Scenario from Assignment1: Imagine that you are the vice president of operations at Ford Motor Company. You have noticed
that Ford Motor Company’s current operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the organization is presently
facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you must address these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer
immediately.
Analyze Ford Motor Company’s current vision, mission, business strategy, operation strategy, supply chain, total quality
management, just-in-time philosophy, forecasting method, statistical technique, facility location, work design, project life cycle,
and project management. Note You will need this information in order to complete this and subsequent assignments.
Create a presentation in a common format (PowerPoint or a similar program) with a minimum of twenty (20) slides and
corresponding speaker notes in which you:
1. Determine which statistical technique you will employ to measure the quality characteristics of Ford Motor Company.
Provide examples to support the rationale.
2. Analyze the current facility location, and then use the three-step procedure to determine a new location.
3. Analyze the key concepts related to capacity planning and facility location for the new location.
a. Examine the current work system design, and determine Ford Motor Company’s selected feasibility in the job design (i.e.,
technical, economic, behavioral). Assess key elements of the rationale in the work design competitive advantage.
5. Using the method analysis described in the textbook, defend the new change implementation process and the rationale for
the change of method.
6. Develop a diagram showing network planning techniques, in which you use the program evaluation and review technique
(PERT) and the critical path method (CPM).
7. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as
academic resources.
Include corresponding speaker notes for each slide included in the presentation.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Apply descriptive statistics to measure quality characteristics.
Analyze the key concepts related to capacity planning and facility location.
Examine the key elements of work system design, the project life cycle, and project management.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.
