Idle Case Studies Samples For Students

Implement lean elements on project management

Operation management is a comprehensive process of coordinating all activities in a project in order to achieve the set goal within the stipulated framework. Every operation manager designs a network schedule of the sequence of all activities, their succeeding process, slack time and the maximum time which the whole project should consume from the initial to the final stage. The goal of managing a project is to ensure that the process is time-framed, cost-effective and maximum utilization of resources. A lean operation is a production strategy that strives to improve the project schedule, carriage costs and improve the value addition of the customers. The ...

Idle No More is a native rights movement that was developing since the time when the government of Canada passed a bill which was referred to as C-45 which entailed the provision to affect environmental safety and the sovereignty of the indigenous population.
Idle No More movement had several distinctive characteristics. The first and most profound characteristic was the fact that the movement was led by women. It is also a democratic movement in the sense that all its operations have been decentralized to the grassroots. The groups of people who belong to this group comprise people of common identity and ...

Introduction

International business environment imposes more challenges on contemporary corporations, driven by the complexity of global business, supply chain and the variety of external pressures, which shape and determine the direction in which the organizations develop. The case dwells upon the development and current strategic issues, which are set in front of the Chabros International Group management, looking at the future development of the organization on the edge of global financial crisis and drastically droppings sales. The company´s owner and the president, Antoine Chami, is to take a strategic decision whether to close part of the Serbian sawmill, re-boost the ...

The recommendation for Giberson's Glass Studio is based on the findings of the cost accounting exercise. The first recommendation is that this glass studio should improve its prices. Three products of this glass studio are generating some losses. They include paperweights, pattern glass and wrapped tumblers. The first strategy in this recommendation is increasing the paperweights’ price from $ nine to $ 22. This will result in $ 0.39, in profit as opposed to the current $ 6.61 loss. Secondly, the pattern glass should have its price increased from $ nine to $ 19 whereby a profit of $ 0.59 will be generated per unit. In addition, ...

(1) With the stern competition among companies today, success relies on gaining business competitive advantages. This is the main objective of big data and data analytics. Though both seeks to utilize data in gaining edge over the other three characteristics differentiates big data from data analytics and these are volume, velocity and variety. Big data is aware and gives importance to the fact that the volume of data gathered by companies from different sources is doubling every day, so being able to predict these data means providing mechanisms that are capable of processing this amount of data. Further, big ...