Course Name : Operations Management Course Code : GSM 5113 Credit : 3 (3+0) Semester/Trimester : Second Trimester 2012/2013 Pre-Requisite : None Course Objectives : The course has several objectives: • Introducing the functional area of operations and demonstrating how operations interface with an organization’s other functional areas. • Highlighting the various issues and problems that traditionally arise in the management of operations
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“to make aspirational quality accessible to all” (Marks & Spencer, 2011) was a key to increasing both market share and revenue. Their main competitors are Next and Arcadia group in the clothing industry, John Lewis in homeware and Waitrose with Tesco in the food sector.
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coordinator/lecturer. ▪ The coursework should exhibit formal research skills i.e. with a table of content, proper citations, references, and appendixes. ▪ The coursework write up must be able to demonstrate critical analysis and application of both theory and practical issues to the companies that you have selected. ▪ Student may include additional relevant data/information apart from the proposed guidelines in conjunction to your research. Additional marks will
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Waitrose: How to Be Better? By Boyang Yu (P12005387) 4th March 2014 Module: Service Operations Management Tutor: Martin Beckinsale Acknowledgments The author would like to express appreciation to his tutor Martin Beckinsale for valuable, constructive critique and support during writing this report. Special thanks to Xinzhu Hu for her valuable ideas and comments during the writing progress. Besides, the author would like to take this opportunity to thanks George Kokkinidis and Martin Beckinsale’s
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5BUS1032 Marketing Planning | Marketing Audit: Innocent | A report to deconstruct Innocent as an organization, identify its strategic business units and analyse the external and internal environment, concluding with a SWOT analysis | | Innocent and its Strategic Business Units Innocent began in 1998 with three co- founders and a 30 year goal to be “the earth’s favourite little healthy food and drinks company” (Innocent, 2010a). Since then Coco Cola has become a silent investor
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Business Environment: A Case Study of Cadbury Schweppes Table of Contents Particulars: Page No. Introduction 03LO1 Understand the organisational purposes of businesses 1.1 Purposes of the Cadbury Schweppes: 031.2 How Cadbury Schweppes meets its Stakeholders objectives 041.3 Responsibilities and strategies by Cadbury Schweppes 05LO2 Understand the nature of the national environment in which businesses operate2.1 Resources allocation
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Group Assignment Case Study – Process Analysis in Carrefour PROCESS ANALYSIS IN CARREFOUR GROUP INTRODUCTION - History of Carrefour First in Europe, Carrefour is the 2nd retailer in the world. With a presence in thirty-two countries, it makes half its sales outside France. This makes it the most international of all food retailers. The Group is concentrated on three continents: Europe (13 countries), Latin America (4 countries) and Asia (8 countries), a field of
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Knowledge Management & Information Systems Wordcount: 1,971 As ‘by virtue of its tacitness, inimitability and immobility’ (Scarbrough & Shan, 1999, p.359) knowledge is increasingly considered to give a competitive advantage. We can identify two types of knowledge: explicit and tacit knowledge. Explicit knowledge refers to the ‘know what’ that can be codified hence, that can be communicated and diffused (Scarbrough, 2011). Tacit knowledge, on the other hand is ‘The
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problem, information systems provide a solution. Information systems help managers make better decisions, increase profitability and make more efficient business processes. Two organisations that use information systems are Tesco who keep a record of what you buy, if you own a Tesco club card. Also universities, like Goldsmiths, keep a record of student attendance. Information technology essentially falls under information systems; it is all the hardware and software that is required by a firm in order
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INTRODUCTION Economic geography involves an inconsistency in global competition. Traditional roles of locations been reduced by the new technology and present competition. Resource, capital, technology, corporate networks weakened the necessity of where the firms should be located. Clusters are geographic essence of interrelated companies, service providers, suppliers, institutions which are not only competing but also cooperate in different business areas in advanced world. (The Competitive Advantage
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