Course description
Do you dream of starting your own business; being your own boss and bringing your entrepreneurial ambitions to life, but struggle to know where to start or how to make your ideas a reality? You are not alone. Fortunately, our Starting Your Own Business Level 3 course, can provide you with everything you need to get started. This impressive course has been exclusively designed for home study.
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Training Course Content
Unit 1: How Operations Management Became Critical to Business Success
- Explain the role of Operations Management within various different kinds of organisation
- Describe how Operations Management has become crucial to organisations’ success in the modern world
- Demonstrate how the concept of the value chain applies to a variety of different kinds of organisation
- Give examples of the impact good operations management can have on organisational effectiveness
Unit 2: People and Operations
- Justify why the role of the Operations Manager is fundamentally changing
- Explain why effectively managing people is crucial to operations management
- Explain how teams can enhance the operations function
Unit 3: Products and Services
- Explain the relationship between marketing and operations
- Justify the need for flexible approaches to product and service design
- Describe key principles in product and service design
- Define and utilise the concept of value analysis
Unit 4: Operational Processes in Context
- Explain the relationships between value chains, supply chains and logistics
- Demonstrate best practice in selecting and working with suppliers and providers
- Describe the options available in designing processes
- Explain the importance of controlling the value chain
Unit 5: Efficiency and Effectiveness in Operations
- Describe how operations managers can assess the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations
- Explain how best practice organisations manage their operations
- Identify a range of cost-reducing methods that can be applied to operations
- Define and explain lean synchronisation
Unit 6: Quality, Improvements and Change
- Define what quality means and how to measure it
- Explain operational risk and how to manage it
- Demonstrate how Operations Managers deal most effectively with the complexity of modern organisations
- Explain why and how organisations adopt a continuous improvement approach to operations
Course delivery details
Split into 6 informative units, every element of this course aims to strengthen your knowledge and comprehension of business operations, so you can take your organisation to new heights.
This course is assessed using a series of written assignments that are designed to test your knowledge and understanding of the course materials. These assignments will need to be submitted to your personal tutor, whereupon they will provide you with a mark and valuable feedback.
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