Your paper should not exceed 5 pages, single-spaced, including the
cover sheet
with your name, class, date, etc.  Include references. Paper content is below.
 
(1) Identify three qualitative forecasting methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages.
 
(2) Go to the website: www.baddesigns.com.  Write a similar description (in the same format style) for a badly designed product that is not described at that website.  Ideally, describe a badly designed product that you own or have experienced yourself.  You can include graphics or digital photographs of the product, if you wish.
 
(3) How can a public school system control the quality of its output (that is, its graduates)?  (NOTE: if you have a good idea here, you can make a fortune from it!).
 
(4) What are the advantages of standardization?  What are the disadvantages?  How can innovation and variety be encouraged and accomplished, especially in a new technology, while maintaining standardization?
 
 
(5) Assume that you own a chain of ten retail ice cream stores in the Washington-Baltimore area.  What would be the specific (to this business situation) advantages and disadvantages of installing an ERP system for your ice cream company?