation of the institution. Although CMH is a not-for-profit organization, stable financial performance is crucial for maintain high level of customer service and to support clinical trials. That is why the hospital has launched a new marketing campaign, which seemed to have attracted quite a number of people. However, a more in-depth analysis of the demand patterns has revealed that most of the demand increase can ...

Background Information

Harley-Davidson Inc. is one of the largest motorcycle manufacturing companies that has not only dominated the United States market, but also other parts of the world. The Company has 100 years experience in terms of motorcycle manufacturing and has attracted a broad base of clients across the United States (Brannen, Jeffrey and Nabil, 11). Economists have mentioned that Harley Davidson Inc. is one of the two motorcycle manufacturing companies that did not experience significant impact as a result of the Great Depression (Zarco and Morgan, 47). Besides, the company has undergone a series of management as well as ownership ...

Choosing a Product

The chosen product for the consumer market in South Africa is smartphones, which have a high demand in this consumer market based on the technological advancements experienced in different parts of the world. The selection of this product focuses on two aspects that would help towards defining success for the company involved in the export process. Firstly, the selection of product focused on the growing consumer markets for smartphones within the South African consumer market with the majority of these products coming in from Asian countries (Parker, 2014). Consequently, this means that providing consumers with quality smartphones would help ...

Introduction

The Shouldice Hospital located right outside Toronto in Canada was founded in 1945 by Dr. Earle Shouldice and strictly performs hernia repair operations only. The hospital has a capacity of 90 beds, 12 full-time surgeons, and seven part-time assistant surgeons and performs an average of 7,000 operations a year.

Comparison of Shouldice Hospital to a Typical Hospital

The setting of the hospital is very different from the ones in general hospitals. The hospital is built on a converted country estate with beautiful landscapes, walking paths, tennis courts and stables, giving the hospital a serene country club environment. The hospital also encourages socialization between patients. This is ...

Introduction

In choosing a particular tool to perform a specific function, a number of factors need to be considered. The choice of an important component of an information system is by no means different as there are a number of different devices with peculiar configurations to choose from. In this paper, the factors to consider in the choice between a tablet and a laptop to effectively carry out management functions are considered.

Factors to consider

The first most important factor to consider in the choice of either a tablet or a laptop is the purpose for which the device will be used (Black ...

Introduction and Analysis – A-Cat Corporation

Introduction
Description of the scenario
A-Cat is a manufacturing company dealing in the production of voltage regulators. The company requires transformers in the manufacture of voltage regulators/refrigerators. In order to meet the demand for refrigerators, the company must have adequate stock of transformers. The company has been facing challenges of overstocking and understocking of transformers. Overstocking increases storage costs thus reducing the operational efficiency of the company while understocking limits the company from meeting its normal production levels. The number of transformers needed is determined by analyzing the sales figures for the last two to three months as well ...

Introduction

According to United Nations (2008), deregulation of the airlines in the recent years has resulted to free strategic choice making in terms of fares and network structures. Most airlines, including Hainan opted for the hub-and-spoke networks, which resulted to increased concentration of traffic on spoke routes and increased savings from the fewer routes. The advantage from the same was maximizing the traffic densities due to the use of large crafts along the routes. However. Graham (2013) outlines that the system adopted has resulted to congestion in airports and a high number of flights have been affected by delays, missed ...

A hospital administrator is tasked with the day to day running of the hospital (Sharma and Goyal, 2013). This means that the administrator bears responsibility for any breach of law that may occur during the discharge of their duties. The administrator must thus be aware of any legal requirements that relate to the hospital. One of the key laws to be aware of is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). From a general perspective, the law prevents ‘dumping’ of patients out of emergency departments (Pozgar, 2012).

Dumping essentially means transferring patients to another hospital either because ...

Question 1

The two famous basketball coaches are Bob Knight and Mike Kryzewski. They are known for being the most successful coaches in terms of leadership and winning records. Coach Knight was successful while he was the coach of the basketball at Indiana University. Coach K has been successful from the time he became the head coach at Duke University.
Coach K possesses both human skills and conceptual skills from Kratz leadership model. Coach K was once quoted saying that he does not desire to be a dictator, but he desired to be a manager. He embraced flexibility and dynamics in his ...

Vanity Products Company

1: The logistics service and cost constraints imposed on VP by the chain store’s latest demand. The latest request by the chain stores requires that every order should be delivered within five working days regardless of the ordered quantities. The fact that the new orders will be placed directly by the consumers through the EDI software means that they will not be consolidated and may be irregular on the choice of products. The company will experience an increase in the dispatch trips that might even need expansions in the delivery capacity and this will result into an increase ...

This case pertains to Metropolitan hospital, a small 2 year old hospital that has a relatively tiny workforce of 235 people. It is a 60 bedded hospital and is very efficient. The hospital board has decided to increase its capacity from 60 to 190 beds within one year; they also plan to recruit the workforce that would be required to handle such an expansion. Clara Hawkins, the hospital administrator, is against this decision as she feels that this proposed expansion would reduce the efficiency of the hospital. She feels that it would be difficult to find such a talented, dedicated and hardworking team ...

Management

Abstract
This paper describes Smiths Information Services Inc. Data centre outsourcing options. As part of corporate overhead reduction program Smith’s Information Service Inc., is faced with a variety of options with regards to outsourcing its data centre management services. The paper reviews the business outsourcing alternatives, short term and long term considerations with data security, service-level agreements, and HR and client issues being of major concern. It will also discuss contractual parameters for the outsourcing process as well as evaluation criteria proposed to be included in the RFP. Finally, the paper will discuss vendor particulars and timeline for ...

Business

Executive Summary
Problem Statement
Nucor needs to build traction for improved profitability in a slowly recovering steel industry amidst continued challenges of price volatility, cheap foreign imports and global steel oversupply.

Analysis

Improving Global Steel Outlook
The global steel industry is slowly recovering while the global economy is edging away from recession. In the forthcoming year, the World Steel Association forecasts that global steel production will increase by 3.3% to 3.4%. For the first time since 2011, all major steel consuming countries have shown positive growth. For the first time since 2006, the growth rate in China (about ...

Question 1:

Strategic
- Meeting external equipment supplier
- Final daily check on the productivity performance at the plant
- Meetings with all managers, supervisors, and department supervisors
- Discussion with production operatives

Design

- Request and meeting with the marketing director for discussion on product trials
- Tour of the factory with plant engineers
- Meeting with technical representative of F-robot

Planning and control

- Checking productivity report from previous day
- Checking quality report for the past week
- Checking deliveries done
- Checking the finished product for variations
- Writing monthly reports ...

- How well is the team performing? Explain why?
A team can be characterized as "a recognizable group of two or more than two individuals who are "appointed particular parts or capacities to perform progressively, reliably, and adaptively to a typical and esteemed objective/object/mission, who have each been doled out particular parts or capacities to perform, and who have a constrained life compass of enrolment". The team was not performing well and this caused the company to experience a major conflict.
In the case of MediSys, the current Intenscare team is presently a group, not a team (Robbins and Judge, 2012). Then again, ...

Responding to Rape Cases in England and Wales

Background to the problem
Sexual offenses cases such as rape are often the cause for debate in many countries especially when it comes to the capacity of the government to prosecute criminals and aid victims involved. For England and Wales, several laws and programs have been proposed to stop the growth of rape crimes and improve response from the government, from the Sexual Offenders Act of 2003 to the reorganization of government agencies such as the Sexual Assault Referral Centres. However, it is still a question on whether or not these actions are enough to improve how the authorities ...