HCM 415 4-1 Milestone Three

CASE STUDY Leadership at Collage Broadcast 1) Serwaa Akoto is the faculty advisor to the Collage Broadcast, the student newspaper at Nhyira University. She oversees production of the weekly publication and advises the newspaper's editor, Osei Mensah and his staff. Osei is a junior political science major with little experience in journalism. He is, however enthusiastic and excited about his role as editor of the Collage Broadcast. Osei is typical of many of the staff in his lack of journalist's training. In fact, many of the Collage Broadcast reporters have no background in newswriting. As a faculty member in the Department of Communication, Serwaa teaches four courses per semester and is responsible for several other projects, including supervision of the internship program. Serwaa has a keen interest in student journalism and has long been an advocate of the rights of student reporters. Although Serwaa is very busy, she takes time to meet with the staff of the Collage Broadcast each…

CASE STUDY - Bricks and Mortar This coursework concerns the development of information systems for the branch offices of Bricks and Mortar, a rapidly expanding estate agency in the south of England. Bricks and Mortar are considering computerising and "internetting" the main part of their business: that carried out in the branch offices; the selling and marketing of houses. They called this the "Business Improvement Project" (BIP). It is hoped that this will enable Bricks and Mortar to become the premier estate agent in the south of England although with the drop in demand to buy houses as the rental market expands coupled with new internet based estate agents emerging this could be a tough target to meet. However, the BIP should allow costs to fall as there will be a need for fewer administrative staff especially if they switch away from advertising in newspapers and move onto the web. Kate Hudson also hopes that this will enable houses to be sold more quickly. Current use of IT is…

Case Study: Leveraging Marketing Analytics for Strategic Market Trend Analysis MNY Corporation, a leading player in the retail industry, is keen on staying ahead of the curve by leveraging marketing analytics to navigate evolving market trends. With a diverse product portfolio ranging from electronics to fashion, ABC Corporation aims to maximize its competitive advantage through insightful trend analysis. As a marketing analytics consultant hired by MNY Corporation, the task at hand involves conducting a comprehensive analysis of market trends and devising strategies for effectively harnessing these insights. The analysis must consider the complexities of consumer behavior, the competitive landscape, technological advancements, and broader economic factors. Questions: 1. Utilizing advanced analytical techniques, analyze recent consumer behavior patterns to identify emerging market trends across various product categories.

Subject: Construction Quality Management In planning projects, it is essential that planners bring out critical project characteristics so that the project manager may direct the work toward completion. Discuss the criteria for project managers that encompasses four areas which must be considered during planning and the plan must include the provisions to support these actions.

Company: ABC Civil Engineering - an engineering firmSituation: ABC company has recently made significant cuts in staff and the workload on existingemployees has increased. A major RFP is dueCharacters: Ted Waltz – Managing Director of ABC EngineeringElaine Tillman – Civil Engineer____________________________Elaine Tillman looked at her watch – it was 7:30 pm. Just then she knew she would not make it to her son’s final high school basketball game. It took her a moment to collect herself and wipe the tear that had started down her face and onto the ragged-edged 100 plus page RFP she was working on. The RFP,the largest opportunity that ABC Civil Engineering had a chance to bid on in 6 months, was far fromready for the 9:00 AM deadline the following day.Normally in this situation, Elaine would have collaborated with a proposal team putting together such a big proposal but, since the economic down turn hit, ABC has had to make significant cuts in its staff. It started with administrative…

Company: ABC Civil Engineering - an engineering firmSituation: ABC company has recently made significant cuts in staff and the workload on existingemployees has increased. A major RFP is dueCharacters: Ted Waltz – Managing Director of ABC EngineeringElaine Tillman – Civil Engineer____________________________Elaine Tillman looked at her watch – it was 7:30 pm. Just then she knew she would not make it to her son’s final high school basketball game. It took her a moment to collect herself and wipe the tear that had started down her face and onto the ragged-edged 100 plus page RFP she was working on. The RFP,the largest opportunity that ABC Civil Engineering had a chance to bid on in 6 months, was far fromready for the 9:00 AM deadline the following day.Normally in this situation, Elaine would have collaborated with a proposal team putting together such a big proposal but, since the economic down turn hit, ABC has had to make significant cuts in its staff. It started with administrative…

Case Study: Planning for a New Residential Development Background: A developer is planning to build a new residential development on a piece of land located on the outskirts of a growing city. The land is currently zoned for agricultural use, but the developer wants to rezone it for residential use. The development will consist of 200 single-family homes on 50 acres of land. The developer is responsible for all infrastructure, including roads, water, and sewage systems. 1. What are the main planning considerations for this residential development? 2. What are some potential challenges the developer may face during the planning process?

(a) Construct the network diagram?

