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Project on Adherence to a Diabetic Diet
Project on Adherence to a Diabetic Diet
For this project you will design and follow the Exchange Diet for persons with diabetes for three days. Here are the procedures you should follow. Please read the entire assignment before you begin.
1. Carefully read the information on Exchange List for Meal Planning Strategies on page 745-749 and Appendix G in the Appendix section of your text. Select a calorie level that is appropriate for you. There are links to suggested meal plans at the end of this assignment. Remember that the meal plans under each calorie level are just a suggestion that will help guide you in using the exchange system at the calorie level you have chosen. Describe how you decided which calorie level you would use for this project. The calorie level you choose is totally up to you.
2. Go to the following website for more information about how to plan this diet.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/eat/fd_exch.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.https://www.diabetes.org/healthy-living/recipes-nutrition/understanding-carbs/types-carbohydrates (Links to an external site.)https://www.diabetes.org/healthy-living/recipes-nutrition/understanding-carbs/carb-counting-and-diabetesCarbohydrate Counting and Meal Planning _ NovoMedLink INCLUDEPICTURE “data:image/svg+xml;base64,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” * MERGEFORMATINET Links to an external site.
3. Design a diabetic diet meal plan/menu for three days following the exchange system at the calorie level you chose. Do not follow the menus as posted. MAKE YOUR OWN MEAL PLAN. Choose your own foods. Do NOT copy a menu from the internet, previous students or ANY other source. Follow the diabetic meal plan that you designed for three days. Include one weekend day. Do not just plan one day and repeat it three times. However, you can use the same breakfast. Remember that a diabetic diet does not have to be expensive and you can eat out. A person with diabetes does not need special foods. It is not a requirement that you go out and buy expensive foods. People who have limited means also have diabetes and must learn to eat healthfully even in those circumstances. Even if you have a careful plan, things change. Remember that this is real life and people who have diabetes go out with friends, go to the movies, and have fun, too. Remember to first plan what you are going to eat and then implement the plan. Include the menus you actually ate for the three days in your report. Your meal plan should not only be an acceptable number of calories but also the proper percentage of carbohydrates, protein and fat. Your meal plan should include grams of carbohydrate in each food item (you can use the grams of carbohydrates listed in Appendix G).Note: If you are on a special diet or have any special medical concerns please contact your professor about this project for alternatives.
4. *****Thoroughly describe your experiences and evaluate each day of the diet. You must carefully describe EACH of the three days of the experience separately on each of the following:
Acceptability
Adherence (ease or difficulty in following)
Palatability
Product availability
Time involved
Use of currently available food items
Where food was eaten
Influence on life style
You should create a chart/table that shows the menus planned and any changes to the menus you planned for each individual day. Then describe each individual day.
After evaluating each individual day, thoroughly evaluate the total project experience including all the components. Summarize your experience.It is your thorough description and evaluation of the diet and your experience that will determine much of your grade. Remember there are a lot of points for this project. Make sure you earn them.
5. Evaluate a Processed Food: Buy a processed food that has a “low in sodium”, “reduced sodium”, “less sodium” etc on the label. Also purchase a similar “regular” food item. You will compare the 2 based on the criteria below. Remember this is a purchased food not a food that you prepared. You may not use saltine crackers, seasonings, or Chicken Noodle Soup. Choose a food. Fresh foods are not sold as “low sodium.” Include in your report a comparison of this low-sodium food with its counterpart using the following: Be very thorough.· Palatability – how do each of the products taste, smell and feel· Price of specialty item vs. the regular item– compare them. Give specifics· Availability– how easy was it to find the low sodium product? Were there a lot of foods labeled as “low sodium” in the store?· Nutrient composition vs. the regular item– use a chart/table to compare and show the differences. – not just sodium but all nutrients (even if they are the same) – please give specific details about the nutrient composition.Describe how you would season it without using salt to make it more delicious. What could you tell a person who has been placed on a low-sodium diet to do to make their diet more tasty.
Be very thorough – if you want to earn full credit!
You are required to submit the following: (** All in one document **)
1. Describe how you decided which calorie level to use for the project.2. Your menus as you planned them for three days, including the exchange group/serving for each food, grams of carbohydrate and any changes that you made after you planned (#3). Submit menus in a chart or outline form. (See the example menus and Appendix G – an example of an exchange group/serving is: 8oz skim milk = 1 milk serving= 12 gm CHO) Your menus should include food, serving size, exchange group, and grams of carbohydrate.3. A complete and thorough description of each day of your experience (addressing all components listed in #4 in the assignment) and an overall diet evaluation as specified in #4 (this is the area with the most points).4. A complete and thorough evaluation of your low-sodium food as specified in #5.
Your grade on this project will depend on how well you plan the meal plan that you will follow and how thoroughly you evaluate the process of planning and eating the diet as well as your comparison of the low-sodium food with its counterpart.
