Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch It was never supposed to be this difficult. When Boeing announced the development of its newest and most high-tech aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, it seemed that it had made all the right decisions. By focusing on building a more fuel-efficient aircraft, using lighter composite materials that saved on overall weight and resulted in a 20% lower fuel consumption, outsourcing development work to a global network of suppliers, and pioneering new assembly techniques, it appeared that Boeing had taken a clear-eyed glimpse into the future of commercial air travel and designed the equivalent of a “home run”—a new aircraft that ticked all the boxes. Airline customers seemed to agree. When Boeing announced the development of the 787 and opened its order book, it quickly became the best-selling aircraft in history, booking 847 advance orders for the airplane. With list prices varying from $161 to $205 million each, depending on the model, the Dreamliner was worth billions in long-term revenue streams for the company. The aircraft was designed for long-range flight and could seat up to 330 passengers. Most industry analysts agreed: With the introduction of the Dreamliner, the future had never seemed brighter for Boeing. But when the first delivery dates slipped, yet again, into 2012, four years behind schedule, and the company’s stock price was battered in the marketplace, Boeing and its industry backers began trying to unravel a maze of technical and supply chain problems that were threatening not just the good name of Boeing, but the viability of the Dreamliner. Derisively nicknamed the “7-L-7” for “late,” the project had fallen victim to extensive cost overruns and continuous schedule slippages, and had recently encountered a number of worrisome structural and electrical faults that were alarming airlines awaiting delivery of their aircraft. These events combined to put Boeing squarely on the hot seat, as they sought to find a means to correct these problems and salvage both their reputation and the viability of their high profile aircraft. The time frame for the development of the Dreamliner offers some important milestones in its path to commercialization, including the following: • 2003—Boeing officially announced the development of the “7E7,” its newest aircraft. • 2004—First orders were received for 55 of the aircraft from All Nippon Airlines, with a delivery date set for late 2008. • 2005—The 7E7 was officially renamed the 787 Dreamliner. • July 2007—The first Dreamliner was unveiled in a rollout ceremony at Boeing’s assembly plant in Everett, Washington. • October 2007—The first six-month delay was announced. The problems identified included supplier delivery delays and problems with the fasteners used to attach composite components of the aircraft together. The program director, Mike Bair, was replaced a week later. • November 2008—Boeing announced the fifth delay in the schedule, due to continuing coordination problems with global suppliers, repeated failures of fasteners, and the effects of a machinist strike. The first flight was pushed out until the second quarter of 2009. • June 2009—Boeing announced that the first flight was postponed “due to a need to reinforce an area within the side-of-body section of the aircraft.” They further delayed the first test flight until late 2009. At the same time, Boeing wrote off $2.5 billion in costs for the first three 787s built. • December 7, 2009—First successful test flight of the 787. • July 2010—Boeing announced that schedule slippages would push first deliveries into 2011. They blamed an engine blowout at a test bed in RollsRoyce’s plant, although Rolls denied that its engines were the cause of schedule delay. • August 2010—Air India announced a $1 billion compensation claim against Boeing, citing repeated delivery delays for the twenty-seven 787s it had on order. • November 9, 2010—Fire broke out on Dreamliner #2 on its test flight near Laredo, Texas. The fire was quickly extinguished and the cause was attributed to a fault in the electrical systems. The aircraft were grounded for extensive testing. With that technical mishap, it was feared that the delivery date for the aircraft would be pushed into 2012. • January 19, 2011—Boeing announced another delay in its 787 delivery schedule. The latest (and seventh official) delay came more than two months after the Dreamliner #2 electrical fire. All Nippon Airways, the jet’s first customer, was informed that the earliest it could expect delivery of the first of its 55-airplane order would be the third quarter of 2011, though expectations were high that the airline might not receive any aircraft until early 2012, making final delivery nearly 3½ years late. There is no question that the Dreamliner is a stateof-the-art aircraft. The 787 is the first commercial aircraft that makes extensive use of composite materials in place of aluminum, both for framing and for the external “skin.” In fact, each 787 contains approximately 35 tons of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic. Carbon fiber composites have a higher strength-to-weight ratio than traditional aircraft materials, such as aluminum and steel, and help make the 787 a lighter aircraft. These composites are used on fuselage, wings, tail, doors, and interior sections, and aluminum is used on wing and tail leading