Individual Coursework - Assignment Brief

Task

You are required to prepare an individual management report analysing how

operations management is conceived, supported, delivered and developed in a

chosen organisation.

In your report you must analyse the following dimensions of operations in the chosen

organisation and suggest ways to improve them:

The transformation model and 4V's,

Operations performance,

And any two of the following: process design and analysis, supply chain,

capacity, inventory, waste, quality

Within your report, you should both discuss the relevant theoretical concepts and

frameworks, and apply them to analyse operations in the chosen organisation. In

relation to the three topics suggested above, you need to consider the following:

what critical issues or problems emerge in the particular organisation's

context;

• how the organisation is responding to them;

how we can interpret and evaluate the findings in light of the literature; and

what we can suggest for improvement./nWord limit and practical advice

Your report should be 3500 words in length (+/- 10%). The list of references, tables,

figures and appendices are not included in the word count.

Answers that rely entirely on repeating sections of slide material, without explaining

operations theory, will not pass. You are expected to go beyond recommended

textbooks, and use additional relevant academic sources to explain the concepts and

frameworks applied in your report.

Content should be relevant and accurate. All statements need to be supported by

references from the academic books and journals, along with reliable sources for

practical information related to your chosen organisation. Sources of ideas or direct

quotations must be acknowledged throughout the report and compiled in a list of

references at the end.

The format/structure of your report must include: title page, contents page, page

numbers, section and sub-section headers with numbering, titled figures and tables

with sources stated, conclusions and recommendations, references and appendix

items (if applicable).

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