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Open Class Topic: Operations Management

Lecturer: Professor Vinod Singhal

Time: 8:30am on April 6, 2015

Venue: Xuhui Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Tel:86-21-52302513 E-mail: askmba@sjtu.edu.cn

Lecturer Background

Vinod Singhal is the Dunn Family Professor of Operations Management at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology.  He is the Associate Dean for MBA programs, and Area Coordinator for Operations Management.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1988.  His undergraduate major is in Mechanical Engineering and graduate major is in Business Management.  Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1989, he worked for three years as a Senior Research Scientist at General Motors Research Labs.

Vinod’s teaching interests include operations strategy, total quality management, supply chain management, and technology justification.  His research has focused on the impact of operating decisions on accounting and stock market based performance measures.  His research has been supported through grants from the US Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, the American Society of Quality, and the Sloan Foundation. He has published extensively in academic and practitioner publications and has been invited to present his research at nearly 100 practitioner conferences and 80 universities in 40 different countries.  His research has been extensively cited in the media including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, Smart Money, CFO Europe, Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, and Daily Telegraph.

Vinod is a Departmental Editor of Production and Operations Management, and Associate Editor of Journal of Operations Management, Management Science, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.  He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions, Operations and Supply Chain Management: International Journal, and Quality Management Journal.  He has served on the Board of Examiners of the Georgia Oglethorpe Award, Bell South’s President Quality Award, and the Baldrige Board of Examiners.  He is frequent presenter at various national and international academic and practitioner conferences.

Course Description

Operations management (OM) is defined as the design, management and improvement of the systems that design, create and deliver the firm’s primary products and services. Understanding the role of operations functions and its impact on the competitiveness of the firm is an important part of any manager’s or consultant’s training. Such training includes tools that help the manager to ensure that resources are used as efficiently as possible, to make the right call between competing objectives and to redesign operations that will improve the performance of the system along multiple dimensions. Operational issues could be summarized as designing, acquiring, operating, and maintaining facilities and processes; purchasing raw materials; controlling and maintaining inventories; and providing the proper labor needed to produce goods or services so that customer expectations are met.

This course is intended to be a survey of operating practices and models in both manufacturing and service oriented firms. We will examine the theoretical foundations of operations management and how these principles or models can be employed in both tactical and strategic decision making in firms. It is intended to provide managers in all functional areas with sufficient knowledge to make informed, "total business decisions" and to introduce standard terms and concepts for communications with operating personnel.

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