edges. The fuselage is assembled in one-piece composite barrel sections instead of the multiple aluminum sheets and some 50,000 fasteners used on existing aircraft. Because of the lighter weight and a new generation of jet engines used to power it, the Dreamliner has a lower cost of operations, which makes it especially appealing to airlines. Additionally, the global supply chain that Boeing established to manufacture components for the aircraft reads like a who’s who list of international experts. Firms in Sweden, Japan, South Korea, France, England, Italy, and India all have major contracts with Boeing to supply parts of the aircraft, which are shipped to two assembly plants in the United States (one in Washington and the other planned for South Carolina) for final assembly and testing before being sent to customers. In short, the 787 is an incredibly complicated product, both in terms of its physical makeup and the intricate supply chain that Boeing created to produce it. So complicated is the 787 program, in fact, that it may be the case that in developing the Dreamliner, Boeing has simply tried to do too much at one time. Critics have argued that creating a new generation aircraft with composite materials while routing an entirely new supply chain, maintaining quality control, and debugging a long list of unexpected problems is simply beyond the capability of any organization, no matter how highly skilled in project management they may be. Suppliers have been struggling to meet Boeing’s exacting technical standards, with early test versions of the nose section, for example, failing Boeing’s testing and being deemed unacceptable. Boeing has undertaken a huge risk with the Dreamliner. In a bid to hold down costs, the company has engaged in extreme outsourcing, leaving it highly dependent on a far-flung supply chain that includes 43 “top-tier” suppliers on three continents. It is the first time Boeing has ever outsourced the most critical areas of the plane, the wing and the fuselage. About 80% of the Dreamliner is being fabricated by outside suppliers, versus 51% for existing Boeing planes. Jim McNerney, chief executive of Boeing, has admitted that the 787 development plans, involving significant outsourcing, were “overly ambitious”: “While game-changing innovation of this magnitude is never easy, we’ve seen more of the bleeding edge of innovation than we’d ever care to see again. So we are adjusting our approach for future programs.” McNerney continued, “We are disappointed over the schedule changes. Notwithstanding the challenges that we are experiencing in bringing forward this game-changing product, we remain confident in the design of the 787.” Three years Later—Update on the Status of the Dreamliner Boeing’s 787 officially entered commercial service on September 25, 2011, with Air Nippon of Japan. As of 2014, there were orders placed for 1,031 Dreamliners and a total of 162 had been delivered and were in service worldwide. Since introduction, Dreamliners have logged more than 500,000 hours in the air with 21 carriers. Troubles with reliability continue to dog the Dreamliner, however. Although original concerns about cracks and structural flaws in the composite materials appear to have abated, since its debut in late 2011, the 787 has experienced a series of malfunctions, including a three-month grounding of the global fleet in 2013 after battery meltdowns on two planes. Air India, which hasn’t reported an annual profit since 2007, and low-cost airliner Norwegian Air built their growth plans around the composite-material airliner and its promise of more fuel-efficient operation. However, both airlines have reported dissatisfaction with the current state of Dreamliner quality and reliability, throwing their operating strategies into question. Air India, which has ordered 27 of the aircraft, was forced to divert one of its 787s to Kuala Lumpur as recently as February 2014 as a precaution after a software fault on a flight to New Delhi from Melbourne. They recently announced that they would be seeking compensation from Boeing after the carrier found that its Dreamliners are not as fuel efficient as Boeing claimed when selling them. In January 2014, Japan Airlines, one of the biggest operators of the Dreamliner, found a battery cell in an empty jet smoking during preflight maintenance. Randy Tinseth, Boeing’s vice president of marketing, said reliability levels are climbing as the company works closely with airline operations personnel and makes other changes. “All of our customers are seeing improvement in reliability over time,” Mr. Tinseth said, but he declined to predict when the 787 would match the 777’s track record exceeding 99% reliability. “We continue on a positive trajectory,” he said, “but when we get there, it’s difficult to predict.”18 Questions 1. In evaluating the development of the 787 Dreamliner, what are some of the unique factors in this project that make it so difficult to accurately monitor and control? 2. Comment on the following statement: “In trying to control development of the 787, Boeing should have been monitoring and controlling the performance of its suppliers.” Do you agree or disagree that Boeing’s project management should have been fully extended to its suppliers? Why? 3. As you read the case, what do you see as the critical issues that appear to be causing the majority of the project delivery and quality problems?
