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Concepts and strategies for the management of production and operations processes in manufacturing and service organizations, capacity, location, quality and inventory management, and planning and control systems.

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Business Information Systems: Design an App for That
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Students in an introductory Management Information Systems (MIS) course often ask what a career in MIS looks like. Lacking a clear vision, they make their own assumptions. Often they assume the career involves programming with little human interaction. That MIS is a technical field could not be further from the truth. MIS job descriptions typically require candidates to be able to collaborate, communicate, analyze needs and gather requirements. They also list the need for excellent written and communication skills. In other words, MIS workers are constantly interacting with other people both inside and outside the organization. They are coming up with creative solutions to business problems.

This course is designed to help students get a feel for what a career in MIS would be like. Our students report that they learn more about information systems from their internships than from their IS courses. Consequently, we designed a course that looks very much like an internship—an introduction to the field followed by a substantial project.

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Business and Communication
Management
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The Saylor Foundation
Provider Set:
Saylor Textbooks
Author:
Jacqueline Pike
Lauren Kenyo
Sarah Pels
Date Added:
04/24/2019
Business Information Systems: Design an App for That
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This course is designed to help students get a feel for what a career in MIS would be like. Our students report that they learn more about information systems from their internships than from their IS courses. Consequently, we designed a course that looks very much like an internship—an introduction to the field followed by a substantial project.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Jacqueline Pike
Lauren Kenyo
Raymond Frost
Sarah Pels
Saylor Foundation
Date Added:
01/04/2019
Developing New Products and Services
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Developing New Products and Services by Sanders is an outstanding contribution to market research. The book focuses on the upfront activities and ideas for new product and service development.

A central theme of Developing New Products and Services is that there is, or should be, a constant struggle going on in every organization, business, and system between delivering feature-rich versions of products and services using extravagant engineering and delivering low-cost versions of products and services using frugal engineering. Students will come away with this notion and how to manifest it as a contributing employee at any company.

A number of powerful concepts and tools are presented so your students can better understand how to facilitate new product development. For example, three templates are featured that facilitate new product and service development. The FAD (features, attributes, and design) template is used to identify the features and attributes that can be used for product and service differentiation. The Ten–Ten planning process contains two templates: an Organizational and Industry Analysis template and the Business Plan Overview template. These two templates coupled with the FAD template can be used to develop a full-blown business plan.

In addition, Developing New Products and Services includes the following topics: entrepreneurship, technology and product life cycles, product and service versioning, product line optimization, creativity, lock-in real options, business valuation, and project management.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Concepts in the Context of Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Product and Price Differentiation
Chapter 3: Differentiation in Action
Chapter 4: Dynamic Tension in Versioning and PD Curves
Chapter 5: Examples of Product Differentiation & Versioning Curves
Chapter 6: Facilitating Creativity and Innovation
Chapter 7: Conceptualizing Products/Services Using FAD
Chapter 8: Strategic Planning and Ten–Ten Planning
Chapter 9: The Ten–Ten Planning Process: Crafting a Business Story
Chapter 10: Lock-In and Revenue Growth
Chapter 11: Valuing the Business
Chapter 12: Developing a Business Plan
Chapter 13: Project Management for New Products and Services
Chapter 14: Re-priming the Business Using Real Options Concepts
Chapter 15: Wrap-Up

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Business and Communication
Marketing
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
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Saylor Textbooks
Author:
G. Lawrence Sanders
Date Added:
04/24/2019
How to Develop Breakthrough Products and Services, Spring 2012
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Firms must develop major innovations to prosper, but they don't know how to. However, recent research into the innovation process has made it possible to develop breakthroughs systematically. 15.356 How to Develop Breakthrough Products and Services explores several practical idea generation development methods. To convey the art required to implement each of these methodologies, experts are invited to present real cases to the class.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Management
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Eric von Hippel
Date Added:
01/01/2012
Introduction to Operations Management, Spring 2013
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This course provides students with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyze, and improve core operational capabilities, and apply them to a broad range of application domains and industries. It emphasizes the effect of uncertainty in decision-making, as well as the interplay between high-level financial objectives and operational capabilities. Topics covered include production control, risk pooling, quality management, process design, and revenue management. Also included are case studies, guest lectures, and simulation games which demonstrate central concepts.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Management
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Charles H. Fine
Tauhid Zaman
Vivek Farias
Yanchong Zheng
Date Added:
01/01/2013
Operations Management (Business 300)
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BUS300: Operations Management

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of operations management as they apply to both production and service-based operations. Successful completion of this course will empower you to implement the concepts you have learned in your place of business. Even if you do not plan to work in operations, every department of every company has processes that must be completed; someone savvy with operations management will be able to improve just about any process.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Management
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Activity/Lab
Full Course
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Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:
09/07/2018
Operations Management (Business 300) Review Rubric
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Introduction to Operations Management, Spring 2013This course provides students with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyze, and improve core operational capabilities, and apply them to a broad range of application domains and industries. It emphasizes the effect of uncertainty in decision-making, as well as the interplay between high-level financial objectives and operational capabilities. Topics covered include production control, risk pooling, quality management, process design, and revenue management. Also included are case studies, guest lectures, and simulation games which demonstrate central concepts.

Subject:
Management
Manufacturing
Transportation and Logistics
Author:
Jose Noguera
Date Added:
05/29/2020
Operations, Technology and Stakeholder Value
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The management of processes or operations is the very essence of any kind of business enterprise, and it is critically important that they are designed and managed well. This course taster uses case studies and models to illustrate the importance of effective operations management and outlines the steps to preparing your own operations proposal.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Management
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Activity/Lab
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Author:
The Open University
Date Added:
01/04/2019