NTU Nanyang Business School (Business)
Module:
BE1401 Business Operations and Process
Description:
The main objectives of this course are to gain an appreciation of the Operations function in an organization and to understand the fundamental concepts and techniques necessary for designing, managing and improving operations and processes in both manufacturing and service industries. Topics covered in the course include Operations Strategy, Process Analysis & Improvement, Process & Service Design, Lean Operations, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management and Six-Sigma Operations, and Green & Sustainable Operations.
Notes:
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Module:
BE1401 Business Operations and Process
Description:
The main objectives of this course are to gain an appreciation of the Operations function in an organization and to understand the fundamental concepts and techniques necessary for designing, managing and improving operations and processes in both manufacturing and service industries. Topics covered in the course include Operations Strategy, Process Analysis & Improvement, Process & Service Design, Lean Operations, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management and Six-Sigma Operations, and Green & Sustainable Operations.
Notes:
Download here
Course Assessments:
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Quizzes - 20%
Finals - 50%
Total - 100%
(Not sure if I remembered this correctly)
Recommended Tutors:
Arvind Sainathan
I didn't buy any textbooks.
Remarks:
I thought that biz ops would have been a killer for me but thankfully no, I did rather okay. I failed my quizzes though, I think it was the group project that saved me - my group got an A! Group project for biz ops is quite important, so make sure you do well for it. Biz ops is a little like stats, so you really need practice. Certain topics like Network Diagram is easy, but the rest are quite hard (at least to me)
Prof Arvind is really smart and knows his stuff super well, so you'll be lucky to get him. He's also very nice - I had 2 consultations with him before my exam and he really helped answer my doubts and queries. All in all, biz ops is a module that requires lots of practice and understanding, just like stats. If you're good at math, this should be easy for you. If not, practice hard and you'll do fine :)
Thanks for the great information you share on this post, keep posting.
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Course Assessments:
ReplyDeleteTeam Presentations - 20%
Class Participation - 10%
Quizzes - 20%
Finals - 50%
Total - 100%
(Not sure if I remembered this correctly)
Recommended Tutors:
Arvind Sainathan
Remarks: I didn't buy the textbook but i do use the e-textbook copy, which i think is definitely needed for extra practices for the topics. The topics are honestly not hard to understand with usually a few formulas which seem very logical. But the key to this course is to able to identify the type of formula to use in different situations. Plain reading from the notes would definitely not suffice as practice is key to this module. Especially for the first quiz which is mostly calculations, a lot of my peers did badly due to the lack of understand of concepts well enough without sufficient practices. It may be seems to be easy on the surface, this 4AU module is definitely requires quite some effort to master the concepts well enough so as to do well in the finals.
My prof was similar, Arvind, he may not be the most engaging prof to have, but he definitely bring out the concepts well enough in class. During consultation, he is quick to identify your misconceptions and correct it, which I really appreciate as not all prof are able to do that.
If you are really aiming to get an A- at least, the reading and practicing of textbooks and PYP is a must, for most of us. The case presentation isn't really the key part of grading but still a great experience applying concepts learnt in real life situations.
what is PYP?
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