8. A plant has four operators to be assigned to four machines. The time (minutes) required by each worker to produce a product on each machine is shown in the following table: Determine the optimal assignment and compute total minimum time. Machine (min.) Operator A D 10 12 9. 11 10 7 8 3 12 14 13 11 4 8 15 11

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choose 1 disruptive technology and answer question below a)Pain point(s) of selected product or service b)Current product/service c)technology that may be used to solvepain point(s) in 1

Conduct a critical analysis of the NHS headquarters-level strategy. Building on this analysis, advise the management team on the available options for developing and expanding the organisation.