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Determine sampling procedure. 2. Gather initial data of 100 or so data points in ksubgroups of n amounts/numbers of samples. 3. Calculate the mean ( x ) of each subgroup. 4. Calculate the range (R) of each subgroup. 5. Calculate the average of the subgroup averages x.This is the process average and will be the centerline for the x -chart.Control Chart Development

Primary Response is due by Sunday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).Primary Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:Tina is a coffee drinker and does not like to make coffee at home. Her favorite coffee is Starbucks™. She buys Starbucks at least three times a week. Reviewing the Product, one of the four Ps of Marketing, what is Tina buying and is the customer demand being fulfilled? Why or why not?Tip: A product is a good or service that a company offers, fulfilling a customer demand.

n 200 words, discuss the difference between “problem solving” and “decision making” as described in the chapter. Give examples of each from a business/quality management perspective.

Investing Abroad DirectlyChoose any Multinational Enterprise (other than Coca-Cola) that engages in FDI and complete the questions below for your company of choice. Provide a copy of the articles used to complete the questions.Below is an example of Coca-Cola:Coca-Cola Co. owns a secret formula for its sodas and supports Coca-Cola brands. Coca-Cola Co. produces drink syrups, which it sells to licensed bottlers around the world. The licensed bottlers mix the syrups with local water and sell the resulting soft drinks in their countries. ?Coca-Cola engages in Horizontal FDI in South Africa (in contrast with Apple, which has a process factory in California, a body factory in Taiwan, and an assembly factory in China to produce its MacBooks).Ownership: The secret recipe and brand recognition. Location: Shipping Coca-Cola is expensive — it’s mostly water. Instead, use domestic water. Internalization: Coca-Cola recipe is easily stolen, so ship the syrup to bottlers and keep recipe within the company.O, L, and I advantages are all strong in this case.Some of the positive benefits of Coca-Cola on the host country: (1) Brought jobs to the communities in South Africa Some negative benefits of Coca-Cola on the host country: (1) Childhood obesityChapter 6 Investing Abroad Directly1. Did the MNE engage in Horizontal FDI or Vertical FDI (upstream/downstream)? Draw their value chain to illustrate the type of FDI which they engaged in (see page 154 in your book). (1 paragraphs)2. According to John Dunning’s framework, what are the ownership advantages that the MNE reaped? Give at least 3 examples directly from your Multinational Enterprise. (1 paragraph)3. According to John Dunning’s framework, what are the locational advantages that the MNE reaped? Give at least 3 examples directly from your Multinational Enterprise. (1 paragraph)4. According to John Dunning’s framework, what are the internationalization advantages that the MNE reaped? Give at least 3 examples directly from your Multinational Enterprise. (1 paragraph)5. Provide at least two of the potential benefits and two negative affects that this MNE has had on the host country. (1 paragraph)

Marketing plan for Ventura HillsBy Yang ShiMarch 4, 2021Mission, Vision & ValuesMission”Ventura Hills Senior Living is committed to delivering independence, individuality, choice, privacy, and dignity to our valued residents.”Ventura hills understand the expectations of its customers and are committed to meet their needs of entrusted and facilitated residential areas. Ventura Hills programs emphasized the provision of support and facilitated to enhance the quality of life of residents and to help them feel good and satisfied. We understand the need for privacy for our residents, and thus we allow them to customize or decorate their suites or apartments with their personal belongings. The Ventura hills customize a program that allows residents to make their own decisions and show their opinions regarding their needs and expectations from the Ventura hills. Ventura Hills aims to meet with expected living standards of residents and ever-changing market standards of the residential industry.Vision”The vision of Ventura hills senior living is to become one of the most demanded quality residential services providers, through accepting and integrating technology and innovation, employee development and enhancement in the living standard.”In order to achieve its vision, the company is striving to achieve perfection in the following areas;i. Deliver quality residential services to the consumer according to their expectations and needsii. Individualized and comprehensive residential services to every residentiii. Understand and evaluate changing standards of the residential marketiv. Introduce a comfortable senior living service to residentsv. Promotion of innovation and provision of superior services to target customer marketVentura Hills Senior living understands that people in the modern age are looking for quality and perfection in all senses; thus, the focus through research and in-depth analysis of consumer preferences would bring enormous benefits for the company as well as for the residents. The Ventura Hills offers vast options and customization options for its residents, from the community’s design to internal and external facilities. According to the residential service provider’s claims, they understand the needs of older people and children from their residential locations. Considering these needs, the senior living providers are visioning bright and fully facilitated residential locations for their people.

