Operations Management Capstone
Timeline
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January 8, 2025Experience start
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January 26, 2025Project Plan
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February 9, 2025Project Progress
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April 12, 2025Experience end
Timeline
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January 8, 2025Experience start
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January 26, 2025Project Plan
• Based on a field trip/visit or presentation by the client, students will collaborate with the professor, and live client to identify a project.
• Write a single-page research proposal, single-spaced, 12-point font, without a cover page. Use APA 7th Edition for external sources.
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February 9, 2025Project Progress
• Continue research/work focused on complex problem-solving.
• Identify major tasks/sub-tasks of the project with a Gantt Chart showing each task/sub-task, person responsible, and timeline.
• Demonstrate work since the proposal.
• Include complex problem-solving techniques and analysis to identify root causes, alternatives, and recommended solutions.
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April 12, 2025Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Supply chain optimization Operations Project managementSkills
social intelligence customer service presentations quality control planning product design complex problem solving operational efficiency information synthesis communicationOrganizations must adapt to changes to ensure their continuity. Students in the Operations Management program come from a variety of professional backgrounds, often with years of experience and are aware of local, regional, national, and international trends that could
impact an organization’s operations. Using complex problem-solving techniques, students will analyze your organization's operations, identify the root causes of your challenges, and make recommendations for solutions. Students will:
- Apply complex problem-solving to identify and distinguish the root causes of problems.
- Analyze, assess, and select appropriate solutions to business situations.
- Determine if the chosen solutions are viable.
- Develop an implementation plan for the recommendations.
- Evaluate outcomes and revise plans as necessary.
- Deliver a summary of their analysis using effective presentation techniques and strategies.
- Apply simulation modelling, where possible, to analyze and improve operational efficiency.
Learners
Students will:
- Assess a business challenge
- Identify alternatives
- Make recommendations
- Propose an implementation plan and timeline
- Present their findings in a culminating report and presentation
Project timeline
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January 8, 2025Experience start
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January 26, 2025Project Plan
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February 9, 2025Project Progress
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April 12, 2025Experience end
Timeline
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January 8, 2025Experience start
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January 26, 2025Project Plan
• Based on a field trip/visit or presentation by the client, students will collaborate with the professor, and live client to identify a project.
• Write a single-page research proposal, single-spaced, 12-point font, without a cover page. Use APA 7th Edition for external sources.
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February 9, 2025Project Progress
• Continue research/work focused on complex problem-solving.
• Identify major tasks/sub-tasks of the project with a Gantt Chart showing each task/sub-task, person responsible, and timeline.
• Demonstrate work since the proposal.
• Include complex problem-solving techniques and analysis to identify root causes, alternatives, and recommended solutions.
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April 12, 2025Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Students are capable of taking on business challenges related to improving operations in a variety of different areas, including but not limited to:
- Design of goods and services, including product design.
- Managing quality
- Process and capacity design
- Location strategy
- Layout strategy
- Human Resources and job design related to work measurement
- Supply chain management
- Inventory, MRP & JIT
- Intermediate & short-term scheduling
- Maintenance and reliability
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Are you able to offer a tour (virtual or in person if applicable) of your organization so that students can familiarize themselves with your processes and needs?
Timeline
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January 8, 2025Experience start
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January 26, 2025Project Plan
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February 9, 2025Project Progress
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April 12, 2025Experience end
Timeline
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January 8, 2025Experience start
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January 26, 2025Project Plan
• Based on a field trip/visit or presentation by the client, students will collaborate with the professor, and live client to identify a project.
• Write a single-page research proposal, single-spaced, 12-point font, without a cover page. Use APA 7th Edition for external sources.
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February 9, 2025Project Progress
• Continue research/work focused on complex problem-solving.
• Identify major tasks/sub-tasks of the project with a Gantt Chart showing each task/sub-task, person responsible, and timeline.
• Demonstrate work since the proposal.
• Include complex problem-solving techniques and analysis to identify root causes, alternatives, and recommended solutions.
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April 12, 2025Experience end