Operations Management (BAS)

Emphasizes basic principles of enterprise operations management, including productivity, strategic management, global environment, forecasting, capacity planning, new technologies, location and layout strategies, supply-chain management, inventory control and scheduling. Uses common decision-making issues and related qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Small-group study and research for advanced students within their majors.

Comprehensive overview of leadership strategies and development as it applies to individuals, organizations and events. Applies leadership development to workplace dynamics such as technology management, entrepreneurship and globalization.

Introduces statistical techniques for the social sciences, including the role and rationale of statistics, descriptive measures, associational measures, and inferential statistics.

Enterprise strategic plan development and implementation, concepts of open innovation; vision, mission, steps of strategic plan development; strategic goals, objectives, tasks, schedule, resource considerations; organization's strengths and weaknesses; environmental opportunities and threats; strategy implementation, impact assessment and refinement, organizational- and management considerations, theory and practice of open innovation.

Investigates and tests tools and techniques for effective design and management of enterprise projects and programs using computer applications. Develops and demonstrates teambuilding and leadership skills in course projects.

Introduces essential functions required in technology-based and innovative enterprises and viewed in the context of their relationship to each other; examines the enterprise's role in society.

Focuses on execution challenges that innovation initiatives face, including: (a) Resources: Where do the resources for innovation initiatives come from? (b) Organization: How should innovation initiatives be organized? (c) Planning: How should plans for innovation initiatives be written and through what kind of process should they be revised? Explores the processes of innovation management for various sizes of companies utilizing smaller scale, local processes to large scale, globally dispersed innovation processes and teams.