(A note from the professor: In the past, we have had many different responses to this project. Some students love it. Others actually hate it and complain about having to eat healthfully for 3 days. Some students say they were already eating this way and it was a “breeze” for them. Many students actually say they lost a couple of pounds and felt better when they ate regularly. The diabetic diet is a healthy diet that people without diabetes would do well to follow regularly. You eat throughout the day. Choose low fat, low sodium and complex carbohydrates to eat. That’s truly a healthy choice. Try to keep an open mind about this project. As a nurse you will be working with many clients who have diabetes and you will begin to understand the challenges of their nutritional management of the disease.)
Please submit all parts of the assignment as one continuous document. Do not separate and attach them as several documents.
Links for suggested meal plans for various calorie levels1500 calories
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For this project you will design and follow the Exchange Diet for persons with diabetes for three days. Here are the procedures you should follow. Please read the entire assignment before you begin.
1. Carefully read the information on Exchange List for Meal Planning Strategies on page 745-749 and Appendix G in the Appendix section of your text. Select a calorie level that is appropriate for you. There are links to suggested meal plans at the end of this assignment. Remember that the meal plans under each calorie level are just a suggestion that will help guide you in using the exchange system at the calorie level you have chosen. Describe how you decided which calorie level you would use for this project. The calorie level you choose is totally up to you.
2. Go to the following website for more information about how to plan this diet.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/eat/fd_exch.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.https://www.diabetes.org/healthy-living/recipes-nutrition/understanding-carbs/types-carbohydrates (Links to an external site.)https://www.diabetes.org/healthy-living/recipes-nutrition/understanding-carbs/carb-counting-and-diabetesCarbohydrate Counting and Meal Planning _ NovoMedLink INCLUDEPICTURE “data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMTkyMCAxOTIwIiB2ZXJzaW9uPSIxLjEiIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyI+CiAgICA8cGF0aCBkPSJNMTIyNi42NjY2NywyNjcgQzEzMTQuODgsMjY3IDEzODYuNjY2NjcsMzM4Ljc4NjY2NyAxMzg2LjY2NjY3LDQyNyBMMTM4Ni42NjY2Nyw0MjcgTDEzODYuNjY2NjcsODUzLjY2NjY2NyBMMTI4MCw4NTMuNjY2NjY3IEwxMjgwLDY5My42NjY2NjcgTDEwNi42NjY2NjcsNjkzLjY2NjY2NyBMMTA2LjY2NjY2NywxNDkzLjY2NjY3IEMxMDYuNjY2NjY3LDE1MjMgMTMwLjU2LDE1NDcgMTYwLDE1NDcgTDE2MCwxNTQ3IEwxMjI2LjY2NjY3LDE1NDcgQzEyNTYuMTA2NjcsMTU0NyAxMjgwLDE1MjMgMTI4MCwxNDkzLjY2NjY3IEwxMjgwLDE0OTMuNjY2NjcgTDEyODAsMTI4MC4zMzMzMyBMMTM4Ni42NjY2NywxMjgwLjMzMzMzIEwxMzg2LjY2NjY3LDE0OTMuNjY2NjcgQzEzODYuNjY2NjcsMTU4MS44OCAxMzE0Ljg4LDE2NTMuNjY2NjcgMTIyNi42NjY2NywxNjUzLjY2NjY3IEwxMjI2LjY2NjY3LDE2NTMuNjY2NjcgTDE2MCwxNjUzLjY2NjY3IEM3MS43ODY2NjY3LDE2NTMuNjY2NjcgMCwxNTgxLjg4IDAsMTQ5My42NjY2NyBMMCwxNDkzLjY2NjY3IEwwLDQyNyBDMCwzMzguNzg2NjY3IDcxLjc4NjY2NjcsMjY3IDE2MCwyNjcgTDE2MCwyNjcgWiBNMTU4NC4zNzMzMyw3MDkuMjkzMzMzIEwxOTA0LjM3MzMzLDEwMjkuMjkzMzMgQzE5MjUuMTczMzMsMTA1MC4wOTMzMyAxOTI1LjE3MzMzLDEwODMuOTA2NjcgMTkwNC4zNzMzMywxMTA0LjcwNjY3IEwxOTA0LjM3MzMzLDExMDQuNzA2NjcgTDE1ODQuMzczMzMsMTQyNC43MDY2NyBMMTUwOC45NiwxMzQ5LjI5MzMzIEwxNzM3Ljg2NjY3LDExMjAuMzg2NjcgTDkwNi42MTMzMzMsMTEyMC4zODY2NyBMOTA2LjYxMzMzMywxMDEzLjcyIEwxNzM3Ljg2NjY3LDEwMTMuNzIgTDE1MDguOTYsNzg0LjcwNjY2NyBMMTU4NC4zNzMzMyw3MDkuMjkzMzMzIFogTTEyMjYuNjY2NjcsMzczLjY2NjY2NyBMMTYwLDM3My42NjY2NjcgQzEzMC41NiwzNzMuNjY2NjY3IDEwNi42NjY2NjcsMzk3LjY2NjY2NyAxMDYuNjY2NjY3LDQyNyBMMTA2LjY2NjY2Nyw0MjcgTDEwNi42NjY2NjcsNTg3IEwxMjgwLDU4NyBMMTI4MCw0MjcgQzEyODAsMzk3LjY2NjY2NyAxMjU2LjEwNjY3LDM3My42NjY2NjcgMTIyNi42NjY2NywzNzMuNjY2NjY3IEwxMjI2LjY2NjY3LDM3My42NjY2NjcgWiIgc3Ryb2tlPSJub25lIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjEiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCIvPgo8L3N2Zz4K” * MERGEFORMATINET Links to an external site.
