Category Archives: Business

How important is the concept of first impressions in the business environment?

Management with the daily practice of your supply chain operations? Question Set 3: (Professional Interaction, Communication, and Presentation Skills) How important is the concept of first impressions in the business environment? What communications skills do you use most often within the supply chain? Do you present often in your role within the organization? Can you […]

What are the key tenants of TOC and what success stories can you find and share?

Theory of Constraints The late Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the father of TOC (Theory of Constraints) created a business strategy methodology heavily steeped in the continuous improvement world of Deming’s TQM (Total Quality Management) or TPS (Toyota Production System) aka Lean Manufacturing. What are the key tenants of TOC and what success stories can you […]

What Patagonia is not doing in regards to other recovery and disposal from the waste hierarchy and why they are not doing?

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS 1.Introduce the Case company Patagonia and discuss their sustainable practices 2.Using the overall approach to sustainability (Triple bottom line concept) discuss the key sustainable issues (Social, environmental and economic) faced by the company Patagonia 3. Using the waste hierarchy pyramid discuss the current practices of the case company and how the case company […]

Do you feel this course has given you a foundation for your further studies?

Unit 5 – Discussion Board Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, discuss the following questions: What were the most interesting topics you learned in this course? Do you feel this course has given you a foundation for your further studies? Do you have […]

What are the common themes that bind the literature review and interviews?

Your paper examines the role of public planners and how the practice of planning intersects with public planning theory.Interview a planner and ask the following questions? The paper should include: Introduction Question: How does public planning theory inform planning practitioners? Literature Review Methodology- questions/interview / Canned interviews American Planning Association .What are the common themes […]

Discuss how predictive analytics can avoid some of the related myths and blunders discussed in the Talk.

Data Mining and Algorithms Assignment 1Directions: Review Application Case 4.6  “Data Mining Goes to Hollywood: Predicting Financial Success of Movies” on pages 233 – 236 in your textbook. Conduct a thorough case analysis addressing the questions for discussion.Important information:Answers should be thorough and complete.Refer to the assignment rubric located in the syllabus for grading criteria. […]

How would all of these things play into the fight or flight response?-Chemical messengers are used in both the nervous system and the endocrine system. What properties do these

week 5 Examine Figure 3.14, illustrating the effects of sympathetic nervous system activation in your e-textbook. How would all of these things play into the fight or flight response?-Chemical messengers are used in both the nervous system and the endocrine system. What properties do these two systems share? What properties are different? Which one would […]

What are the three kinds of problems that are more common during adolescence than they were in childhood, or will be in adulthood?

Week 4 Chapter 9 provides insights in the various theories and stages in relation to life development (prenatal/infancy-death/aging). As an application of the tenets of this chapter. Answer the following questions (complete sentences, paragraph format): -Explain the ways in which children can understand far more than Piaget gave them credit. -What were the tenets of […]