Category: Operations Management homework help

Overview
In this activity, you will complete the Villa Health Disaster RecoveryLinks to an external site. interactive scenario and answer two related questions.
Preparation
Complete the Villa Health Disaster Recovery https://media.capella.edu/coursemedia/sumid000161/wrapper.asp interactive scenario.
Instructions
Consider the scenario, particularly the staff interviews, and respond to the following in a one-page Word document:
Write a summary that accurately portrays the disaster preparedness challenges faced by the hospital.
Justify what you believe might be the biggest challenge to creating (not implementing) an updated disaster plan for the hospital.

Identify a hospital department and discuss whether you would employ the management techniques from Six Sigma or Lean to improve efficiency. Support your choice.

In the previous activity (attached), you asked a finance-related question that is of operational importance to your department. In this assignment, you will dive deeper into the question. 
Preparation
Review the Villa Health Financial Statement Analysis scenario https://media.capella.edu/coursemedia/sumid000160/wrapper.asp as needed. Conduct general research on the hospital department you have chosen to better understand how it operates, particularly in areas related to its finances.
 
Scenario
In the weeks after the Villa Health Board meeting, your department is facing a large staffing shortage that has resulted in a significant increase in overtime costs. Your department needs to address the ensuing budget shortfall and share the plan with senior leadership.
Instructions
Considering the scenario, create a brief for senior leadership that shares your initial steps for addressing the budget shortfall. In your brief, include the following:
Explain which three financial statements or figures would likely reveal useful insights into the causes or solutions to the problem.
Suggest three reasonable options for addressing the specified budget shortfall with detail that would inform decision-making.
Justify your choice of the best option by providing an effective analysis of its pros and cons.
Provide reasonable and specific projections of how this action would impact the financial statements or figures you selected in the first bullet point.

“Specific projections” should include the general magnitude and direction of changes and not necessarily specific numbers.
You needn’t focus on actual amounts or perform detailed accounting projections; you are merely seeking to provide insight into areas and the magnitude of change (general direction) caused by the action(s).

Use at least three sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.

 
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Laws & RegulationsLinks to an external site. webpage. Use the U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyLinks to an external site. website to find one environmental law that is relevant to your past, current, or future employer. Then address the following questions:
Describe the law and explain how it applies (or applied) to the business of the employer.
Explain how the employer legally complies with the statute or regulations.
Discuss if you believe that environmental regulations help or hinder business. Explain your position.

 
In the business sector, there is often a conflict between the interests of business organizations in maximizing profits and the public’s interest in receiving complete, truthful, and non-misleading information about products that they purchase. A related area of concern is when products are heavily promoted as being environmentally friendly. This practice is known as “greenwashing.”
Your discussion should address the following questions:
Identify what legal issues are involved in using greenwashing tactics to market products. Explain how this practice is regulated.
Discuss from a business perspective, if the legal marketing of products as being “green” or “friendly to the environment” is an ethical practice. If so, what ethical theory would justify this type of marketing?
If you were a marketing executive, would you support the practice of greenwashing? Explain why or why not.

 
In the past several weeks, you have been introduced to a range of statistical data analysis tools. Consider what you have learned in the context of progression of data, information, and knowledge.
What are the specific techniques you would consider most helpful in transforming information into knowledge (as opposed to just translating data into information)? Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.
The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.
Submission Details
Your posting should be the equivalent of 1 to 2 single-spaced pages (500–1000 words) in length.
Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite in the body of the post and add a reference list in APA format. The excessive use of quotes will directly impact performance since this indicates a lack of comprehension and shows that you May not have mastered the concepts.

 
Select a facility of your choice and attend an event hosted by that facility. During your visit, complete a checklist that will help you evaluate the facility’s safety. Once you have assessed the safety of the facility, you are to construct an executive summary of your findings and submit it for grading. The purpose of this exercise is to challenge you to view things from a facility management perspective in order to focus on preventive rather than reactive management. Before your visit, do your homework. Consider the following regarding the facility you have chosen to visit:
Age of the facility
Location: rural, urban, inner-city
Renovated or new facility
How the facility is or was financed
The facility’s competition
Make a copy of the inspection checklist in the textbook to use while you visit a facility. Upon completing your visit and taking notes and pictures, you should write up a brief executive summary of your findings, offering suggestions for improving any items you deem unsafe. Include pictures to illustrate your evaluation points.

Strategy Overview

Is your firm new and growing, expanding or contracting, operating as a cash cow, old/outdated and struggling to survive, etc.?
Perform a simple SWOT analysis for your company

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

What is the outlook for your company for the foreseeable future?

 You are considering opening a small doughnut shop in your hometown. Research the process required to make doughnuts. After learning all of the steps that are required in the production of doughnuts, respond to the following:
List and describe all of the steps required to produce doughnuts as well as the equipment required to complete each step.
Create a bill of materials to list those ingredients required to produce doughnuts.
Describe what would be the capacity of the doughnut production operation that you are envisioning. In other words, describe what would define the maximum number of doughnuts that you could produce per hour.
If your doughnut business is incredibly successful (to the point that you are now selling them frozen, via grocery stores nationwide, so that people can prepare them in their own homes), explain how you could effectively increase the capacity of your doughnut operation.What change in process strategy would be required to produce and sell doughnuts in this way?

Write 300 words summarizing the article and 200 words about what you found interesting, disappointing, and unexpected