Category: Operations Management

Evaluating Quality in Carrefour: A Comparative Analysis

Posted on | by Kelvin

 

Carrefour is a French owned hypermarket operating in many places including Saudi Arabia. Consider Carrefour in Saudi Arabia when you, as a customer, judge the quality of the hypermarket.

Explain how quality is evaluated, and the role of technology in the customer perception of quality. Compare Carrefours quality and technology to another hypermarket in the area. Order the following criteria as most to least important for the successful operation of a hypermarket, and for a different industry (not a hypermarket) and explain why there are any differences and the implications for operations:

Customer satisfaction
Forecasting
Capacity planning
Location
Inventory management
Store layout
Scheduling
Directions:

Discuss the concepts, principles, and theories from your textbook. Cite your textbooks and cite any other sources.
Write a discussion that includes an introduction paragraph, the body, and a conclusion paragraph to address the assignments guide questions.
Your initial post should address all components of the question with a 600-word limit.

Understanding Global Women’s Health: Maternal and Child Health Perspectives

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Refer to the following lecture:
Womens Health in Global Health
Understanding Maternal and Child Health
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Skolnik, R. (2015). Global Health 101 (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Levine, R. (2008). Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion.

Using your course textbooks and the Online Library, answer the following questions:
What are the most important causes of womens death globally?
How do causes of death differ for neonates, infants, and children younger than five years?
What is the link between nutrition and womens health?

 

 

The Role of Formal Education in Management: Balancing Craft Technology and Academic Learning

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A top executive claimed that superior management is a craft technology because the work contains intangibles (such as handling personnel, interpreting the environment, and coping with unusual situations that have to be learned through experience). If this is true, is it appropriate to teach management in a business school? Does teaching management from a textbook assume that the manager’s job is analyzable and, therefore, that formal training rather than experience is most important?

 

Imports from the global South are thought to increase inequality in developed countries

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Using the readings by Alderson and Nielsen (2002) and Mahutga and Jorgenson (2016), answer the following questions in two sentences or less.
How are imports from the global South thought to increase inequality in developed countries?
How are exports to the global North thought to increase inequality in less-developed countries?
Synthesizing information from the two readings and the lecture, answer ONE of the following two questions:
How should institutions alter the relationship between imports from the global South and income inequality in developed countries? Cite any relevant evidence to support this idea.
How should EU integration alter the relationship between exports to the global North and income inequality in less-developed countries? Cite any relevant evidence to support this idea.

Importance of Creating a Robust Disaster Recovery Plan for Villa Health

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In the attachment, the Villa Health Disaster Recovery scenario (link below) was reviewed and the challenges facing the hospital were summarized. One was chosen that was considered most difficult. In this assignment, please create a presentation to the hospital board that details compelling reasons to update the plan by evaluating areas for improvement.

https://media.capella.edu/coursemedia/sumid000161/wrapper.asp

Instructions
Considering the scenario, create a 10-12 slide (equivalent to about 10 minutes) PowerPoint presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) designed to inform the hospital board of the importance of creating a robust Disaster Recovery Plan. It should address the following:

Describe areas of risk, including the specific nature of the risk, to the hospital if the plan is not revised.
Identify all primary stakeholders (internal and external) that should be considered or consulted when creating a disaster plan.
Outline the major items a comprehensive disaster plan should include with a brief description of why each is critical. Examples of areas are staffing, supplies, protocols, et cetera.
Choose the most important aspect of your disaster plan outline and do the following. (If necessary, make and state any assumptions that you have to flesh out your reasoning.)
Justify the choice of the primary issue, including identifying the areas of significant impact such as budget, staffing, communications, et cetera.
Describe a manner in which the plan can be effectively communicated.
Explain all significant barriers to implementation.

Enhancing Productivity through Effective Control Processes

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Discuss the steps in the control process and apply them to a quality and productivity situation that you are familiar with or can imagine with an organization.
What is one thing an organization can do to improve the control process to increase productivity?
Directions:
• Discuss the concepts, principles, and theories from your textbook. Cite your textbooks and cite any other sources if appropriate.
• Your initial post should address all components of the question with a 500 word limit.

 

Dell’s Environmental Stability

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

Environmental sustainability is defined as responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources and allow for long-term environmental quality. The practice of environmental sustainability helps to ensure that the needs of today’s population are met without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Within our Thompson text, read Chapter 9 Assurance of Learning Exercise #1 related to Dell.
Now, click on the website link provided in the learning exercise description from our Thompson text, which will provide you with information to respond to the following:
Prepare a list of 5 specific policies or programs that help Dell achieve its vision of driving social and environmental change while still remaining innovative and profitable.
Describe how Dell’s environmental sustainability strategies provide valuable social benefits?
Finally, explain how Dell’s strategies fulfill customer needs in a superior fashion while simultaneously sustaining competitive advantage.