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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
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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 |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90481 | Social Responsibility and Ethics |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90060 | Data Analysis |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90193 | Managerial Economics |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
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 7 January 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 14 January 2019 to 21 March 2019 Last self-enrol date 2 December 2018 Census date 25 January 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 1 March 2019 Assessment period ends 28 March 2019 January contact information
- April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 1 April 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 8 April 2019 to 13 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 3 February 2019 Census date 23 April 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 May 2019 Assessment period ends 20 June 2019 April contact information
- July
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 24 June 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 1 July 2019 to 5 September 2019 Last self-enrol date 28 April 2019 Census date 12 July 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 August 2019 Assessment period ends 12 September 2019 - September
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 16 September 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 23 September 2019 to 28 November 2019 Last self-enrol date 21 July 2019 Census date 4 October 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 November 2019 Assessment period ends 5 December 2019 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
This subject contributes to the following:
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022