Disadvantages of mass customization include ______.
a. high capital investment
b. high use of capacity
c. increased use of automation
d. decreased quality
a. high capital investment
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A. assuming that the nonverbal is universally understood B. paraphrasing C. acting as if you did not notice the nonverbal D. tell the other person to use a different nonverbal
By relying on objective information to build support for an initiative, a manager
A. can ensure everyone's personal interests are considered. B. causes others to believe that what the manager is proposing is the appropriate or rational thing to do. C. can develop mutually beneficial relationships with people both inside and outside the organization. D. generates knowledge in all aspects of the organization. E. ensures that everyone who supports the proposal benefits personally.
A practitioner of family medicine begins her day with five patients needing urgent care. She does a very brief assessment of what each patient appears to need and estimates the time required of each
None of the cases is life-threatening, and so she determines to take the five in the order that they arrived at the clinic. The processing-time data for these patients, in the order they arrived, are: Patient A, 30 minutes; Patient B, 40 minutes; Patient C, 10 minutes; Patient D, 50 minutes; and Patient E, 15 minutes. (a) If it is now 8:00 a.m., at what time will the doctor be finished with all five of these emergencies? (b) How much time will the five patients have collectively spent waiting? (c) How much less time would have been spent waiting if the doctor had taken the patients according to shortest processing time?
The project baseline is established by combining data from the:
A) Work breakdown structure and the project budget. B) Time-phased project budget and the PERT chart. C) S-curve and the project budget. D) Time-phased project budget and the work breakdown structure.