COMM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gantt Chart, Asset Management, Iso 14000
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Changes in consumer expectaions, technology, and compeiion: finding the most eicient and efecive methods of producing the goods or services, rethinking where, when and how the organizaion will produce products and services. What is the coo of an organizaion: chief operaions oicer. Chief operaing oicer or chief operaions oicer (coo) is a corporate oicer responsible for managing the day-to-day aciviies of the corporaion. The coo ideally needs to have domain knowledge of the business as well as understanding of management theories such as tqm, kaizen, bpr, etc. Iso 9001, six sigma, etc. is also a must for global organizaions. Canada does have a service economy" and we are heading towards an knowledge economy". There is however a large and very important manufacturing sector. What types of manufacturing do we have in canada: auto parts/automoive (canada"s biggest contributor to manufacturing gdp, largest manufacturing employer), agriculture, natural gas/oil, telecommunicaions, aerospace, forestry/lumber, mining.
