Operations Management

Business 5016-WA/WB
Closed
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
HZ
Associate professor
1
General
  • Graduate
  • 36 learners; teams of 5
  • 20 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 3/3 project matches
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Any
  • Any
Categories
General Operations Project management
Skills
business consulting research competitive analysis communication
Project timeline
  • January 16, 2022
    Experience start
  • February 26, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 2, 2022
    Experience end
Overview
Details

Through this course, students from Lakehead University have gained a conceptual and practical understanding of the role of operations management played in decision-making processes. Students have covered a broad range of topics widely implemented in real world issues, including the discussion of concepts, theories, basic techniques and cases that will help them in working with your organization.

Students will address a problem of your choosing, and perform an analysis to develop actionable recommendations that will improve efficiency, productivity and quality.

Learner skills
Business consulting, Research, Competitive analysis, Communication
Deliverables

Deliverables will depend on the project and employer type. Examples: analysis of a company's current operation decisions such as process design, location decision etc; suggestions or a solution to a company's existing problems with operations such as quality issues; a report and presentation to summarize the problems and solutions to improve a company's operations.

Project Examples

Possible areas of focus for this project include, but are not limited to:

  • Inventory Management
  • Aggregate Planning
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Material resources planning
  • capacity analysis
  • Process Analysis and improvement
  • Location analysis
  • Layout analysis
  • Quality analysis and improvement
  • product design
Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.

A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.