1) Chapter 10, g, Case Study #8: Review the ms-excel file enclosed in this email. The file has the answers to the case study for Chapter 10. Answer the following questions that pertain to the case study:a) What data is the critical piece of information for this case study? (Sales forecast, Actual Workers, Hiring, Layoffs) Explain why?b) Describe why having a Sales and Operations Planning process is essential to managing a business.2) Classroom Assignment #8: Write a one-page essay on how the Retail Industry manages its inventory throughout the calendar year

Critical ThinkingThe global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of excellent, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).Consult chapter 7 of your textbook or secondary available data through internet and answer the following questions.Question:1. Why Companies adopted Lean Thinking and JIT model? (1.5 Mark)2. Discuss major types of Waste, companies has to keep in mind during production. (1.5 Mark)3. Due to pandemic COVID 19 emergency, do you think agile supply chain is the right concept in this kind of situation? Give reason with example. (1.5 Mark)4. Reference (0.5 Mark)

Working by yourself or with one other student, take the country that you recommended in your Assignment #1 that your firm should consider for entry and prepare an analysis of two alternative forms of mode of entry.Your final “PROFESSIONAL deliverable for the assignment will be a report that includes the following:1. Cover page2. Table of contents3. An executive summary of the paper (maximum half a page).4. An analysis, based on the analytical tools (PESTEL, FIVE FORCES) discussed in class, is to be used to create a credible, defensible and professional rationale for mode of entry; evidencing a good knowledge of the company in question, the industry it is in, the country in question and the modes of entry under consideration.5. The analysis section should naturally lead you to the selection of decision criteria that will allow you to make a recommendation amongst the modes of entry under consideration. The decision criteria must be reasonable and credible in the context of the company and industry in question.a. Decision criteria are NOT to be quantitative in nature…they are to be qualitative in nature. For example, the following criteria (or similar to these criteria) are NOT to be used, regardless of how you define them.i. Cost of entryii. Capital costiii. Market shareiv. Market penetrationv. Initial start up costsvi. Initial capital investment6. Your recommendation may be supported by a decision matrix (See Appendix A for an illustration of a decision matrix), or a narrative defense of your recommendation.7. A well-argued summary recommendation as to why the company should proceed with the chosen mode of entry, as opposed to the one not selected.8. Your final report is to be written in the 3rd person. It will be judged on the factual information it contains based on your research, the clarity of your arguments, the incorporation of key concepts from the course in your narrative, the depth of your analysis and the professionalism expected of a formal memo prepared by an outside consultant to the firm in question. In this regard a discussion of the history of the company is redundant, as it is assumed that the company executive knows far more about the company than the external consultant.

Using only credible Business Resources, i.e., those secured in the library or through the Library portal, prepare a professional management report on one of the following topics:A History of American Management Philosophy • Change: The Environment of Human Re?sources Management • Key Factors in Organizational Performance • Equal Employment Laws and Other Regulations • Gay Americans and Their Equal Rights Protection Against Job Dis?crimination • Managing in a Technologically Mediated Business Environment • Recruitment and Management in a Retracting Economy • Supply Chain Management and Transportation Logis?tics • Skills and Training Demands of Globalization • The impact of Heath Care Reform on American Workers • Labor Organizations and Unionization • Cases in Management Ethics Violations and their Impact on the Respective Organizations • The Contemporary American Work Ethic • EQ: The maturity level of the Con?temporary Workforce• Or?ganization Risks and Returns in To?day’s Economy • Islamophobia and its Impact on American Business • When it all Goes Bad: Doc?umented Cases of Mismanagement • Managing Not-for-profit Organizations in an Economic Decline• Outsourcing Tax Credit and Management Planning for Labo

Q1 What are support departments, and why are their costs allocated to other departments? What process is used to allocate support department costs?(1.5 Marks, week 10 materials)Q2 How are joint costs allocated? Explain and analyze using numerical example.(1.5 Marks, week 11 materials)Q 3 How are budget variances calculated and used as performance measures? Provide numerical example?(2 Marks, week 12 materials)