Apple’s employees, local government official’s that help control regulations and third party energy supplies all take a role in providing renewable energy to Apple’s retail stores, corporate offices, and data centers. By Apple ensuring that by 2025, all their offices are using renewable energy will help leave our planet in a better condition than it was when Apple first opened for business over thirty years ago. Organizational Change Management Strategies Apple’s computer’s organizations culture plays a major role in obtaining their goal of using 100 percent renewable energy in all their retail stores, corporate offices, and data centers. The company’s passion for creativity and innovation helped shape the company’s culture into using renewable energy. Strategic planning need to make sure that every level of the company is informed of the goals for renewable energy.
Because this is an advance over anything that this company has done before, estimating the amount and cost of the hi-tech materials are difficult. The project manager recommends using a range estimating process to develop an estimate. The values below are submitted by the project team. Current estimates for cost of material are as follows: Optimistic cost of smart resin: $8.00 per lb Most likely cost of smart resin: $9.25 per lb Pessimistic cost of smart resin: $12.50 per lb Current estimates for total material requirements are as follows: Optimistic quantity: 15 lb/ 100 units Most likely quantity: 19 lb/ 100 units Pessimistic quantity: 22 lb/ 100 units (a) What is the expected price of the material per pound? (b) What is the expected amount of material needed for 100 units?
Because this is an advance over anything that this company has done before, estimating the amount and cost of the hi-tech materials are difficult. The project manager recommends using a range estimating process to develop an estimate. The values below are submitted by the project team. Current estimates for cost of material are as follows: Optimistic cost of smart resin: | $8.00 | per lb | Most likely cost of smart resin: | $9.25 | per lb | Pessimistic cost of smart resin: | $12.50 | per lb | Current estimates for total material requirements are as follows: Optimistic quantity: | 15 lb/ 100 units | Most likely quantity: | 19 lb/ 100 units | Pessimistic quantity: | 22 lb/ 100 units | (a) What is the expected price of the material per pound? (b) What is the expected amount of material needed for 100 units?
Explain why oil exploration in the areas shown could lead to high economic and environmental costs (10) Oil exploration is the extraction of petroleum from reservoirs underground and using the substance to benefit people. For example using it for transport and industry. However continuous exploitation can lead to costs, which can be both economic and environmental. Figure 1 shows that Canada is a location that is currently exploiting oil, 170 billion barrels per year. With Canada being second to Saudi Arabia to have the largest stores of oil in the country, it can provide large amounts of oil without the need to dig large mines to get to it.
The 10 percent increase of private label bags led to some consumers switching to gas grilling and others moving to the Kingsford brand, increasing its market share. The downside of increasing prices was that if it held out on increasing prices another year they may be able to significantly cut into Royal Oak’s market share. The brand managers Smith Boyle and Warren should propose to moderately increase prices in accordance with the price elasticity studies. These price increases should remain slightly more than that of their competitors. They should be able to offset the
To achieve the company’s stated CSR objectives REI has instituted an employee commuting policy, climate-neutral travel framework, and improved shipping procedures based on the greenhouse emission metrics. As a result, while 2010 sales increased 14% from 2009, its total climate impact increased by less than 7.3%. The addition of four new stores and moving two locations to larger spaces, has allowed REI to decrease its energy consumption by 2.4%. Beyond energy efficiency initiatives, REI took additional steps to decrease waste and its total paper consumption. Although REI admits it still has a very high rate of paper usage, because of its direct mail campaigns and catalogs, the company has taken steps to optimize its catalogs, use electronic means of advertising such a mobile phone and internet and also increased the share of FSC-certified
Final Project Ashford University BUS644 – Operations Management Dr. Andrew E. Jackson Globalization of the marketplace has bred fierce and ongoing completion. It provides a challenging environment for the production of quality products and services at minimal costs. In order to maintain a competitive edge, which is necessary for survival, it is imperative for a business continued growth and success to adopt certain practices develop and create methods that are innovative and unique. These practices are termed Total Quality Management (TQM). From the inception of the product idea up until the poin that the product is marked as units for sale on for sale, these practices must remain a constant focus.
Created by Ben ForgyAlex Nikolai Steffen is someone that has a positive but realistic outlook on what America’s future can be if one takes the correct steps. Steffen’s short online article titled “The Next Green Revolution” is about some of the technological things America has accomplished recently and is on the verge of nearly perfecting within a few more years. He speaks of technologies such as small hydroelectric generators, solar arrays, and wind turbines. According to Steffen, “The challenge is to scale up these technologies to deliver power in industrial quantities - exactly the kind of challenge brilliant businesspeople love.” (Steffen
The current economic trends of the natural resource sector are being closely followed by the governments of Canada on the federal, provincial and city levels. Natural resources are key to the Canadian economy and according to statistics Canada, energy, forestry and mining generated 11% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2011.). As the demand for commodities increases worldwide the Canadian export sector grows which keeps the economy alive and even booming at times. The Canadian economy has been negatively affected by weak commodity prices and the drop in global trade. The federal government’s economic action plan is investing in the natural resource sector to build and secure Canada’s economic future.
Applied Problems 2 BUS640: Managerial Economics Chapter 3: Problem 2: Appalachian Coal Mining believes that it can increase labor productivity and, there- fore, net revenue by reducing air pollution in its mines. It estimates that the marginal cost function for reducing pollution by installing additional capital equipment is MC = 40P where P represents a reduction of one unit of pollution in the mines. It also feels that for every unit of pollution reduction the marginal increase in revenue (MR) is MR = 1,000 - 10P. How much pollution reduction should Appalachian Coal Mining undertake? MC = MR and solve for P. That is 40P = 1000-10P 40P+10P=1000 50P=1000 P=20 units.