Operations Management: An Integrated Approach, 5th Edition

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On-line Case: Cruise International, Inc.

Assignment:Project Management at Cruise International, Inc. CII wants to launch a new onboard telemedicine procedure, and the project is time-critical. You need to provide project management assistance to Susan Petersen in CII's marketing department as well as to Dr. Janelle Black at Corporate Medical Services. You need to make sure that all the necessary activities have been identified and that all precedence relationships are correct. After that, you need to evaluate the cost trade-offs associated with speeding up specific project activities. Completion of this assignment will enable you to enhance your knowledge of the material covered in Chapter 16 of the text. It will also better prepare you for future assignments.

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On-line Case: Project Management at Valley Memorial Hospital

For today's assignment you're meeting with Jim Hernandez from Valley Memorial Hospital's Marketing Department. “The project I have in mind for you,” he says, “involves a new telemedicine procedure that we're ready ...