Joseph KK Ho's work diary

2015 March Exercise 1 XYZ Ltd has estimated that the demand for one of its products is either 100, 200, or 300 units in a month. The product is sold for $16/ item and total variable costs amount to $8/item. If demand is less than supply the product may be sold off cheaply for $3 per item. There is no penalty cost for not meeting demand.  (i) Considering only production levels of 100, 200 and 300, draw up a payoff table for this situation with the following template. (ii) What will the production level chosen based on the maximax strategy? Production level Possible demands Suggested answer Exercise 2 XYZ Education centre is considering to launch an online management education programme targeting the part-time management education market in Hong Kong for mature students who need to do a lot of overseas travelling. Based on the following root definiti...

The following feedbacks are on Independent Study proposals to be reviewed in March 27, 2015: a. Poorly formulated research questions (or not exist) b. Literature review quality is weak: very general, brief and not comprehensive; for some proposals, the literature review is too long. c. Research design is not clear nor well formulated; data gathering approach is unclear. d. Writing style is not appropriate; poor writing skill e. Study rationale is too brief f. Time frame is too general. Blog articles to review: How to write proposal objectives Research design

Advanced Diploma in Business and Administrative Management Administrative Systems in the Organization Assignment – March 2015 Answer all questions. Question 1: Seev Neumann, in his book Strategic Information Systems (1994) states that “strategic information systems are conventional information systems used in innovative ways” a.         Examine, with real-life examples, how the three types of information systems of decision support systems, management information systems and transaction processing systems can be “used in innovative ways” so as to considered as strategic information systems. You are required to make use of 1 or 2 strategic information systems frameworks to support your reasoning (600 words) (30 marks) b.         Examine, with real-life examples, how contemporary mobile technology can be employed in an information system for a service business so as to make it a strateg...

ES of ASO P1 a. decision table and decision tree b. Problem types: structured vs unstructured ; DSS P2 a. IT and competitive advantage; IS types as related to competitive advantage b. SDLC ; agile methodology ; SSM P3 a. Deming improvement cycle ; BPR and continuous improvement b. Balanced scorecard and benchmarking P4 a: Systems: input, outputs, goals or objectives, system boundary; feedback and control; interrelated parts b. SSM: conceptual model , CATWOE analysis ; 4Vs of operations processes . Facebook folder on ASO

University gifts - a discussion: Professor A: we can source some university t-shirts from Malaysia to HK. Staff B: Yes, we have a few samples of the t-shirts. They are good. Professor Ho: why not also offer umbrella to our students? Professor A: good suggestion. Professor Ho: But be careful, umbrellas can be considered as lethal weapons; carrying umbrellas can be sufficient reason to be arrested by the police, especially if the umbrella is yellow in color (the umbrella movement color).. Professor A: I see, let's make some umbrellas in rainbow colors... Professor Ho : Good idea..

Administrative systems in Organization – teaching plan 2015 Joseph K.K. Ho Lecture 1: Business Information Systems and systems thinking 1.1    Information systems 1.2    Soft systems thinking 1.3    Decision making under risk and uncertainty Lecture 2: Strategic uses of information systems 2.1 What is a strategic information system? 2.2. Strategic information systems frameworks Lecture 3: MIS - Decision Support and Expert Systems 3.1 Decision Support Systems 3.2 Expert Systems Lecture 4: Systems Planning and Development 4.1. SDLC 4.2 Agile methodology Lecture 5: Operations Management Lecture 6: Operations Performance 6.1 Balanced scorecard 6.2 Benchmarking Lecture 7: Operations Strategy Lecture 8: Operations Improvement 8.1. Total Quality Management 8.2 European foundation for Quality Management model (EFQA) Related FB folders: Systems thinking Total Quality Mgt and Logistics and Operations Mgt Informatio...

For students doing Housing Imaginations and Housing Diversity/ Differences assignment presentations, pls note the followings: 1. You must express your own ideas in your own words; do not plagiarise in your powerpoint content. If it is absolutely necessary to quote some contents (e.g. definitions), you need to use quotations and provide clear referencing. 2. You need to apply academic concepts taught in the subjects and provide theory-driven analysis in your presentation. 3. Each slide should have a meaningful heading, e.g. "Evaluation of XXX in term of the concepts of place and space".  For example, do not just use your name and subject name as the headings in all your powerpoint slides. 4. Provide in your last slide a list of references in harvard referencing format.. Again, it is useful to show clear referencing in your slides. You need to go to google or youtube to search for information about plagiarism and study it carefully; and make sure that you MUST NOT commi...