1. Management may choose to build up capacity in anticipation of demand or in response to developing demand. Cite the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches.2. Compare McDonald’s old and current processes for making hamburgers. How valid is McDonald’s claim that the new process will produce fresher hamburgers for the customer? Comparing McDonald’s current process to the process used by Burger King and Wendy’s , which process will appear to produce the freshest hamburgers?3. Recently some operations management experts have begun insisting that simply minimizing process velocity, which actually means minimizing the time it takes to process something through the system , is the single most important measure for improving a process . Can you think of a situation in which it might not be true?
