Book Report: The Goal This paper is a book report on the novel entitled The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. The 40-chapter book is actually a business book written in the form of a novel that makes it interesting to read unlike other business textbook. As a novel‚ the book is entertaining but at the same time‚ very informative for management or accounting students as well as for the real-life company managers and CEOs who wanted to apply different managerial practices
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Technology Affecting Relationships Technology has changed the way people interact with each other‚ communicate‚ and build relationships. Technology is a big topic in todays world. It can be exceptionally helpful in relationships‚ but it can also add complications. Some may think there’s more than we need and some may think its not enough. Nonetheless‚ I believe it does change the way people communicate with one another. The biggest question is‚ does the quantity of technology affect the quality
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Angelina Tambunan ACCT 508 Book Report ‘The Goal’ I. Summary The story takes place at a fictitious town called Bearington where the Uniware manufacturing plant of the UniCo Company is situated. Whatever products the plant manufactures was not mentioned in the novel. The plant is headed by the plant manager Alex Rogo who is also the lead character of the novel. The problems begin when one upset customer approaches Alex’s boss‚ Bill Peach about a very late order. Actually Alex’s plant has
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All businesses have the same goal. Just like all business‚ the goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money. As the book begins‚ it is clear that the UniCo plant that Rogo runs is in dire need of improvement. None of the orders are getting out on time and the plant is on the verge of being shut down. There are 3 operation measurements Rogo can use to improve his plant. The first is to sell more products. This examines if the throughput goes up. The second is to look at if the company
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1. Goal Reflection (Two paragraphs) During this quarter‚ I believe I accomplished all my goals. First‚ I took one-two hours a night Monday thru Thursday and three-four hours a night Friday thru Saturday to do homework and studying. Second‚ I gained a lot of refreshers from being out of school for sixteen years and achieved a 92% and above in English 085 with better writing skills at an English 101 level so that I could advance at the end of the quarter‚ which I did. Third‚ was to focus in the middle
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Jakeshia Moore Mktg 372 Alidee Nov 28‚ 11 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement The Goal by Eliyahu Goldatt is a novel‚ regarding the management and accounting processes at a manufacturing plant. The book focuses around a perhaps older 30- early 40s something industrial engineer‚ Alex Rogo. With the description Goldatt gives of Rogo‚ he personifies the profile of a large number of people involved in business administration (Lui 1997). Alex is married‚ with two children and
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rate of change is calculating the slope of a secant line between two points. Finding the average rate of change of a secant line is similar to finding the slope of two given points. The formula to find the slope of a secant line is the change of “y” divided by the change of “x”‚ so this is use to calculate the change over time in a given function. When finding the average rate of change of any interval‚ it doesn’t necessarily have to be a line there are other applications too. For example‚ a graph
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The purpose of this lab was to observe the spectral lines of different light sources (Iodine‚ hydrogen‚ helium‚ krypton‚ mercury‚ neon‚ and argon) and to find the wavelength‚ frequency‚ and energy of the emissions of vaporized metallic ions. First‚ we took spectroscopes to look at each light source. The iodine light source seemed coral to the naked eye. When observed with a spectroscope‚ it was clear that there were many red spectral lines followed by relatively similar quantities of orange‚ yellow
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Minority Report I think that in 50 years from now the technology will be too advanced for everyone to even know. People won’t even need a phone‚ the phone will be in them‚ some type of way. Minority Report‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ takes place in 2054. Spielberg predicts that we will have a “pre-crime” system by that point. “Pre-crime” is a specialized police department in which 3 psychics called “precogs” can see or predict the future‚ but only crime that happens in the future. In that
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along with new ideas of social organization‚ the principal scope of interest for the vast majority of utopian writers. Whether based on some rational predictions of the future development of science‚ or belonging to the sphere of pure fantasy‚ technology in utopian writing has been generally described as a means of achieving the state of universal order and happiness‚ a way to establish collective prosperity and social equality. However‚ as the advancement of civilization displayed the possibility
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