Choose the key topic from the textbook readings that you wish to research and discuss further.

Choose the key topic from the textbook readings that you wish to research and discuss further.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Forum 2

 

Choose the key topic from the textbook readings that you wish to research and discuss further.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Forum 3

 

Choose the key topic from the textbook readings that you wish to research and discuss further.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Forum 4

 

Choose the key topic from the textbook readings that you wish to research and discuss further.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Integrative Learning Project – Organizational Setting

 

In at least 2 pages, describe the mission of your organization (e.g., what product or service is provided, to what intended markets, and how the product or service is distinct from those offered by competitors), who your customers are (internal and external), what value you add to the organization (how you help the organization achieve its mission), and what role Christianity currently plays in this organization.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Integrative Learning Project – Annotated Bibliography

 

Create an annotated bibliography with at least 15 scholarly sources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Integrative Learning Project – Outline

 

You will create a well-developed outline including all paper headings and subheadings. The outline must include at least 3 headings with at least 2 subheadings each.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Integrative Learning Project – Final

 

You will submit a final version of your Integrative Learning Project. It must be at least 16 pages and incorporate at least 15 sources. Review the Integrative Learning Project – General Instructions document to ensure you have included all major aspects of the project.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Integrative Learning Project – Organizational Setting

 

INTEGRATIVE LEARNING PROJECT – GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

 

For the Integrative Learning Project (ILP), you will research a particular, authentic company/industry or a fabricated company/industry. The ILP must be written in current APA format and must include the following major elements:

 

•             Title Page

 

•             Table of Contents

 

•             Abstract

 

•             Organizational Setting

 

•             Integration of Chapter Concepts to the Organizational Setting

 

o             Select 8 different key concepts from the textbook that seem to be most applicable to your organizational setting. Some examples of key concepts include supply chain management, Six Sigma, innovation, etc. Provide an in-depth discussion of each of your chosen key concepts and its application to your organizational setting.

 

?             For each concept, provide a comprehensive description, what benefit it may offer to your organization, and what needs to be done in order to successfully implement this topic into your organization.

 

?             For each concept, integrate appropriate biblical references. Explain how these concepts magnify God’s plan for you.

 

o             This section of your project requires at least 14 pages of graduate-level content and analysis.

 

•             References: You must include at least 15 scholarly sources formatted in current APA style. Each reference must be current, having been published within the last 3 years, or, if older, must contribute important information relevant to historical background.

 

•             Appendices: Include at least 3 well-developed and professional documents. Appendices often include information that is somewhat confidential, detail-oriented, and/or tends to change often. Some examples include:

 

o             Action Planning: This specifies objectives, responsibilities, and timelines for completion of objectives.

 

o             Description of Strategic Planning Process Used: This describes the process used to develop the plan, who was involved, the number of meetings, any major lessons learned to improve planning, etc.

 

o             Strategic Analysis Data: This includes information generated during the external analysis (e.g., environmental scan) and internal analysis (e.g., SWOT analysis). It also includes a list of strategic issues identified during these analyses.

 

o             Goals for Board and Chief Executive Officer: Goals of the board and CEO must be directly aligned with goals identified during strategic planning. This appendix will list goals for the board and can also include recommendations for redesigning board committees associated with strategic goals. These can be used (along with the CEO job description) to form the basis for performance evaluations of the CEO.

 

o             Budget Planning: This depicts both the resources as well as the required funding for obtaining and using the resources needed to achieve the strategic goals. Budgets are often depicted for each term of the year of the strategic plan.

 

o             Operating Plan: This describes the major goals and activities to be accomplished over the coming fiscal year.

 

o             Financial Reports: These include last year’s budget (with estimated expenses and the actual amounts spent), this year’s current budget (again, with estimated amounts and actual amounts spent), a balance sheet (or, in the case of a nonprofit organization, a statement of financial position), an income statement (or, in the case of a nonprofit organization, a statement of financial activities), etc.

