Study plan
Operations Management Study Progression
Create a 4-6 lesson progression through the Operations Management textbook that moves from foundations to organization-wide initiatives, then to processes, projects, and individual application.
Lessons in this plan
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Operations Management Foundations: Decisions, Trade-offs, and Risk
Explain core operations management decision making by evaluating trade-offs, total cost considerations, and risk as probability multiplied by cost.
- 2 Organization-Wide Improvement: Value Chains, Brainstorming, and Cross-Functional Initiatives Describe operations from a value chain perspective and use structured brainstorming and stakeholder thinking to frame organization-wide improvement efforts.
- 3 Process Analysis and Improvement Prepare a process flow analysis, assess existing processes with criteria, identify pitfalls in process change, and apply the theory of constraints and five focusing steps to improve throughput.
- 4 Project Management for Operational Change Define core project elements including statement of work components, key stakeholders, critical path, and Gantt chart use for communicating project status.
- 5 Individual Application: Managing Your Own Work as a Project Apply operations and project ideas to personal productivity by treating work as projects, identifying critical activities, and using rolling wave planning and a weekly planning worksheet.