Operations Management
AssessmentTitle:
Challenges to Business Success an Operations Management Focus
Type ofAssessment:Essay
Length: 3000 words
Task :
Over recent years, a number of key challenges have become very significant to
Operations Managers. Six of these concepts are:
• Changing Technologies
• Continued Globalization of markets including 1st and 2nd world entrants.
• Changing customer expectations
• Changing job designs
• Quality management
• Global manufacturing
Your task is to:
1. Identify a business you think is interesting and briefly discuss how each of
the above challenges might impact that business in the future. (suggested
minimum 1200 words)
2. Choose a minimum of three of the following areas of Operations
Management that you think are likely to most impact the success of your
chosen business and justify your selection of each. (suggested minimum
2000 words)
. Goods and Service design
. Process Selection, Design and Analysis
. Facility and Work Design
. Supply Chain Design
. Capacity Management
. Managing Inventories
. Resource Management
. Quality Management
NOTE:
Your work should:
1. help the reader to understand how each concept interrelates relates with
the challenges and
2. How, if properly applied, they will help any organisation to be more
successful.
Referencing: all the references should match with the content inside and should open while browsing the links.