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QSO 690 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
The final project for this course is the creation of a business
development plan. In this program, you have learned that every
company or organization has an
operations function, whether it is in the manufacture of goods or
the delivery of services. Ultimately, the purpose of operations
management is to identify ways
to promote company values that strengthen organizational
performance through cost-savings opportunities, customer
service improvements, increased
manufacturing efficiency and supply-chain logistics, continued
competitiveness within the industry, and long-term
sustainability efforts.
This project will demonstrate your ability to assess your
selected organization’s or company’s operational processes, and
to make meaningful recommendations
that balance business sustainability with quality-driven, lean
operations for competing in the global marketplace. You will
identify opportunities for improving
business operations and strengthening organizational
performance. These opportunities could be related to internal
capabilities development, divestiture,
outsourcing, or a combination of the three. In addition, you will
examine risk mitigation and the long-range viability of the
selected organization or company.

The project is divided into three milestones, which will be
submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold
learning and ensure quality final
submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules
Three, Five, and Seven. The final project will be submitted in
Module Nine. Remember that you
final submission will include a conclusion that summarizes the
milestone work into a closing section.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the
following course outcomes:
determining business development and cost-savings
opportunities
customer cost, quality, and satisfaction expectations through
utilization of global
benchmarks
infrastructure costs while supporting current business
operations
or opportunities to
utilize technology for reducing costs, increasing production, and
delivering consistently
superior products or services
and the planet to mitigate risk and ensure corporate viability

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Prompt
Select a company or organization that meets the following
criteria:
industries (other industries could be used with instructor
approval)
ge enough to have multiple product/service lines
to consider
production costs are always a key concern
See this list of companies to help guide your selection.
Note: In the absence of a suitable real company, you may use a
notional or conceptual company for this assignment as long as it
meets the above
criteria. In either case, to avoid any proprietary data issues, the
performance data for this assignment should not be real data;
however, real data could
be used if it is publically available.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Aligning Resources to Market Opportunities
A. Assess your company’s or organization’s internal
capabilities and limitations with respect to its current
operations. In your assessment, include
human, organizational, and infrastructure factors.
B. Based on the company’s or organization’s internal
capabilities and limitations, what expansion or business
development opportunities can you
identify? How will these opportunities align to the current
domestic and global markets? Your response should consider
the political, economic,
social, and technical factors that affect the company.
C. Based on the company’s or organization’s internal
capabilities and limitations, what cost-savings opportunities can
you identify? How will these
opportunities align to the current domestic and global markets?
Your response should consider the political, economic, social,
and technical
factors that affect the company.
D. Describe the external threat factors in the domestic and
global markets that the company or organization should
consider when developing
these business development and cost-savings opportunities.
Your response should consider the political, economic, social,
and technical factors
that affect the company.

II. Managing the Quality Imperative for Global Competition
A. Based on your assessment of the company’s or organization’s
internal capabilities and limitations and the opportunities you
identified, select
total quality management (TQM) means that the company or
organization could employ to strengthen organizational
performance. Justify your
selection.
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B. Based on your assessment of the company’s or organization’s
internal capabilities and limitations and the opportunities you
identified, select an
appropriate series from an ISO 9000 family of standards that the
company or organization could employ to strengthen
organizational
performance. Justify your selection.
C. Based on the TQM and ISO 9000 benchmarks that you
selected, recommend global best practices that strengthen
organizational performance
by ensuring quality, cost containment, and customer satisfaction
for the company or organization. Justify your recommendations.
III. Lean Practices in the Workplace and the Supply Chain
A. Determine opportunities for the company or organization to

employ lean techniques to strengthen organizational
performance while
supporting current business operations. What is the potential
outcome of using these lean techniques?
B. Determine opportunities for the company or organization to
use just-in-time (JIT) practices, such as safety stock, to reduce
inventory costs while
outcome of using these JIT practices?
C. Determine opportunities for the company or organization to
use optimized production technology (OPT) and theory of
constraints (TOC)
principles to reduce costs and increase throughput while
outcome of using these
OPT and TOC principles?
IV. Technology for Competitive Differentiation
A. Evaluate current business operations in one segment of the
enterprise to identify performance gaps relative to cost,
production, and delivery of
products or services.
B. Based on the performance gaps you identified, describe
specific opportunities that would benefit from technology
enhancement or technical
solutions. Ensure that your response focuses on using
technology to reduce costs, increase production, and deliver
consistently superior
products or services.
C. How can the technology you described be utilized to mitigate

the performance gap? Ensure that your response focuses on
using technology to
reduce costs, increase production, and deliver consistently
superior products or services.
V. Sustainability in the Value Chain
A. Assess the sustainability of your company or organization
with respect to profits, people, and the planet. You might
consider questions such as
these in your response: What are the challenges to
sustainability? What sustainable business practices does your
company or organization
already employ? Do you see any gaps between current business
operations and sustainability?
B. What alternative business practices could the company or
organization employ to mitigate risks to business operations
while enhancing
sustainability?
C. How can the company or organization implement the
alternative business practices while ensuring long-term
viability?
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Milestones
Milestone One: Case Analysis

