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Prompt: Assess the history and trends of operations management, focusing on the business or company from your business plan in the Marketing and Strategy course. Specifically, you should assess the significant forces that have shaped operations management in recent history and answer the following:

How did these forces impact the business operations of your company?

If your company does not yet exist, how do you envision these forces will impact the business operations of your company?

Critique the key obstacles and issues that confronted company management during the evolution of operations management into the modern era. How did your company’s management handle these obstacles? If your company did not exist then, how do you think they would have responded to these issues?

Assess changes to operations management philosophies and organizational structures in response to the evolving complexity of business operations. In other words, what has changed and why? Analyze the business operations of your selected company. Consider questions such as these in your response:

o What organizational processes does the company use?

o How do the business operations support the strategic plan, mission, and vision of the company?

o What factors affect productivity and profitability?

Determine the key trends in production, quality, resource, and information management with a focus on the business operations of your company. Assess the impact of these key trends on the business operations of your selected company and on the business product, service, or other idea in your business plan.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

a) Assess the significant forces that have shaped operations management in recent history. How did these forces impact the business operations of your company? If your company does not yet exist, how do you envision these forces will impact the business operations of your company?

b) Critique the key obstacles and issues that confronted company management during the evolution of operations management into the modern era. How did your company’s management handle these obstacles? If your company did not exist then, how do you think they would have responded to these issues?

c) Assess changes to operations management philosophies and organizational structures in response to the evolving complexity of business operations. In other words, what has changed and why?

d) Analyze the business operations of your selected company. Consider questions such as these in your response: What organizational processes does the company use? How do the business operations support the strategic plan, mission, and vision of the company? What factors affect productivity and profitability?

e) Determine the key trends in production, quality, resource, and information management with a focus on the business operations of your company.

f) Assess the impact of these key trends on the business operations of your selected company and on the business product, service, or other idea in your business plan.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (75%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Significant Forces	Comprehensively assesses the significant forces that have shaped operations management in recent history or will shape it in the future, focusing on impact on business operations of selected company	Assesses the significant forces that have shaped operations management in recent history or will shape it in the future, but response lacks a focus on impact on selected company or is cursory or inaccurate	Does not assess the significant forces that have shaped operations management in recent history or will shape it in the future	15
Key Obstacles	Accurately critiques the key obstacles or issues that confronted or will confront company management during evolution of operations management into modern era, focusing on management of selected company	Critiques the key obstacles or issues that confronted or will confront company management during evolution of operations management into modern era, but response lacks a focus on management of selected company, is cursory, or is inaccurate	Does not critique the key obstacles or issues that confronted company management during evolution of operations management into modern era	15

Changes	Comprehensively assesses changes to operations management and organizational structures in response to evolving complexity of business operations	Assesses changes to operations management and organizational structures in response to evolving complexity of business operations, but assessment is cursory or inaccurate	Does not assess changes to operations management and organizational structures in response to evolving complexity of business operations	15
Business Operations	Comprehensively analyzes business operations of selected company	Analyzes business operations of selected company, but response is cursory or inaccurate	Does not analyze business operations of selected company	15
Key Trends	Accurately determines key trends in production, quality, resource, and information management, focusing on business operations of company	Determines key trends in production, quality, resource, and information management, but response is not focused on business operations of company or has gaps in accuracy or detail	Does not determine key trends in production, quality, resource, and information management	15
Impact	Comprehensively assesses the impact of identified key trends on business operations of selected company and business idea	Assesses the impact of identified key trends on business operations of selected company and business idea, but assessment is cursory or inaccurate	Does not assess the impact of identified key trends on business operations of selected company and business idea	15
Articulation of Response	Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas	Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas	10
Total	100%