Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Technology in Operations and Management (TOM)

Paul Mulligan - Olin 249 , mulligan@babson.edu , X4595
Session 1 - Jan 25, 2012


Peter Drucker - "Operations is the business of making and moving things"

Productivity vs Efficiency

sources of competitive advantages:
Customer experienc


Session 2 - Jan 30, 2012
Case: Fair Oaks


Demand variability is an important thing that we need to take care of.

Session 3 - Feb 1, 2012
Case - TOOPS Wholesale


Supply chain management and inventory management.

speculative inventory - in commodities market

Session 4 - Feb 6, 2012


Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP)

Case: Sports Obermeyer


Session 5 - Feb 8, 2012
Case- Zara: IT for Fast Fashion


They create scarcity in Zara by stopping production.
shrinkage is a huge issue in retail.

Session 6 - Feb 13, 2012
Case: Drager (from operating perspective)


Session -  Feb 22, 2012
Discussion of Six sigma


"We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life"
Quality is good if it meets the spec of tolerance.

Session 11: Feb 29, 2012
Case: CVS


Manage the expectations.
Do enough to differentiate but do not do too much. Do enough so that they pay for it.

One of the problems: when your growth rate is bigger than the attrition rate, there is a fake growth. this is actually a problem which can be easily ignored.

Session 12: Mar 5, 2012
Case: We've got Rhythm - Medtronics, Cardiac Pacemakers


Case: Threadless


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Read the TOM-1 Toyota article for Final exam

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