Learning Readiness Exercise 2

Learning Readiness Exercise 2 – Operations Management

This operations management (OM) learning readiness exercise (LRE) was developed by Professor Lall with assistance by Najam Hassan, and it will be assessed by our AMBA 640 / AMBA 640 Hybrid Faculty Assistants: Ryan Ismail, Mona Ahmad, Bryan Berthot, Gina DiMaggio, Cami Fawzy, Najam Hassan, Bob Neumeister, Manny Singh and Richard Wagner.

The purpose of this LRE is to assess your current knowledge of aspects of operations management and thus to determine who might benefit from extra help during the OM portions of the seminar. It is a required assignment. It is marked only PASS/FAIL, albeit with comments from your FA, and thus does not count toward your seminar GPA.

The references for the operations management instruction in AMBA 640 / AMBA 640 Hybrid are as found in our syllabus. In addition, you will find specific helps for each OM assignment posted in your section classroom.

Assignment

Kindly answer the following questions, posting your answers to your assignments folder. Include your name within your file, which per our syllabus, should be in pdf format.

1. Your OM experience

a. I have prior experience in operations management. Yes

b. I have managed operations managers. No

c. I have used OM software. No

2. Operations management is sometimes also known as production management and/or supply_chain_ management and/or management science_.

3. Examples of important OM methods and techniques include:

a. Graid Analysis

b. Decision Trees

c. Six Sigma

4. Linear Programming is a mathematical technique used to allocate limited resources among competing demands in an optimal way. For instance, it might be used to maximize profit or to minimize cost. True/False/Don’t Know

Again kindly submit your response as a pdf format file.