Archive for December 8th, 2017

· What is the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and why is it important to study?

The below question requires a response to it with at least 120 plus words and an example, with reference if used.

· How to apply scheduling techniques to service and manufacturing processes. (Chapter 22)

 

· What is the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and why is it important to study?

 

· How is the TOC different from conventional approaches?

 

· How can the TOC be applied to reduce bottlenecks in a variety of applications? (Chapter 23)

 

 

 

Posts needed for Week 1

The below posts requires a response to it with at least 80 plus words and an example, with reference if used.

Chptr 23

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall viewpoint developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, it is usually applied to running and improving an organization. The TOC is a methodology applied to identify the most important constraint that hinders the company from achieving their goal and then systematically works to continuously improve, until the constraint no longer exists. In manufacturing, the constraint is often referred to as a bottleneck. The TOC hypothesizes that every complex system, including manufacturing processes, consists of multiple linked activities, one of which acts as a constraint upon the entire system, looking at it as though the constraint activity is the "weakest link in the chain". With making that weakest link strong the constraints will be removed which leads to greater efficiency. Need a response to this post. (NJ TOC)***if reference is used to get this answer it must be cited under answer not on reference page

 

I was a finance major in my undergrad years at the Florida State University. So the section in this chapter that stands out to me the most is 'the goal of the firm' and 'performance measurements. As we all know the goal of a firm is to make money, unless you are a non-profit organization looking to purely benefit the community. But, even in that case you must still make money in order to keep operations afloat. According to Jacobs & Chase (2014), "If the firm makes money–and only then–it will prosper. When a firm has money, it can place more emphasis on other objectives" (p. 621). Knowing that profitability is the number one goal in companies, it makes sense intuitively that performance and profitability measurements are also high priority goals in companies. You can't fully understand profitability and the amount of money you're making, unless you understand the performance metrics that coincide with the bottom line number.

 

With that, there are three measures taken in order to understand a firm's financial standing. They are, according to Jacobs & Chase (2014), "1) Net profit–an absolute measurement in dollars. 2) Return on investment–a relative measure based on investment. 3) Cash flow–a survival measurement" (p. 621). Each of these measurements helps to complement each other. For example, a company's net profit may be a million dollars. But that piece of information only gives you a small piece of the bigger story. What if that million dollars was only a one percent return on investment, on a 100 million dollar investment. They are still profitable, but you're now able to see more of the whole picture. Now, what if that million dollars of net profit has to be reinvested into another investment, and the free cash flow of the company is next to zero. They run the risk of filing for bankruptcy, and/or don't have any emergency funds in case things don't go as planned. This is why understanding these financial measurements are important, because they help inform and outsider of how well the company is actually performing on a profitability standpoint.

 

Jacobs, F. R., & Chase, R. B. (2014). Operations and supply chain management (14th ed.). Retrieved December 6, 2017, from https://phoenix.vitalsource.com

Need a response to this post. (Makana Performance msmnts) )***if reference is used to get this answer it must be cited under answer not on reference page

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lean supply chain management is not exclusively for those companies who manufacture products, but by businesses who want to restructure their processes by eliminating waste as well as non-value added activities. Companies have a number of areas in their supply chain where waste can be identified such as time, costs, or inventory. To create a leaner supply chain (to be more effective and efficient) companies must examine each area of the supply chain to adjust as needed. Lean also takes into account waste created through overburden and waste created through unevenness in workloads. Business can look from the perspective of the client who consumes a product or service, "value" is any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for.

 

Good personal example Meagan. I do operate that way, its funny how many activities during our daily routine have a technical term. When I am due to go to the laundry, instead of going home then heading to the laundry mat I will take the laundry bags with me and head to work, swing by during my lunch break load the washer. I would pay the laundry attendant to transfer the laundry to the dryer and then when I leave work I head over to fold them and head home.

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HR Management

Shannon Albright has an accounting degree from a U.S. accredited university. She also became certified as a CPA (certified public accountant). Upon graduation, she was offered and accepted an entry-level accounting position at a firm in Atlanta, GA. She has been gainfully employed with this firm for the last 5 years. Recently she interviewed with your firm, which is located in Boston, MA. You, working for the human resources department, want to hire Shannon for your organization's financial accountant position.

You know Shannon is a strong candidate, and you want to develop a competitive offer that will attract Shannon yet still fit within the company's budget and compensation structure (i.e., considering both internal and external equity).

