MN52122: Operations strategy
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Report Individual (CWRI 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the linkages between operations, other functional strategies and corporate strategy.
- Explore the key content areas that shape operations strategy - including the pivotal role of individual leadership behaviours.
- Develop and apply several analytical and co-ordination tools and frameworks likely to be encountered in practice.
- Identify the challenges that managers face and be able to participate in or advise on operations strategy decisions.
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| Synopsis: | Explore how organisational strategy shapes and is shaped by operational capabilities through a variety of models and analytical frameworks. You will learn about a range of issues including:
- make versus buy
- technology
- capacity planning
- global footprints
- functional leadership
- environmental and ethical concerns
You will analyse and discuss a range of service, manufacturing, for-profit and not-for-profit organisations.
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| Content: | The following topics/areas will feature in the core unit content:
- Introduction to the (paradoxical?) theory and practice of operations strategy
- Classic alignment/deployment and alternative models
- The `make/do' versus `buy' decision and supply markets/structures
- Short, medium and long-term capacity strategy (the economies and diseconomies of scale)
- Technology strategy
- Operations Leadership
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| Course availability: |
MN52122 is Compulsory on the following courses:
School of Management
- TMMN-AFM73 : MSc Management with Operations
- TMMN-AFM75 : MSc Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
MN52122 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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