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Topic
主题
Produce a report that critically examines the current operations of a company of your choice and that presents recommendations to improve its operation to the desired state. Support your a nalysis and discussion with relevant academic theories and relevant area.
产生一个报告，批判地考察您选择的公司的现有业务，并提出了建议，以改善其营运所需的状态。支持你的分析和讨论相关的学术理论和相关领域。
Guidelines for report writing报告写作指南
The report must contain the following headings:该报告必须包含以下标题：
i. Executive summary. An overview of your assignment, findings and recommendations in your report. (150 words)执行摘要。在您的报告中概述了你的任务，结果和建议。 （150字）
ii. Declaration. A sample of the declaration is attached in Appendix 2 for your reference.宣言。声明载于附录2的样本，供您参考。
iii. Table of contents. Sections and subsections must be clearly shown. (2% may be deducted for poor work)表的内容。必须清楚地表明章节和小节。 （做的不好的话会扣除2％）
1. Introduction. Provide a brief description of the company background, scope of your study and the objective you want to achieve. (150 words)
2. Operations操作
2.1 Project Management (Ref. by Chapter 2)
项目管理
2.1.1 Current State. Collect valid data to understand your company’s current state of project management practices and form the basis of analysis. (300 words)
2.1.2 Analysis. Integrate relevant theories, concepts and research to underpin your critical comments on the current practices. The meaningful findings should be summarized here. (300 words)
2.1.3 Recommendations. A General assessment of the situation. This must focus on the discussion and practical application. (300 word)
2.2 Quality and Performance. (Ref. by Chapter 5) 质量和性能
2.2.1 Current State.
Collect valid data to understand your company’s current state of project management practices and form the basis of analysis. (300 words)
2.2.2 Analysis. 分析
Integrate relevant theories, concepts and research to underpin your critical comments on the current practices. The meaningful findings should be summarized here. (300 words)
2.2.3 Recommendations.
A General assessment of the situation. This must focus on the discussion and practical application. (300 word)
2.3 Except Chapter 2 & 5, you can choose 1 chapter to complete the following information. (I suggest that u can choose chapter 7)
2.3.1 Current State. Collect valid data to understand your company’s current state of project management practices and form the basis of analysis. (300 words)
2.3.2 Analysis. Integrate relevant theories, concepts and research to underpin your critical comments on the current practices. The meaningful findings should be summarized here. (300 words)
2.3.3 Recommendations. A General assessment of the situation. This must focus on the discussion and practical application. (300 word)
3. References. A listing of sources of your information such as journals and books. (Not included in total word count) (3% may be deducted for poor references)
4. Appendices. Collection of supporting information not presented in the text.(Not included in total word count and not to be marked)
Hints:
提示
(1) You can create a hy pothetical company
(2) In Part 2.2, you can make hypothetical data for calculation in this part.
Major elements for each area: 各部分的重要元素
Project Management: (Ref. by Chapter 2)
1. Select one of the following two groups:
Project network* and Gantt chart
Crashing activities* and PERT analysis*
Quality and Performance: (Ref. by Chapter 5)
1. Compulsory: Statistical process control and associated methods*
2. Select one of the followings:
Four major costs of quality
Total quality management
Six sigma
Developing a process strategy and analyzi ng processes: (Ref. by Chapter 3 & 4)
1. Select one of the followings:
Process structure in services
Process structure in manufacturing
Customer involvement and resource flexibility
Capital intensity
2. Select one of the followings:
Work measurement techniques*
Evaluating performance*
Planning capacity: (R ef. by Chapter 6)
1. Both of the followings must be attempted:
Planning long-term capacity and capacity timing and sizing strategies*
A systematic approach to long-term capacity decisions*
Making process constraints: (Ref. by Chapter 7)
1. Select one of the followings:
Managing bottlenecks in service and manufacturing processes*
Managing constraints in a line process*
Designing lean systems: (Ref. by Chapter 8)
1. The Kanban system*
Designing effective supply chains and integrating the supply chain:
设计有效的供应链，并整合供应链
(Ref. by Chapter 9 & 10)
1. Compulsory: Estimating inventory levels*
必修：库存水平估计
2. Select one of the followings:
选择以下之一：
Measures of supply chain performance*
供应链绩效的措施
Supplier relationship process*
供应商关系的过程
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