Disadvantages Of Gadgets
Mobile phone addiction is a big social problem. Psychiatrists believe that mobile phone addiction is becoming one of the biggest non-drug addictions in the 21st century. Along with the age drop of the mobile phone users and the ease of prepaid method provide by the system operators, most teenagers now own their own mobile phone and network service. Teenagers are engaged on their mobile phones all the time, no matter on phone calls, using SMS text messages, personalising the mobile phones with ringtones and pictures etc. Besides this, many people are running after the lastest mobile phones. New models of mobile phones are released almost everyday. In order to get up-to-date, people tend to change their mobile phones once in a while. These became habits among the mobile phone users causing them to spend unnecessary cost on mobile bills and costs.
Cyber bullying is also another issue among the disadvantages of mobile phones. Cyber bullying is a bullying act using offensive words and behavior via online chatting, emails or SMS text messages. It was showed that the psychological effects of cyber bullying are much severe that face-to-face bullying. This problem now is among teenagers especially the secondary students.
There are still many problems causing but the new technology. Mobile phones with camera functions are causing privacy problems. Saudi Arabia had banned camera phones through out the country while many countries are concern about this problem. This is because many people have misused the usage on the camera phones such as using it as a hidden camera to take photos which are private. The spreading on computer viruses is also a problem for this new technology. Just like computer viruses, these viruses will affect the normal usage on mobile phones making them to malfunction and causing destructions.
Gadget Toy
Gadget Toy Company
Immediate Issue
Joe Huffman, the project manager at Gadget Toy Company, has just submitted a proposal for a new children’s toy to the new product review committee. He is anticipating approval from the committee at the end of the week and must now determine if the project can be completed in time to meet the September 15 delivery date.
Basic Issues
1. There is presently a strong market demand for the cartoon character that Joe has proposed so quick implementation is important. (Reacting quickly to dynamic market forces). He has determined the definitive starting point of this project as immediate and the ending point as nineteen weeks from now which is when the toys must be ready for distribution.
2. Joe has determined the activities that are necessary for this project; he can begin to work on some immediately but must wait on others as they have precedence relationships where other activities must be completed first. He has also estimated the time that would be required to complete each activity and found that three activities: deliver new equipment, building dies/tools, and advertising have lengthy completion times.
3. After consulting with marketing, Joe has found that a minimum of six weeks of advertising is required for this cartoon character but twelve weeks have been estimated in the activity list. Joe must determine if he needs to reduce the advertising in order to cut the total project time (reduce the critical path time), keeping in mind that each week of lost advertising would amount to approximately a five percent reduction in sales.
4. After consulting with production, Joe has found that the time to build dies and tools could be reduced by two weeks if the tool shop worked weekends for a cost of $5,000. (Activity crashing on a critical activity). He will have to determine if this action is necessary.
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