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Unit 13: Building the Analysis Model

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
11. ……………………….. analysis techniques often generate models with applicability
stretching beyond the needs of the system(s)
12. The key to ……………………. software is captured in domain analysis in that it stresses the
reusability of analysis and design, not code.
13. ……………………. model components are the primary outputs of a domain analysis.
14. OO analysis has much to offer to ……………………. from a technical perspective.
15. The analysis performed for the construction of such a meta-program may be seen as a
third version of the ………………………. of domain analysis.

Caselet Cost Analysis Port to Port

ARREN rock. That is how Hong Kong was explaind over 150 years ago. It has no
natural resources, except one of the finest deep-water ports in the world. Also, one
Bof the busiest, because an estimated $150 billion goods flow in and out of HK.
In terms of total container throughput in 2002, HK scored 19.1 million TEUs (that is, 20-
foot-equivalent unit), while it was only 6.5 millions for Rotterdam and 4.8 millions for
Antwerp. It derives 20 per cent of its GDP and employment from trade sector.
Interesting facts, but the problem is that it is facing competition, from nowhere else but its
own parent, mainland China, observes the latest issue of The McKinsey Quarterly, through
a cost analysis between doing business through HK versus ports in mainland China.

A paper by T. C. Chu, Alan Lau, and Nicolas C. Leung notes that though HK has played a
historical role in linking the manufacturers of greater China with the consumers of
developed nations, its dominance is being eroded by ports of Yantian and Shekou-Chiwan
in southern China’s Pearl River Delta, across the border from Hong Kong. With lower
costs and improved service, those ports are attracting shippers.
A neat study for cost watchers, because there are cost elements that are uniform, and the
ones that vary.

An obvious candidate for HK to trim is trucking costs, “from a typical factory in
Dongguan — the Pearl River Delta’s largest export-oriented manufacturing area.”
For HK it is $370, which is more than double of what it costs to truck to the other two ports.
McKinsey points out that this disparity accounts for “almost two-thirds of HK’s 8 to 9 per
cent cost disadvantage.”

Though there are non-addressable issues such as wage because regulations prevent
mainland China’s truck drivers from entering HK, the authors offer a few suggestions to
tackle at least a chunk of the cost difference.
Vehicles headed to HK from Dongguan make but one round trip a day, while the ones
going to Yantian or Shekou-Chiwan can make two or three. Reason: Long waiting times
at Customs and heavy traffic, consuming almost a third of the total trip time.

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