Assignment 1: Vice President of Operations, Part 1

Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

Scenario: Imagine that you are the vice president of operations at a production or service organization. You have noticed that your organization’s current operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the organization is presently facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you must address these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer immediately.

Select an existing production organization. Analyze the organization’s current vision, mission, business strategy, operation strategy, supply chain, total quality management, just-in-time philosophy, forecasting method, statistical technique, facility location, work design, project life cycle, and project management. Note: You will need this information in order to complete this and subsequent assignments.

As you collect the information for Assignment 1 and Assignment 2, remember that in Assignment 3 you must prepare a presentation for your Chief Executive Officer.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate key elements of the selected production or service organization’s operational efficiency with its operational strategy. Determine three (3) tasks that do not align with the operational strategy. Determine the weaknesses that are evident in each task.
2. Formulate a new operations strategy for the selected organization based on the four (4) competitive priorities (i.e., cost, quality, time, and flexibility).
3. Analyze both the structure of the competitive priorities and infrastructure of the production process. Develop three (3) new enablers that are aligned with the long-term plan of the selected organization. Evaluate three (3) pros and three (3) cons of the new enablers.
4. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
5. Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate 3 quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the differences between service and manufacturing operations management to identify planning considerations.
• Formulate an operations strategy to conduct production or service operations.
• Explain how an operations strategy impacts product design and process selection.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.
• Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for this assignment.

CAN YOU PLEASE PARAPHRASE THE FOLLOWING CONTENT

1. How Hinduism followers prefer to call their religion which
means the “eternal” way.

2.It evolved from different religious traditions and different ethnic
groups in the area around the Indus river in India and Pakistan

3. Third largest

4. The nature gods:
Indra, god of weather
Agni, god of derive fire

5.No, they worship:
Brahma, the creator
Vishnu, the preserver
Shiva, the destroyer

6.A belief that some of their gods appear on earth taking a form of
humans.

7.They believe that last avatars that appeared on earth are Rama,
Krishna and Buddha

8. The story of the life of Krishna
9. The vedas and Upanishads

10. The vedas: Knowledge
Upanishads: Sitting down near (in order to receive instructions
from someone who has the knowledge)

11.An epic tail of two war infections on a family and the struggle
to rule an Asian kingdom

12.Dharma is the natural law that gives harmony and balance to
the universe.

13.Every time when someone dies his soul is sent to enter newly
born body. (To be made flesh again)

14.It’s if the soul is sent from a body to another by reincarnation it
happens again and again until it’s liberated, and this called
moksha.

15.The sum of your actions in previous states, will appear in your
life again or happen again in your life which impacts a lot of
Hindus way of living.

16. Is a journey of millions of Hindus to city called Varanasi which
is said to be founded by one of their Lords. They go and pray and
take a bath in the river which is believed to purify their souls.

17. A city located in India, where millions of people visit every
year for pilgrimage, it’s said that it was founded by Lord Shiva.

18. Aum
19.A way of worship, as a part of their journey to attain moksha

20. Bakhti Yoga, what conceived by Kishna and documented in
Bahgavad Vita
Karma Yoga, path of right action

21.Mandir is the temple or house for worship in Hinduism, where
they go to pray and take some offerings for god.

22. Most Hindus are vegetarians because they think it’s wrong to
kill animals to eat them, especially cows which considered as holy
thing for them

23.One of the Hindus gods, whis is known to be sitting on a tiger’s
back and fights evil spirits

24.
Diwali :Celebrating the Hindu New Year and triumph of good over
evil and light over darkness. Celebrated by millions of people
around the globe and lasts for 5 days.
Holi:Festival where all people throw colored powder over each
other, this custom goes back to Krishna who threw colored
powder over Radha and her friends.

25.Since Hinduism wasn’t founded as religion in the beginnings, it
has no single founder can be mentioned. It is a culture that
flourished in India and later became a form of religion form of
religion.

Submit 1 Excel Spreadsheet and Word Document 700 words APA format.

Select a publicly held company and access the company’s Web page on the Internet to read its most recent annual report. The annual report is typically found in an “Investor Relations” or “Company Information” section within the company’s Web site. You can use this website to look up any publicly traded company’s documents for additional consideration. Complete the following:

• Using the company’s financial statements, construct a pro forma income statement and balance sheet for the company using the percentage-of-sales method.
• Be sure to include the original statements along with a defendable sales forecast.
• Upon completion of the financials, write a paper detailing the process and what you learned about the company as you work through this activity.

