{"id":204939,"date":"2018-09-14T04:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/bus-430-week-4-assignment-1-lenscrafters-case-study\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:11:40","slug":"bus-430-week-4-assignment-1-lenscrafters-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/bus-430-week-4-assignment-1-lenscrafters-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"BUS 430 Week 4 Assignment 1 LensCrafters Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment 1: LensCrafters Case Study\tDue Week 4 and worth 250 points\t\u00a0\tThis assignment requires student complete an analysis of the LensCrafters case from Chapter 6 of the text.\t\u00a0\tWrite a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:\t\t\tEvaluate LensCrafters&#8217; operations strategy and explain how the organization seeks to gain a competitive advantage in terms of sustainability.\t\t\tAnalyze how operation management activities affect the customer experience. Select two (2) operation management challenges and provide the solutions for confronting them.\t\t\tExamine LensCrafters&#8217; value chain and evaluate its effectiveness to operations in terms of quality, value creation, and customer satisfaction.\t\t\tDetermine the different types of performance measurements that can be used to measure LensCrafters&#8217; service-delivery system design. Select at least two (2) types that can be applied and provide justifications for the selection.\t\t\tExamine the different types of technologies applied to LensCrafters&#8217; service operations and evaluate how the technologies strengthen the value chain.\t\t\tUse at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.Note:\u00a0Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.\t\u00a0\tYour assignment must follow these formatting requirements:\t\t\tBe typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.\t\t\tInclude a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student&#8217;s name, the professor&#8217;s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.\t\u00a0\tThe specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:\t\t\tApply the concept of operations management.\t\t\tCompare and contrast the difference between a supply chain and a value chain.\t\t\tAnalyze the types of measures used for decision making.\t\t\tAnalyze the five key competitive priorities and their relationship to operations strategy.\t\t\tAnalyze different types of technology and their role in manufacturing and service operations.\t\t\tUse technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.\t\t\tWrite clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment 1: LensCrafters Case Study Due Week 4 and worth 250 points \u00a0 This assignment requires student complete an analysis of the LensCrafters case from Chapter 6 of the text. \u00a0 Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/bus-430-week-4-assignment-1-lenscrafters-case-study\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}