3. Design a diabetic diet meal plan/menu for three days following the exchange system at the calorie level you chose. Do not follow the menus as posted. MAKE YOUR OWN MEAL PLAN. Choose your own foods. Do NOT copy a menu from the internet, previous students or ANY other source. Follow the diabetic meal plan that you designed for three days. Include one weekend day. Do not just plan one day and repeat it three times. However, you can use the same breakfast. Remember that a diabetic diet does not have to be expensive and you can eat out. A person with diabetes does not need special foods. It is not a requirement that you go out and buy expensive foods. People who have limited means also have diabetes and must learn to eat healthfully even in those circumstances. Even if you have a careful plan, things change. Remember that this is real life and people who have diabetes go out with friends, go to the movies, and have fun, too. Remember to first plan what you are going to eat and then implement the plan. Include the menus you actually ate for the three days in your report. Your meal plan should not only be an acceptable number of calories but also the proper percentage of carbohydrates, protein and fat. Your meal plan should include grams of carbohydrate in each food item (you can use the grams of carbohydrates listed in Appendix G).Note: If you are on a special diet or have any special medical concerns please contact your professor about this project for alternatives.
4. *****Thoroughly describe your experiences and evaluate each day of the diet. You must carefully describe EACH of the three days of the experience separately on each of the following:
Acceptability
Adherence (ease or difficulty in following)
Palatability
Product availability
Time involved
Use of currently available food items
Where food was eaten
Influence on life style
You should create a chart/table that shows the menus planned and any changes to the menus you planned for each individual day. Then describe each individual day.
After evaluating each individual day, thoroughly evaluate the total project experience including all the components. Summarize your experience.It is your thorough description and evaluation of the diet and your experience that will determine much of your grade. Remember there are a lot of points for this project. Make sure you earn them.
5. Evaluate a Processed Food: Buy a processed food that has a “low in sodium”, “reduced sodium”, “less sodium” etc on the label. Also purchase a similar “regular” food item. You will compare the 2 based on the criteria below. Remember this is a purchased food not a food that you prepared. You may not use saltine crackers, seasonings, or Chicken Noodle Soup. Choose a food. Fresh foods are not sold as “low sodium.” Include in your report a comparison of this low-sodium food with its counterpart using the following: Be very thorough.· Palatability – how do each of the products taste, smell and feel· Price of specialty item vs. the regular item– compare them. Give specifics· Availability– how easy was it to find the low sodium product? Were there a lot of foods labeled as “low sodium” in the store?· Nutrient composition vs. the regular item– use a chart/table to compare and show the differences. – not just sodium but all nutrients (even if they are the same) – please give specific details about the nutrient composition.Describe how you would season it without using salt to make it more delicious. What could you tell a person who has been placed on a low-sodium diet to do to make their diet more tasty.
Be very thorough – if you want to earn full credit!
You are required to submit the following: (** All in one document **)
1. Describe how you decided which calorie level to use for the project.2. Your menus as you planned them for three days, including the exchange group/serving for each food, grams of carbohydrate and any changes that you made after you planned (#3). Submit menus in a chart or outline form. (See the example menus and Appendix G – an example of an exchange group/serving is: 8oz skim milk = 1 milk serving= 12 gm CHO) Your menus should include food, serving size, exchange group, and grams of carbohydrate.3. A complete and thorough description of each day of your experience (addressing all components listed in #4 in the assignment) and an overall diet evaluation as specified in #4 (this is the area with the most points).4. A complete and thorough evaluation of your low-sodium food as specified in #5.
Your grade on this project will depend on how well you plan the meal plan that you will follow and how thoroughly you evaluate the process of planning and eating the diet as well as your comparison of the low-sodium food with its counterpart.
(A note from the professor: In the past, we have had many different responses to this project. Some students love it. Others actually hate it and complain about having to eat healthfully for 3 days. Some students say they were already eating this way and it was a “breeze” for them. Many students actually say they lost a couple of pounds and felt better when they ate regularly. The diabetic diet is a healthy diet that people without diabetes would do well to follow regularly. You eat throughout the day. Choose low fat, low sodium and complex carbohydrates to eat. That’s truly a healthy choice. Try to keep an open mind about this project. As a nurse you will be working with many clients who have diabetes and you will begin to understand the challenges of their nutritional management of the disease.)
Please submit all parts of the assignment as one continuous document. Do not separate and attach them as several documents.