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calculate the proportion of spoiled passes in that sample for control chart purposes.
/in Uncategorized /by JosephGolden Gopher Airline issues thousands of aircraft boarding passes to passengers each day. In some cases a boarding pass is spoiled for various reasons and discarded by the airline agent before the final boarding pass is issued to a customer. To control the process for issuing boarding passes, the airline has sampled the process for 100 days and determined the average proportion of defective passes is .006 (6 in every 1000 passes are spoiled and discarded). In the future, the airline plans to take a sample of 500 passes that are issued each day and calculate the proportion of spoiled passes in that sample for control chart purposes. a. What is the sample size (n) for this problem? Explain the significance of the 100 days used to determine the average proportion defective. b. Calculate the center line and the upper and lower control limits, using three standard deviations for control purposes.
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Complete the following table by indicating the number of fish produced
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The nation of Wiknam has 5 million residents whose only activities
The nation of Wiknam has 5 million residents whose only activities
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What are at least two major obstacles that would get in the way of launching this business or its success?
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For this assignment, you will compose a report about a possible business that you want to start. Think about a need (consumers) that you have observed in your local community or region. What interests or expertise do you have? How can those factors come together to create a viable business?
Your report should include:
The purpose of the business:
What need exists?
What is the product or service you intend to provide through your business?
The viability of the business:
Why would this product or service be profitable?
What are at least two major obstacles that would get in the way of launching this business or its success?
What other people, companies, or organizations have been successful with this, or a similar, product or service?
The needed resources for the business.
What resources and additional information or help with your idea (people, websites, agencies, actual business contacts, trade associations, etc.) do you need to bring together to move your idea forward?
Submission Details:
Submit your analysis in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
Name your document SU_BUS1101_W2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
Week 2 Project Due March 7 at 11:59 PM l
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Globalization has contributed to the increasing inequality in America in what way(s)?
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Of the following, who would most likely be unhappy about globalization?
the CEO of a transnational corporation
a software engineer
a college president
the head of a small-town historical society
1 points
QUESTION 2
Arturo works in international banking. He has colleagues and friends all over the world with whom he stays in contact through phone class, text messageing, FaceTime and instant messaging. This demonstrates the capacity of technology to do what?
overcome cultural differences
link economic and cultural gains
compress time and space
overcome the move toward the service economy
1 points
QUESTION 3
What are two of the most commonly expressed views on how globalization is affecting culture?
Culture is become less commercialized as culture brokers seek smaller markets for their “products.”
World culture is becoming homogenized (the same) through the domination of Western influences.
Globalization is leading to greater differentiation in cultural traditions and norms as people explore a wide array of cultural sources.
Both A and B
Both B and C
Both A and C
None of the above.
1 points
QUESTION 4
Globalization is a(n) ________ process; the disparity between the developed and developing world is ________.
uneven; greater than ever
leveling; decreasing rapidly
uneven; unchanged
leveling; slowly shrinking
1 points
QUESTION 5
Globalization has contributed to the increasing inequality in America in what way(s)?
