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Some of your decisions will be so routine that you make them without giving them much thought. But difficult or challenging decisions demand more consideration. These are the sort of decisions that involve:
Uncertainty
– Many of the facts may be unknown.
Complexity
– There can be many, interrelated factors to consider.
High-risk consequences
– The impact of the decision may be significant.
Alternatives
– There may be various alternatives, each with its own set of uncertainties and consequences.
Interpersonal issues
– You need to predict how different people will react.
When you’re making a decision that involves complex issues like these, you also need to engage your problem-solving, as well as decision-making skills. It pays to use an effective, robust process in these circumstances, to improve the quality of your decisions and to achieve consistently good results.
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PART A (Research Based Assessment)
Technologies:
Summarise each of the following technologies:
a. Power supply requirements and management.
b. Registered random access memory (RAM).
c. Server design and network architecture.
d. Set up and configuration procedures.
e. Single and multiple processors.
f. Vendor specifications and requirements for software installation.
g. Virtual server functionality.
This task must be completed with references where applicable and submitted to the assessor.
PART B (Knowledge based Questions)
1. What information can you obtain and use from feasibility reports and organisational to assess the extent
Of the virtualisation that is to be implemented? (Approximately 50 Words)
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The questions in this workbook are divided into two categories: Knowledge Assessment and Case Studies.
The questions under
Knowledge Assessments
are all in a short answer format. The longer questions requiring creative and analytical thought processes are covered in the
Case Studies
assessment.
You must answer all questions using your own words
. However, you may reference your learner guide and other relevant resources and learning materials to complete this assessment.
Some questions cover processes you would likely encounter in a workplace. Ideally, you should be able to answer these questions based on the processes that are currently in place in your workplace. If this is not the case, then answer the questions based on processes that should be implemented in your workplace.
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My Research Questions:
1.What impact did the South African Apartheid have on the mental/physical/emotional health of its citizens?
2. Is the government going to offer any kind of help for the mentally/physically and emotionally affected by the apartheid? If so how?
Revised Questions
How did the apartheid of South Africa affect the mental health of its citizens?
As a result of the mental health impact experienced by the citizens, in what ways will the government provide aid?
My Current Thesis Statement:
The South Africa citizen’s mental health was tremendously impacted during the Apartheid in 1948-1994. The people of South African till this day suffer from mental health issues. Yet, till this day the government has not done much for its people to offer the proper kind of help for the mentally ill.
My Outline
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Introduction: Thesis statement
History of the apartheid – Why did the National Party start the segregation in the first place? What was the government looking to gain from creating segregation? How was South Africa affected during and post-apartheid?
Examples of how people were affected due to the apartheid – I will provide examples of how the apartheid did affect those of color, blacks, whites and Indians, post-apartheid. I will also provide statistics and how the white people thought
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SECTION A: 30 TRUE/FALSE (T/F) STATEMENT QUESTIONS (30 MARKS)
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The study of microeconomics and macroeconomics differs in that microeconomics studies the economy in terms of private individuals and firms while macroeconomics includes the effect of an industry.
Assume that croutons and soup are complementary goods. The effect on the soup market of a decrease in the price of croutons (other things being equal) would best be described as an increase in the quantity of soup demanded.
Suppose the price of a bus ticket rises from $2.75 to $3.00 and the number of tickets sold falls from 10 000 to 8 500, the price elasticity of demand is elastic.
Product differentiation refers to the attempt by firms to make their products look like those of the other firms in the industry.
Australian gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services produced in Australia by Australian citizens during a year.
Samantha was being treated unfairly by her boss, so she quit the job and two days later found another position. For two days, Samantha experienced structural unemployment.
An inflation hedge is an asset that increases in value at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of inflation.
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GUIDELINES FOR ASSIGNMENT
1. FOR the first part of the assignment which is Question & Answer based then.
· Introduction is needed for each question.
· Question has to be answered based on the mark allotted for each question with references if any idea or information is taken from other source.
2. If assignment is case based then,
· Executive summary
· Table of content
· Body of assignment (questions related to case need to be answered)
· Conclusion / Recommendation if any
· References (in-text + citation) to be used.
Attempt all questions. Answer comprehensively as you can.
1. What are the four broad categories in Operations Management? Give example in the context of your experience.
2. What are the skills and competencies and Operations Manager required? Kindly give live examples for the same with your experience.
3. Porters Competitive Strategy for the Mobile Industry… which strategy is good and why?
4. Define TQM and Lean, please provide the important characteristics between TQM and Lean with some examples.
5. What is Theory of Constraints? What are the steps followed to improve the output?
6. What is queueing theory? Give some examples where the theory is practically used in Business environment?
Case Study – I
McDonald’s
McDonald’s is the global fast-food service retailer. The company have more than 32,000 restaurants and serve more than 60 million people in more than 100 countries every day. More than 80% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are franchised and operated by local people.
When Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first restaurant they developed the idea of an ‘assembly line’ where a reduced menu could be cooked cheaper and quicker, which would lead to a higher turnover of customers.
The main objective of company in the operational area is that the production process was as effective as possible. In other words, when using the same assets the company produce the maximum amount of high quality product which satisfies customers.
To achieve these objectives McDonald’s create a balance between customer’s needs and minimizing waste. Demand is forecasted and stock is controlled so that products do not have to be thrown repeatedly.
McDonald’s is a global company, but they operate locally. Currently, McDonald’s wants to be perceived as a modern company that cares about customers and ecology. They offer fast-serve meals, such as: breakfast, salads, vegetables and dairy products.
With your experience and research please do submit your response to the following questions.
Q1. What are the key fundamental Operational Strategy of McDonald’s? What are tools used by McDonald’s to achieve its Operational Strategy?
Q2. What are the Key Decision areas which the McDonald’s focuses?
Q3. In you view what makes McDonald’s a truly Transnational Organization?
Q4. In recent years what kind of challenges McDonalds have faced with respect to PEST (Political, Economical, Social and Technological),please give some examples.
Case Study – II
Amazon : Amazon’s ‘Cyber Monday’
Founded as an online bookseller by Jeff Bezos, Amazon, now the world’s biggest online retailer, started business in Europe in 1998. Since then the Seattle-based firm has experienced remarkable growth, employing around 40,000 people around the world and dominating a fiercely competitive consumer market, where its success is unquestionably based partly on its keen pricing. But low prices are not the only thing supporting Amazon’s success. Without fast, accurate and efficient delivery it could not have secured its ‘top e-retailer’ position.
This is why Amazon devotes so much investment and effort into its fulfilment centres, customer service centres and software development centres across Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. These organize the shipment of millions of individual items, from bird tables to baby clothes. (Amazon says that the exact number of different items it sells is difficult to define, especially if you take into account the articles that are offered via the ‘marketplace’, and changes every day.) Typical of Amazon’s shipment operations is its 46,000-square-metre Milton Keynes warehouse in the UK, one of eight in Britain. In the warehouse products are stocked within its extensive shelving arrangement, with the position of every item referenced using a portable satellite navigation system. Amazon says that it saves time when their staff retrieve items.‘ The computer shows the shortest pick-path’, said Arthur Valdez, the vice-president of Amazon’s British operations. The item is then scanned and picked, after which it moves along a conveyor belt to be packed or gift-wrapped and then labelled. At this point an email is automatically sent to the customer informing them that their product is on its way.
Mr Valdez manages a network of fast-moving operations that must always maintain a tight control of its activities, but no time is more than the run-up to Christmas. The gift-buying habits of Western consumers mean that up to 40 per cent of annual sales value can come in the final three months of the year, with half of the multi-billion online Christmas sales taking place over the end of November and the first two weeks of December. The average number of articles being sold each day soars from 300,000 to, at its peak, 3.6 million being sold in one day. In the UK, this day – which it calls ‘Cyber Monday’­– is at the beginning of December; or, to be more precise, 9 pm on that day, when shoppers, having normally been paid for the month and having spent the weekend browsing the high street, return from work to begin their Christmas shopping in earnest. It makes for a hectic time. ‘ A full truck is dispatched every 3 minutes and 24 seconds on our busiest trading day ’, says Mr Valdez. But careful forecasting can at least stop the Christmas peak being a surprise. And careful monitoring of customer behaviour has revealed a further trend – after ‘Cyber Monday’, now comes ‘Boomerang Thursday’, when customers start to return their unwanted items. ‘As the online retail sector continues to grow, so too has consumer demand and confidence to return items, often before Christmas’, says Mark Lewis, chief executive of CollectPlus, which allows customers to return items to a local convenience store. ‘ This suits retailers. They want to get [items] back as soon as possible, so they can sell them on.’ Mark Lewis says that half of his customers return items at off-peak times. ‘It peaks at 7 pm. It reflects how we live our lives these days.’
However, some retail analysts believe that the advance of technology in the form of mobile phone transactions and broadband has also meant the significance of ‘Cyber Monday’ and ‘Boomerang Thursday’ will diminish because such technology makes it easier to stagger transactions. But for Mr Valdez, it is continual vigilance that allows Amazon to keep up with demand trends. ‘ Every year it feels like [Christmas starts on] 1­January. We are all year long focused on understanding the lessons learnt from the previous Christmas’, he says.
Q1. Based on the above case study please share your thoughts about Amazon building the critical competency to deal with the demands?
Q2. What kind of tools, techniques and technology is being adopted by Amazon to be one of the successful E-Retailers on the planet?
Q.3 What is Central to Amazon and what keeps them moving towards the unprecedented growth across the geographies?
Q.4 What is the key learning from Amazon business model?

