Determine the different types of performance measurements that can be used to measure QuickTrip service-delivery system design.

Assignment 1: Quick Trip Case StudyDue Week 4 and worth 250 pointsComplete an analysis of the QuickTrip. Assess the organizational layout, performance metrics, and the technology that is used to measure performance and connect with consumers.The QuickTrip Case Study is available in the course shell. It is also available at the following link: http://supplychainresearch.com/images/quik_trip.pdfWrite a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:Evaluate QuickTrip operations strategy and explain how the organization seeks to gain a competitive advantage in terms of sustainability.Analyze how operation management activities affect the customer experience. Select two (2) operation management challenges and provide the solutions for confronting them.Examine QuickTrip value chain and evaluate its effectiveness to operations in terms of quality, value creation, and customer satisfaction.Determine the different types of performance measurements that can be used to measure QuickTrip service-delivery system design. Select at least two (2) types that can be applied and provide justifications for the selection.Examine the different types of technologies applied to QuickTrip service operations and evaluate how the technologies strengthen the value chain.Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment that do not include the initial case study.

Discuss the ways in which the older adults in the film seemed to benefit from the introduction of individualized music.

“Alive Inside” Questions for Extra Credit EssayView the documentary on Utube, Amazon Prime, or Google for $1.99Check Netflix and other sources too.Please read these questions before watching the film. For your essay, type each question followed by your discussion of it. The more you can make specific references to people and moments in the film as part of your answers, the better. Maximum 20 points.1. Identify the main messages you feel the filmmaker intends to communicate in this film.2. Discuss the ways in which the older adults in the film seemed to benefit from the introduction of individualized music.3. Discuss the practical/administrative challenges the filmmaker encountered as he tried to make the devices accessible to institutionalized patients.a. Can you identify cultural attitudes and/or institutional issues that seem to contribute to these roadblocks?4. How did this documentary affect your understanding of older patients with dementia and serious mental illness.

Discuss what you believe to be the responsibility of each of the groups to solve the problems associated with the situation.

In her article, “Blood on our Backs,” Karen Coates discusses the plight of Cambodian garment workers that produce clothing sold in the Western world – primarily in the United States by such stores as Old Navy, Target, Walmart and Kohl’s. In so doing, Coats outlines the contrasting perspectives of (1) the workers, mostly young women, who seek a safer work environment and an increase in their meager $80 monthly wage, (2) the garment manufacturers, who prefer to maintain their $5 billion annual exports and their current profit margin, (3) retail stores/corporations such as Walmart that prefer that their costs remain low, and (4) western consumers who also prefer that prices for clothing at these stores remain low and affordable.As the article indicates, each of these social categories of actors has different beliefs, values, attitudes, and interests. In other words, they inhabit somewhat different cultures and sub-cultures. As a result, they disagree over whether this objective condition really is a problem, what, if anything, should be done about the situation (i.e., whose behavior needs to change), and the likelihood that such efforts would be successful.In your essay you will answer these four sets of questions:(1) What are the different cultural perspectives (beliefs, values, attitudes, and interests) of the four categories of social actors listed above? Pay particular attention to the difference you find in their values and indicate how these differences affect their role and position in this state of affairs.(2) How are these four categories of social actors, which represent local, regional, national, and global communities, connected in a larger system of relations and how do they interact on a national and global level?(3) Whether you recognize it or not, your actions as a consumer play a part in the current circumstances in Cambodia. In your view, do you have any social responsibility to act – for example, to boycott stores that carry these products – in order to effect change? What other strategies would you suggest? What are the effects of you not doing anything?(4) Given the competing interests and differences in power that are attached to the different collective social actors, a solution to this problem will not be easily devised. Cheap labor always seems to be available. And according to Ken Loo, secretary-general of the Cambodian Garment Manufacturers Association, in the end, a few boycotting consumers “can’t do anything.” Discuss what you believe to be the responsibility of each of the groups to solve the problems associated with the situation. In your view, are these difficulties insurmountable? Why or why not?