1. From your personal experiences, discuss how the various business disciplines (operations, marketing, finance, etc.) work together to achieve a company's goals. Can you provide a "real world" example of the results when these functions do not work in concert?

2. Define operations management. What does it mean to you? Provide 1 or 2 "real world" examples of operations management with which you are familiar, illustrating the role of Operations Management in your examples.