5 Summary The aim of this Unit has been to give you an introductory overview of operations management. Operations is one of the central functions of all organisations The first learning outcome was that you should be able to ‘define “operations” and “operations management”’. I took the view in this session that operations embraces all the activities required to create and deliver an organisation's goods or services to its customers or clients. The secon
4 The boundary of the operations system
Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations whether producing goods or services, or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. This unit will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function and discusses the role of operations managers, in particular the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers.
3.3 Outputs The principal outputs of a doctor's surgery are cured patients; the outputs of a nuclear reprocessing plant include reprocessed fuel and nuclear waste. Many transformation processes produce both goods and services. For example, a restaurant provides a service, but also produces goods such as food and drinks. Transformation processes may result in some undesirable outputs (such as nuclear waste in the example above) as well as the goods and services they are designed to deliver. An impor
2.1.3 The modern period
Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations whether producing goods or services, or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. This unit will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function and discusses the role of operations managers, in particular the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers.
2.1.2 Mass production
Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations whether producing goods or services, or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. This unit will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function and discusses the role of operations managers, in particular the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers.
2.1.1 Craft manufacturing
Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations whether producing goods or services, or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. This unit will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function and discusses the role of operations managers, in particular the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers.
2.1 Operations, operations management and operations managers Every organisation has an operations function, whether or not it is called ‘operations’. The goal or purpose of most organisations involves the production of goods and/or services. To do this, they have to procure resources, convert them into outputs and distribute them to their intended users. The term operations embraces all the activities required to create and deliver an organisation's goods or services to its customers or clients. Within large and complex organisations ope
2 Operations, operations management and operations managers
Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations whether producing goods or services, or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. This unit will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function and discusses the role of operations managers, in particular the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers.
3 Unit summary This unit should have given you some idea of the issues surrounding the concept of innovation, in particular the key concepts of invention and innovation, and the negative as well as the positive effects that innovations can bring. Although the business functions have been recognised in passing, you should be able to see how the functioning of an organisation can be affected by innovation. Remember that although innovation can take place within any one function of the organisation, this can
International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture
Ian Condry introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media Studies Program—Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Jing Wang, Orit Kuritsky, Ana Domb —in this final panel, who share their views and experiences about the international/global dimension of the program.
‘Comparative’ can be interpr
7.1 Introduction
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.7 Summary
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.6 Special endosomal compartments
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.5 Lysosomes
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.4 Phagocytosis
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.3 Uncoupling and receptor recycling
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.2 Endocytosis
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
6.1 Introduction
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
5.3 Summary
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
5.2 Motor proteins
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport of vesicles between different subcellular compartments.
