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Operations (BUSA90229)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability | September - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
In fiercely competitive global and dynamic environments, organisations face increasing pressures to exceed stakeholder expectations across measures such as sustainability, social responsibility, cost, quality, flexibility and innovativeness. Although operations are at the core of an organisation's value adding activities, few organisations build a sustainable competitive advantage around these capabilities.
This subject addresses the analysis, design, management and continuous improvement of business processes. It covers core operations concepts essential for leveraging an organisation’s capabilities to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. It also 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 an organisation's processes and evaluate their alignment with the organisation's overall strategy and positioning in the marketplace
- Perform process analysis to identify existing bottlenecks and ways to reduce their impact and improve process efficiency
- Apply frameworks for managing inventory
- Use queuing models to propose relevant solutions to contain the effects of process variability
- Use robust statistical process control techniques to ensure that a given process is fit for purpose
- Apply Six-Sigma and Lean (Toyota Production System) principles to improve process performance
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90059 | Data Analytics for Decision Making |
Summer Term (Online)
September (Online)
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12.5 |
No longer available | |||
BUSA90552 | Business Essentials |
September (On Campus - Parkville)
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (Online)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Contribution to class learning
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
4 quizzes
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
2 x syndicate case assignments
| From Week 4 to Week 6 | 25% |
Final assignment
| During the examination period | 45% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- September - Online
Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 September 2024 to 11 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 September 2024 Census date 12 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 October 2024 Assessment period ends 18 October 2024
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- 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: 31 January 2024