Undergraduate Course: Operations Strategy (BUST10092)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course provides students with an understanding of the content of organisation's operations strategy and the processes by which they are developed and implemented.
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| Course description |
The course is divided into six blocks: Introduction to Operations Strategy, Information Technology Strategy, Logistics Strategy, Quality Strategy, the Development & Implementation of Operations Strategy.
Syllabus
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Lean
Lecture 3 - Information Technology Strategy
Lecture 4 - Supply Chain Management Strategies
Lecture 5 - Strategic Procurement Partnerships
Lecture 6 - Business Process Outsourcing
Lecture 7 - Operational Risk
Lecture 8 - Development of Operations Strategies
Lecture 9 - Implementation of Operations Strategies
Lecture 10 - Course Overview and Report Presentations
Student Learning Experience
The course will be taught as ten two-hour sessions. The lectures will address the wide range of topics involved in operations management from a strategic perspective. The course will relate the development and implementation of Operations Strategy with current debates in management theory and practice. The course-work project and associated presentations will provide an opportunity for students to analyse and discuss the issues in a case study of their own choice.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Business Studies Honours entry. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Business Studies courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
By one assignment (50%) and a degree examination (50%).
The format of the examination will be for students to answer two essay questions from a paper with five questions in two hours.
The report will be a maximum of 2500 words supported by a single page summary and any appendices. It will involve the critical analysis of operations strategy in an organisation chosen by the student.
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| Feedback |
Generic feedback on your coursework, together with individual marks, will be available on Learn. You can also look at your individual feedback in the UG Office (Room 1.11, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place) and take away a copy of the feedback form, but you will not be able to take away the original piece of coursework, as it may be required by the Board of Examiners.
Your examination marks will be posted on Learn (together with generic feedback and examination statistics) as soon as possible after the Boards of Examiners¿ meeting (normally early-mid June). During the summer months (i.e. mid/end June ¿ end August), you may come into the UG Office (Room 1.11, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place) to look at your examination scripts. Note that you will not be able to remove any examination scripts from the UG Office as they may be required by the Board of Examiners.
Continuing students will also be given the opportunity to review their examination scripts early in the new academic year in Semester 1 (i.e. in October).
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe and discuss the key operations strategy concepts covered.
- Discuss critically the practical use of the techniques covered, taking into account organisational context.
- Explain and discuss the relationship between operations strategy with other functional strategies and overall business policy in the context of the strategic goals and objectives of the organisation.
- Relate theoretical debates about the choices available to operations managers to the practical development and implementation of operations strategy.
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Learning Resources
| Course resources will be linked from Learn. Students are expected, and advised, to keep up-to-date with suggested readings. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive Skills
On completion of the course students willdemonstrate that they can, describe the operations of an organization and carry-out a critical analysis of these operations using concepts covered in the course lectures.
Key Skills
On completion of the assessed course project students will demonstrate their ability to plan and complete a study of a real-world organisation, including selecting and approaching an organisation, undertaking interviews, writing their study as a concise report and presenting their findings in class.
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| Keywords | OS |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Ian Graham
Tel: (0131 6)50 3797
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Anne Cunningham
Tel: (0131 6)50 3827
Email: |
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