Links for suggested meal plans for various calorie levels1500 calories
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For this project you will design and follow the Exchange Diet for persons with diabetes for three days. Here are the procedures you should follow. Please read the entire assignment before you begin.
1. Carefully read the information on Exchange List for Meal Planning Strategies on page 745-749 and Appendix G in the Appendix section of your text. Select a calorie level that is appropriate for you. There are links to suggested meal plans at the end of this assignment. Remember that the meal plans under each calorie level are just a suggestion that will help guide you in using the exchange system at the calorie level you have chosen. Describe how you decided which calorie level you would use for this project. The calorie level you choose is totally up to you.
2. Go to the following website for more information about how to plan this diet.
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3. Design a diabetic diet meal plan/menu for three days following the exchange system at the calorie level you chose. Do not follow the menus as posted. MAKE YOUR OWN MEAL PLAN. Choose your own foods. Do NOT copy a menu from the internet, previous students or ANY other source. Follow the diabetic meal plan that you designed for three days. Include one weekend day. Do not just plan one day and repeat it three times. However, you can use the same breakfast. Remember that a diabetic diet does not have to be expensive and you can eat out. A person with diabetes does not need special foods. It is not a requirement that you go out and buy expensive foods. People who have limited means also have diabetes and must learn to eat healthfully even in those circumstances. Even if you have a careful plan, things change. Remember that this is real life and people who have diabetes go out with friends, go to the movies, and have fun, too. Remember to first plan what you are going to eat and then implement the plan. Include the menus you actually ate for the three days in your report. Your meal plan should not only be an acceptable number of calories but also the proper percentage of carbohydrates, protein and fat. Your meal plan should include grams of carbohydrate in each food item (you can use the grams of carbohydrates listed in Appendix G).Note: If you are on a special diet or have any special medical concerns please contact your professor about this project for alternatives.
4. *****Thoroughly describe your experiences and evaluate each day of the diet. You must carefully describe EACH of the three days of the experience separately on each of the following:
Acceptability
Adherence (ease or difficulty in following)
Palatability
Product availability
Time involved
Use of currently available food items
Where food was eaten
Influence on life style
You should create a chart/table that shows the menus planned and any changes to the menus you planned for each individual day. Then describe each individual day.
After evaluating each individual day, thoroughly evaluate the total project experience including all the components. Summarize your experience.It is your thorough description and evaluation of the diet and your experience that will determine much of your grade. Remember there are a lot of points for this project. Make sure you earn them.
5. Evaluate a Processed Food: Buy a processed food that has a “low in sodium”, “reduced sodium”, “less sodium” etc on the label. Also purchase a similar “regular” food item. You will compare the 2 based on the criteria below. Remember this is a purchased food not a food that you prepared. You may not use saltine crackers, seasonings, or Chicken Noodle Soup. Choose a food. Fresh foods are not sold as “low sodium.” Include in your report a comparison of this low-sodium food with its counterpart using the following: Be very thorough.· Palatability – how do each of the products taste, smell and feel· Price of specialty item vs. the regular item– compare them. Give specifics· Availability– how easy was it to find the low sodium product? Were there a lot of foods labeled as “low sodium” in the store?· Nutrient composition vs. the regular item– use a chart/table to compare and show the differences. – not just sodium but all nutrients (even if they are the same) – please give specific details about the nutrient composition.Describe how you would season it without using salt to make it more delicious. What could you tell a person who has been placed on a low-sodium diet to do to make their diet more tasty.
Be very thorough – if you want to earn full credit!
You are required to submit the following: (** All in one document **)
1. Describe how you decided which calorie level to use for the project.2. Your menus as you planned them for three days, including the exchange group/serving for each food, grams of carbohydrate and any changes that you made after you planned (#3). Submit menus in a chart or outline form. (See the example menus and Appendix G – an example of an exchange group/serving is: 8oz skim milk = 1 milk serving= 12 gm CHO) Your menus should include food, serving size, exchange group, and grams of carbohydrate.3. A complete and thorough description of each day of your experience (addressing all components listed in #4 in the assignment) and an overall diet evaluation as specified in #4 (this is the area with the most points).4. A complete and thorough evaluation of your low-sodium food as specified in #5.
Your grade on this project will depend on how well you plan the meal plan that you will follow and how thoroughly you evaluate the process of planning and eating the diet as well as your comparison of the low-sodium food with its counterpart.
(A note from the professor: In the past, we have had many different responses to this project. Some students love it. Others actually hate it and complain about having to eat healthfully for 3 days. Some students say they were already eating this way and it was a “breeze” for them. Many stude
Project Management Tools for Microwave Chemistry Projects
Project Management Tools for Microwave Chemistry Projects
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Introduction
Microwave chemistry is superior to conventional methods of heating for conducting chemical interactions and reactions, and soon enough it will emerge as the most preferred technology for performing chemical reactions and synthesis (Gedye, et al., 1986). Microwave chemistry is defined as the science or technique of applying irradiation of microwave energy to chemical reactions, microwaves, in such cases, perform as electric fields of high frequency and, as a result, generate heat that heats any material that possesses electric charges like polar molecules dissolved in a solvent or conducting solids found in solids. Solvents that are polar are heated as the molecules contained in them are forced to rotate with the electric field and lose energy as they collide (Kidwai, 2001).
