Manufacturing, Production, and Business Strategy Insights

Product Development and Manufacturing Specifications

Specifications, selection of manufacturing methods, production costs, product color, and packaging are determined during the Product Development stage.

Depreciation and Residual Value

The method of increasing digits, also known as sum-of-the-years’ digits depreciation, determines the portion of the initial value of equipment that must be amortized. This is calculated as follows: Residual Value.

Equipment Diagram

An equipment diagram is a diagram of activities.

Land Compatibility

The compatibility of land is greater the lower its moment of inertia.

Global Strategy

The strategy of centralizing most activities in the country of origin is a Global Strategy.

Commercial Experimentation

In commercial experimentation, variability due to uncontrollable factors is reflected by the calculation of the residual dispersion.

Product Life Cycle: Growth Stage

At the growth stage of the product life cycle, extending into new distribution channels, costs, and advertising promotion remain high but are reduced relative to the size of sales compared to the past.

Internationalization Strategies

The following is not an internationalization strategy: The multidimensional strategy.

Working Capital Ratio

The fund maneuver of a company divided by its own resources is the working capital ratio.

Job Description

The document specifying synthetic job objectives, the work performed, responsibilities, required training, and working conditions is the job description.

Production Programming

In production programming, each distribution possibility of resources is called a productive program.

Financial Resource Distribution

The distribution of resources between a company’s own finances and others, according to the ownership criterion, is ownership.

Production Capacity

Decisions relating to the use of overtime impact production capacity.

Wage Structure

The relationship of posts and the payment corresponding to each is reflected in the wage structure.

Distribution Channel Power

Regarding distribution channels, what is based on power and assisting premiums? Noncoercive power.

Sales Force Allocation

In the allocation of sales force, the moment of inertia measures the degree of compatibility of a territory.

Cultural Leadership

What is the basic element considered in the construction of culture from the dimension of cultural irruption, a fundamental element in the success of companies? Leadership.

Training Programs

If a training program is aimed at middle management, it should emphasize human subjects, conceptual, and problem analysis.

Operations Diagram Symbol

The symbol in an operations diagram that represents storage or waiting is a storage means or expected symbol.

Primary Data Source in Marketing

In marketing, the main source of primary data outside the U.S. is the market.

Commercial Experimentation and Variable Control

The empirical analysis of the effect of a trade variable, which controls another variable that cannot be directly controlled and depends on the first, is commercial experimentation.

Financial Returns and Economic Profitability

Financial returns before taxes of a debtor company are higher than its economic profitability.

Multidomestic Strategy

An internationalization strategy in which all company activities are decentralized, with little coordination or centralized control, is the multidomestic strategy.

Process Flow Analysis

In the analysis of process flows, overwhelming attention tends to focus on the elimination of delays and storage.

Debt and Financial Returns

When the expected return of assets exceeds the cost of debt, debt increases the expected financial return.

Federation of American Workers

The Federation of American Workers issued resolutions condemning Taylorist methods.