With this in mind, you are asked to prepare the offer for Shannon. The following will be included in this package and should be specific to Shannon and this situation:

  • Compensation package: What pay rate will you offer (using salary survey research as support)? What else may be included in the compensation package?
  • Incentive plan: What performance-based incentives does this offer include?
  • Benefits plan: What specific benefit plans does this offer include?

It is important to provide the necessary supporting details to explain the incentives and benefits being offered. The more details you provide, the better educated Shannon will be to make her decision to accept.

Along with these packages, you will include a 1-page cover letter addressed to your supervisor that outlines what you propose to offer.

  • This cover letter should explain and justify the compensation package, incentive plan, and benefits plan.
  • Make sure to discuss job location and experience level
  • Your detailed plans will then follow that cover page.

Using the Internet and library, locate all necessary information for constructing these 3 packages. This is a research assignment so be sure to include and cite your research within the paper using APA style. 4-6 pages.

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Ancient Greece

Follow the same directions as the first two papers, but this time choose a topic from a reading done/discussed after Sophocles. I would suggest Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Thucydides, or Aristotle. NEEDS TO BE DONE BY 6:00 AM PACIFIC TIME DECEMBER 8TH Quotes from the book provided only, no other source can be used. Has to be between 3-4 pages as long as its a solid 3 pages and than some its ok.

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1. Nevada’s Constitutional Direct Democracy:

1. Nevada’s Constitutional Direct Democracy:

In addition to voting to choose public officials through elections, the Nevada state constitution allows its citizens to participate in all 3 processes of direct democracy in which Nevadans can participate in a democratic process, they are; initiative, referendum and recall. (Approximately only 24 states have both initiative and referendum process; 3 states have only the initiative process; 3 states have only the referendum process; and 18 states permit recall of state officials.)

[The initiative lets citizens themselves propose new laws for the voters’ approval. Several states allow constitutional amendments to be proposed by initiative; nearly half of the states allow the initiative to be used for proposing new statutory laws. A direct initiative goes directly on the ballot to be decided by popular vote. An indirect initiative goes first to the state legislature. If the legislature passes the initiative, the measure becomes law. If the legislature does not pass the initiative, the measure is placed on the ballot, and the voters decide the issue.

The referendum is similar to the initiative, except that the issue is proposed first by the legislature and then directed to the voters for their approval. The recall—a vote to dismiss an official—is directed at public officials whose conduct is deemed incompetent or grossly unethical. Voters may circulate a petition calling for the removal of such an official, and if the petition obtains a sufficient number of signatures, then a recall election is held.]

Some critics say that citizens are not sufficiently informed to make policy decisions and laws; they believe that statutory lawmaking and amending state constitutions should be the responsibility of lawmakers, state legislators.

1. Do you think that state lawmaking and amending state constitutions is best suited for state legislators versus citizens? Discuss why or why not?

 

5. The Nevada 2016 General Election ballot question number 2, “Initiative to Regulate and Tax Marijuana,” was passed on November 8, 2016.

The measure legalizes possession of up to one ounce of cannabis for adults over the age of 21. The initiative does not include provisions for regulation beyond taxation, such as licensing retailers. The initiative passed on election day, 54%–46%.

Source: http://nvsos.gov/sos/home/showdocument?id=3294 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

5a. Do you agree with the passing of the initiative?      Why?

5b. Do you disagree with the passing of the initiative?   Why?

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WK8 Assignment

You have been asked by your supervisor to develop a PowerPoint presentation for an upcoming training on the following topics: ethics, international factors, and cross-cultural considerations in project management.

Using 15-20 slides, create a PowerPoint presentation in which you discuss the following as it relates to successful project management:

1. A summary of each topic as it relates to project management

2. Challenges (common pitfalls) and opportunities for growth and/or improvement

3. Solutions for dealing with challenges common in project management

4. Include one scenario applicable to each concept in which your coworkers will have to determine an appropriate response to handling the issue presented in the scenario and faced by a project management team

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Critical Thinking: Behavioral and Mental Health in Saudi Arabia

Module 13: Critical Thinking

 

Critical Thinking: Behavioral and Mental Health in Saudi Arabia

· Evolution of mental health

· Structure of care and access

· Financing of mental healthcare

· Intervention through policy and research

· Preventative measures enacted by governmental and nongovernmental entities

Requirements: (power point )

· Your presentation should be 12 slides in length, not including the title or reference slides.

· Presentation notes are required for each slide to support the slide content. These can be part of the presentation or delivered as a separate document. If you opt for the former, be aware that the presentation cannot be submitted in PDF format, which does not make notes visible to the instructor.

