CASE: Car Lube Operations to accompany CHAPTER 3: Process Strategy Professor Smith can expound at length about the merits of timely preventive maintenance. After all‚ what good is a process that is performed by less-than-reliable equipment? When it comes to his own vehicle’s preventive maintenance‚ however‚ Smith has been known to be less than meticulous. It takes him three months just to muster up the energy to take his car for its recommended three-month oil change! Smith usually takes
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SWOT analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey
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Minit-Lube case Summary The following are some observations‚ conclusions and recommendations we made. - Company’s value proposition is Operational excellence - All ten operations decisions has to support chose value proposition and provide competitive advantage - Minit-lube provides fast and quality customer service at low cost by utilizing resources in an efficient way Analysis Mission of Minit-Lube is to provide fast and superior quality customer service with no additional cost to customer
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Minit Lube Mission as clearly stated on the case is to provide tune-ups‚ oil changes and lubrication service (Heizer & Render). In other words‚ preventive vehicles maintenance and interior cleaning to cars owned by individuals hopefully for less price‚ but with equal quality service provided by other mayor competitors. Minit-Lube provides a competitive advantage in comparison to other businesses because they offer maintenance to cars‚ but with de advantage of better prices and faster services than
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(Kwik Trend Analysis) Measure Value Future Period Forecast Error Measures 9. 1‚362‚143. Bias (Mean Error) -0.0156 10. 1‚455‚952. MAD (Mean Absolute Deviation) 50‚773.7969 11. 1‚549‚762. MSE (Mean Squared Error) 3‚498‚808‚832. 12. 1‚643‚572. Standard Error (denom=n-2=6) 68‚301.3828 13. 1‚737‚381. Regression line 14. 1‚831‚191. Demand (y) = 517857.2 15. 1‚925‚000. + 93‚809.5234 * Time (x) 16. 2‚018‚810. Statistics 17. 2‚112‚619. Correlation coefficient 0.9642 18. 2‚206‚429. Coefficient
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Introduction In the present age‚ businesses have to intensive analysis themselves to improve shortcomings and get higher profit; SWOT analysis is a good way to choose. This essay will introduce the definition of SWOT analysis and the background of why people use it frequently. After that‚ there will be few examples to proof the opinions of SWOT analysis will help enterprises a lot on proving of their management and strategic planning. The merits and shortcoming when using this process will also
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I Seat # 7049 Operations Management CASE STUDY (MINIT-LUBE INC.) Q. 1 What constitutes the mission of Minit-Lube? Ans: The mission statement for Minit-Lube can be derived as followed: Our Mission: To provide fast‚ reliable and superior services in a customer friendly environment while ensuring lowest possible fares. Q. 2 How does the Minit-Lube operation strategy provide competitive advantage? Ans: Minit-Lube operations strategy provides the organization advantage over
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Administration Professor Concepcion March 17‚ 2015 SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis is a tool to identify the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats involved in a business. Strengths mean characteristics of a business in advantage over others‚ while weaknesses are disadvantages relative to others. Opportunities mean elements that a business can exploit for its development‚ while threats are trouble will be face to. SWOT is to carry out the environment analysis and separate information into internal
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Assignment Course title: Strategic Management Topic: SWOT analysis of Excusive event management and catering. Submitted To‚ MD.Rakibul Hasan Lecturer of Prime University Dhanmondi Annex Dhanmondi Submitted By‚ Md.Hasnaine Akanda MBA‚ 33th Batch ID: 132020130 Definition of ’SWOT Analysis’ A tool that identifies the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats of an organization. Specifically‚ SWOT is a basic‚ straightforward model that assesses what an
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