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Engineering homework help. MEM 6120 Engineering Management II
Assignment 4
Instructions:
All assignments must have your name, assignment number, course name, date, and it must be word format.
Essay Responses: All questions need to be answered in essay format (must be typed, doubled spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font, with 1″ margins, and all sources must be sited).
Mathematical Responses: Students must show all the formulas and all procedures. Answers only will not be accepted, make sure to show all your work. Answers must be typed, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font, with 1″ margins).
 
For this assignment you will need to complete the following:
 
Textbook – Engineering Management – 2^nd. Edition (Chang)
 
CHAPTER 12 : Questions 1 – 14, pages 449-450

1. How are URLs, domain names, and search engines defined? Use examples to explain the relationship between them. How can one make use of web pages to promote business?
2. What are the Internet, an intranet, and an extranet? How are they being used by numerous large and small companies today?
3. What are the standard markup languages used in the design of web pages?
4. What are some of the legal issues related to the Internet and web-based business transactions that remain unresolved at this time?
5. In implementing a computerized maintenance management system to reduce maintenance costs, what steps are taken?
6. What is data mining, and how significant is it in generating useful results to sup-port management decision-making?
7. For the development of software products, the software configuration management (SCM) process is closely followed as a way to ensure performance and reliability while controlling costs. Explain what SCM can do and in what ways it is important that both developers and intended customers insist on SCM.
8. Although marketing and sales are not functions of engineering, they have a direct impact on product development and CRM. Which web-based applications are currently available to facilitate marketing and sales?
9. The business environment in the new millennium will continue to be fast paced, Internet enhanced, and globally oriented. Name a few factors that will affect the business successes of any companies in such a challenging environment.
10. The “Design for Lean Six Sigma (DFLSS)” is a methodology known to be particularly useful for designing new services that are in close alignment with customer and business needs. Explain the key phases the DFISS methodology goes through.
11. Services are known to have many wastes, which, if not removed, will increase costs and erode service quality, leading to customer dissatisfaction. Name a few of the typical wastes encountered in service offerings.
12. The Lean principle focuses on the improvement of process speed. It is thus particularly useful to service enterprises, which need to shorten customer response time. Explain the basic concepts involved in Lean to improve process speed.
13. There are two types of web services. The first type offers software applications that are accessible to human users. The second type provides software applications that can be accessed by other applications. Explain the basic requirements of building web services to create applications, which can be accessed by human users.
14. As SOA service vendors are likely to be consolidated over time, an IT utility will emerge. In that scenario, most businesses will “buy” computing services instead of maintaining their own in-house computing data centers, much like how business, commercial, and residential customers buy electricity today. What are the potential concerns to service enterprises, which become dependent on the IT utility, insofar as operation and financial risks are concerned?

 
CHAPTER 13 – Questions 1-5, pages 487-488
 
QUESTIONS

1. For products intended for global markets, customers’ wants and needs are different from one market to another. How can a centralized global team build up a product to serve as a “platform” for the global market?
2. Japanese companies face challenges similar to those faced by U.S. companies in that low-cost manufacturing capabilities are readily available in such countries as China, India, the Philippines, and Mexico.

How can the Japanese companies plan to deal with these challenges?

3. It can be argued that democracy and capitalism are concepts that are fundamentally incompatible with each other. Democracy is built on the principle of equality—one person, one vote—regardless of the individual’s intelligence, wealth, work ethic, or any other features that may distinguish one individual from another. Capitalism, on the other hand, fosters inequality. It uses incentive structures to encourage hard work and wise investment to realize differences in economic returns. Because future income from investments (in human or physical assets) depends on current income, wealth tends to generate wealth, and poverty tends to constrain the individual’s economic growth. The cycle is self-reinforcing: success breeds success, and failure compounds failure. “The economically fit are expected to drive the economically unfit out of existence. Thus, there are no equalizing feedback mechanisms in capitalism” (Thurow 1997). What are some of the remedies capitalistic countries have introduced to mitigate such inequality?

Would globalization compound this condition in a capitalistic and democratic country?
Why, or why not?

4. Globalization, which causes the countries involved to become more interconnected, clearly has tremendous social and political implications. It also has a cultural dimension to it, due to worldwide communications that facilitate the global connections. Cultural globalization may lead to a more civic global society with a greater consensus on civic values. It may also diminish the rich diversity of human civilization, as the Asian, Islamic, South American, and other non-Western values become increasingly generic. For many, the preservation of distinct cultural traditions is a very serious matter.

Is globalization a form of Western imperialism that may homogenize non-West-ern values? Why or why not? Can homogenization be avoided or mitigated?

5. During the new century, increased flows of products, services, technologies, capi-tal, and workers across national borders will affect the economical, social, and political life of everyone involved. The UN is expected to play a critical role in this increasingly dynamic environment.

 
In your opinion, what should be the major missions of the UN in addressing these issues?
 
 
 
 

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