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How do you know when an SMS has reached maturity?
Briefly describe the objectives of each phase of SMS development.
Describe in as much detail as possible Kotter's eight stages to transformational change.
Describe why proficiency in systems thinking is a prerequisite to building comprehensive process descriptions.
What are Functional Safety Teams and what are they used for?
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal structures in an organization?
Give some examples of how to foster a safety culture.
What is an accountable executive in SMS?
Describe Theory X and Theory Y management.
Why is data preparation important in data mining?
Describe the steps in data mining.
What is Monte Carlo Analysis?
Describe Probabilistic Risk Assessment.
What is a gap analysis?
What is a Fault Tree Analysis and when is it used?
What is a Failure Mode Effects Analysis and when is it used?
Describe the three levels of Safety Risk Management.
Describe the relationship between an SMS-O and an SMS-P.
What roles do ICAO and the FAA play in safety oversight?
Explain the power versus interest grid method of stakeholder analysis.
What is the difference between accountability and blame?
Describe how equipment specifications in one process become output requirements for another.
Describe the interplay between production and protection measures, targets and assessments.
What is the fundamental purpose of Safety Assurance?
Explain the importance of key performance indicators in Safety Assurance, and in measuring processes.
Describe Safety Risk Management in terms of a process.
Explain why TEM is suited to SRM.
What are the characteristics that a self-reporting system taxonomy needs?
Describe the TEM model.
Explain the difference between SISO and MIMO controls.
Explain open loop and closed loop control systems.
What is residual risk?
Explain the hierarchy of controls provided by the field of system safety.
What are the steps in hazard control?
Explain how severity values are determined for risk assessment.
Why can we never completely eliminate risk from an operation?
Why is risk assessment the balancing of the potential for loss against the cost of controls?
Explain why it is more appropriate to think of the severity or probability of occurrence of a hazard as an estimate of the distribution of potential severities rather than a single value.
Discuss the importance of understanding the hazards associated with a risk to being able to assess the risk.
What are the benefits of using standard taxonomies when identifying hazards?
Explain the different sources of information used in hazard identification through operational observation, and hazard identification through process analysis.
Why is it important to develop two parallel approaches to hazard identification? What are those approaches?
Define hazard.
Define Safety Risk Management. What processes does SRM include?
Explain the significance of a bathtub curve.
Describe the four phases of projects.
Describe the various types of benchmarking.
Explain the Hoshin planning process.
What is the PDCA cycle and when is it useful?
Explain safety assurance.
Explain why correlation between two variables does not necessarily imply causation.
What is the difference between attribute and variables control charts?
Explain the concept of variation (what is it, where does it exist, what types are there, etc.)
What are the seven basic quality tools? Why are they important?
What role does CAST play in the national SMS?
Explain the importance of data sharing on aviation safety. Discuss the current state of data sharing in aviation safety.
What is the "common theme in proactive safety"? Discuss descriptive and inferential analysis.
Explain the difference between process-based and event-based aviation safety.
Explain the impact the 1995 Aviation Safety Summit had on commercial aviation safety.
Explain how the government's role in aviation safety over time has been reactive in nature. Give examples.
Who is responsible and accountable for safety in an organization?
Explain why a risk management system must be "dynamic" in order to be a part of an SMS.
Explain the concept of "safety being pushed out to the shop floor" in an SMS program.
Why is it important that SMS programs be supported by top management?
Why is it important that an SMS program is "scalable"? What are the possible consequences of the program not being scalable?
What is meant by the term forensic aviation safety management?
Who is responsible and accountable for safety in an organization?1. Explain the relative nature of the term "safe". Is commercial aviation getting more or less safe?
Explain why a risk management system must be "dynamic" in order to be a part of an SMS.
Explain the concept of "safety being pushed out to the shop floor" in an SMS program.
Why is it important that SMS programs be supported by top management?
Why is it important that an SMS program is "scalable"? What are the possible consequences of the program not being scalable?
What is meant by the term forensic aviation safety management?
Explain the relative nature of the term "safe". Is commercial aviation getting more or less safe?
3. Financial metrics facilitate the management of a company as they interpret the quantitative image of its performance capability. However, the main strength of a company is in its resources, capabilities and competences, which are qualitative aspects at the heart of financial performance. Which
2. Compare the EVA concept with EBITaC and discounted cash flow approaches, and make a comparative analysis.
1. Although the Metro Group changed its management system from EVA to EBITaC, several companies such as Henkel and ArcelorMittal still use the more common EVA. Discuss the possible limits and risks of EVA as a group management system.
3. Which criteria would you use to measure the success of the channel partnership?
2. Why is the design of the information exchange between partners along the supply chain one of the most important challenges within supply chain management?
1. Why did P&G and Walmart establish their first channel partnership at the end of the 1980s?
3. What advantages and disadvantages are associated with the outsourcing of physical distribution processes by Sainsbury’s?
2. Factory gate pricing (FGP) is becoming increasingly popular. What are the reasons and motivations for this development? Which possible limitations and risks can be identified?
1. Sainsbury’s supply chain comprises different types of distribution facilities. Why is this distinction normally used?
3. Describe one of the two largest buying groups, EMD or AMS, and elaborate on the differences compared with Coopernic. How can the players be categorised concerning the dimensions “conceptual focus of purchasing” and “structural organisation of purchasing”?
2. Describe the critical success factors that affect cooperative purchasing groups and assess to what extent Coopernic meets these factors.
1. List the possible advantages and disadvantages of horizontal cooperative purchasing and evaluate Coopernic’s situation.
3. Do loyalty cards enhance loyalty? Discuss.
2. Do you think it is possible for Tesco to replicate the success of its customer loyalty programme in the home market to other countries? Discuss critically.
1. How could data be gathered via the Clubcard and then be used? Give some detailed examples.
3. Why it is it attractive for a retailer such as a department store to apply an upmarket and expensive holistic instore marketing approach, whereas discounters and category killers keep on gaining market share with an extremely simple and reduced store layout?
2. For a department store, there are three basic ways to organise its floors. It can be structured either as a classic item-oriented area with traditional categories (such as trousers, books, or kitchenware), as a brand-oriented shop-in-shop concept or by means of different theme worlds such as at
1. In the case study, numerous examples of holistic instore marketing were discussed.What elements exactly constitute a holistic instore marketing approach?
3. Everyday low prices are useful to improve price image in the long run but a rather weak instrument in the short run. Promotions have a good immediate impact on sales but may deteriorate the long-term price image of a retailer. Discuss this dilemma and potential solutions to it from the
2. What are the long-term consequences of Carrefour’s efforts to improve price image?
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the store brand Carrefour Discount to improve the price image? Explain.
3. How do you evaluate the strategy to expressly open sites in markets where 7-Eleven already has a strong market position?
2. Which opportunities and risks does 7-Eleven take when executing all store leases in some cases, even if the stores are run by a franchise?
1. What significance do you attach to the site selection criterion “24 hour operation required“?
3. Would it be recommendable for TK Maxx to use different advertising strategies in different countries? Discuss.
2. Where can you identify discrepancies and potential conflicts between the brand image of TK Maxx and its everyday operative practices?
1. Differentiation, continuity and consistency are three success factors for retail brands.Use these concepts to analyse TK Maxx’s brand management.

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