The term "Capacity Building" may be easily misunderstood. It has much wider meaning than is understood in general sense. What it then really means and how useful it is for an organization? Find an answer in the article. I’m presently working on a research project closely related to the title in use. So‚ I felt like understanding the term ‘Capacity Building’ first before I can conduct further study on which I’m able to suggest appropriate measures for the ‘Capacity Building’ of personnel working
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Service Capacity * Service Capacity is defined as the maximum level of value-added activity‚ which can be consistently achieved over a period of time under normal operating conditions. * The important consideration is that the service provider should be able to sustain provision of service at such a rate comfortably under normal working conditions. * It can be expressed as : 1. Max. number of patient attended by a Doctor / hr. 2. Max. number of calls attended by a Executive
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Chapter 12: Capacity Planning Question #1: Why are facilities decisions often made by top management? What is the role in these decisions of operations‚ marketing‚ finance‚ accounting‚ engineering‚ and human resources? “Facilities decisions often made up by the top management and the chief executive‚ and the board of directors because these decisions are strategic in nature‚ they require the input of all functional areas in the firm.” It is longest-term planning decision that contains all the important
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Capacity Planning Based on time horizon or duration it is viewed in three (i) Long-range Capacity Planning Time horizon is of more than one or two years. It is carried for productive resources which a long time. Long-range capacity planning requires participation and approval of top management personnel. (ii) Intermediate-range Capacity Planning It has a time horizon for 6 to 18 months. It may be varied by such alternative such as hiring off or laying off labour‚ purchasing or making new tools
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CAPACITY AND DEMAND Capacity management is the activity of coping with mismatches between supply and demand. Capacity is the ability an operation or process has to supply demand. Usually this means how many products or services it can produce over a period of time. It’s something that is a basic responsibility of operations managers in any kind of organization. Therefore‚ one of the first things that any manager must ask themselves is‚ what is the operation’s‚ or process’s‚ current capacity
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corporate intranet to help departments communicate effectively. The schedule for different departments to ‘go live’ on the intranet is set‚ and we have to purchase the appropriate servers‚ minimizing cost and making sure that the intranet has enough capacity to handle the employees that start using the intranet each month. I picked this case because it resembles the types of problems that I faced during my summer internship at The CocaCola Company. One of my responsibilities was to assist in the cost
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CAPACITY PLANNING Capacity planning: Capacity planning is the process of determining the production capacity needed by an organization to meet changing demands for its products.[1] In the context of capacity planning‚ "design capacity" is the maximum amount of work that an organization is capable of completing in a given period‚ "effective capacity" is the maximum amount of work that an organization is capable of completing in a given period due to constraints such as quality problems‚ delays‚
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Capacity Planning The overall objective of strategic capacity planning is to reach an optimal level where production capabilities meet demand. Capacity needs include equipment‚ space‚ and employee skills. If production capabilities are not meeting demand‚ high costs‚ strains on resources‚ and customer loss may result. It is important to note that capacity planning has many long term concerns given the long term commitment of resources. Managers should recognize the broader effects capacity
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ca CAPACITY AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT Capacity can be defined as ‘the maximum level of value added activity over a period of time that the service process can achieve under normal operating conditions’. (Johnston and Clark‚ 2001) The essential task of capacity management is to look at the current performance of a service identify any bottle necks‚ understand the workload places on it and the underlying business drivers that may affects future traffic. The next task is to access the workload growth
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