Bus 515 / Bus 515 Assignment
1: Vice President of Operations Management
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:
•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 school-specific format.
Check with your professor for any additional instructions. •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:
•Analyze the
differences between service and manufacturing operations management to identify
planning considerations. •Formulate an operations strategy to conduct
production or service operations. •Explain how an operations strategy impacts
product design and process selection. •Use technology and information resources
to research issues in operations management. •Write clearly and concisely about
operations management using proper writing mechanics.