In Module Three, you will begin the process of creating a
business development plan by submitting a case analysis of your
selected organization or company. In
this submission, you will assess and describe your
organization’s or company’s internal organization capabilities
and recommend strategies for optimizing
production based on a detailed analysis of existing processes,
resources (facilities, human resources, equipment/machines,
supply chain/inventory) and strategic
business planning (SBP) goals. This milestone will be graded
with the Milestone One Rubric.
Milestone Two: Lean Techniques and Forecasting Analysis
In Module Five, you will continue the process of creating a
business development plan for your selected organization or
company. To accomplish this, you must
understand how lean practices, continuous improvement
throughout the organization, and technological advancements
create product differentiation resulting
in a competitive advantage for the company. This milestone will
be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.
Milestone Three: Business Operations Opportunities Analysis
In Module Seven, you will evaluate current business operations
for opportunities to utilize project management, technology, and
project management tools
along with other techniques to reduce costs, increase
production, incorporate sustainability principles, and deliver
consistently superior products and services
using quantitative tools and techniques. This milestone will be
graded with the Milestone Three Rubric.
Final Submission: Business Development Plan
In Module Nine, you will submit your completed final project.
In the project, you will assess your organization’s or company’s
sustainability efforts, focusing on

how they mitigate risks and how their efforts promote long-term
viability. It should be a complete, polished artifact of the three
milestone pieces, containing all
of the critical elements of the final project with an APA-
formatted listing of all references used in the project. All
instructor feedback gained throughout the
course should be incorporated into the final submission.
Conclude your plan by applying the knowledge you have gained
over the course of the project and
sharing overall insights from your own professional experience
as they relate to your company. This submission will be graded
with the Final Project Rubric.
Deliverables
Milestone Deliverable Module Due Grading
One Case Analysis Three Graded separately; Milestone One
Rubric
Two Lean Techniques and Forecasting Analysis Five Graded
separately; Milestone Two Rubric
Three Business Operations Opportunities Analysis Seven
Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric
Final Project Submission: Business
Development Plan
Nine Graded separately; Final Project Rubric

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Final Project Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your submission should be 15–20
pages in length and should use double spacing, 12-point Times
New Roman font, and one-inch
margins. You should use current APA style guidelines for your
citations and reference list. At least 10 outside information
sources are required, although many
students might find that more are necessary to satisfy the
requirements of the project. Please adhere to the SNHU
Academic Honesty Policy as you develop this
project.
As necessary, copy and paste any data analysis from Excel into
your Word document for submission. You may include your
original Excel documents as
supplementary material if you believe this will strengthen your
contribution.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs
Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Aligning Resources
to Market
Opportunities:
Internal
Capabilities and
Limitations
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and

assessment is exceptionally clear,
detailed, and contextualized,
demonstrating a nuanced
understanding of the company’s
or organization’s internal
organizational capabilities and
limitations
Assesses the company’s or
organization’s internal
capabilities and limitations with
respect to current operations,
including human, organizational,
and infrastructure factors
Assesses the company’s or
respect to current operations, but
assessment does not include
human, organizational, or
infrastructure factors or is
cursory or inaccurate
Does not assess the company’s or
respect to current operations
4.8
Aligning Resources
to Market
Opportunities:
Business

Development
Opportunities
response demonstrates keen
insight into relationship between
internal organizational
capabilities and limitations and
business development
opportunities
Identifies appropriate expansion
or business development
opportunities and explains how
opportunities align to current
domestic and global markets,
basing response on the
company’s or organization’s
internal capabilities and
limitations and including political,
economic, social, and technical
factors that affect the company
Identifies expansion or business
development opportunities and
explains how opportunities align
to current domestic and global
markets, but opportunities are
not appropriate based on the
limitations or political, economic,
social, and technical factors that
affect the company

