In today’s hypercompetitive environment, operations managers who are responsible for managing the production of the firm’s primary goods and services are faced with challenges on multiple fronts. They must continuously enhance the value provided to customers by reducing costs, improving quality and time responsiveness while meeting ever increasing demands for variety. Lean operations and lean thinking is an influential philosophy that has emerged during the last decades and provides operations managers with a powerful toolkit for enhancing the firm’s competitiveness.
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The grading for this mod comes from 2 quizzes and one project. For the quizzes, the materials are pretty much like bizops. You’ll get like 5 questions which are all quantitative, and you’ll answer them using excel. The good thing is the quiz is open book, so you can bring a usb and take a look at your notes and even bring some excel templates. The project was also quite nice. The prof liaised with 2 company, so we get to do a real company project where in the end we’ll get a chance to present to the company reps.
June 17, 2021
