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Operations Management
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Undergraduate 3
10/20/2011

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BENCHMARKING
Definition
The process of comparing the practices and strategies of other companies.
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 OUTSOURCING
Definition

The contracting or subcontracting of non-core activities to free up cash, personnel, time, and facilities for activities in which a company holds a competitive advantage.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Definition

The process of planning, controlling, monitoring and reviewing a project.

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STRATEGIC SOURCING
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   Involves conducting an analysis of all supplies and goods required to perform activitieswithin all process that may exist in a company.

 

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SWOT
Definition

      Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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RECOVERY
Definition
The final stage of a Disaster Recovery Plan.
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COMPETITIVE FORCES
Definition

1 Rival among existing competitors, threat of new entrants, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of buyers, and the threat of substitute products and services.

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POOLED COUPLING
Definition

Independent tasks that share a similar resource and is coordinated through policies and procedures.

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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Definition

A system management concept employed by some organizations to optimize the factors of material costs, quality and service.

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CHANGE AGENTS
Definition

People who deal with and address the objectively real resistance of change recipients.

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HOMOGENEOUS MANAGEMENT

Definition

A group would be relatively the same age, same gender, share similar education and their decision making styles.

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HETEROGENEOUS MANAGEMENT

Definition

A group that is diverse in age, gender, knowledge base and decision making styles.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Definition

  The ability to maintain a process or object at a desirable level of utility.

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MAZLOW’s

PYRAMID OF HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Definition

 Physiological, Security, Belonging, Esteem, Self – actualization.

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COMPETITION

Definition

A contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources.

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STRATEGIC PLANNING

Definition

Management directed process that is intended to determine a desired future state for a business entity and to define overall strategies for accomplishing the desired state.

 

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TYPES OF COORDINATION

Definition

Pooled coupling, sequential coupling, and reciprocal coupling.

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COLLABORATION

Definition

Working together to achieve a goal.

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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN

Definition

A plan that can be put into action if a situation arises where normal process flow is affected due to some issue with a particular activity.

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INITIATING PROCESS
Definition
The nature and scope of the project.
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