This course provides a general introduction to operations management. This course aims to familiarize you with the major operational problems and issues that confront managers, and provide you with language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues in order to gain competitive advantage through operations.
This course should be of particular interest to people aspiring a career in designing and managing business processes, either directly (V.P. of Ops, COO) or indirectly (e.g. management consulting). The course should also be of interest to people who manage interfaces between operations and other business functions such as finance, marketing, managerial accounting and human resources.
Finally, a working knowledge of operations, which typically employs the greatest number of employees and requires the largest investment in assets, is indispensable for general managers and entrepreneurs.
* WHAT YOU WILL LEARN*
SECTION 1: Operations Strategy: What Makes for Good Operations
SECTION 2: Managing Processes
SECTION 3: Section 3: Lean Operations
SECTION 4: Managing Service Operations
SECTION 5: Supply Chain Management and Wrap Up
*FEATURES*
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Instructed By: Professor Gad Allon
Gad Allon is a professor of managerial economics and decision science at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He teaches the core operations management and elective on operations strategy.
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