Organizational Table

Assignment 1

Part A:

1. Prepare a table of organization for the enterprise that you have selected. Start the table of organization with your position as chief operating officer and proceed down through the level of your department heads.

2. Logically and briefly discuss the key factors you considered when deciding upon your specific enterprise for those factors below that apply to your project:

o Concept development/idea generation

o Product/service concept design

o Process selection criteria and approaches (preliminary, final - relate to process spectrum)

o Facilitization (new, existing, etc.)

3. Prepare a formal statement of Mission, Goals, and Objectives for your enterprise.

Part B:

1. Draw a preliminary process flow diagram for your enterprise. (Note the examples in the text)

2. Briefly describe the process diagrammed above.

3. Draw an information flow diagram for your enterprise. (Note the examples in the text.)

4. Briefly describe the information flow depicted above.

Assignment 2

Part A:

1. Assign capacity measures to the process flow chart for your enterprise, using this information:

a. Identify the limiting bottlenecks and slack elements (excess capacity) within the process.

b. Compare your firm’s present capacity with anticipated demand over the next year.

c. Discuss the concept of capacity balance as it relates to your firm (i.e. how do you achieve/maintain capacity balance throughout an annual production cycle?).

2. Using the data above, explain how you will adjust to accommodate the following:

a. A uniform increase of 50% in demand over the next one-year period.

b. A uniform decrease of 50% in demand over the next one-year period.

Part B:

1. Explain how the approaches to production planning listed below relate to your firm:

o Modulating Capacity

o Inventory (or Service Delivery) Buffers

o Managing Demand

2. Discuss worker information requirements within your firm. (Consider both inputs and outputs).

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