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About the Course

This comprehensive course delves into operations management and process improvement principles and techniques, providing you with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and eliminate inefficiencies in your organization. You will gain a solid foundation in operations management by analyzing key concepts such as cost-quality trade-offs, the efficiency frontier, and system inhibitors. Get ready to delve into process analysis, where you'll identify and analyze steps in a process, implementing changes for enhanced outcomes. With practical exercises, including creating process flow diagrams and capacity calculations, you'll strengthen your analytical skills firsthand. Experience the power of optimizing flow within operations as you uncover waste sources and design efficient processes for maximum output, reduced costs, and heightened customer satisfaction. An in-depth exploration of Little's Law will equip you to make informed decisions on capacity planning and process improvements, optimizing inventory levels, reducing lead times, and enhancing supply chain coordination. Additionally, you'll learn to effectively manage variability, laying the groundwork for consistent and exceptional quality standards. Statistical analysis, problem-solving methodologies, and real-time information utilization will empower you to tackle issues, find root causes, and foster continuous improvement. Throughout the course, the focus remains on driving improvements and achieving excellence. Analyze, improve, and reimagine how work gets done, armed with the necessary tools and frameworks to enhance work processes across diverse industries. Join this course to analyze, improve, and reimagine how work gets done and to acquire the necessary tools and knowledge to make meaningful improvements in your organization's operations....

Top reviews

KR

Aug 24, 2020

Great Instruction by Prof Christian - very lucid and with real world examples. Learning a business skill is mostly learning observation.. Now I know what to observe when looking for productivity!

RE

Jan 28, 2021

I found this course to be very informational; the practice and homework were excellent to prepare for the exams, and the instructor covered all material in the lectures that was on the exams.

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By Rahul S M

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Apr 18, 2020

The course is very relevant to Industrial/Operations/Management professionals. Thanks a lot to the instructor (Prof. Christian Terwiesch) for designing the course.

By Matt G

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Nov 26, 2016

Some quiz questions are hard to understand... the math and problem solving is the easy part. Understanding what they question is looking for is the biggest battle.

By Punit J

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Oct 23, 2016

Good course. Provides excellent understanding of real world problems. It could be made more interesting by including more real world problems and scenarios.

By Gautam A K

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Feb 3, 2020

Introduction to Operations Management is a good course to learn key concepts such as process analysis, bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels.

By Lutz E

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Jun 3, 2016

By far not as good or demanding/challenging as the one from Kellogg. Still not bad. Also significantly shortened compared to the earlier incarnations.

By Reed L

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Apr 4, 2018

The course material is good, however several of the test scenarios varied from the demonstrated practices. Also, the iOs app didn't work correctly.

By Benoît G

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Sep 22, 2020

Good introduction. Concise. The simple examples are good. Lacking examples to illustrate practical challenges in large, complex enterprises.

By Ailsa L

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Apr 18, 2020

The examples chosen kept the course very interesting. Interesting applications of the topics covered. More maths needed than I had expected.

By Emmanuel O

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May 11, 2017

Loved the content. I am in Operations and this course brought out the key aspects that are critical for successful operations management.

By Rosa P M V

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Feb 8, 2021

The feedback about the questions are not available at the end of the course. I disagree with this, however all the content it was ok.

By Vladislav L

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Jun 19, 2017

The course was really interesting and helpful for me. It gave me very good system approach towards different operations processes.

By Jakub K

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Aug 8, 2016

Great course with lots of interesting information. In my opinion, only the lean approach in this course could be more detailed.

By LUO J

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Jul 13, 2017

The materials are lot harder than I imagined. And it doesn't help that the Chinese subtitles are wrong for half of the course.

By Eric W L

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Jul 10, 2020

A challenging course that is rewarding to finish. I enjoyed Prof's dry sense of humor and examples of industry application.

By Lado J

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Jul 25, 2019

The process was not motivating or interesting. Otherwise materials and quizes were interesting but the videos not so much.

By Meghna V

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Jul 6, 2017

Great introduction to operations management. The instructor makes the concepts very easy to understand and fun to follow.

By João B S d S

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Sep 30, 2021

Great videos. Good balance between theory and practice. Some of the graded homeworks and final exams were quite hard.

By Arman A

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Apr 19, 2016

Well structured course. Nails the basics little by little throughout the weeks. Timely practice with homeworks i

By Varun L

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Apr 25, 2020

Excellent teacher. Brilliant learning experience. However, Module 4 could have been a little more explanatory.

By JESÚS A L

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Jul 26, 2016

Very good.

Jesús Alberto Lozada

BSME, MBA

Professor at the Catholic University Andres Bello, Caracas Venezuela.

By ahmed e

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Jun 25, 2016

everything is pretty good , just handwriting of the trainer is not clear enough or its camera issue , thanks

By Han-Chuan T

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Apr 12, 2018

It would be even better to go deeper in the topic of 6-sigma and TPS. However, overall a very useful course.

By Soumyanath G

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Jun 4, 2020

Thank you Prof. Christian for the wonderful course lectures, It was really nice studying this course

By Raúl A P

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Jun 28, 2019

This course teach you the main keys to have a better control of your operations in a begginer level.

By Bertrand B

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Jan 2, 2016

Very good introduction. The course really tackle the "bottleneck" problem (Theory of Constraints).