Pamphlet or Brochure

Create a pamphlet or a brochure in which you try to “sell”
your idea or opinion on the topic “Pro-life Vs Pro-Choice on Abortion” to someone else. Use
persuasive voice and tone, but be brief. Use bullets, visuals, etc., in
order to make it visually attractive. A good way to create this is to
use Microsoft® Publisher or another program that will support the
layout and format.

This project should be a minimum of two pages (just as you would see a front and back of a brochure) and a maximum of 4 pages (a brochure with an insert). You should include an additional page with a description of your purpose as described under the assignment section below.

For help on coming up with some creative ideas for this project, and for learning more “tips,” see the following Web sites:

1. Brochure Design Tips
2. Making Effective Use of Brochures PDF
3. Check out “Page Design” for more help with understanding the elements of page layout.

A sample (Note: this shows only one side of a brochure): LITE (Literacy is the edge)

Please respond to students discussion board. Please keep them in order.

(Kristen) 1.Behavioral variations in social functioning and social perception are different from variations in communication skills and repetitive behaviors because children with ASD have behaviors that are stereo typed and misunderstood. Children with ASD seem to not want to have friends however, they do want to have friends. Their behavior does not appeal to your average child and does not understand when someone may be bullying them because of their behavior. ASD children do not learn by example that something may not be socially acceptable for example, picking your nose (Aspy & Grossman, 2012). Repetitive behaviors vary greatly in the ASD child. Some children repeat behaviors over and over such as rocking, or flapping. Others may know facts about a particular topic and become an expert at it. When assesing an ASD child, you need to think carefully about which assessment to give based on behavior. If the child has a routine and does not like when something is different, that can be a consideration when assessing the student. It is important for the team assessing the child take into consideration all behavior activity the child conveys.

(Karen) 2. The differences are hard to determine because there are many underlying variations that can be the cause of the behavior. The differences depend on the individual student. When trying to find the correct assessment for the behavior, the team must be sure to meet the concerns of the behavior to be sure what the behavior is. When the team figures out what the problem is then they can figure out how to assess for intervention to change the behavior. Just remember that there is a reason for the behavior.

(Lauren) 3. The major areas that should be assessed before determining an intervention for students with ASD are communication abilities, social differences, restricted patterns of behaviors, interests and activities, motor development, cognitive differences, sensory differences, emotional vulnerability, and biological factors (Aspy & Grossman, 2012). Identifying these areas can help the team determine which behaviors are caused by skill deficits and which are caused by outside factors. Another important area to consider is the individual’s strengths. Knowing a student’s strengths and weaknesses in these areas can help in determining the appropriate intervention. It is important to identify the antecedent, behavior, and consequences for specific behaviors before choosing an intervention (Aspy & Grossman, 2012). If you can identify the antecedent, behavior and consequences, the team can then begin to determine which interventions may have the most impact for teaching appropriate behaviors. Designing interventions for students can be challenging. It is very important to consider the individual when deciding which intervention to implement.

Aspy, R., and Grossman, B. G. (2012). Designing comprehensive interventions for high-functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders: The Ziggurat model. Shawnee Mission, KS: AAPC Publishing. ISBN-13: 9781934575963

(Andrea) 4. When assessing an individual to determine the best route for intervention the individual should be assessed based on their individual strengths and skills. Those strengths and skills include areas of social, behavioral, interests, activities, communication, sensory, cognitive, motor, emotional and biological. One of the specific ways of completing these assessments is the Ziggurat Worksheet. “The specifically designed Ziggurat Worksheet is used to create a comprehensive intervention.” (Aspy & Grossman, 2012) With the Ziggurat all levels of interventions need to be completed, each level allows for documenting characteristics that are being addressed, and checking when interventions are taking place.

“In sum, a complete intervention meets the following requirements: 1. All five levels of the Ziggurat are addressed; 2. Several core, underlying characteristics are included; 3. Intervention occurs at three points (ABC-antecedent, behavior, and consequence strategies).” (Aspy & Grossman, 2012)