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Business Operations Management
Postgraduate | RMI-BUSM4533 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
Step into the shoes of a business operations manager. Consider issues in fields like manufacturing, contracting and occupational health and safety. Account for resource limitations as you develop a strategic approach to business operations problems.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Business Operations Management
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:
- Create a business operations strategy that recognises the limited nature of organisational resources and the competitive international environment
- Research and apply solutions to contemporary business operations issues such as manufacturing, occupational health and safety (OH&S), and contracting
- Apply ethical decision making in managing the business operations of a company.
- Introduction to Business Operations Management
- Forecasting, Vision and Strategy, Design Thinking, Concepts, OH&S
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations Strategy
- Vision and Strategy, Design
- Assessment: Present Team Vision and Strategy Report
- Managing Projects
- Ethics in Business
- Managing Quality
- Managing Risk
- Gap Analysis
- Gap Analysis Assessment, Finalisation of Course
The subject will provide you as entry level managers with the knowledge, skills and ethics to manage business operations in an internationally competitive environment. You will be introduced to key business operations concepts and undertake the functional roles of business operations managers in a simulation. In addition, you are provided with lectures on contemporary business operations issues such as manufacturing, occupational health and safety (OH&S), and contracting.
This subject includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience where your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry is integral to your experience.
- Case Study (20%)
- Capsim group assignment (50%)
- Assessment - Contribution (10%)
- Capsim Individual Assignment (20%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
To help set you up for success before you start this subject, we suggest completing or having equivalent knowledge in:
one of
- RMI-BUSM4536-Design Thinking for Business
RMI-OMBA770-Introduction To Business Management (no longer available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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