Some companies have lowered wages to compete with other companies that use cheaper third world labor.
Globalization has encouraged immigration to the United States, thus increasing the low-wage labor pool and pushing wages down.
Jobs have been moved overseas, where labor is cheaper.
all of the above
None of the above; inequality is not increasing in the United States.
1 points
QUESTION 6
What feature is displacing the manufacture of material goods as the basis of the production system?
the consumption of material goods
the development and dissemination of information and knowledge
agriculture
recycling and repurposing material goods
1 points
QUESTION 7
Which of the following best encapsulates the shift from a national to a global outlook?
a man with a German accent telling a reporter he is European
the civil religion of the United States
demands from French citizens that McDonald’s restaurants be removed from their cities
the United Nations’ refusal to send troops to Sudan to stop the genocide in southern Sudan
1 points
QUESTION 8
Which of the following is the best example of social change?
Dropping your math class and adding sociology.
Being promoted to a managerial position at work.
The desegregation of colleges and universities in the US.
accumulating thirty semester credits and thereby changing your status from freshman to sophomore.
1 points
QUESTION 9
Globalization creates a new set of risks for humans that are caused by our own interventions into and impact on the natural world. These risks are referred to as:
external risk
unnatural risk
manufactured risk
hyper-risk
1 points
QUESTION 10
Which of the following factors has NOT consistently influenced social change over time?
the physical environment
cultural factors like communication
the invention of the automobile
political organization
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Describe an efficient filing system to store a large number of Word documents on your personal PC.
/in Uncategorized /by JosephThis is a two-part assignment. First, you will use what you learned in the Module 2 lectures to practice quoting, paraphrasing, and formatting in-text citations. Then, you will describe how to efficiently organize a large number of documents.
Part 1
Read this article(https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/224180072/fulltextPDF/F42ED3B2A04C433EPQ/1?accountid=34899) and write two paragraphs summarizing its content. (Please be aware that this article does not use APA formatting so do not use it as an example when you are developing your APA-style citations for this assignment.)
Remember to use APA-style in-text citations where appropriate in each paragraph. The complete reference entry for this article is below.
Tucker, J., & Courts, B. (2010). Grade inflation in the college classroom. Foresight: The Journal of Futures Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, 12(1), 45–53. doi: http://www.thecampuscommon.com/library/ezproxy/ticketdemocs.asp?sch=auo&turl=http://search.proquest.com/docview/224180072
Part 2
When you have finished your first two paragraphs about the article, consider the readings from this module and do the following:
Your initial response should be at least 150 words.
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Interest Rates Among Countries As of today the interest
/in Uncategorized /by JosephInterest Rates Among Countries As of today the interest rate in Countries X Y and Z are similar. In the next month Country X is expected to have a weak economy while Countries Y and Z are expected to experience a 6% increase in economic growth. However conditions this month will also cause an increase in default risk of borrowers in Country Z in the next month because of political concerns while the default risk of Countries X and Y remain unchanged. During the next month which country should have the highest interest rate? Which country should have the lowest interest rate?
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what do you see as the critical issues that appear to be causing the majority of the project delivery and quality problems?