· Pictures and graph are required

· Text Font size 24 and title font size 40

· Each slide should have citation and note

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· Your work must follow Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, as appropriate.

· Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external.

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Friends

when you have the argument with your friends, what you will do? how you will solve the conflict? describe it sepecifically, you can tell a story. 2-3 pages essay.

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gender roles and environmental challenges within the story

discuss gender roles as they are presented in "a Lamp at noon" both paul and ellen seem to be shown in a fairly expected, old fashioned, 'frontier' role discuess why you think the author chose to present them in this role. research the actual roles within farming families in the 1930s, and show how ross reflects or alters those roles in his presentation of paul and ellen, remembering the particular restrictions of the environmental challenges of the dirty thirties.

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Thyroid Cancer Rates Internationally and In America Related To Geography Premium ?

This paper should be 5 pages single spaced. 
Include first a thesis, that ties in thyroid cancer rates in America and globally relate to the geography of America to that of other countries using at least 5 resources. For instance, compare environmental factors, environmental determinism, and compare and contrast the different types of people that are getting cancer and how different countries cure their patients and how the government is also incorporated as well. Additional information regarding diet that causes goiter such as iodine deficiency will be provided and should be incorporated into the essay along with additional content which correlates to geography.

Each page worth 20 points
5-7 pages 
Cite sources 
5 scholarly sources or more 
Dont fluff paper 

Some sources to consider using and citing if the writer finds better resources then use them. 
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/statistics-by-cancer-type/thyroid-cancer/incidence

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788231/

http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/t/thyroid_cancer/stats-country.htm

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/ijc.29251/asset/ijc29251.pdf;jsessionid=AEF63719FE031AE4655D8DA5E313BD16.f01t02?v=1&t=jax95umv&s=962ad075876561e88b2a784c5a9b5537f2165ff2

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jce/2013/965212/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877782116301102

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrendo.2016.110

https://www.medicinenet.com/thyroid_cancer/article.htm

I will also include two different types of papers that the writer can use in order to finish the paper.

Project Deliverable 6: Final Project Plan

Project Deliverable 6: Final Project Plan

Due Week 10 and worth 200 pointsThis assignment consists of four (4) sections: a written project plan, a revised business requirements document, a project plan PowerPoint presentation, and the finalized project plan. You must submit the four (4) sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.While taking all business and project parameters into consideration, make quality assumptions to support the following requirements.Section 1: Written Project Plan You are now in the final stage of the project plan development. All previous documentation should be combined into one (1) document that will serve as the statement of work for the project. Your goal is to have the project approved by the executive team. The project plan should be very detailed, which is appropriate to accomplish the monumental task of implementation; however, the executive team is only interested in a thirty (30) minute summation. Therefore, you also must create a compelling executive summary that is supported by your detail that convinces the executive team that it should move forward with your solution.Develop a thirty to forty (30-40) page project plan in which you:

  • Write a five to ten (5-10) page executive summary in which you provide a high-level technical overview of your project where you address the following: 
  1. Describe the scope of the project and control measures.
  2. Describe the goals and objectives of the project. 
  3. Give a detailed, realistically estimated cost analysis of the entire project, including technical resources (human capital) that may be needed to complete the project.
  4. Relate the value of the project plan solution to the competitive advantage that information technology will afford the organization.
  5. Provide all aspects of the information technology implementation into the project plan.
  6. Recommend solution providers who can assist with development and implementation. Include a cost analysis of at least three (3) providers.
  • Combine all previous documentation for Project Deliverables 1-5 in which you:
  1. Provide all aspects of the information technology implementation into the project plan. 
  2. Revise the documentation based on feedback from the earlier evaluation of the deliverable.
  • Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
  • Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio and MS Project as appendix of the Word document. Make reference of these files in the body of the Word document. 

Section 2: Revised Business Requirements Document

  • Document all revisions made to the written project plan in the Document Control section of the business requirements document from Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirements. Note: This documentation must outline the revisions made to the previous deliverables required in Section 1: Written Project Plan.

Section 3: Project Plan PowerPoint Presentation

  • Additional to your detailed executive summary you must present your findings to the executive team and the venture capital group that along with the executive summary will convince the group that your solution is optimal.
  • Create a ten to fifteen (10-15) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:
  1. Illustrate the concepts from the executive summary in Section 1 of this assignment. 
  2. Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the executive board in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
  3. Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.

Section 4: Finalized Project Plan

  • Use Microsoft project to:
  1. Finalize your project plan from Project Deliverable 5: Network Infrastructure and Security to include all necessary changes in assumptions, tasks, and / or subtasks.

 

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