Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

  • When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control?


2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

  • When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control, the company can maximize the profit by selecting a type of food product that can give you the best profit and the location where it will being sold.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

  • When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control, the company can maximize the profit by having a loyalty for your consumer vies-versa.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
  • Most of the companies have customers that have been with them since the beginning.
  • As for the quality, in my interview two the production manager stated that the quality is the main source where the customers can be contributing in the company.
  • For both of the options loyalty and quality have to go together because if the customer enjoys the product.
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

  • The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World's Toughest Marketplace

6.  What other source supports your answer?
  • Source # 45: Way, Jay. "What Steps Do Companies Take to Maximize Profit or Minimize Loss?" Small Business. Smallbusiness.chron.com, 30 Dec. 2015. Web. 05 Feb. 2016. <http://smallbusiness.chron.com/steps-companies-maximize-profit-minimize-loss-41526.html>.
  • Source # 47: Watson, Elaine. "The State of the US Food Retail Market: Slower and Negative Growth... and Rediscovering Walmart." FoodNavigator-USA.com. Foodnavigator-usa, 4 Oct. 2012. Web. 18 Feb. 2016. <http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Markets/The-state-of-the-US-food-retail-market-Slower-and-negative-growth-and-rediscovering-Walmart>.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
  • A food retail product can be maximize while maintaining the quality by having a connection with the customers.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection



1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

  • The most important thing i learned from this interview is that the quality of the product is the main object of the product, also the competition you can deal with it by just making it better in quality and the flavor of it.
2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

  • This interview has been different from the rest of the others because the question are more in the the direction that i want to go to compare to the interview before their were more into the subject of the food industry. 

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval


1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

  • I planning to talk to the different sale representative in the company to obtain the different views that the consumers have with the products. Plus I'm planning also to have a survey printed out ask the customers questions about the product and what they prefer a product needs to have.
  • My other option is to take a online class in the la county library for 32 hours.  
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

  • To show evidence, I will have the surveys signed by the customers and for the talks i will take down note on what we talk about. 
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

  • This component will help me explore more in depth because it will help me understand what the consumer wants and their prioritizes on the product.   
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Independent Component 1

  • LITERAL
    (a) Write: “I, Jose Aceves, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
    (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
    • Consuelo Aceves, who is the production manager in "Don Pedro's Meat", Also my mentor Andres Jaramillo Helped me complete my independent component.
  • (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
  • (d) Explain what you completed. 
    • I've competed on how a product can be best made on its faster time. Also I worked with different products in which other once take more time in being produce,   
  • INTERPRETIVE 
    Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

    • Throughout my 30 hours of the first component I was placed in different areas of the plantation, which that helped me understand the process of how a food product is process. 
  • APPLIED
    How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
    • The component helped me understand that you have to take time so that the result of the numbers come to live. In other words , some products need time to react in the numbers or that the consumers have to react to it. 

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Lesson 2 Reflection


1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

  • The most thing that I'm most proud of is that I made time because a day before I was short in time.

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
  • The reason that I gave this grade to myself is because i wasn't prepare enough compare to the first lesson. Also I was over confident, which I was ready for the presentation, but i was ready. 
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
  • This lesson 2 presentation was sort of the same to the first but you needed to have an activity that will show the students how you got the answer.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
  • The activity wasn't how i planned because it was a disaster, one group wasn't doing it they were doing something else. If i had to change any thing is the activity so that it could be more  enjoyable.
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

  • I was going to input this answer in my first  one but i thought it was to much. For my answer #2 in my senior project is going to be, for a company to maximize their product while maintaining quality control by having less expensive or more organic or have a great promotion for the product you are willing to sale.