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Please answer the following thee questions (type your responses below the questions): a/ What grade would you give Southwest management for the job it has done in implementing and executing the company’s strategy? b/  Which of Southwest’s strategy execution approaches and operating practices do you believe have been most crucial […]

Moving Beyond the Status Quo and Reactions to Change” Please discuss the following: Provide an example from your experience that illustrates a familiar conversation that keeps your company stuck in old routines. Change has been emphasized in this course as the most likely outcome of a consulting recommendation. Identify some […]

What project where triple constraint has become skewed in favor of some client requests leaving the project in peril? How would such a case effect overall quality? Can you also think of a case where project change control prevented such an occurrence?

BIC Company’s product catalog has three categories: stationery, lighters, and shavers. BIC is best known for making ballpoint pens. The company has refined the machines and manufacturing processes to manufacture pens in mass production while assuring high quality. BIC can offer its products at lower prices than its competitors. For example, its razor […]

How can trigger words bias your arguments as a manager? Specifically, what can you do to guard against this?How can words mean different things to different people? Give an example. How you can become aware of trigger words for cultures and demographics of groups different from your own?What implications exist […]

Charles and April Land v. Yamaha Motor Corporation What was the basis for federal jurisdiction in this case?  Since the case was heard in federal court, why didn’t the judge apply the law as generally applied in the nation, rather than the law of Indiana?