In your journal assignment, identify Marriout. Be sure to clearly and adequately address the following:Justify how this company or organization satisfies each of the four criteria listed above.Explain

QSO 690 Journal Guidelines and Rubric The final project for this course asks you to apply all of the operations concepts that you have learned about to an actual company or organization. This will involve evaluating a company’s current operations and conducting analyses using established evaluation tools to offer recommendations that will increase profits, lower costs, promote differentiation and competitiveness, and improve supply chain activities while leveraging techn ology and lean processes to impl ement long -range goals. Prompt: Once you have reviewed the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document (in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course ), s elect a company or organization that meets the following criteria:  Must be from the manufa cturing, service, IT, or health care industries (other industries could be used with instructor approval)  Must be large enough to have multiple product/service lines to consider  Must be in a market that is highly competitive where production costs are always a key concern  Must have potential for and a vision of global expansion See this list of companies to help guide your se lection. Note: In the absence of a suitable real company, you may use a notional or conceptual company for this assignment as long as it mee ts the above criteria. In either case, to avoid any proprietary data issues, the performance data for this assignme nt should not be real data; however, real data could be used if it is publically available. In your journal assignment , identify the company or organization you have selected to research for your final project. Be sure to clearly and adequately address the following :  Justify how this company or organization satisfies each of the four criteria listed above .  Explain how the 10 operations management critical decision areas can be applied to this company or organization .  Outline your initial thoughts on how the final project topics will apply to your selected company or organization . Once your journal assignment is submitted, you will receive instructor feedback and approval of your selected company. Note that formal approval of your company is necessary before beginning work on the first milestone assignment for the final project. Rubric Guidelines for Submission : Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12 -point Times New Roman font, and one - inch margins. Your journal assignment should be about 250 words in length. Please use essay format for your assignment —that is, avoid using just a bulleted list. Critical Elements Proficient (100 %) Needs Improvement ( 80 %) Not Evident (0%) Value Four Criteria Selects an appropriate company or organization and offers satisfactory justification for the decision using the four criteria Selects an appropriate company or organization for final project but does not adequately justify choice using the four criteria Does not select an appropriate company or organization meeting the four criteria 30 The 10 Operations Management Critical Decision Areas Articulates how each of the 10 operations management critical decision areas applies to the selected company or organization Partially applies the 10 operations management critical decision areas to selected company or organization Does not apply the 10 operations management critical decision areas to selected company or organization 30 Application to Selected Company or Organization Clearly and thoroughly demonstrates how each of the final project topics relate s to the company or organization Partially demonstrates how final project topics relate to the selected company or organization Does not apply final project topics to the selected company or organization 30 Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 10 Total 100%