Discussion Questions

$15-23$ What type $($or types$)$ of control$-$feedforward, concurrent, or feedbad$-$do you think would be helpful in this situation? Explain your choice.

$15-24$ Using Exhibit $15-2,$ discuss if and how this production nightmare could have been prevented.

$15-25$ Could Tesla's controls have been more effective? How? What about its goals? How?

$15-26$ In the text's first chapter, we introduced the concept of efficiency and effectiveness and how it's important to managers. Here in this story in the last chapter, we see how efficiency and effectiveness continue to be important to managers. Explain how.

$15-27$ Write an executive summary explaining what role information controls and financial controls could have played in this situation. What other controls do you think might have been usefu?