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Harvard University Operation Management Presentation

 

Throughout this course we will be examining the 10 strategic operation management principles.  Week 8 you will be submitting a narrated PowerPoint presentation (it does NOT have to be narrated, yet each slide should contain speaker notes of at least 150 words which I will use it to narrate it myself) analyzing your current or previous employer’s alignment with 8 of these principles.  For each principle, you should focus on and include examples and research to support your observations/recommendations:

What is the current approach utilized?

Give a recommendation on how the company could utilize/enhance this approach.

Give a recommendation on how the company could reduce costs.

  • Give a recommendation on how the company could enhance their approach.

The principles you are looking at (choose 8) are:

  • Design of goods and services

Managing quality

  • Process and capacity strategy

Location strategy

  • Layout strategy

Human resource and job design

Supply chain management

Inventory management

Scheduling

  • Maintenance