Business Analysis Help for College and University Students

Organizational Culture

What is Organizational Culture, and how does it impact Managers and Management?

Just in Time systems (JIT)

A supplier provides parts to a manufacturing company that demands JIT deliveries. At the present time it takes 6 hours to make a round-trip between the supplier's warehouse and the customer, including loading, travel and unloading time. The lot size is 12 pallet loads on a truck, and the manufacturer uses 2 pallets per hour. ...continues

Quality control charts for an electronic circuit production process

As the production manager for an electronic circuit company you have encountered the following situation. Part 1 A process for producing electronic circuits has achieved very high yield levels. An average of only 10 defective parts per million is currently produced. What are the upper and lower control limits for a samp ...continues

Supply Chain Resource Management

The Scenario Imagine your group is the management team for a large manufacturing firm. Your group has been given the task of choosing the best software packages for the firm's materials requirements planning (MRP), capacity requirement planning (CRP), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, inventory contro ...continues

Decision Theory (Probability)

I am stuck on the problems that are attached. They are probability and decision theory based questions. Thank you.

global management

The attached article shows how global corporations have to think differently in how they approach their business. For example, Intel has 10 ethnographers traveling the globe to redesign existing products or invent new ones that appeal to different cultures or demographic groups. Ilkone Mobile Telecommunications has designed a mo ...continues

global management

Living here in America, we hear a lot about the multinational activity of many American firms. What we hear much less about, though, is the multinational growth of companys that are buying American companies, South African Breweries bought Miller Brewery Sony bought Columbia Pictures Diemler bought Chrysler Ahold bought 6 ...continues

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND MARKET OPERATIONS

As a manger of any large insurance company you have been asked to undertake an assessment of the current environment in which your company (to be chosen by the student) would need to appreciate before deciding to launch (or not to launch) an entry into another country or region. What strategic plans would you propose in order fo ...continues

Oracle Corporation: objectives, competitive strategy, business model, CAGR

---This is regarding Oracle corporation. I need practical advice. ------------------------------------------------- 1) Identify the company's strategic objectives. Which generic competitive strategy does oracle employ and why? Define and evaluate the company business model. Include CAGR's in the analysis. 2) Strategic group ...continues

Project Managment

Scheduling departmental manpower for a project is a very difficult task, even if slack time is available. Many managers would prefer to supply manpower at a constant rate rather than continually shuffle people in and out of project. a) Using the information shown below, construct the PERT network, identify the critical path, ...continues