Operations management

I just posted the Essay Question assignment. It is set up as a quiz with ten questions worth 10 points each. It is due by 9am on Tuesday,

Be SPECIFIC in all of your answers. Don’t use general terms or summaries. Instead give specific information from the book, documentary, and radio program.

I suggest you edit your answers in a word document and then cut and paste them into the quiz. Please don’t use any bolds, underlines or fancy formatting because canvas does not handle them well.

Questions on The Goal
• What did Alex Rogo learn about managing his plant on the Boy Scout hiking trip? Be specific.
• How did they “break bottlenecks” at the plant? Give at least five SPECIFIC examples.
• How did the plant succeed in delivering Bucky Burnside’s order of 1000 units?
• How did performance measure hurt and help in managing the plant. Refer to SPECIFIC performance measures.
• Comment on the interactions between the marketing function and Alex Rogo’s plant. How did they help and hurt each other?

Questions on NUMMI & American Factory
• How were the stories of the NUMMI partnership and the American Factory similar?
• How were the stories of the NUMMI partnership and the American Factory different?
• Was the NUMMI partnership successful? Address this question from the following perspectives:
1) Toyota
2) General Motors
• Was the American Factory successful? Address this question from the following perspectives:
1) Mr. Cau
2) The American workers
3) The Dayton, Ohio community
4) The Chinese workers at the Dayton factory
• How did managerial styles and cultural differences affect the success or failure of:
1) NUMMI
2) American Factory

NOTE:

NUMMI FILM

American factory moive is on Netflix

Also see attached file for the rest