Patrick Mergenthaler

Both Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are extremely useful for organizations. As many before me have stated, I do not believe that one is significantly important than the other, however, I do believe that some organizations would benefit more from one or the other depending on what the organization…[Read more]

I would have to agree with many others in thinking that online shopping has been very innovative yet disruptive to brick and mortar stores. Like the way amazon- which we have talked about extensively in class- is so fast and convenient that many people have no need to leave the house to get a hold of nearly any item you could imagine. It has…[Read more]

I am a business management major, and plan to move into the field of project management. When working on a construction project, it is crucial that all the numbers and data recorded are accurate and make sense, otherwise a few small flaws could end up costing the contractor a lot of time and money. I have seen it before when businesses under-bid…[Read more]

As most everyone has stated, decision trees can be applicable to almost any situation where any kind of decision making is involved. Personally, a situation where I could have used a decision tree to better organize and find direction was when I was building my race car. There were many times where I purchased items on a whim that I later realized…[Read more]

At my place of work, working in the field of architectural sheet metal, implementing swimlane diagrams or ERDs could be a massive improvement in efficiency of the company. We are a small business that takes on a ton of work, so it is not always easy to keep up with communication between the office, the shop where we fabricate, and the customer. If…[Read more]

I would say the part that stood out to me the most during the video would be the estimation that the amount of information that could be found in one weeks worth of the New York Times is greater than the amount of information someone in the 18th century would come across in a lifetime. If that is even close to true, then anyone with access to the…[Read more]