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Assignment 1
Please answer the following questions and submit them for grading. Note: Please ensure you are incorporating APA standards (i.e., title, body (questions and answers with supporting citations), and Reference list).
1. What is operations management and how has it evolved since World War II in the United States?
2. What impacts have technology and the global economy played on operations management?
3. How does operations management help firms compete?
4. Why are business units bundling manufacturing with services in their market offerings?
5. Describe Value Added Chain Management. Why is it important to an organization? How does it impact an enterprise’s competitive edge?
Assignment 2
Please answer the following questions and submit them for grading. Note: Please ensure you are incorporating APA standards (i.e., title, body (questions and answers with supporting citations), and Reference list).
Why do organizations continually change and create their product and service mix? What are the types of new products are developed? What are the steps involved in new product development?
What are the basic components of project management? When is project management used over process management? Describe Critical Path Scheduling? What are some of the criticisms of PM?
What is a process? What are the components of a process? How are performance metrics used to monitor processes? What are the key elements in jobs definition?
Discuss how sustainability might be incorporated into a process or value change improvement initiative.
Discuss the facility layout that would be most appropriate for performing hospital laboratory tests