Postgraduate Course: Operations Improvement (EMBA) (CMSE11227)
Course Outline
School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | The aims of this course are
- to provide an integrated and coherent introduction to the major aspects of modern Operations Management for students with limited operations management experience;
- to provide students with operations management expertise an opportunity to share it with their co-students;
- to provide students with an appreciation of the inter-relation between Operations Management and the other functional management disciplines;
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Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 24,
Summative Assessment Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
54 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% course work |
Feedback |
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No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
On completion of this course students should be able to
- analyse an organisation as a network of transformation processes;
- outline and critically compare alternative approaches to operations improvement, including the Business Excellence Model, the use of Balanced Scorecards, the construction of management science models and the implementation of innovative process technologies;
- discuss the linkages between the design of product and processes and the operations system;
- describe the concept of Supply Chain Management and the organisational and technological means available for co-ordinating material flows across inter-organisational boundaries;
- describe elements in Technology Management and be able to discuss the practical use of the elements;
- be able to relate operations strategy to broader concepts of business policy covered in other courses;
- be able to integrate the concepts covered in the course and relate them to current real-world organisational scenarios, suggesting possible methods for operational improvement;
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Mr Ian Graham
Tel: (0131 6)50 3797
Email: Ian.Graham@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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