This study will be based on the field of microwave chemistry. The previous project put much of its focus on examining the permittivity and attenuation characteristics of different kinds of liquids and fluids under the application of energy produced by microwaves over the centimetric frequency range of not more than 10 GHz. This range of frequency covers a considerable range of applications of microwave. The applicator that has been proposed to be used in the study is a coaxial cavity of a single- mode so as to avoid any signals of multiple modes generated within the cavity, therefore, increasing the result’s accuracy (Kidwai, 2001).
Background Information
This study will make use of the findings of this previous study to inform the current paper, which will be focused on management research and the development of a new tool of management, like a computer software, that researchers can use to manage the technological and scientific activities during the phase of research and during the final testing, design and commercialization stages. The reason why I feel like this is a compelling area of research is first because there is a considerable gap in the availability of information on the same in the current studies, and second because I have created a project tool of management project- tracking sheet during one of my occupational experiences that researchers can use in updating and tracking their progress of all current projects in a single sheet.
Literature Review
Traditionally, management of projects has been shoved in the back by numerous business schools and has become the preserve for those faculties that are more specialised professionally like architecture and engineering. Project management is the art and science of organizing a project’s components, whether the project involves the development and production of new products, launching of a marketing campaign or new service. As it follows, a project is not something that is part of normal operations in business. It is typically developed once, it is specific and temporary. A project makes use of resources in the form of people, materials, cash and time and has limits in funding. Regardless of the kind of project, management of the project usually follows one particular pattern. The first stage is usually definition, the second is usually planning, the third execution, the fourth control and the final stage is usually closure (Russell, 2011).
There are different trends in project management currently in use. One of these is called project management portfolio. This is an essential way of monitoring, evaluating and monitoring a scientific or technological project such as in microwave chemistry. This management technique usually is a move by firms to get control over a number of projects by evaluating and analysing how well each project or part of the project aligns with the strategic aims and goals of the firm and quantifying the value of the project (Badiru, 2009).
A firm in most cases will be working on a number of projects, or on a project that has numerous stages and activities, each leading to potentially different amounts of value or returns. The agency or organization may decide to do away with those projects or parts of projects with minimal returns so as to dedicate more resources and energy to the rest of the project or projects to preserve the projects depicted to have higher value or returns (Knecht, 1974).
Another common method of managing projects is through the development and use of management software. Project management software covers numerous types of software including planning and estimation, cost control, scheduling and management of budgets, communication, collaboration software, documentation and quality management and administrative systems, which are utilized in many cases to deal with difficulties usually faced in large projects (Project Management Institute, 2003).
In microwave chemistry, like in the previous research, project management software can be designed to aid both the teams and project managers to develop consistent project plans, analyze work load, allocate resources, track work progress, manage budgets and estimate costs of the plans. There are several reasons why project management using software is appropriate. Software, for instance, easily manages the projects of a firm and shares resources among them according to their demands (Peter & Morris, 1994). They help bring the critical issues of the project to the attention of the project manager. They are useful in tracking evolution of project in terms of time, completion and costs. Software also provides one with a clear and clean way to break down a project, allocate resources, build schedules and manage budgets. In addition to this, computer software provides systematic project guide that guides a manager from beginning to end of the process of project management so that they can organize the project plan without wasting time (Uyttewaal, 2001).
Recommendation
There are numerous examples of project management software that managers can use. However, one of the most crucial tools in project management in today’s technological world, and one that can fit in with projects in microwave chemistry is a Gantt chart. This tool was developed by Henry Gantt for showing the progression of projects in the form of a chart. For more complex projects like the one in microwave chemistry, the simple traditional tool would have to be enhanced further by using a work breakdown structure that would be used to identify the activities before constructing the tool (Clark & Gantt, 1922).
Methodology
Coming up with a Gantt chart is not complex. The first step usually involves listing of all of the activities in the plan. For each task, the manager should show the estimated length of time, start date and whether the tasks are sequential or parallel. The second step would involve setting up the Gantt chart by heading up the graphs with the weeks or days through to the completion of the task. The third step is plotting of the tasks onto the established graph. The fourth step involves the analysis of the presented information. Gantt charts are essential management tools for scheduling and planning of projects, they allow managers to assess and determine the completion time of the project, the needed resources and lay out of the order in which the activities and tasks need to be carried out (Clark & Gantt, 1922).
Though this tool is extremely useful in management of projects, they can be exceedingly unwieldy for those projects that have more than 30 tasks. Large Gantt charts are usually not appropriate for most displays on computers. Although software for managing projects can show dependencies of schedules as lines between tasks, displaying a larger number of these dependencies could lead to unreadable or cluttered charts (Gantt, 1910).