Mini Case Study - EAP Mary Jones was recently appointed to the new position of director of employee assistance programs at Mega Hotels. Over the objections of her boss, the director of human resources, Mary quickly instituted an alcohol and drug abuse awareness program in each of the hotel’s properties. Her boss opposed the program on the basis that Mega Hotels knew little about the kinds of problems its employees faced. Mary established in-house programs at each property in the chain and hired specialists to implement and supervise the programs. The annual salaries of the five specialists averaged $24,000. Three months later, the president of Mega Hotels asked for a status report on the employee assistance program. At that time, Mary could report only a five percent employee participation rate. The president was disappointed with this rate and threatened to cancel the program. The president asked Mary to evaluate the progress of the program and to make recommendations for its…

3.8 Roger Ginde is developing a program in supply chain management certification for managers. Ginde has listed a num- ber of activities that must be completed before a training program of this nature could be conducted. The activities, immediate pre- decessors, and times appear in the accompanying table: a)  DrawtheappropriateAONPERTdiagramforJ.C.Howard’s management team. b)  Find the critical path. c)  What is the project completion time? • • 3.11 The following is a table of activities associated with a project at Rafay Ishfaq’s software firm in Chicago, their dura- tions, and what activities each must precede: ACTIVITY DURATION (WEEKS) PRECEDES A (start) 1 B, C B 1 E C 4 F E 2 F F (end) 2 — ACTIVITY IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR(S) TIME (DAYS) A — 2 B — 5 C — 1 D B…

Case study:  J. D. Williams, Inc. is an investment advisory firm that manages more than $120 million in funds for its numerous clients. The company uses an asset allocation model that recommends the portion of each client’s portfolio to be invested in a growth stock fund, an income fund, and a money market fund. To maintain diversity in each client’s portfolio, the firm places limits on the percentage of each portfolio that may be invested in each of the three funds. General guidelines indicate that the amount invested in the growth fund must be between 20% and 40% of the total portfolio value. Similar percentages for the other two funds stipulate that between 20% and 50% of the total portfolio value must be in the income fund and that at least 30% of the total portfolio value must be in the money market fund. In addition, the company attempts to assess the risk tolerance of each client and adjust the portfolio to meet the needs of the individual investor. For example, Williams just…

please help   1. List of Quality Standards (Task 1) including BOTH brief descriptions of each requirement AND how progress will be measured on meeting each requirement (task 2). 2. Pareto chart for task 3. Running Case1 The Global Treps Project team is working hard to ensure they meet expectations, especially for the people who will be holding and participating in the four events. The team has a detailed scope statement, but you want to make sure you are not forgetting requirements that might affect how people view the quality of the project. You know that the project’s sponsor and other key stakeholders are most concerned with getting people to use the new website, having successful events, and helping promote entrepreneurship across the globe. You also know that various geographic and cultural issues will need to be addressed. 1. Develop a list of quality standards or requirements related to meeting the stakeholder expectations described in the running case. Provide a brief…

CASE STUDY: Nik and Andy are colleagues working at a multinational automotive company in Malaysia. Both is a Regional Manager for Kuala Lumpur and Sabah. An advertisement has been placed on the company’s and major recruitment’s website to employ a new Country Manager located in Seoul, South Korea. Both want to negotiate with General Manager, Mr Ravi, that they would excel and get promotes as “Country Manager”, from their current position as regional manager. This position will provide either one of them with many opportunities and benefits such as higher salary with more responsibilities and utilizing more of their technical and leadership skills. Besides, both have been working for the company for more than 5 years as a full-time employee and have made an enormous contribution to the organization. From their experience, they have also determined that Mr.Ravi is “conscientiousness” personality type as per the “Big Five” personality type. Nik is married but has no children. His wife is…

CASE STUDY: Nik and Andy are colleagues working at a multinational automotive company in Malaysia. Both is a Regional Manager for Kuala Lumpur and Sabah. An advertisement has been placed on the company’s and major recruitment’s website to employ a new Country Manager located in Seoul, South Korea. Both want to negotiate with General Manager, Mr Ravi, that they would excel and get promotes as “Country Manager”, from their current position as regional manager. This position will provide either one of them with many opportunities and benefits such as higher salary with more responsibilities and utilizing more of their technical and leadership skills. Besides, both have been working for the company for more than 5 years as a full-time employee and have made an enormous contribution to the organization. From their experience, they have also determined that Mr.Ravi is “conscientiousness” personality type as per the “Big Five” personality type. Nik is married but has no children. His wife is…

XYZ Grocery Stores has a plan to introduce a new section into their stores in the next 10 months, in which customers can mix their own choices of flavors and additives into yogurt. For this, they should develop a O Short-term plan Intermediate plan O Long-term plan Scenario plan

subject: Quantitative Analysis For Business Please answer both of them.

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Recommendations for North East Link project in Victoria. Recommendations on how to solve budget blowout. Please include references.

