BU 5115 - Operations Management (Spring  2006 TEST 2 Dr. A. Ebrahimi)                                                                                         

Answer the following 5 questions and email to ebrahimidr@gmail.com

Each part of question should be answered separately since it would be graded separately. 
Use copy and paste to word document. As soon as you finish the first question print and hand it in to be graded)

Q1) Choose your own CPM problem and follow accordingly:
Q1a) Activity table and predecessor table.(4pts)
Q1b) Network diagram. (4pts)
Q1c) Forward pass, calculate Early Start, Early Finish, and Slack. (4pts)
Q1d) Backward Pass, calculate Late Start, Late Finish, and Slack (4pts)
Q1e) Find the Critical Path (4pts)

Q2) Being an Operation Manager of a business compare your Strategy Decisions with Hard Rock Cafe Project Manager.

(Answer four of the following questions Each part has 5 points.)

Q2a) Explain your mission in compare with Hard Rock Café.
Q2b) What is the theme of your project in compare with Hard Rock Café?
Q2c) What are your tasks and sub-tasks in compare with Hard Rock?
Q2d) How do you handle crisis in compare to Hard Rock Cafe?
Q2e) How are your employees rewarded in compare with Hard Rock Cafe?
Q2f) How the layout of your business is different from Hard Rock Cafe.
Q2g)  How do you deal with Forecasting in compare with Hard Rock Cafe?
Q2h) How globalization is handled in your project compare with Hard Rock Cafe.

Q3) Answer one of the following Excel problems: (20 pts)

Q3a) Use Excel for Options for Increasing Contribution for three different options (Marketing, Finance/Accounting, OM options) Explain the difference between each option.

Q3b) By using Excel analyze a weighted moving average forecasting for a company of your choice. Provide your own data.

Q4) Define your own research project and answer the following in a paragraph:

Q4a) Do you have any hypothesis or theory

Q4b) What are your background studies?

Q4c) Do you have any empirical studies?

Q4d) Do you have any methodology?

Q4e) How do you collect data?

Q4f) What is your conclusion?

Q5) Answer 4 of the following and each part has 5 points

Q5a) Give three differences between goods and services and give an example for each.

Q5b) Find the best definition of what OM is.

Q5c)  Gantt chart for Delta Airline

Q5d) What is Competitive Advantage?

Q5e) What are five of the ten measures of decision strategies?