Week 4 Assignment: Altex Corporation David C. Webster BUS 697: Project Management Strategy Professor: Dr. Jaclyn Krause July 22‚ 2013 Risk is inherent in any project today‚ and project managers need to constantly assess risks and continually develop contingency plans to address them. In project management risk management plans are an essential part of project planning‚ and can often time occur well into the execution phase of a project. In the case of Altex Corporation the project manager
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Altex Corporation Case Study: PROJ 6302 H1 1. Why was a risk management plan considered unnecessary? According to the contract award‚ contracts at that time did not require that a risk management plan be develop while according to the sponsor the risk management plan was not necessary because most of the new weapon systems requirements are established by military personnel who have no sense of reality about what it takes to develop a weapon system based on technology which does not even exist yet
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Your submission should be a maximum of 5 pages. Please submit your assignment in PDF format. Use the SLATE drop box to submit your assignment. Please remember to include a bibliography if applicable and to attribute ideas to the proper sources. Altex Background Following World War II‚ the United States entered into a Cold War with Russia. To win the Cold War‚ the United States had to develop sophisticated weapons systems with such destructive power that any aggressor knew that the retaliatory
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Recording the sale‚ but reducing sales by an estimate of future returns. All of the above. 2. (TCO A) During 2010‚ Steele Corporation sold merchandise costing $1‚500‚000 on an installment basis for $2‚000‚000. The cash receipts related to these sales during 2010 were $800‚000.What is the amount of deferred gross profit Steele Corporation will report on Dec 31‚ 2010? (Points : 6) $700‚000 $200‚000
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a. Did Altex need a new system? (What are the most critical problems facing Altex at the takeover? what does Ted see as the purpose of a control system? Did Altex meet their objectives?) Yes‚ Altex really need a new system‚ because Altex is facing some critical problems at the takeover by Ted and Franck. The first most critical problem is the actual management system: the system in place was one accountant (Sarah Arthur) who kept everything in her head. The system was incomprehensible and complicated
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Case Summary Digital Semiconductor was a business unit of Digital Equipment Corporation. John Gavin‚ the DS group controller‚ wanted the finance department to find ways to add value and better support the division because the DS business strategy had many changes over the past five years and the division was still operating at a loss. History: The semiconductor division which was a part of Digital Equipment Corporation expanded rapidly in the 1970s. Digital was financially very successful in 1988
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Case Study: The Corporation 1. In the mid 1800s the corporation emerged as a "legal person" by way of maneuvering in the legal system. For the next 100 years we saw the rise to dominance of the corporation. The corporation created unprecedented wealth but at what cost? The externalities of corporate operations are responsible for countless cases of illness‚ death‚ poverty‚ pollution‚ exploitation and lies. Voice your opinion on this. Who Is Responsible for regulating these Corporations?‚ The Government
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Stryker Corporation Deciding whether to keep outsourcing or in-source PCBs Stryker Corporation has 3 different options regarding the supply of needed PCBs. Option 1: contemplates the fact of keeping the same suppliers but with significant changes in order to assure continuous supply of PCBs and quality. No investment is needed. Option 2: establishing a partner with a single supplier. This way there would be a sole supplier for Stryker established in a new facility near them‚ this would give
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Case 1: Corwin Corporation Table of Contents Summary of Findings…………………………………………………………… 3 Background Information……………………………………………………….. 3 Problem Statement……………………………………………………………… 5 Analysis of Alternatives………………………………………………………… 5 Detailed Recommendations……………………………………………………. 6 Implementation and Evaluation……………………………………………….. 7 References……………………………………………………………………….. 9 Case 1: Corwin Corporation Summary of findings This case is about a reputed rubber component manufacturing
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Managing Complex Project Assignment (Fall 2013) *** Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar project *** By SIMONE GUPTA (Submission Date) November 15th 2014 1. Compare and contrast Teradyne’s traditional project execution strategy to the approach it used in Jaguar. What was similar? What was different? In 2001‚ Teradyne made fundamental changes in their strategic direction and technology. In Jaguar project‚ Teradyne Corporation focused more on up-front planning and design‚ reorganization
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