References
Badiru, B. (2009). STEP Project Management: Guide for Science, Technology, and Engineering Projects. New York: Taylor & Francis CRD Press.
Clark, W. & Gantt, H. (1922). The Gantt chart, a working tool of management. New York, Ronald Press.
Gedye, R. et al. (1986). The use of microwave ovens for rapid organic synthesis. Tetrahedron Letters 27 (3): 279-282.
Gantt, H. (1910). Work, Wages and Profit. The Engineering Magazine. New York: Hive Publishing Company.
Kidwai, M. (2001). Dry media reactions. Pure Appl. Chem. 73 (1): 147–151.
Knecht, R. (1974). Costing, technological growth, and generalized learning curves. Operations Research Quarterly 25 (3): 487-491.
Peter, W. & Morris, G. (1994). The Management of Projects. New York: Thomas Telford.
Project Management Institute. (2003). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Project Management Institute.
Russell, D. (2011). Accountability. In Succeeding in the project management jungle: How to manage the people side of projects. New York: Wiley and Sons.
Uyttewaal, E. (2001). Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft(s) Project 2000: The Book By and For Professionals. New York: SIEGE.
The generic strategies adopted by ALDI in Australia
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The generic strategies adopted by ALDI in Australia
Designing a marketing generic strategy plan requires the knowledge of the current market on the field of products in subject. On the other hand, marketing design is highly essential in an organization since it is the fundamental to successful implementation of strategies and achievement of objectives. ALDI adopted excellent strategies that enabled the organization grow very fast in the Australian market. A company can generate superior returns if its primary determination is making profits and attracting more customers in the industry where the company operates. Managers adopt efficient business strategic operations and incorporate networking skills capable of adapting to the current situations towards demands for creation of long-term supply chains. Figure 1 shows the ingredients of a successful generic strategy. From the figure, the first thing is to have concerns the strategy that one intends to put in place. Secondly, the managers need to combine corporate strategy and supply chain strategy. Finally, the managers come up with the best alternatives defining the needs for a sustainable supply chain strategy (Cetinkaya, 2011).
Strategy: What, why, and which?
Need for a sustainable supply chain strategy
Link between corporate strategy and supply chain strategy
Figure 1: The generic Strategy-a critical success factor for sustainability business
According to Porter, the strength of a firm falls under two strategies; cost advantage and differentiation (2010). Organizations apply the generic strategies that are not firm based or industry based. To start with, ALDI planned on offering quality products at low cost to its customers. The above generic strategy will allow the company to produce low cost products but of high quality through selling at average industrial prices but earn higher profits above the competitors. The following strategy has enabled the organization to operate at reduced prices, offer simple operations, and incur low costs (Porter, 2010).
The second strategy that ALDI developed was plans to expand the businesses in Australia through establishing stores in different regions. Diversification of stores enables an organization to reach most of its customers and also ensures customers access the products always. An organization is liable for the well being of its customers through support of market promotions and ensuring that customers a have access to their goods and services at all times. ALDI company management realized a need to introduce consumer-driven supply network in order to compete well in packaged goods industry. The management ensures that customers will find whatever product they need in the display shelves (Gartner, 2002). According ALDI Website, the company had developed into 20 countries and operated more than 8,000 stores achieving worldwide sales of 70 billion US dollars (2011). ALDI already found two established retail companies in Australia by the time of entry. The two companies, Woolworth and Coles, controlled almost three-quarter of the Australian market.
Lastly, ALDI Company had a strategy of developing a stiff competitive environment in Australia. Porter developed a generic competitive strategy that aids the organizations on ways of competing among organizations in the same industry. Figure 2 shows a competitive strategy diagram that ALDI made use of to compete among Woolworth and Coles.
Figure 1: Competitive advantage
On the issue of competitive scope, ALDI developed many stores therefore expanding its market scope all over the country. This occurs through cost management strategies and differentiation. On the issue of differentiation, ALDI was unique in many ways in which it performed its activities that made it develop high competitive advantage among other companies. Low cost of operation enables an organization to achieve high profits even if the sale volume is small. In addition, ALDI wishes to adopt marketing structure aiming at attracting all customers from the region. The market structure adopted by an organization acts as an element of undertaking need analysis of the market share. In this, the market structure has to segment the potential market of the organization products for effective analysis of the needs, and formulation of measures that need adoption by the company. In addition, the market structure formulates an effective strategy for undertaking Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Customer (B2C) marketing respectively. Development of a correct distribution strategy is essential for every business. Distribution strategy helps businesses to concentrate and utilize the available resources and opportunities to realize profits and become competitive in the market (Armstrong and Kotler, 2008; Mullins, 2007).
How do the company’s activities support its strategies; which specific choices enable it to implement its strategies?
