What are the key tenants of TOC and what success stories can you find and share?

Theory of Constraints

The late Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the father of TOC (Theory of Constraints) created a business strategy methodology heavily steeped in the continuous improvement world of Deming’s TQM (Total Quality Management) or TPS (Toyota Production System) aka Lean Manufacturing.

What are the key tenants of TOC and what success stories can you find and share?

Write a one to two-page essay wherein you will consider starting a business in the United States or in another nation. In your essay indicate which business format you would use to operate your business. Indicate why you have chosen this format.

Starting a business in the United States or in another nation.

Write a one to two-page essay wherein you will consider starting a business in the United States or in another nation.

In your essay indicate which business format you would use to operate your business. Indicate why you have chosen this format.

What were the most interesting topics you learned in this course? Do you feel this course has given you a foundation for your further studies? Do you have any lingering questions on the material?

Unit 5 – Discussion Board

Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, discuss the following questions:

What were the most interesting topics you learned in this course?
Do you feel this course has given you a foundation for your further studies?
Do you have any lingering questions on the material?

What was your most significant learning in this course? How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?

Unit 5 – Discussion Board 2

Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 300–500 words on the following:

What was your most significant learning in this course?
How did participating in discussions help your understanding of the subject matter? Is anything still unclear that could be clarified?

Discuss the two types of grid-scale storages discussed in the article. What is the relevance of energy storage technologies in wind and solar power generation?

Energy Storage

HW5Please use this article for homework5. Read chapters 9, 10, and especially energy storage chapter 18. Discuss the two types of grid-scale storages discussed in the article. What is the relevance of energy storage technologies in wind and solar power generation? Also, Include one additional reference other than the textbook and the article given for this last homework! No citations including the in-text citation will result automatic deduction of 5 points.

Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched. Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success. Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.

Business Administration Capstone

Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, Strayer University’s online databases, Strayer University’s Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Use the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4-6 page paper in which you address the following:

• Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.

• Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.

• Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.

• Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.

• Use the Strayer University Online Library or the Internet to locate and include at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Write a plan for the conversation you would have with the employee’s male co-worker, based on the concepts found in your textbook. What are the most important points you would need to cover in this conversation, and why?

Human Resource Management

Assignment: Imagine you are the HR manager at a company, and a female employee came to you upset because she felt a male coworker was creating a hostile work environment by repeatedly asking her out on dates even after she said “no”. How would you respond to the complaint?

Write a plan for how would you approach your conversation with each employee, including the most essential topics to cover. As you write your plan, think about what your goals are for this situation and how each conversation will help you achieve those goals.

Write a 5–7 paragraph paper in which you:

Write a plan for the conversation you would have with the employee, based on the concepts found in your textbook. What are the most important points you would need to cover in this conversation, and why?

Write a plan for the conversation you would have with the employee’s male co-worker, based on the concepts found in your textbook. What are the most important points you would need to cover in this conversation, and why?

Discuss the raw data presentation and discuss the descriptive statistics used to present the data be sure to include both averages and distributions.

Glass Ceiling

Find a peer-reviewed, data-based article on EBSCO or Pro Quest related to the electric vehicle industry that has quantitative statistical research.

  • Summarize the article very briefly (no more than 1page)
  • Discuss the raw data presentation and discuss the descriptive statistics used to present the data be sure to include both averages and distributions.
  1. Were these appropriate averaging techniques and examinations of the distribution?

2.Could other types of averages or distributions have been used

  • Discuss the scales of measurement and the methodologies used

1.Were these appropriate scales and methodologies?

2.Could other types of scaling have been used?

  • For the visual presentations of raw data or averages, are there biases in the presentation.

1.What conclusions do you draw simply by looking at the visual data presentation?

2.How could the presentation be altered to adjust those conclusions?

  • How were individual data reported (if at all)?
  1. What are the differences between individual results and the mean results?
  1. If not reported, do you have any concerns about what

information might have been lost

  • What inferential statistical tests were used?
  1. Briefly summarize each.
  2. Why were those tests appropriate?
  3. Could other tests have been used?

 

  • Use at least 8 references from EBSCO or Pro Quest

How does public planning theory inform planning practitioners? What are the common themes that bind the literature review and interviews?

Public planners

Your paper examines the role of public planners and how the practice of planning intersects with public planning theory. Please interview a planner and ask the following questions?

The paper should include:

Introduction

Question: How does public planning theory inform planning practitioners?

Literature Review

Methodology- questions/interview / Canned interviews American Planning Association

What are the common themes that bind the literature review and interviews?

Determine the shape of the distribution of weights of M&Ms with a frequency histogram. What is the shape of the histogram? Based on the shape of the histogram, would it be appropriate to use the Empirical Rule to make any general statements aobut the weights of the M&Ms?

Extra credit work

1. Determine the shape of the distribution of weights of M&Ms with a frequency histogram.
2. What is the shape of the histogram?
3. Find the descriptive statistics for the data set (hint: use the Data Analysis Toolpak.
4. Which measure of central tendency better describe the weight of a plan M&M?
5. Based on the shape of the histogram, would it be appropriate to use the Empirical Rule to make any general statements aobut the weights of the M&Ms?
6. Use the Empriical Rule to determine the percentage of M&Ms with weights between 0.803 and 0.947 gram.
7. Determine the actual percentage of M&Ms with weights more than 0.911 gram.