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Assignment 1: Vice President of Operations, Part 1
Due Week 3 and worth 200 points
Scenario: Imagine that you are the vice president of
operations at a production or service organization. You
have noticed that your organization’s current
operations strategy is not supporting the challenges
that the organization is presently facing. In order to
maintain a competitive edge, you must address these
challenges with your Chief Executive Officer
immediately.
Select an existing production organization. Analyze
the organization’s current vision, mission, business
strategy, operation strategy, supply chain, total quality
management, just-in-time philosophy, forecasting
method, statistical technique, facility location, work
design, project life cycle, and project management.
Note: You will need this information in order to
complete this and subsequent assignments.
As you collect the information for Assignment 1 and
Assignment 2, remember that in Assignment 3 you
must prepare a presentation for your Chief Executive
Officer.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
1. Evaluate key elements of the selected production or
service organization’s operational efficiency with its
operational strategy. Determine three (3) tasks that do
not align with the operational strategy. Determine the
weaknesses that are evident in each task.
2. Formulate a new operations strategy for the selected
organization based on the four (4) competitive
priorities (i.e., cost, quality, time, and flexibility).
3. Analyze both the structure of the competitive priorities
and infrastructure of the production process. Develop
three (3) new enablers that are aligned with the long-
term plan of the selected organization. Evaluate three
(3) pros and three (3) cons of the new enablers.
4. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do
not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
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Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman
font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;
citations and references must follow APA or schoolspecific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name,
the course title, and the date. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with
this assignment are:
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Analyze the differences between service and
manufacturing operations management to identify
planning considerations.
Formulate an operations strategy to conduct
production or service operations.
Explain how an operations strategy impacts product
design and process selection.
Use technology and information resources to research
issues in operations management.
Write clearly and concisely about operations
management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer
quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language
and writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for
this assignment.
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