/in Uncategorized /by JosephBoeing’s 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch It was never supposed to be this difficult. When Boeing announced the development of its newest and most high-tech aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, it seemed that it had made all the right decisions. By focusing on building a more fuel-efficient aircraft, using lighter composite materials that saved on overall weight and resulted in a 20% lower fuel consumption, outsourcing development work to a global network of suppliers, and pioneering new assembly techniques, it appeared that Boeing had taken a clear-eyed glimpse into the future of commercial air travel and designed the equivalent of a “home run”—a new aircraft that ticked all the boxes. Airline customers seemed to agree. When Boeing announced the development of the 787 and opened its order book, it quickly became the best-selling aircraft in history, booking 847 advance orders for the airplane. With list prices varying from $161 to $205 million each, depending on the model, the Dreamliner was worth billions in long-term revenue streams for the company. The aircraft was designed for long-range flight and could seat up to 330 passengers. Most industry analysts agreed: With the introduction of the Dreamliner, the future had never seemed brighter for Boeing. But when the first delivery dates slipped, yet again, into 2012, four years behind schedule, and the company’s stock price was battered in the marketplace, Boeing and its industry backers began trying to unravel a maze of technical and supply chain problems that were threatening not just the good name of Boeing, but the viability of the Dreamliner. Derisively nicknamed the “7-L-7” for “late,” the project had fallen victim to extensive cost overruns and continuous schedule slippages, and had recently encountered a number of worrisome structural and electrical faults that were alarming airlines awaiting delivery of their aircraft. These events combined to put Boeing squarely on the hot seat, as they sought to find a means to correct these problems and salvage both their reputation and the viability of their high profile aircraft. The time frame for the development of the Dreamliner offers some important milestones in its path to commercialization, including the following: • 2003—Boeing officially announced the development of the “7E7,” its newest aircraft. • 2004—First orders were received for 55 of the aircraft from All Nippon Airlines, with a delivery date set for late 2008. • 2005—The 7E7 was officially renamed the 787 Dreamliner. • July 2007—The first Dreamliner was unveiled in a rollout ceremony at Boeing’s assembly plant in Everett, Washington. • October 2007—The first six-month delay was announced. The problems identified included supplier delivery delays and problems with the fasteners used to attach composite components of the aircraft together. The program director, Mike Bair, was replaced a week later. • November 2008—Boeing announced the fifth delay in the schedule, due to continuing coordination problems with global suppliers, repeated failures of fasteners, and the effects of a machinist strike. The first flight was pushed out until the second quarter of 2009. • June 2009—Boeing announced that the first flight was postponed “due to a need to reinforce an area within the side-of-body section of the aircraft.” They further delayed the first test flight until late 2009. At the same time, Boeing wrote off $2.5 billion in costs for the first three 787s built. • December 7, 2009—First successful test flight of the 787. • July 2010—Boeing announced that schedule slippages would push first deliveries into 2011. They blamed an engine blowout at a test bed in RollsRoyce’s plant, although Rolls denied that its engines were the cause of schedule delay. • August 2010—Air India announced a $1 billion compensation claim against Boeing, citing repeated delivery delays for the twenty-seven 787s it had on order. • November 9, 2010—Fire broke out on Dreamliner #2 on its test flight near Laredo, Texas. The fire was quickly extinguished and the cause was attributed to a fault in the electrical systems. The aircraft were grounded for extensive testing. With that technical mishap, it was feared that the delivery date for the aircraft would be pushed into 2012. • January 19, 2011—Boeing announced another delay in its 787 delivery schedule. The latest (and seventh official) delay came more than two months after the Dreamliner #2 electrical fire. All Nippon Airways, the jet’s first customer, was informed that the earliest it could expect delivery of the first of its 55-airplane order would be the third quarter of 2011, though expectations were high that the airline might not receive any aircraft until early 2012, making final delivery nearly 3½ years late. There is no question that the Dreamliner is a stateof-the-art aircraft. The 787 is the first commercial aircraft that makes extensive use of composite materials in place of aluminum, both for framing and for the external “skin.” In fact, each 787 contains approximately 35 tons of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic. Carbon fiber composites have a higher strength-to-weight ratio than traditional aircraft materials, such as aluminum and steel, and help make the 787 a lighter aircraft. These composites are used on fuselage, wings, tail, doors, and interior sections, and aluminum is used on wing