Does not identify expansion or
business development
opportunities
4.8
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Aligning Resources
to Market
Opportunities:
Cost-Savings
Opportunities
insight into relationship between
internal organizational
cost-savings opportunities
Identifies appropriate cost-
savings opportunities and
explains how opportunities align
to current domestic and global
markets, basing response on the

limitations and including political,
economic, social, and technical
factors that affect the company
Identifies cost-savings
opportunities and explains how
opportunities align to current
domestic and global markets, but
opportunities are not appropriate
based on the company’s or
capabilities and limitations or
political, economic, social, and
technical factors that affect the
company
Does not identify cost-savings
opportunities
4.8
Aligning Resources
to Market
Opportunities:
External Threat
Factors
description demonstrates
nuanced understanding of
developing business
development and cost-savings

opportunities
Describes external threat factors
in domestic and global markets
that the company or organization
should consider when developing
business development and cost-
savings opportunities, including
political, economic, social, and
technical factors that affect the
company
Describes external threat factors
in domestic and global markets
that the company or organization
should consider when developing
business development and cost-
savings opportunities but does
not include political, economic,
social, and technical factors that
affect the company, or
description has gaps in clarity or
detail
Does not describe external threat
factors in domestic and global
markets that the company or
organization should consider
when developing business
development and cost-savings
opportunities
4.8
Managing the
Quality Imperative

for Global
Competition: TQM
response demonstrates nuanced
understanding of utilization of
global benchmarks
Selects and justifies appropriate
TQM means the company or
organization could employ to
strengthen organizational
performance, basing response on
assessment of the company’s or
the identified opportunities
Selects and justifies TQM means
the company or organization
could employ, but selection is not
appropriate for strengthening
organizational performance, or
response is not based on
Does not select and justify TQM
means the company or
organization could employ
6.4

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Managing the
Quality Imperative
for Global
Competition: ISO
9000
understanding of utilization of
global benchmarks
Selects and justifies appropriate
series from ISO 9000 family of
standards that the company or
performance, basing response on
Selects and justifies series from
ISO 9000 family of standards that
the company or organization
could employ, but selection is not
appropriate for strengthening

organizational performance, or
response is not based on
Does not select and justify series
from ISO 9000 family of
standards that the company or
organization could employ
6.4
Managing the
Quality Imperative
for Global
Competition:
Global Best
Practices
best practice recommendations
demonstrate keen insight into
meeting customer expectations
through utilization of global
benchmarks
Recommends and justifies
appropriate global best practices
that strengthen organizational
performance by ensuring quality,
cost containment, and customer

satisfaction for company or
organization
Recommends and justifies global
best practices, but practices are
not appropriate for strengthening
organization performance by
ensuring quality, cost
containment, and customer
satisfaction for company or
organization
Does not recommend and justify
global best practices
6.4
Lean Practices in
the Workplace
and the Supply
Chain: Lean
Techniques
understanding of utilizing lean
techniques and practices while
supporting current business
operations
Determines appropriate
opportunities for the company or
organization to employ lean
techniques to strengthen

organizational performance while
operations and explains potential
outcome of using these lean
techniques
Determines opportunities for the
company or organization to
employ lean techniques to
performance and explains
potential outcome of using these
lean techniques, but techniques
are not appropriate for
operations
Does not determine
opportunities for company or
organization to employ lean
techniques to strengthen
organizational performance
6.4
Lean Practices in
the Workplace
and the Supply
Chain: JIT
Practices
understanding of utilizing JIT

practices while supporting
current business operations
organization to use JIT practices
to reduce inventory costs while
outcome of using these JIT
practices
company or organization to use
JIT practices to reduce inventory
costs and explains potential
outcome of using these JIT
practices, but opportunities are
not appropriate for supporting
Does not determine
organization to use JIT practices
to reduce inventory costs
6.4
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Lean Practices in
the Workplace
and the Supply

Chain: OPT and
TOC Principles
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
understanding of utilizing OPT
and TOC principles while
operations
organization to use OPT and TOC
principles to reduce costs and
increase throughput while
outcome of using these OPT and
TOC principles
company or organization to use
OPT and TOC principles to reduce
costs and increase throughput
and explains potential outcome
of using these OPT and TOC
principles, but opportunities are
not appropriate for supporting
Does not determine
opportunities for company or
organization to use OPT and TOC
principles to reduce costs and
increase throughput

6.4
Technology for
Competitive
Differentiation:
Current Business
Operations
evaluation demonstrates
Evaluates current business
operations in one segment of the
enterprise to identify
performance gaps relative to
cost, production, and delivery of
products or services
Evaluates current business
operations in one segment of the
enterprise to identify
products or services, but
evaluation is cursory or
inaccurate
Does not evaluate current
business operations in one
segment of enterprise to identify

