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Operations (BUSA90227)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
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Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | January April October September |
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In fiercely competitive global and dynamic environments, companies face increasing pressures to exceed customer expectations along multiple performance measures, such as cost, quality, flexibility and innovativeness. To outperform their competitors, many firms make the mistake of mimicking their rivals, rather than focusing on developing the organizational capabilities that competitors will find difficult to match over the long term. And although operations are at the core of a firm’s value adding activities, few firms have sought to build a sustainable competitive advantage around these capabilities.
Operations deals with the design, management and continuous improvement of business processes. It aims at providing some of the core concepts in operations that are essential for leveraging a firm’s operational capabilities to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This course provides a logical and rigorous approach to plan and control process structure and managerial levers to achieve desired business process performance.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Analyse real-world processes and evaluate their consistency with the firm strategy.
- Apply process analysis techniques for identification of bottlenecks and suggest approaches for de-bottlenecking.
- Identify managerial levers for controlling inventory and apply simple analytical models for estimating needed safety stock for a desired service level.
- Identify the drivers of variability in processes and propose solutions to mitigate its ill effects using simple queuing theory concepts.
- Use robust statistical process control techniques to ensure capability and control of a process.
- Apply six-sigma and lean concepts to a wide range of business processes.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90480 | Leadership |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90481 | Social Responsibility and Ethics |
September (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90060 | Data Analysis |
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90193 | Managerial Economics |
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
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12.5 |
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
Gerardo Berbeglia:
- Contribution to class learning (5%)
- Throughout subject
- 4 quizzes (20%)
- 15 minutes each
- Throughout subject
- 2 x syndicate case assignments (30%)
- Equivalent to 300 words per student per assignment
- Week 4 and Week 8
- Final examination (45%)
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- hurdle requirement
- 3 hours
- End of subject
Kannan Sethuraman:
- Contribution to class learning (10%)
- Throughout subject
- 4 quizzes (20%)
- 15 minutes each
- Throughout subject
- 2 x syndicate case assignments (25%)
- Equivalent to 300 words per student per assignment
- Week 4 and Week 8
- Final examination (45%)
-
- hurdle requirement
- 3 hours
- End of subject
EMBA:
- Class Contribution (15%)
- Throughout subject
- Class preparation activities (15%)
- E.g. completion of short basic questions/exercise sets
- Total: 1,000 words
- Throughout subject
- Ongoing syndicate case studies (30%)
- Total: 2,500 words
- Throughout subject
- Final Exam (40%)
- Hurdle requirement
- 90 minutes
- End of module
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- January
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 9 January 2017 Teaching period 16 January 2017 to 23 March 2017 Last self-enrol date 20 November 2016 Census date 27 January 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 March 2017 Assessment period ends 31 March 2017 January contact information
- April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 3 April 2017 Teaching period 10 April 2017 to 15 June 2017 Last self-enrol date 5 February 2017 Census date 21 April 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 April contact information
- October
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 25 September 2017 Teaching period 2 October 2017 to 20 November 2017 Last self-enrol date 23 July 2017 Census date 6 October 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 November 2017 Assessment period ends 20 November 2017 October contact information
- September
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 18 September 2017 Teaching period 25 September 2017 to 30 November 2017 Last self-enrol date 23 July 2017 Census date 6 October 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 November 2017 Assessment period ends 4 December 2017 September contact information
Additional delivery details
This subject is only available to students admitted to GD-BA, MC-BAPT, MC-BAPTME, or students with permission of the MBA Course coordinator
This subject has a quota of 80 students. Students will be selected on a first come, first serve basis. However if any student is approaching their completion date, they will get priority in enrolment.
This subject is equivalent to BUSA90228 in MC-BAPTME
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Subject notes
This subject is only available to students admitted to GD-BA, MC-BAPT, MC-BAPTME, or students with permission of the MBA Course coordinator
- Related Handbook entries
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Last updated: 3 November 2022