Week 7 learning
activity
Learning Activity #1
Production
Identify a multinational firm from the Fortune 500
List.
Discuss where the firm’s products are produced, whether the
company produces in a single country or several key locations?
Have they changed their production strategy to move
manufacturing from the US to another country, or back to the US after years of
outsourcing?
What factors would a firm consider when deciding to move
manufacturing abroad?
How has technology enabled outsourcing?
Learning Activity #2
Quality Control
Explain why quality control is important for a service
business such as Sprint Nextel? Discuss
the benefits of quality control for a service business and the methods a company might use for
controlling quality?
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