On establishing its business in Australia, ALDI developed many strategies and followed them strictly. In the process of accomplishing its strategies, ALDI carried out market analysis on Australian market. The Company Managing Director studied the country’s supermarkets and their shopping habits. Through this, the company management came up with a cost effective strategy that made the company offer its products at reduced prices in comparison to others. ALDI tried lowering the price of its products in order to compete favorably with the other companies. The illustration of strength in financial base of ALDI is its ability of to purchase unique products that are not present in the market thus creating a large number of customers. In addition, ALDI deregulation and operation strategy improves the company effectiveness and market share ownership. For the success of a business, strategies and their implementations must be decided by the supply chain management and executed at the corporate, business, and product level (Jacobs, n.d; Gale Bradley & Wood Robert, 1994). ALDI management decided on various strategies but implementation was done by the whole unit.
Moreover, the ability of the company to concentrate on the customer needs, maintenance of high quality of its products and services, and effective participation of employees in service delivery, contributes to market share ownership. This results in gain of revenues from the services that aid in strengthening the financial status of ALDI Company. As such, ALDI ventured into Australia since it has the necessary source of the fund to meet costs of an emerging market. For example, ALDI made use of hard discount by keeping the least stock that made use of fewer stores and few employees. This made the company operate at low costs while achieving high returns on sales. Even though the company faced several misconceptions on going by the hard discount way, it managed to achieve its objectives since by the end of year 2011 the company had made profits worth 70 billion US dollars (Stockdill, 2011).
I an effort to reduce the operation costs, the company supplied dried food as opposed to perishables since they incurred extra costs of refrigeration and observed handling. Through this, the company was assured of their products getting to targeted customers while in a perfect order. The company also employed strategy of availing every product to the customer doorsteps in a way that more sales took place when the amount of time on face-to-face contact more. It is clear that sales and production efficiency both compete for resource. Concentrating too much on production efficiency may lead to low sales opportunities while, on the other hand, giving so much focus on the sales opportunities may mean neglecting production efficiency (Amann & Tiez, 2010). ALDI has a way that seeks to balance between making sales and achieving production efficiency. The total customization allows an environment where free interaction between the clients and the professional service providers is possible. The customer or the seller initiates a conversation and customers have more opportunity to ask a question and get an immediate response. In face-to-face spec, the customers design and get an environment in which they can interact with the service providers but this time the service providers may be professionals or not; unlike in total customization where the product sellers providers are strictly professionals. In tight specs, the service provider performs some already specified routines where no much personal judgment or decision-making is needed. In Loose specs, designs the service provider may make small decisions, and personal judgment is needed (Bangs & David, 2011).
The company also strategized on creating a stiff competition among its rivals. The main reason for success of ALDI among its competitors is the use of an effective distribution strategy. According to Linton and Donnely, exclusive distribution is important for the business targets based on specific consumers due to the nature of the product. On the other hand, extensive distribution strategy does not limit product distribution to certain regions. This strategy is for products that do not have cultural specification and limitation. For instance, the use of a given model of vehicle is not limited to certain regions (2009). Production and operations management entails the decision-making process to ensure that goods and services creation occurs within the scheduled time, according to the stipulated specifications, and at a minimum cost. To facilitate extensive marketing, use of intermediaries is important. These include agents and dealers that are all over the globe. Deployment of various dealers all over the world ensures that the products are available to customers all over the world at every time. This has the effect of placing the business at better competitive grounds in comparison to other businesses (Shim, & Siegel, 1999). ALDI owned about 3.6% of Department Stores Market Share, which is the third best compared to other companies.
The most powerful ALDI competitors in Australia were Woolworth and Coles. In an effort to attract more customers, ALDI operated few stores that offered approximately 1,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs), in comparison with 30,000 owned by Coles and Woolworth outlets. In addition, ALDI restricted all their products according to their brands and sizes offered. ALDI believed in offering a single brand in one size only that customers prefer more. For example, the company offered one brand of orange juice that was available only in a 2-liters bottle. Other supermarkets staged various brands in different sizes that ended up filling the shelves but attracted few customers. ALDI made a market analysis on the most demanded brand placed them on their shelves, collecting a lot of profits from them. The best way to conquer competitors in a market is through offering a product that possesses the best quality and bench-mark it against the leading companies (Webb, 2008).
Another activity practiced by ALDI that contributed to its success in implementing the market strategies involved restricting other competing companies from opening stores near their premises. The company did this through acquiring a lease agreement that contained restricted provisions and any attempt to go against these rules led to prosecution. The Australian government came up with such restrictions, which seemed to favor ALDI and other small scale suppliers since the effort by big companies to phase-out the agreement failed. The situation brought about the supermarket wars in Australia whereby Coles and Woolworths had control of over 50% of all retail outlets but ALDI owned many stores that restricted them from occupying certain shopping centers. Previously, the two faced no competition but after the entry of ALDI, within ten years the impact was so big that even the Australian government intervened. The then Senator congratulated the efforts made by ALDI management in ensuring that they open many stores and take them to strategic locations creating a competitive environment among the food retail companies (Dyer, 2011).