 

o             Monitoring and Evaluation of Plan: This includes criteria for monitoring and evaluating as well as the responsibilities and frequencies of monitoring the implementation of the plan.

 

o             Communication of Plan: This describes the actions that will be taken to communicate the plan and/or portions of it and describes to whom the plan will be communicated.

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Quiz 1

 

Question 1Which of the following uses techniques from Toyota Production System and JIT to eliminate waste and non-value-added activities?

 

Question 2What are the two trends in the range of accommodation to customers’ needs?

 

Question 3A purposeful collection of people, objects, and procedures for operating within an environment is known as a(n):

 

Question 4Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of a service?

 

Question 5Learning how to plan and control project activities to meet specifications for performance, schedule, and cost are among the subjects of:

 

Question 6Bartmess and Cerny (1996) identify three elements of a core capability that hinders imitation; which of the following is NOT one of these elements?

 

Question 7Inputs in a bank’s production system may include:

 

Question 8Customization occurs when

 

Question 9Which of the following is NOT a mass customization strategy?

 

Question 10A type of output that commonly results from a production system is:

 

 

 

BUSI650 Operations Management

 

Quiz 2

 

Question 1Departments within a stage 2 organization may exhibit a stage 3 orientation, thereby upgrading the organization to a stage 3 categorization.

 

Question 2Some benefits of the balanced scorecard include:

 

Question 3Which of the following is not a problem commonly found when monitoring?

 

Question 4Which of the following statements is false?

 

Question 5When calculating ranges for particular variables, it is mathematically possible to obtain negative variables.

 

Question 6Which one of the following perceptual measures corresponds to a company that is in the internally supportive stage of operational effectiveness?

 

Question 7As control involves both mechanistic and human elements, it is one of the manager’s most difficult tasks. Which of the following is the best answer about desirable characteristics of control systems?

 

Question 8Among the best-known companies that use customer satisfaction surveys to evaluate service quality in various industries is:

 

Question 9Which of the following characteristics makes it easier to measure the quality of a service, relative to that of a product or facilitating good?

 

Question 10Benchmarking is a process that helps compare a company against its competitors on a variety of relevant indicators.

 

 

 

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Quiz 3

 

Question 1All of the following are important outputs of project scheduling, except:

 

Question 2Which of the following project categories might lead to the other project categories?

 

Question 3Duration of critical path – path duration = __________?

 

Question 4According to Goldratt, to complete a project on time, the highest priority should be given to the:

 

Question 5Which of the following statement(s) concerning probabilities of completion is/are incorrect?

 

Question 6The project life cycle typically has a stretched-s or an exponential form.

 

Question 7The amount of flexibility the project manager has in terms of starting and completing an activity is referred to as its:

 

Question 8The amount of flexibility the project manager has in terms of starting and completing an activity is referred to as its slack.

 

Question 9Among the reasons for the growth in project operations we find:

 

Question 10Project charters should contain some level of information regarding which of the following elements:

 

 

 

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Quiz 4

 

Question 1Yield management, also known as revenue management is the amount of output of acceptable quality emerging from a production system compared with the amount that entered it.

 

Question 2_________ means deciding which jobs to assign to which work centers.

 

Question 3Obtaining lower unit costs through the use of larger facilities is called economies of scope.

 

Question 4Uncertain waiting is longer than known, finite waiting.

 

Question 5Rough-cut capacity planning projects job orders and demands for materials into requirements for equipment, work force, and facility to find total capacity of each over the planning horizon.

 

Question 6Which of the following are measures of capacity in terms of outputs and inputs produced for the corresponding production system?

 

Question 7When a resource is scheduled as if it had unlimited capacity to handle any and all jobs, its schedule is called

 

Question 8In planning the long-term capacity of an operation, one should take into account:

 

Question 9The learning curve is the ability programmed in robots to increase their productive capacity through learning.

 

Question 10In the allocation of capacity, overbooking is an attempt to reduce costs through better schedule management.

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