Practical Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781939297136
Author: Simpson
Publisher: HERCHER PUBLISHING,INCORPORATED
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Chapter 1, Problem 3.3Q
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Case Summary:
CP produces movies for distribution worldwide. They have decided to make an orphaned human raised by an alien race story titled NS as their new project. Here, the CP has decided to minimize the production costs by recruiting the best business partners.
As a result, they concentrated on the outside investment from executive production company and long-time partners to raise funds for filming NS movie. MP Company began silent partners as the distributor of NS to theatres. Later, they launch preproduction phase of NS.
Interpretation: Diagrammatic presentation of C Production.
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