and tail leading edges. The fuselage is assembled in one-piece composite barrel sections instead of the multiple aluminum sheets and some 50,000 fasteners used on existing aircraft. Because of the lighter weight and a new generation of jet engines used to power it, the Dreamliner has a lower cost of operations, which makes it especially appealing to airlines. Additionally, the global supply chain that Boeing established to manufacture components for the aircraft reads like a who’s who list of international experts. Firms in Sweden, Japan, South Korea, France, England, Italy, and India all have major contracts with Boeing to supply parts of the aircraft, which are shipped to two assembly plants in the United States (one in Washington and the other planned for South Carolina) for final assembly and testing before being sent to customers. In short, the 787 is an incredibly complicated product, both in terms of its physical makeup and the intricate supply chain that Boeing created to produce it. So complicated is the 787 program, in fact, that it may be the case that in developing the Dreamliner, Boeing has simply tried to do too much at one time. Critics have argued that creating a new generation aircraft with composite materials while routing an entirely new supply chain, maintaining quality control, and debugging a long list of unexpected problems is simply beyond the capability of any organization, no matter how highly skilled in project management they may be. Suppliers have been struggling to meet Boeing’s exacting technical standards, with early test versions of the nose section, for example, failing Boeing’s testing and being deemed unacceptable. Boeing has undertaken a huge risk with the Dreamliner. In a bid to hold down costs, the company has engaged in extreme outsourcing, leaving it highly dependent on a far-flung supply chain that includes 43 “top-tier” suppliers on three continents. It is the first time Boeing has ever outsourced the most critical areas of the plane, the wing and the fuselage. About 80% of the Dreamliner is being fabricated by outside suppliers, versus 51% for existing Boeing planes. Jim McNerney, chief executive of Boeing, has admitted that the 787 development plans, involving significant outsourcing, were “overly ambitious”: “While game-changing innovation of this magnitude is never easy, we’ve seen more of the bleeding edge of innovation than we’d ever care to see again. So we are adjusting our approach for future programs.” McNerney continued, “We are disappointed over the schedule changes. Notwithstanding the challenges that we are experiencing in bringing forward this game-changing product, we remain confident in the design of the 787.” Three years Later—Update on the Status of the Dreamliner Boeing’s 787 officially entered commercial service on September 25, 2011, with Air Nippon of Japan. As of 2014, there were orders placed for 1,031 Dreamliners and a total of 162 had been delivered and were in service worldwide. Since introduction, Dreamliners have logged more than 500,000 hours in the air with 21 carriers. Troubles with reliability continue to dog the Dreamliner, however. Although original concerns about cracks and structural flaws in the composite materials appear to have abated, since its debut in late 2011, the 787 has experienced a series of malfunctions, including a three-month grounding of the global fleet in 2013 after battery meltdowns on two planes. Air India, which hasn’t reported an annual profit since 2007, and low-cost airliner Norwegian Air built their growth plans around the composite-material airliner and its promise of more fuel-efficient operation. However, both airlines have reported dissatisfaction with the current state of Dreamliner quality and reliability, throwing their operating strategies into question. Air India, which has ordered 27 of the aircraft, was forced to divert one of its 787s to Kuala Lumpur as recently as February 2014 as a precaution after a software fault on a flight to New Delhi from Melbourne. They recently announced that they would be seeking compensation from Boeing after the carrier found that its Dreamliners are not as fuel efficient as Boeing claimed when selling them. In January 2014, Japan Airlines, one of the biggest operators of the Dreamliner, found a battery cell in an empty jet smoking during preflight maintenance. Randy Tinseth, Boeing’s vice president of marketing, said reliability levels are climbing as the company works closely with airline operations personnel and makes other changes. “All of our customers are seeing improvement in reliability over time,” Mr. Tinseth said, but he declined to predict when the 787 would match the 777’s track record exceeding 99% reliability. “We continue on a positive trajectory,” he said, “but when we get there, it’s difficult to predict.”18 Questions 1. In evaluating the development of the 787 Dreamliner, what are some of the unique factors in this project that make it so difficult to accurately monitor and control? 2. Comment on the following statement: “In trying to control development of the 787, Boeing should have been monitoring and controlling the performance of its suppliers.” Do you agree or disagree that Boeing’s project management should have been fully extended to its suppliers? Why? 3. As you read the case, what do you see as the critical issues that appear to be causing the majority of the project delivery and quality problems?
