document is to present the facts and issues surrounding the initiative "Operation Optimize". The scope includes personal observations and conversations held with various department heads and the resulting inferences made. This executive summary will recap the situation; formulate conclusions, and present recommendations for actions to be taken to remedy the obstacles that are evident. Summary of the Situation Project "Operation Optimize" has effectively stalled. Our research shows that our competition…

Executive Summary: PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational food and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York. The company manufactures, markets, and distributes grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. In 1965 PepsiCo was formed by the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. Since PepsiCo’s merger it has even further expanded its range of products. In 1998 PepsiCo acquired Tropicana to broaden its beverage products, and to offer juices that were a healthier…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Operations Management is the process of producing and delivering product and service of an organization by managing its resources effectively. All product or service is the result of operating (input-transformation-output) process. Operations are process that take a set of input resources (material, machinery, information, and customer) which are used to transform something, or are transformed themselves, into outputs of products and service. And although all operations confirm…

Lei Xia M06297263 xiale@mail.uc.edu (513)328-0115 Executive summary: Macy’s Inc. is one of the oldest enterprises in the United States, belonging to the department stores industry. (Hoovers.com) It is a national brand, owning 850 department stores. During the development of the company, there had several key decisions that were beneficial for the company. However, in recent years, the competitions in department stores industry become more and more serious. Due to the economy downturn…

Executive Summary This paper was written by Dr. Richard L. Kugler from the National Defense University, Center of Technology and National Security. Operation Anaconda was a success, but taught many lessons for modern-era force operations and defense transformation that deserves to be remembered (Kugler, 2007). Even though the battle plan was complex and sophisticated, it was not followed by the Afghan forces, which left US ground troops to do the battle alone. US forces had to replan the battle…

Executive summary In 1977 Apple Computers started the movement into the personal computing arena by two ex college students, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. But through changes in management and differences of opinion together with missed opportunities the company lost its competitive advantage to companies like Microsoft, Dell, and Gateway. Apple operates in various lines of the computer and music industry today and its operations include not only the designing but also the manufacturing of its computers…

Executive Summary LMG, Inc. is a national provider of video, audio, and lighting support. Our company offers full-service video, audio, and lighting capabilities throughout the United States for corporate meetings, trade shows, live broadcasts, and specialty events. We provide integrated audio, video, lighting, and satellite web streaming for concert tours, as well as consultation, design, and installation of permanent audiovisual solutions. In 2013, LMG lost two senior executives to competitive…

APPLE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Apple Inc., was first known as Apple computer Inc., which is a multinational company that produces consumer electronics, softwares for household and commercial purposes and it’s a media content digital distributor. The company also has retail business, having a long chain of retail stores which were named as Apple Stores. The main or core product of Apple is IPhone smartphones, IPad and computers. Apple computer was the first creation of Apple by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak…

Executive summary Apple Inc was incorporated in 1977 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. As a startup company Apple Inc went through several management changes and conflicts which caused the company to lose some of its competitive advantage against companies like Dell, Gateway and Microsoft. The company designs and manufactures various products in the computer and music industry. Apple being strictly a personal computer company decided to venture into marketing other products like the iPod, a digital…

Executive Summary Meijer Inc. is considered as one of the largest superstore chains in the United States, and is among the top 30 private companies in the world in terms of revenue. The annual revenue of Meijer has increased to $16.1 billion as per its annual revenue for the fiscal year 2016. Meijer operates 223 stores with more than 68,000 team members that work directly for the company. All the Meijer stores are concentrated into six U.S. states, which include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky…