Create a word limit of 3500 words:
• Created in a Word document
• Must contain content page.
• Follows APA, 6th edition referencing style
• Include reference page for cited sources
Your journal paper should contain the following headings:
A. Introduction
a. Executive summery
The company’s background, mission, vision. Basically any related information that you believe would provide an overview of the project.
b. Operations Strategy
Discuss the operations strategy of your chosen organization. Does your chosen organization have a clear operations strategy? How does the operations strategy support or complement the business strategy? How has the operation strategy developed and changed in recent years? If the organization doesn't have an operations strategy can you help them broadly define an operations strategy or give them guidance on what they should do to develop one?
c. Product & Service Design
Discuss the products and services offered by your chosen organization. Do they target the same markets or do they have different offerings catering to different markets? What operations challenges does the product/service mix pose? Can you see evidence of effective screening processes? How good is the organization at developing products and services? If appropriate discuss the product or service design process. Who else is involved in product and service design (e.g. suppliers, customers, retailers)? Do they measure the impact of design and new product development?
d. Quality Management Discuss the quality standards or techniques used by the organization. How could the company improve their approach to quality management? Does the organization have a formal quality system? Would this be appropriate?
B. Literature review (2-3 articles)
C. Methodology
Based on the process or layout you choose discuss in details the following;
• Process Design
Discuss the processes within your chosen organization. From various background reading,consider an alternative approaches to improve a chosen process in the organization. Using various process tools, showcase the chosen process before and after improvement. Discuss the findingfrom the improvement initiative. How would you go about helping the organizationto make improvements?
OR
• Layout Decisions - Innovation andimprovement
How does the companyencourage innovation? Is innovation something that is managed? Outline some of the tools for improvement that you would recommendas being appropriate for the selecte layout in the organization and explain how they could be mplemented. Would you say theorganization is leanor agile?
Basically In the this part you will write about
a. The Process/ Layout that you choose and explain it in details.
b. What tools did you use?
c. The Process flow/ layout design (before and after)
d. Time study (statics and data)
D. Finding
a. Discuss in details the impact of the suggested improvements on the organization’s efficiency.
E. Narrative Learning (500 words)
a. What did you learn by doing the project? (this question can be answered either individually or as a group)
b. How did you apply the theory to the project?
c. What did you discovered?
F. Conclusion
G. References ( APA Style)