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elements of marketing strategy
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Solution
From the list of assigned readings included in this course, or another article of your choice from the Harvard Business Review, choose an article that deals with one or more of the elements of marketing strategy (product, price, place, promotion; or, if services related, people, process, and physical evidence) and summarize the article, addressing the following questions:
1. Why is the author writing about the subject?
2. What is the thesis of the article?
3. What are the key points/facts presented in the article?
4. What are the conclusions and recommendations?
5. Explain how the information in the article can inform marketing strategy. That is, how is the information presented important to a marketer in designing a marketing strategy?
6. Critique the article: Is the article useful? Why or how? Is the article well-written and easy to understand? What is your assessment of the article? Would you recommend it to others? Why?
NOTE: Use terminology from the glossary in Marketing: An Enterprise View when writing your article summary.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
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Create a name and financial history for your organization that promotes your store and helps to draw shoppers; writing from a manager’s perspective.
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Create a name and financial history for your organization that promotes your store and helps to draw shoppers; writing from a manager’s perspective.
Prepare for your interview by creating a 700- to 1,050-word script based on the following questions:
What is your store brand?
Who is the consumer?
What is the main demographic population you serve?
What factors did you take into consideration when deciding on store location?
How do the demographics affect merchandising decisions?
How do you identify this population?
How do you satisfy their needs and wants?
What does the consumer want?
Why does the consumer purchase a particular product?
What strategies do you use to create awareness, interest, desire, and action in your retail consumers?
What are the psychological aspects of behavior (psychographics), AIOs, and VALs?
Who are the direct competitors?
Add clip art or other images that represent your store but are not product-specific.
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Consider a clinical process or task that you perform on a frequent basis. Do you do it the same every time? Why do you proceed the way you do? Habit? Protocol?
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Consider a clinical process or task that you perform on a frequent basis. Do you do it the same every time? Why do you proceed the way you do? Habit? Protocol? Each day nurses complete certain tasks that are considered routine, but have you ever stopped to reflect on why things are done the way they are? Perhaps you have noticed areas where there is a duplication of efforts or an inefficient use of time. Other tasks might pass seamlessly from person to person. In order to design the most efficient flow of work through an organization, it is useful to understand workflow and the ways it can be structured for the most optimal use of time and resources.he implementation of a new technology can dramatically affect the workflow of an organization. Newly implemented technologies can initially limit the productivity of users as they adjust to their new tools. Such implementations tend to be so significant that they often require workflows to be redesigned in order to achieve improvements in safety and patient outcomes. However, before workflows can be redesigned, they must first be analyzed. This analysis includes each step in completing a certain process. Some systems duplicate efforts or contain unnecessary steps that waste time and money and could even jeopardize patient health care. By reviewing and modifying the workflow, you enable greater productivity. This drive to implement new technologies has elevated the demand for nurses who can perform workflow analysis. In this Discussion you explore resources that have been designed to help guide you through the process of workflow assessment. To prepare: Take a few minutes and peruse the information found in the article ?Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit? listed in this week?s Learning Resources. As you check out the information located on the different tabs, identify key concepts that you could use to improve a workflow in your own organization and consider how you could use them. Go the Research tab and identify and read one article that is of interest to you and relates to your specialty area.Post a summary of three different concepts you found in ?Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit? that would help in redesigning a workflow in the organization in which you work (or one with which you are familiar) and describe how you would apply them. Next, summarize the article you selected and assess how you could use the information to improve workflow within your organization. Finally, evaluate the importance of monitoring the effect of technology on workflow.McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. Chapter 14, ?Nursing Informatics: Improving Workflow and Meaningful Use? Huser, V., Rasmussen, L. V., Oberg, R., & Starren, J. B. (2011). Implementation of workflow engine technology to deliver basic clinical decision support functionality. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11(1), 43?61. https://healthit.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit
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