ALDI also managed to implement their marketing strategies through providing brands that contained private labels. Most competitors lacked this strategy and this enabled ALDI to secure more customers as they believed in originality of a given brand. The main advantage of using these private labels was that they assisted in cost savings since they required no marketing budgets as opposed to regular brands. The research conducted by Speedy indicated that the gross margins for private labeled products went as high as 35 percent compared to 25 percent for regular manufacturer’s brands (Speedy, 2010). The use of private labels made ALDI products sell fast in the retail market since customers were assured of their attractive prices and also came from trusted manufacturers. On the other hand, most of ALDI stock came from Australia producers who offered these products at affordable prices. Consumers liked these products since they were home-made and, produced according to their tastes and preferences (ALDI Website, 2011).
In accomplishing these strategies ALDI developed different approaches and each choice turned out successful. To start with the company looked for the entry barriers to the market and destroyed them. This was through cost leadership, differentiation, and focusing on core functions. ALDI needed a lot of changes within the organization in order to achieve its goals. The core company core founders worked very hard in ensuring that all the operations ran accordingly. The issue of storage and production of fast moving goods brought about a lot of concern. The company took an option of storing nonperishable goods since there were limited cold storage rooms that were expensive to maintain. On the other hand, the company developed a good customer loyalty that discouraged potential entrants from tampering with their operations. ALDI ensured that all its products had multiple bar codes to safe cashiers’ time while at the counter. Moreover, the supermarkets had few staffs thus they came up with a strategy that ensured all shopping trolleys returned back to the stores. In achieving this, a buyer inserted a coin that was returned only if the customer gives back the trolley. These system enabled ALDI staffs concentrate more inside the supermarkets and avoid wasting time looking for lost trolleys.
ALDI employed experienced cashiers who had the capability of serving more than 50 items per minute, compared to those from convectional stores who could only manage 15 items. On the other hand, the management ensured no delays at the counter since customers took the responsibility of packing their items thus checkout operators concentrated more on scanning the items (Corsten & Kumar, 2006). Also, the company designated duties of planning, and marketing to line managers allowing the top management to concentrate on new innovations on how to lead the Australian market. A proper distribution strategy is required to execute the distribution plans to realize the marketing objectives. According to (Simchi, Kaminsky and Levi, 2003), different products require different distribution strategies due to their own nature and the nature of the market.
If you were MD Tom Daunt, what threats /risks facing Australia would be of concern to you and why?
Understanding of the market characteristics ensures that a business has full details, which makes it easier to compete in the market. Some of the factors determining market characteristics include the critical risks and the critical success factors. The strategizes in any business look for a risk free business determined by the competitor response to the new business entry, sales projections, suppliers, distributers, and business location. Doing business in Australia requires the entrepreneur to have perfect information on how markets operate and the competition nature of the businesses. ALDI entered Australia in 1990 and in a period of ten years the company has experienced a lot of challenges and threats (Datamonitor, 2010). In the first place, the company faced the threat of competition from the top retailers, Woolworth and Coles. Business organizations always perform an analysis that aids in market entry strategies formulation. The market, cost, competitive advantage and government forms the globalization drivers that the country analysis basis the focus. This depicts threats faced by a business while participating actively in the competitive market. Multinational business analysis, on the other hand, outlines the potentiality of the business to gain from the market participation. The analysis incorporates strategic levers such as marketing, location and product, and organization analysis such as culture, people, management and structure (MacDonald, 2007).
ALDI MD is also faced with the risk of coming up with the policy that restricts other retailers from operating stores in their shopping centers. ALDI top competitors are well established and have the capability of voting out such policies since the government recognizes them. This creates a situation whereby customers shift from ALDI stores and moves to Woolworth and Coles since they possess the necessary technology and customer attracting services. Moore and Pareek claim that, internet support by technology, has led to a cost-effective means of marketing that aims at interacting with the potential market, which could be one individual. Therefore, web marketing is more of direct marketing than mass marketing. In the interaction process of the internet, it involves one individual, although, the individual may gather pals around. This results in conveying the information directly to the individual. In addition, the individual may send the link to friends, and when they open, direct marketing occurs since the target person gets the information very fast (Schwalbe, 2009). This form of marketing leads to development of customer loyalty and obtaining immediate customer feedback (2010). Eventually ALDI becomes grounded and all its stores and supermarkets possessed by other big companies.
ALDI has the lowest number of employees among all companies in Australia. This might pose a threat to the company since the government might require them to hire more staff in order to create employment opportunities. This is a challenging situation bearing in mind that the company’s strategy is to achieve highest profits at lowest cost possible. Employing additional staff increases the cost of production since their salaries must be catered for. Moreover, adding extra staff requires the company to train them so that they fit into the system, which is time consuming and gives other competitors an opportunity to venture into the market and steal away their customers. In a business environment survival for the fittest is the rule since all businesses have a goal of winning the entire market but, the success is determined by the strategies used by individual companies. ALDI defeated their competitors through making use of few workforces, but the government has its rules that require a company to employ people according to its capacity. ALDI being a successful retail company has the capacity of holding more employees.
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