Application of Operations Management

question 65

Multiple Choice

Application of Operations Management
Leeann has been hired as an intern at BNR, a small custom embroidery and design business. She is amazed at the many uses her manager has found for technology. She is able to draft customer designs using software, and her manager has even told her about machines that can act and see like human beings. The embroidery machines are so sophisticated that in order to change from one product to another, all that she has to do is change the computer program. BNR sells many of its products over the Internet so there is no intermediary.
-BNR transforms its embroidery inputs into outputs through its _____________ .

• A)just- in- time (JIT)system
• B)quality control
• C)robotics
• D)technology

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Definitions:

Too Little Conflict

A scenario where insufficient disagreement or challenge leads to complacency and hinders creativity or improvement within a group or organization.

Promotes Complacency

Describes conditions or practices that encourage a sense of satisfaction with the current state of affairs, potentially hindering improvement or progress.

Competing Objectives

Divergent or opposing goals among individuals or groups within an organization, often leading to challenges in decision-making and prioritization.

Dependent

In a research context, the dependent variable is the one being tested and measured, often to see how it is influenced by changes in an independent variable.