MANAGEMT 7031 - Services and Operations Management

North Terrace Campus - Trimester 1 - 2019

This course examines the role of the Operations Management and its role in supporting effective Strategy execution, and how it may be leveraged as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. Topics covered include addressing the strategic issues of operations strategy formulation and associated implementation decisions, including choice of process and technology, operational structures, facility location, detailed layout, process and job design, and strategic operational planning. Manufacturing, process and service industry contexts are all considered. The tactical aspects of implementing and managing effective operations are then considered for manufacturing, process and service industry environments. This includes, inventory control, MRPII/ERP, operations scheduling, quality management, supply chain management and operations improvement. The challenges of scheduling, workload and service delivery management for service operations is specifically addressed.

  • General Course Information
    Course Details
    Course Code MANAGEMT 7031
    Course Services and Operations Management
    Coordinating Unit Adelaide Business School
    Term Trimester 1
    Level Postgraduate Coursework
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Contact Up to 36 hours per week
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange
    Restrictions Available to Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Business Administration students only - other students must first meet with program director for enrolment approval
    Course Description This course examines the role of the Operations Management and its role in supporting effective Strategy execution, and how it may be leveraged as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. Topics covered include addressing the strategic issues of operations strategy formulation and associated implementation decisions, including choice of process and technology, operational structures, facility location, detailed layout, process and job design, and strategic operational planning. Manufacturing, process and service industry contexts are all considered. The tactical aspects of implementing and managing effective operations are then considered for manufacturing, process and service industry environments. This includes, inventory control, MRPII/ERP, operations scheduling, quality management, supply chain management and operations improvement. The challenges of scheduling, workload and service delivery management for service operations is specifically addressed.
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Mr Max Zornada

    Max Zornada B.E. (Mech), Hons. M.B.A.
    Max is a Management Educator and Consultant with extensive experience teaching MBA, Executive Education (since 1993) and Management Development Seminars and as a hands-on practitioner, consulting to major corporations on issues related to the achievement of Operational Excellence, throughout Australia, the US, Middle East, UK, Western Europe and Asia.
    Max Zornada is an Adjunct Lecturer in the University of Adelaide Business School where he currently teaches the Operations Management and Business Performance Improvement in the MBA Program. He has also taught Quality Management, E-Business, Project Management and Managing Innovation and Technology, and Statistical and Quantitative Analysis Subjects. He also delivers the Yellow Belt Advanced modules in the Professional Management Program and the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Advanced, Green Belt and Black Belt Public Programs.
    He has presented the TQM and Data Analysis and Statistical Business Modelling subjects in the Australian Graduate School of Management's (AGSM), University of New South Wales, Executive MBA. Max was a Visiting Professor in the MBA program at the Consorzio MIP at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan early in 1998, where he taught Business Process Reengineering.
    Max is also the Director of the Australian based Management Consulting and Education firm Henley Management Group. In this capacity he has presented many in-house Executive Programs for major corporations on Operational Excellence related topics such as Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, The Balanced Scorecard, Business Process Improvement, Project Management, Work Management both throughout Australia and internationally in Asia, the US, UK, Italy and the Middle East.
    Prior to founding HMG, Max spent several years with the London based international management and technology consultancy PA Consulting Group, after holding various managerial and professional engineering positions in the chemicals processing and petrochemicals industry with Adelaide and Wallaroo Fertilisers, ICI and Santos.
    From his base in Adelaide, South Australia, Max maintains an active local, Australian and International consulting and Management Education practice, with a focus on capital intensive (petrochemical, mining, energy and chemicals) businesses, and back-office operations in financial services and services organisations. In recent years, a major focus of his consulting activity has been Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement implementation in Aerospace, Mining, IT and Insurance industry contexts.

    Max Zornada may be contacted at
    The University of Adelaide Business School
    Level 10, 10 Pultney Street, Adelaide, 5005, South Australia.
    Tel: +61 8 8303 5525/ Fax: +61 8 8223 4782.
    Email: max.zornada@adelaide.edu.au
    Course Timetable

    The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

  • Learning Outcomes
    Course Learning Outcomes
    On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply key operational levers to the management of service operations and the proactive management of customer experience.
    2. Critically analyse the impact operational capabilities have on decision making.
    3. Demonstrate excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to work.
    4. Identify different types of operational process and explain on which operational capability it can be based.
    5. Explain supply chain management.
    6. Develop skills in the development of an Acceptance Sampling Based Quality Control Strategy.
    University Graduate Attributes

    This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

    University Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s)
    Deep discipline knowledge
    • informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies
    • acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1
    • accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)
    1, 2, 3, 5 & 6
    Critical thinking and problem solving
    • steeped in research methods and rigor
    • based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development
    • demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment
    2
    Teamwork and communication skills
    • developed from, with, and via the SGDE
    • honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies
    • encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning
    3
    Career and leadership readiness
    • technology savvy
    • professional and, where relevant, fully accredited
    • forward thinking and well informed
    • tested and validated by work based experiences
    1 & 6
    Intercultural and ethical competency
    • adept at operating in other cultures
    • comfortable with different nationalities and social contexts
    • able to determine and contribute to desirable social outcomes
    • demonstrated by study abroad or with an understanding of indigenous knowledges
    3
    Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
    • a capacity for self-reflection and a willingness to engage in self-appraisal
    • open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors and peers
    • able to negotiate difficult social situations, defuse conflict and engage positively in purposeful debate
    1 & 3
  • Learning Resources
    Required Resources
    REQUIRED RESOURCES
    Recommended textbook for this subject is:
    Greasley, Andrew (2013), Operation Management, 3rd Edition (or later if available), John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
    Additional Supplementary Reading:
    Goldratt, Eliyahu M. and Cox, Jeff. The Goal, Gower, (latest available edition)

    ONLINE LEARNING
    Powerpoint slides and additional resources in the form of spreadsheet models, additional readings and worksheets in support of the lecture session activities during the intensive sessions will be made available for download in softcopy from myUni.
  • Learning & Teaching Activities
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  • Assessment

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    1. Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
    2. Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
    3. Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
    4. Assessment must maintain academic standards.

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    Course Grading

    Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

    M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

    Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

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    Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.

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