RE: DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT WEEK 4

RE: DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT WEEK 4

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Management

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Resource: http://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/learning-curves.html

1. What are some of the limitations in the use of learning curves?

2. What techniques can a firm use to move to a steeper learning curve? Provide three examples (outside of the examples listed in your text).

3. Briefly discuss the approaches to solving learning-curve problems. Provide three examples (outside of the examples listed in your text).

4. How might the following business specialists use learning curves: accountants, marketers, financial analysts, personnel managers, and computer programmers?

5. Please comment on the following article. http://www.strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/learning_curves.htm

6. What does the product-process matrix tell us? How should the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant be structured?

7. What type of process is used for each of the following?

a. Beer

b. Business cards

c. Automobiles

d. telephones

e. Big Macs

f. Custom homes

8. What are the advantages of standardization? Provide two examples.

9. Provide a simple example of break-even analysis (outside of the examples listed in your text). Where does the manager obtain data for break-even analysis?

10. Briefly comment on the following videos.