Project Management How do companies go about designing products and services? What are some of the issues with product a

Answer the 8 questions below, each question minimum of 150-200 words. Must be in APA format, please identify the questions on paper. Cannot accept more than 5% plagiarism, it will be submitted to TurnItIn. If you are referencing please do in-text citations.

References: Jacobs, F. R., Chase, R. (2013). Operations and Supply Chain Management, 14th Edition. McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions. VitalBook file.

very important notes

1. Feel free to use more than one reference.
2. Very very important, make sure you don’t fully reference answers, they must also have examples.

Ch. 4: Project Management

• How do companies go about designing products and services?
• What are some of the issues with product and services design?
• What are some of the differences in designing products for manufacturing and services?
• Which characteristics must a project have for critical path scheduling to be applicable? What types of projects have been subjected to critical path analysis?

Ch. 25: Operations Consulting

• What is operations consulting and how can it help firms to become more efficient?
• What are some of the tools used by operations consultants?
• How can one execute the tools of operations consulting to improve business processes?
• What does it take to be a good consultant? Is this the career for you?