Mini Case Study Martha has been assigned a team of 10 people to help her plan a major customer appreciationevent. They have been working together for over a month now and they just haven’t really cometogether as a team. She was sure she started off well. She contacted each individual on the teamand let them know their responsibilities on the project. Each of the members gets the taskscompleted, but don’t seem concerned with the others on the team. If someone needs help, no onepitches in to assist. If a team member has a problem, no one helps him to solve that problem. Justyesterday one of the team members had an emergency and asked if someone on the team couldhave a call with the sales team so she could leave early. No one offered to help so Martha jumped in to assist. Martha had to do something. This was a bad experience for everyone frankly and somefolks already were talking about getting off the project. Plus she felt the event won’t be as good asit could if they just came together…

Mini Case Study Martha has been assigned a team of 10 people to help her plan a major customer appreciationevent. They have been working together for over a month now and they just haven’t really cometogether as a team. She was sure she started off well. She contacted each individual on the teamand let them know their responsibilities on the project. Each of the members gets the taskscompleted, but don’t seem concerned with the others on the team. If someone needs help, no onepitches in to assist. If a team member has a problem, no one helps him to solve that problem. Justyesterday one of the team members had an emergency and asked if someone on the team couldhave a call with the sales team so she could leave early. No one offered to help so Martha jumped in to assist. Martha had to do something. This was a bad experience for everyone frankly and somefolks already were talking about getting off the project. Plus she felt the event won’t be as good asit could if they just came together…

Roger Ginde is developing a program in supply chain management certification for managers. Ginde has listed a num- ber of activities that must be completed before a training program of this nature could be conducted. The activities, immediate pre- decessors, and times appear in the accompanying table: 3.8 IMMEDIATE АCTIVITY PREDECESSOR(S) TIME (DAYS) A 2 5 1 10 A, D 3 F G E, F 8 a) Develop an AON network for this problem. b) What is the critical path? c) What is the total project completion time? d) What is the slack time for each individual activity? PX 6. B. B. E.

Case study (maximum of 550 employees). The interviews took place approximately halfway into a21-month green-field construction site involving the extension of an existing PowerStation. A corporate health and safety manager, the site safety manager(with responsibility for health) and the RGN (all employed by the main contractor) were interviewed. The clinic employed a full-time RGN that all site employees could visit whether the health problem was work-related or not. Once again her role was more reactive than proactive. As a female in a mainly male environment and unused to construction activities, she admitted that she did not feel comfortable walking around the site unaccompanied. Once again pre employment questionnaires, medicals or health surveillance were not undertaken for workers on this site. Workers were reported to exhibit variable attitude sand behaviors with regard to health, which was felt to be due to individual personalities rather than age, race, etc., although…

How Can You Get to a Backlog of over 100 Projects? There are never enough resources to get everything done." Backlogs build over time. Sacred cow projects get included in the selection system. Projects proposed from people who have left the airline stil reside in the project portfolio. Non-value-added projects somehow make their way into the project portfolio. Soon the queue gets longer. With everyone in IT working on too many projects concurrently, project completion and productivity are slow. Which Projects Remain? To cut the number of projects, the steering committee used a weighting scheme that reflected the airline's priorities, which were: fly safe, generate revenue, reduce costs, and customer service. The weighting scheme easily weeded out the fluff. Coady noted that "by the time you get to the 20s the margin of differentiation gets narrower and narrower." Of the remaining projects, project sponsors had to have solid justification why their project is important. Reduction of the…

A B с D E FL ד G H J K L M N P R S T U V 1 On Week 3 Forecast 4 2 a) Smell Fresh Customer Orders hand 1 2 20 20 5 3 5 PAB 20 50 30 3222 4 5 6 7 8 Problem 6: Georgia Clay and Gravel was updating the MPS record for one of its products, Smell Fresh Cat Litter. Partially-completed MPS time-phased record is given below. 20 30 30 30 30 30 Week 10 30 50 20 40 10 Item: Smell Fresh On hand 1 6 Available to Promise 7 MPS 50 50 50 50 Forecast 20 8 MPS lot size = 50 9 20 10 On Week hand 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 53 43 78 30 30 30 30 30 3220 2233 -250 30 10 30 50 6 8 45 12 13 14 PAB 15 11 b) Smell Fresh Forecast Customer Orders Available to Promise 16 MPS 17 MPS lot size=50 18 19 20 21 23 24 222 Orders Projected available balance Available-to-promise MPS MPS Lot Size = 50. 50 20 40 10 50 50 50 a) Complete the MPS time-phased record (the first table on the left). The following events occurred during week 1: • Actual demand during week 1 was 25 units. • Marketing forecasted that 40 units would be needed for…

Q4) What Is Project Quality Management? Write briefly about the five Cost Categories Related to Quality .Describe about Quality Assurance.

quetion 1 a)What is a burn-down chart? What purpose does it serve? b)Why should a project manager be concerned with monitoring a project’s progress? c) Describe how the SPI and CPI can be used to forecast the final cost of a project?

V   what is feasibility Report ?Define when and why we need it And also define who prepare this document.

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What action should Jane take?

Managed by Q case wage analysis: Cleaning operators and handymen are two of the most important jobs that Manged by Q employs since they are the face of the company. 2015 pay rates and bonuses are listed in the case for the markets of New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Managed by Q, during this time, was assessing moving into Boston, Atlanta, and Washington DC. Create a job description for each of these two roles (cleaning operators and handymen) Then assess the pay rates in 2015 vs today. What changes would you see? Finally, assess the current New York, San Francisco and Chicago rates vs Boston, Atlanta, and Washington. If Q expanded into these markets, would they be able to offer the same rates?