OPERATIONS CLUB DEPT OF MGMT, BITS PILANI

Stop Think Format Update

- The Ops quiz

Rules of the Quiz

There are 2 rounds in the quiz Round 1 is a Normal Clockwise pattern round

Round 2 is a Bidding round The Decision Maker

Round 1 RulesNo negatives Each Direct Question gets INR 10,000, Pass gets- INR 5000 Quiz Master Decision is final and binding

May the force be with you

Lets begin . . .

Round 1

Q1.) Doctrines of ?
1.) Continuous efforts to achieve stable and predictable process results (i.e., reduce process variation) are of vital importance to business success. 2.)Manufacturing and business processes have characteristics that can be measured, analyzed, improved and controlled.

3.) Achieving sustained quality improvement requires commitment from the entire organization, particularly from top-level management.

Q2.) Concept ?
Fisher was called as the greatest biologist since Darwin

Fisher is a English statistician, Evolutionary biologist, Eugenicist, and geneticist.

Fisher was also addressed a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science

What was one of his major contribution to the field of statistical hypothesis testing ?

Q3.) ID

Q4.) ID
This Indian company has a great distinction First Indian company to win Deming quality award First Brake company in the world which won this award Which company ?

Q5.) ID
This organization Makes only 1 error in every 6 million transactions Was founded by Mahadeo Havaji Bachche and Ananth Mandra Reddy in the year 1890 It was registered as a charitable trust was registered in 1956. Which Organisation ?

Q6.)Brand ?
Snowman Logistics, an Indian company takes care of the distribution of a Popular Global processed food brand in India.

Name the brand

End of Round 1

Q7.) ID the term

Lawrence Miles conducted traditional cost reduction exercises on a number of companies' products. These led him to coin the term while he was working at General Electric Co. USA in 1947

Which term ?

Q8.)ID
Which was the first tractor company to win the prestigious deming prize for quality achievement

Q9.) ID
1.) 32 recipients of the Nobel Prize, primarily in the fields of economics and physics, have been involved or associated with this organisation at some point in their career.

2.) This organization pioneered major concepts associated with operations research

Round 2- The Strategy Round

Q1.) Company ?
Larry Hillblom was studying law at University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and had little money. He started running courier duty between San Francisco and Los Angeles, picking up packages for the last flight of the day, and returning on the first flight the next morning, up to five times a week. When he graduated, Hillblom decided to go into the courier business himself. He found a niche that no other company was filling, offering to fly bills of lading from San Francisco to Honolulu. By flying the documents ahead of the freight they could be processed prior to vessel arrival and save valuable time after arrival.

By doing so he started one of biggest logistics company. Find the company.

Q2.) Connect

Q3.) ID the airline

Q4.) Find X
X is a simulation game created by a group of professors at MIT Sloan School of Management in early 1960s to demonstrate a number of key principles of supply chain management. The game is played by teams of at least four players, often in heated competition, and takes from one to one and a half hours to complete.

Q5.) ID ?

Q6.) Basis of ?
Seven Bridges of Knigsberg

TSP

Q7.) ID Company Behind this

Thank you