An essay on music channel

Concisely describe a specific product (of your choice) that a Fortune-500 firm has decided to start making in large quantities. Explain which type of supply chain (based on Hau Lee’s framework) will be ideal for this product. List THREE different components (OR material OR parts) that this company will need to source from various suppliers. For each component, recommend one ideal supplier (a real company), ideal type of relationship (transactional, traditional, partnership, vertical integration) with this supplier, and ideal mode of transport. Explain each of your choices. Please note that you CANNOT recommend the same supplier or the same relationship, or the same mode of transport for more than one component. (20 points)
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Business reports are practical learning tasks where students apply the theories they have been studying to real-world situations. The students are required to select a topic, collect information (Primary and/or secondary) and prepare a report describing a business problem or incident. This report should consist of (not inclusive) Abstract, Introduction, Objectives, Methodologies, Information Analysis, Findings, Recommendations, References, and Appendices.
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1 Microeconomics Assignment Semester 1, 2019 Business Economics BUECO5903 Prepared by Paul McPhee (Course Coordinator) Checked by David Spiers (Caretaker / Moderator) Instructions for Candidates: 1. Choose any five (5) of the following eight (8) questions; 2. Each question is worth ten (10) marks; 3. This assignment comprises 15 per cent of total assessment; 4. Please type your assignment; 5. All diagrams and direct quotations must be referenced as per the course description specified method. 6. Please use the numbering system as provided on this document to identify the questions. 2 Question 1: (a) Illustrate and explain using diagrams how a single seller within the market can maintain an inefficient allocation of resources; (2.5 marks for the diagram plus 2.5 marks for the explanation) (b) Are there any advantages to a single market seller and how do they compare to its perceived disadvantages. (2.5 marks for identifying advantages and 2.5 marks for identifying disadvantages) Question 2: (a) What market structure is used to benchmark allocative efficiency and why do we use it? Illustrate and explain using a diagram (2.5 marks for the diagram plus 2.5 marks for the explanation) (b) Why and how do monopolistically competitive firms fail to achieve allocative efficiency? Illustrate and explain using a diagram. (2.5 marks for the diagram plus 2.5 marks for the explanation) Question 3: (a) Assuming a constant wage rate, illustrate and explain using a diagram, how a firm’s marginal costs of production are at a minimum when its marginal product is at a maximum; (2.5 marks for the diagram plus 2.5 marks for the explanation) (b) Illustrate and explain using a diagram how a firm’s long-run average cost curve comes into existence from a multi-plant operation; (2.0 marks for the diagram plus 2.0 marks for the explanation) (c) Identify and describe the significance of the various portions of this diagram. (1 mark) Question 4: (a) You are examining and reporting on the market performance of a very small number of firms that are known to often collude in setting output prices and quantities. Illustrate and explain using a diagram what affect this behaviour is most likely to have on the allocation of factors of production. (2.5 marks for the diagram plus 2.5 marks for the explanation) 3 (b) What will happen if one of these firms cheats on the others in some way? Illustrate and explain using a diagram. (2.5 marks for the diagram plus 2.5 marks for the explanation) Question 5: (a) Illustrate and explain using diagrams, the difference between long run supply in a constant cost individual firm and industry and an increasing cost firm and industry. (Firm level diagrams 2.5 marks; industry level diagrams 2.5 marks, firm level explanation 2.5 marks, industry level explanation 2.5 diagrams) Question 6: Illustrate and explain using diagrams, two (2) market mechanisms that are used for controlling pollution as an externality. [2.5 marks for each diagram (total of 5 marks) plus 2.5 marks for each explanation (total of 5 marks)] Question 7: (a) Explain whether you agree or disagree with the following statement and why: “Regardless of whether the short run or the long run is being considered, a firm should continue to operate as long as its price is greater than its average variable cost”. (5 marks) (b) Use diagrams to illustrate and explain why you agree or disagree with the following statement: “When marginal revenue equals marginal cost, total cost equals total revenue and the firm makes zero profit”. (2.5 marks for diagram plus 2.5 marks for explanation) Question 8: The following diagram shows the cost curves of a firm under perfect competition. 4 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 MC MC AC AVC $ Quantity (a) How much will the firm produce in order to maximise profits at a price of $8 per unit? …………………..(1/2 mark) (b) What will be its average cost of production at this output?………………………………….(1/2 mark) (c) How much (supernormal) profit will it make? ……………………………………………………(2 marks) (d) How much will the firm produce in order to maximise profits at a price of $5 per unit? ……………………(1/2 mark) (e) How much (supernormal) profit will it make? ……………………………………………………(2 marks) (f) How much will the firm produce in order to maximise profits at a price of $4 per unit? ……………………(1/2 mark) (g) What will be its profit value be now? ………………………………………………………………..(2 marks) (h) Below what price would the firm shut down in the short run? ……………………………….(1 mark) (i) Below what price would the firm shut down in the long run? ………………………………..(1 mark)
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