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Raw materials: Flour, milk, salt sugar, Machinery: Industrial ovens that take an
vegetable fat and eggs. hour and fifty minutes to cook the
products. Then the pony blocks should rest
Human resources: until they are cooled to the cutting on a
Approximately 3300 workers: Managers, chopping machine that divides them into
Section heads, Analysts, Coordinators, fifteen equal portions.
Supervisors, Weights, Horneros, Auxiliaries,
Operators, Inspectors, Technical, Human skills and abilities: The operators of
Assistants, Conductors, Billers, Mechanic the plant are trained to supervise that the
staff pockets of ponqu are in perfect condition
to be bathed in chocolate and to follow all
Information and knowledge: Ramo the conditions of hygiene that the process
empowers its work team to improve its of elaboration of all the products demand.
scope in production, multiply its product
goals and generate in the employees an
environment of confidence, efficiency and
leadership.
The way in which an organization creates value is depicted figure 1. Value creation takes
plaece at the three stages: input, conversion, and output. Each stage is affected by the
environment in which the organization operates. The organizational environment is the
set of forces and conditions that operate beyond an organizations boundaries but affect
its ability ti acquire and use resources to create value.
Inputs include resources such a raw materials, machinety, information and knowledge,
human resources, and money and capital. The way an organization chooses and obtains
from its environment the inputs it needs to produce goods and services determines how
much value the organization creates at the inout stage. For example, Jeff Bezos chose to
design software to make Amazon.com's website as simple and user friendly as he possibly
could and he only recruites people who could provide high quality.
Choose a Company to study, and answer the following questions:
1. What is the name of the way the organization creates value. Briefly describe its
inputs, conversin process, outputs and environment.
2. What does organization do? What goods and services does it produce/provide?
what Kind of value does it create?
3. 3. Draw a model of the way the organization creates value.
4. Do an initial analysis of the organizations major problems or issues. What
challenges confront the organization today-eg:, in its efforts to attract customers,
to lower the costs,increase efficiency and so on.
5. Read its anual report and determine which k8inds of goals, standards, or targets
the organization is using to evaluate performance. How does the organization
innovate and crate efficiency?
"Elija una empresa para estudiar y responda las siguientes preguntas":
Los insumos incluyen recursos tales como materias primas, maquinabilidad, informacin y
conocimiento, recursos humanos y dinero y capital. La forma en que una organizacin
elige y obtiene de su entorno los insumos que necesita para producir bienes y servicios,
determina cunto valor crea la organizacin en la etapa inicial. Por ejemplo, Jeff Bezos
opt por disear software para hacer el sitio web de Amazon.com tan simple y fcil de
usar como podra posiblemente y slo recluta a personas que podran proporcionar alta
calidad.