Challenges to Business Success an Operations Management Focus
operation management Assessment title Write a report on Challenges to Business Success an Operations Management Focus 3800 words by 31 jan 2016 Task Over recent years, a number of key challenges have become very significant to Operations Managers. Six of these concepts are: 1. Changing Technologies 2. Continued Globalization of markets including 1st and 2nd world entrants. 3. Changing customer expectations 4. Changing job designs 5. Quality management 6. Global manufacturing Your task is to: 1. Identify a business you think is interesting and briefly discuss how each of the above challenges might impact that business in the future. (suggested minimum 1200 words) 2. Choose a minimumof three of the following areas of Operations Management that you think are likely to most impact the success of your chosen business and justify your selection of each. (suggested minimum 2000 words) 1. Goods and Service design 2. Process Selection, Design and Analysis 3. Facility and Work Design 4. Supply Chain Design 5. Capacity Management 6. Managing Inventories 7. Resource Management
