Key to being able to effectively persuade superiors

 

1. The one thing that can help establish your right to lead the project more than anything else is:

A. Ability to balance the project budget.

B. Being visible to top management.

C. Being an active advocate for your project.

D. Having proper credentials.

2. A key to being able to effectively persuade superiors is:

A. Constantly meeting deadlines.

B. Being visible to top management.

C. Establishing project ownership.

 D. Proving loyalty.

3. The target costing process heavily involves the value chain. Suppliers are an important part of the value chain that companies which use target costing attempt to include in their target costing efforts. Which methods are used to include those suppliers?

A. They characterize suppliers by distance from the producer, set up tiers and have tier one suppliers manage tier two, and so forth.

B. They develop long term relationships with key suppliers rather than competitively bidding each year and bringing in new suppliers.

C. They involve key suppliers early in the design of the product.

D. They accept supplier prices that maintain the long run financial health of the supplier as long as targets are met.

E. All of the above.

4. Pick a Service process you are familiar and identify the following:

Healthcare clinic with appointments:

Calling Population

Queue Configuration

Queue Discipline

Service process