If you're the CEO of an ABC business that makes computer components (motherboards, hard drives, RAM, etc.). Your business has a financial deficit, and you need to manage expenditures and cut expenses by calculating how many workers are required to maintain high-quality products and services. Discuss three methods for keeping these staff expenses under control.

Suppose that you are looking into purchasing a new computer system. You have suitable benchmark results for all of the systems that you are considering, except for System X, Model Q. The benchmark results have been reported for System X, Model S, and they are not quite as good as that of several competing brands. In order to complete your research, you call the people at System X computer company and ask when they plan to publish benchmark results for the Model Q. They tell you that they will not be publishing these results anytime soon, but because the disk drives of Model Q give an average access time of 12ms, whereas Model S had 15ms drives, Model Q will perform better than Model S by 25%. How would you record the performance metrics for System X, Model Q?

This company's flagship offering is a keylogger and mouse-click tracker designed to shed light on office computer use. To be more specific, not all users are OK with being monitored. Some worry that the information will be used for things like employee performance reviews. Your client company has asked you to advise them on whether or not to implement this piece of software.Don't give the client advice until you've thought about the Hawthorne Effect, which we discussed in Chapter 4. Finally, think about the moral consequences of this stance.Give your customer an explanation of what you're doing and why.

According to a recording of an operations manager, "The boss never listens to me—all the boss wants from me is to avoid making noise, and the financing I need to enhance my company is sparse."a. Does the business have an operational strategy?b. What actions are appropriate here?

The computation of the Worldwide Average Cost of Ownership (WACC) is a crucial financial metric that pertains to the evaluation of a company's performance, including Microsoft. May I kindly request for the annual weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of Duke Energy?

Your job is to cook 3 cakes as efficiently as possible. Assuming that you only have one oven large enough to hold one cake, one large bowl, one cake pan, and one mixer, come up with a schedule to make three cakes as quickly as possible. Identify the bottlenecks in completing this task.

Consider the following task of building a zoo for Drexel! You’ve gathered m donors to fund the creation ofyour new park, and you’ve picked the location, so now you just need to choose the inhabitants. Ideally you’dget every animal imaginable, except you just don’t have space. As it is, you have room to comfortably fitk animals. Since you’d like to ensure that your funding doesn’t dry up, you figure your donors should getto make requests about which animals will be kept. After sending out a few emails, you collect from eachdonor i a list of animals Ai which donor i would like to have at the zoo. As you suspected, the total numberof different animals appearing on the m lists exceeds k, so you won’t be able to satisfy all of their requests.You decide the fairest thing to do is to ensure that at least 1 animal from each Aiis chosen.Given all these lists, we want to know whether we can select a set H of at most k animals to put in thezoo such that each donor i will be able to see at least…

Situation 1: You must buy a personal computer (laptop or PC) for your work at the university. What operating system features would be important to evaluate in deciding which computer to buy? Which operating system would you select and why? Situation 2: You work in the administrative area of a retail store. One of the goals for this year's roadmap is to free up some administrative processes as it has been becoming increasingly difficult to achieve good results due to the limited resources of the company's technology, benefits and payroll departments. To free up some of those internal resources, a SaaS strategy is recommended. What is it and how can a SaaS help to solve these operational problems? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using SaaS? What precautions could you take to minimize the risk of using one? Situation 3: You are dedicated to the sale of artisan products and you are in the process of opening an office for you and your 4 employees. As part of assembling…