The Critical Path of Rockfest Karen E. Wilkerson TUI OPM 300 Dr. Joseph Thomas June 05‚ 2011 The Critical Path of Rock Fest Project management is one of the key tools that Hard Rock Café uses to plan. Hard Rock’s Vice-President‚ Chris Tomasso states “there is no way to keep so many people on the same page.” Over 100‚000 fans attend the Rock Fest. It is not easy to plan an event like this one within the 9 month time frame in which Tomasso must use. The challenge is staying on track
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activities on the non-critical path to speed activities on the critical path? PROBLEMA 2 MANAGING HARD ROCK’S ROCKFEST At the Hard Rock Café‚ like many organizations‚ project management is a key planning tool. With Hard Rock’s constant growth in hotels and cafes‚ remodeling of existing cafes‚ scheduling for Hard Rock Live concert and event venues‚ and planning the annual Rockfest‚ managers rely on project management techniques and software to maintain schedule and budget performance. “Without
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VALERIE DANIELS OPM300 – Introduction to Operations Management Module 4: Case Hard Rock Café: Rockfest 2013 Dr. Mark Butler‚ Professor January 7‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION Critical path is made up of a series of tasks that must be completed by a schedule date and/or time. Any task on the critical path that will affect whether the project finish date is delayed is called a critical task. You can view the critical path using any Gantt Chart (McDonough‚ 2012) view. Knowing when a task is slipping
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Week 5 Case Study Operation Management Abel Edouard Keller Graduate School of Management GM583 November 28‚ 2010 Walter Mamak Managing Hard Rock ’s Rockfest Identify the critical path and its activities for Rockfest. How long does the project take? The critical path is A-D-E-F-G-O A Finalize and building contracts. Activity time 7 Early start 0 Early finish 7 Late start 0 Late Finish 7 Slack 0 D Design promotional Web site. Activity Time 5 Early Start 10 Early Finish 15 Late Start
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further background‚ reread the material in this chapter of the text. In its 39 years of existence‚ Hard Rock has grown from a modest London pub to a global power managing 150 cafes‚ 15 hotels/casinos‚ live music venues‚ a rock museum‚ and a huge annual Rockfest concert. This puts Hard Rock firmly in the service industry—a sector that employs over 75% of the people in the U.S. Hard Rock moved its world headquarters to Orlando‚ Florida‚ in 1988 and has expanded to more than 40 locations throughout the U.S
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Rock Café is customized to meet cultural needs‚ to reduce response time to meet customers requirements. They offer meals‚ entertainment and most importantly an experience. They are composed of 12 hotels/casino‚ live music venues‚ and a huge annual Rockfest concert. They also sell merchandise. All this is offered with the main goal of selling an experience. Managing Quality They are unique‚ the go beyond both the physical characteristics and service attributes to encompass everything that impacts
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10 decisions of operations management applied at Hard Rock Cafe: 1. Design of goods and service: • Hard rock Café is counted as a service industry which is at present running 129 cafes‚ 12 hotels/casinos‚ live music venues and a huge capital Rockfest concert. • Hard rock chefs are modifying the menu from classic American burgers and chicken wings to more high end products such as veal chops and lobster tails. 2. Managing Quality: • At Hard Rock staff is scheduled down to 15 minute interval
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communication with all employees in charge of certain sites. 4. A work breakdown structure is useful in organizing and planning event coordination. It allows you to put activities in order of importance and shows what is needed for each task. (Level 1) Rockfest Concert 1.1.(A) Site finalization and building contract. (Level 2) (B)Selecting Promoter B.1.(D) Web design (Level 3) B.2.(E) T.V. Deal (Level 3) B.3.(F) Hire director (Level 3) F.1.(G) Plan for TV camera placement B.4.(H) Headline Entertainers
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critical path? With the proper resource leveling additional team members could be allocated to help on the critical path. The intent is not to over allocate resources. Problem 2 Answers: 1. Identify the critical path and its activities for Rockfest. How long does the project take? With the information provided‚ the project will take 34 weeks to complete. The critical path is in red color. 2. Which activities have a slack time of 8 weeks or more? With the information provided and the dependencies
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Chapter 1 Operations and productivity 1. Why should one study operations management? We study OM for four reasons. We study how people organize themselves for productive enterprise. We study OM because we want to know how goods and services are produced. We study OM to understand what operations managers do. We study OM because it is such a costly part of an organization. Productivity can be measured in a variety of ways‚ such as by labor‚ capital‚ energy‚ material usage‚ and so on. At Modern
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