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Assignment 1: Vice President of Operations, Part 1
Due Week 3 and worth 200 points
Scenario: Imagine that you are the vice president of operations at a
production or service organization. You have noticed that your organization’s
current operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the
organization is presently facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you
must address these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer
immediately.
Select an existing production organization. Analyze the organization’s current
vision, mission, business strategy, operation strategy, supply chain, total
quality management, just-in-time philosophy, forecasting method, statistical
technique, facility location, work design, project life cycle, and project
management. Note: You will need this information in order to complete this
and subsequent assignments.
As you collect the information for Assignment 1 and Assignment 2,
remember that in Assignment 3 you must prepare a presentation for your
Chief Executive Officer.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
1. Evaluate key elements of the selected production
or service organization’s operational efficiency with
its operational strategy. Determine three (3) tasks
that do not align with the operational strategy.
Determine the weaknesses that are evident in each
task.
2. Formulate a new operations strategy for the
selected organization based on the four (4)
competitive priorities (i.e., cost, quality, time, and
flexibility).
3. Analyze both the structure of the competitive
priorities and infrastructure of the production
process. Develop three (3) new enablers that are aligned with the long-term plan of the selected
organization. Evaluate three (3) pros and three (3)
cons of the new enablers.
4. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in
this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman
font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;
citations and references must follow APA or schoolspecific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
2. Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s
name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
3. Analyze the differences between service and
manufacturing operations management to identify
planning considerations.
4. Formulate an operations strategy to conduct
production or service operations.
5. Explain how an operations strategy impacts product
design and process selection.
6. Use technology and information resources to
research issues in operations management.
7. Write clearly and concisely about operations
management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic /
organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click here to
access the rubric for this assignment.
