How does each of these operations provide value for their customers?

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Final Project Milestone One: Managing Operations Assignment

Prompt: For the first milestone of your final project, you will submit a managing operations case study analysis that uses the tools and techniques that operations managers use. This case study analysis will be incorporated into the final summative analysis. This milestone is due in Module Two.

Refer to the case study (located in the Reading and Resources area of Module One), your own independent research, and the course materials to complete this
milestone. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Generating Value

A. Evaluate how the company in the case study uses operations management functions to provide products and generate value for its customers. Support your claims with examples from the case study or outside sources.

B. Assess how this company achieves a competitive advantage using operations management. Provide examples found in the case study or outside sources to support your reasoning.

C. Compare and contrast service operations and manufacturing operations at the company in the case study. How are they the same? How do they differ? How does each of these operations provide value for their customers?

II. Theories and Techniques

A. Compare and contrast the critical path method (CPM) and the program evaluation and review technique (PERT). What types of projects at this company would favor PERT over CPM? Why? What types of projects at this company would favor CPM over PERT? Why?

B. Explain the steps used to develop a forecasting system. How would these steps be specifically utilized by this company? What do you predict would be the result of implementing a forecasting system for the top-selling product line at this company?

C. List the major categories of supply chain risk and associated risk reduction tactics. How could the company mitigate exposure to supply chain disruptions caused by natural disasters? For example, consider the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan.

Using what you learned about group decision-making,identify two ways in which you might have increased inclusivity in the team.

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Consider a team you have worked on in the past. Using what you learned about group decision-making, identify two ways in which you might have increased inclusivity in the team. Be specific and tie your insights to the course content.

Explain the issues and problems, applying cognitive theories and design guidelines, principles or standards.

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Human-Computer Interaction for Organizations

USING MICROSOFT TEAMS AS THE SOFTWARE APPLICATION,

Describe the software application. Indicate what it is used for, who the target users are and the context of use. Include screen grabs, pictures or diagrams.

Select a particular area of concern for the application for investigation and redesign.

Explain the issues and problems, applying cognitive theories and design guidelines, principles or standards. Include clear screen grabs for illustration.

Select either user research or evaluation method(s) to obtain feedback and reactions from at least FIVE (5) users regarding the issues that you have selected to investigate.

Describe the method(s) that you have selected to obtain this feedback. Justify your selection. Discuss the results obtained. Formulate user requirements based on users’ feedback.

Using the results as a basis, propose how you would redesign the application to address the issues that you have identified. Justify your design using appropriate cognitive theories, design principles, guidelines or standards and based on an understanding of users’ needs and requirements.

Create a medium fidelity prototype of your design. Attach pictures of your prototype. Your prototype must have sufficient details to allow you to conduct a usability evaluation.

Briefly explain how you would use the prototype for evaluation and what metrics you would be collecting.

Identify questions to focus exploration of possible solutions through stakeholder evidence.

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Assessment Brief

Identify questions to focus exploration of possible solutions through stakeholder evidence

Identify questions to focus exploration of possible solutions through scientific evidence

Describe how the ethical dilemma can affect both the organization and society.

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Ethical Issues in the 21st Century

Gonzalez-Padron (2015) addressed several ethical issues that have arisen in the 21st century. Choose a scholarly or credible article relating to a 21st century ethical issue. The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types.

If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor.

Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

Describe how the ethical dilemma can affect both the organization and society.

Evaluate changes could have been made to prevent this ethical dilemma.

Conduct research on the current state of Social Security. Based on your research, write a three-to-five page paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper should be written in a scholarly third-person tone; it should be in APA format. The essay should address the following: Explain the concept of Social Security as originally envisioned by President Roosevelt. Evaluate the viability of Social Security within the next 20-30 years. Provide two or three recommendations that would improve the viability of Social Security for the next generation. Evaluate how these recommendations can best be implemented within the highly political environment that exists with this issue (including factors such as the implementation itself, commun

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Identify one of the news articles from the list below that you are interested in writing about.

Discuss primarily literature review of the policy and strategy that been used in the world health system to deal with employees stress and the bast managers practices to provide healthy environment in hospitals and how to reduce stress among their staff.

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Discuss primarily literature review of the policy and strategy that been used in the world health system to deal with employees stress and the bast managers practices to provide healthy environment in hospitals and how to reduce stress among their staff.

How do dysfunctional group dynamics affect productivity in the workplace?

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Group Dynamics in the Workplace

Must include and be organized around the Organizational Problem Question:

How do dysfunctional group dynamics affect productivity in the workplace?

Describe it/Define it

Why does this happen?

What does it affect within the workplace?

What can you do to mitigate it.

Identify leadership attributes or skills that are important in inspiring change.

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Research Skills for Managers Proposal

Aims and objectives:

The study aims to assess the role of leadership in instituting a culture of change in improving the productivity of an organization.
Objectives:
i. Identify leadership attributes or skills that are important in inspiring change.

ii. Determine the leadership styles used by leaders to initiate and implement a change process.

iii.Examine the impact of the change process on organizations’ productivity.

iv.Assess how an organization can create and sustain a culture of change

Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities you would like the participant to possess upon completion of the orientation process.

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Your design should be based on a blended learning approach and address the following elements:

Write a six to eight page paper in which you do the following:

1. Determine at least three objectives with measurable criteria for the orientation program.

2. Outline the critical elements of the program.

3. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities you would like the participant to possess upon completion of the orientation process.

4. Discuss the blend of training delivery methods you selected and explain your blend. For example, if you chose to include self- paced instruction for a certain element, explain why you chose self-paced instruction as opposed to other training delivery methods.

5. Discuss the evaluation process you will use to assess the success of the orientation program.