6.4
Technology for
Competitive
Differentiation:
Technology
Enhancement
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
insight into utilizing technology
for reducing costs, increasing
production, and delivering
consistently superior products or
services
Describes specific opportunities
that would benefit from
technology enhancement or
technical solutions, basing
response on identified
performance gaps and focusing
on using technology to reduce
costs, increase production, and
deliver consistently superior
Describes specific opportuni ties
that would benefit from

technology enhancement or
technical solutions, but response
lacks detail or clarity, is not based
on identified performance gaps
or does not focus on using
technology to reduce costs,
increase production, and deliver
services
Does not describe specific
opportunities that would benefit
from technology enhancement or
technical solutions
6.4
Technology for
Competitive
Differentiation:
Performance Gap
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into utilizing technology
for reducing costs, increasing
production, and delivering
services
Explains how previously
described technology can be
utilized to mitigate performance
gap, focusing explanation on

using technology to reduce costs,
services
Explains how previously
gap, but explanation lacks clarity,
detail, or focus on using
technology to reduce costs,
services
Does not explain how previously
gap
6.4
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Sustainability in
the Value Chain:
Sustainability
assessment demonstrates

relationship between business
sustainability and profits, people,
and the planet
Assesses sustainability of
company or organization with
respect to profits, people, and
the planet
Assesses sustainability of
the planet, but assessment is
cursory or inaccurate
Does not assess sustainability of
the planet
6.4
Sustainability in
the Value Chain:
Mitigate Risks
description demonstrates deep
understanding of relationship
between business sustainability
and risk mitigation
Describes appropriate alternative
business practices the company

or organization could employ to
mitigate risks to business
operations while enhancing
sustainability
Describes alternative business
practices the company or
operations, but practices are not
appropriate for enhancing
sustainability or description lacks
clarity or detail
Does not describe alternative
business practices the company
or organization could employ to
operations
6.4
Sustainability in
the Value Chain:
Long-Term
Viability
description demonstrates deep
understanding of relationship
between business sustainability
and corporate viability
Explains how the company or

organization can implement the
alternative business practices
while ensuring long-term viability
Explains how the company or
organization can implement the
alternative business practices
while ensuring long-term
viability, but explanation has gaps
in clarity or detail
Does not explain how the
company or organization can
implement the alternative
business practices while ensuring
long-term viability
6.4
Articulation of
Response
Submission is free of errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, and organization
and is presented in a professional
and easy to read format
Submission has no major errors
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
that negatively impact readability

and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors
that prevent understanding of
ideas
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Total 100%
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CRJ322 – Human Trafficking, A Hidden Crime
Unit 6 Assignment: Combating Human Trafficki ng
Due: 11:59 pm EST, Sunday of Unit 6
Total Points: 100
Overview:
In this week’s assignment, you will elaborate on your selected
topic for your Research Paper and

discuss whether or not the type of human trafficking you chose
is being combated and if those
accused of this crime are being prosecuted. This is the 4th of
the 5 assignments which will make up
your Research Paper.
Instructions:
Write a paper answering the following questions, giving a
detailed explanation for each:
• Describe if your topic is being investigated and prosecuted.
• Define which levels of government are involved in the
investigation and prosecution of this
crime: local, state, federal, and/or international.
• What is being done to prevent this type of human trafficking
from occurring presently or in the
future?
• Do you think local and/or state law enforcement offices are
providing enough resources to
successfully combat this issue?
• Do you think law enforcement can do more, locally, statewide,
nationally and internationally to
combat this issue?

Requirements:
• 1-2 pages, double-spaced, not including title or reference
pages.
• Must follow APA formatting guidelines, including: title page,
running heads, page numbers, 12
point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, in-text citations
and reference page.
• The paper must include at least three resources.
• All work must be your original work.
Be sure to read the criteria, by which your paper/project will be
evaluated, before you write,
and again after you write.
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Evaluation Rubric for Combating Human Trafficking
Assignment

Criteria Deficient
Needs
Improvement
Proficient
Exemplary
(0-24) (25-30) (31-35) (36-40)
Content Missing or
inadequate
explanation of
combating human
traffic efforts.
Explanation of
combating
human traffic
efforts are
present. Details
are vague or

confusing.
Explanation of
combating
human traffic
efforts are
present. Many to
all details are
related to and
support the topic.
Explanation of
combating human
traffic efforts are
present. Details
are clear and well-
developed.
(0-9) (10-11) (12-13) (14-15)
Resources No resources are
used to support

the assignment or
evidence is not
analyzed.
1-2 resources
are used to
support the
assignment.
Evidence may
not be fully
analyzed or may
not have a clear
connection to the
topic.
At least 2
resources are
used to support
the assignment.
Evidence is

analyzed and has
a clear
connection to the
topic.
3 or more
resources are
used to support
the assignment.
Analysis of
evidence is clear
and well
developed. All
evidence has a
clear connection
to the topic.
Paper
Length
Less than 1 page

in length.
1 page in length. 1-2 pages in
length.
More than 2
pages in length.
APA
Formatting
There are more
than 3 APA
formatting errors.
There are 2-3
APA formatting
errors.
There are 1-2
APA formatting
errors.
There are no APA
formatting errors.

Spelling and
Grammar
There are more
than 3 spelling
and/or
grammatical
mistakes.
There are 2-3
spelling and/or
grammatical
mistakes
There are 1-2
spelling and/or
grammatical
mistakes
There are no
spelling or
grammatical

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