A Large Consulting Firm Is Deciding on If Its Workforce

question 114

Essay

A large consulting firm is deciding on if its workforce should be expanded, maintained, or decreased. Suppose that demand is given in week long projects, and that a consultant can work on 3 projects each month (1 week off for personal leave and/or other duties such as conferences, etc). Currently there are 25 consultants. Ten consultants are trained for LEAN and 15 for Six Sigma, with 5 of those consultants being overlaps (the consultant is trained for BOTH LEAN and Six Sigma). Assume that all consultants can do the general work. Complete the table (the forecast period is an upcoming month) and prepare a recommendation.

---

Definitions:

Structure Pointer Operator

An operator used in programming languages like C to access members of a structure through a pointer.

Linked List of Structures

A linked list of structures is a data structure where each element is a structure and elements are connected using pointers, allowing dynamic memory management.

Addresses

Refers to specific locations in computer memory, each uniquely identifying a byte, that data and instructions reside in.

Dynamic Allocation

The process of assigning memory space for variables at runtime instead of compile time.