Activity Objective
The objective of this discussion is to aid you in mastering the following course competencies:
More specifically, you will:
Activity Instruction
For this discussion, refer to Chapter 13 of your Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain textbook, and review the case study Scientific Glass, Inc.: Inventory Management (2011) by Wheelwright and Schmidt. Respond to the following questions:
Here is a questionnaire for you to take on your “Influencing Style”. Provide feedback on how it relates to you and your style. How might you use your style in leading organizational development and change in your organization?
You have just been asked by your manager to lead a process improvement team. Your manager has asked you to identify a process that needs improvement within the business. Think about a business process for your current employer or a former employer that could use some improvement. If you cannot think of a business process for an employer, think about a process in your personal life.Provide a description of the process and explain why you think that this process needs some improvement. Within this module you have been introduced to several quality tools. As the leader of this process improvement team you have decided to use at least two of these quality tools to help with this process improvement project.Identify a minimum of two quality tools that you will use in this process improvement project. Provide a brief description about the quality tool and explain how this tool will help your team improve the process. Finally, describe the overall improvement that you hope to achieve by using these quality tools.
Must be a min of 4 paragraph
with at least 3 references cited
“We’re a progressive company, always looking to be ahead of the power curve. We’ll give anything a whirl if it’ll put us ahead of the competition, and that includes every one of us,” says I. B. Daring, an executive with Michigan Manufacturing (2M). You are interviewing him as a preliminary step in a systems project, one in which his subordinates have expressed interest. As you listen to I. B., you look around his office to see that most of the information he has stored on shelves can be classified as internal procedures manuals. In addition, you notice a PC on a back table of I. B.’s office. The monitor’s screen is covered with dust, and the manuals stacked beside the PC are still encased in their original shrink-wrap. Even though you know that 2M uses an intranet, no cables are visible going to or from I. B.’s PC. You look up behind I. B.’s massive mahogany desk to see on the wall five framed oil portraits of 2M’s founders, all clustered around a gold plaque bearing the corporate slogan, which states, “Make sure you’re right, then go ahead.”
a. List the elements of STROBE that you have observed during your interview with I. B.
b. Next to each element of STROBE that you have observed, for each state a sentence on how you would interpret it.
Activity Instruction
**Must be in reference to Harley Davidson**
Throughout your program, you have worked toward achieving a set of outcomes grounded in the foundational knowledge needed as a business leader from both practitioner and scholar perspectives. The discussions in the first four units of this course focus on explaining how you will demonstrate each program outcome with your capstone project. This discussion focuses on Program Outcome 6: Integrate principles of ethics and integrity into business decisions. For this discussion, complete the following:
Paper length: 1 page
You are the project manager for a website update project. The project is to take the current library website from its
current dated design to a modern user-centered redesign. The new site should reduce the size and page count, overhaul
the architectural, make the navigation more intuitive, provide accessibility compliance, and
coherent content structure. This project aims to address all these needs and result in a library website that is, first and foremost, a tool to
enable student success at the library.
• The head librarian has asked you to make finding content easier thereby increasing the average duration of a visit and signups
for the library’s newsletter. She has also given you a budget of $35,000 and wants to launch the new site in 120
working days. Also because of the age of the system, the cost to maintain the website is too high, so the project needs to
implement a central Content Management System while phasing out dependent infrastructure to make the site content
and functionality fully integrated on a single CMS.
• Provide 3 risks, their impact, and possible mitigation strategies
What would you do if you observed a colleague who you know is HIV positive with an open sore teaching CPR to students?
Question 26
1. Which of the following stages of creative problem solving involves gathering information, defining the problem, generating alternatives, and examining all available information?