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Overview
Designed for executives, consultants and other individuals involved with an organization’s operations, this collaborative learning experience will show you how to optimize your organization’s costs, quality, speed and customer service — all of which will make a significant impact on your bottom line. Frameworks for diagnosing, improving and designing effective processing systems will be explored through real-world case studies, group workshops and computer-simulation models.
Under the guidance of an esteemed faculty team, you will analyze the laws that govern operations, explore the Business Process Flows Framework and investigate the critical link between operational drivers and business strategies. These exercises will help you master and implement the practice of lean operations at your organization.
Key Benefits about the Lean Operations at the Northwestern University
- Linking the operational key performance indicators to the financial metrics and the operating system
- Customize policies according to your systems’ natural tendencies
- Analyze process flows to target improvement efforts
- Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening flow time, reducing variability and improving quality while managing risk and uncertainty
- Learn operations risk management
Programme Structure
The Strategic Role of Operations
- Strategic operations framework
- Defining improvement
The Business Process Flows Framework
- Analyzing process flows: basic operational measures
- Linking operational metrics with financial metrics
The Toyota Production System
- Diagnosing common
- Lean tools
- Making improvements and Kaizen
Basic Process Dynamics
- WIP, flow time, throughput relationships
- Little’s Law
- Internal benchmarking
- Analyzing bottlenecks
The Corrupting Influence of Variability and Uncertainty
- Mechanics of congestion
- Batching effects
- Buffering with WIP, capacity and service
- Diagnostics
Data Driven Operations and Risk
- Noise versus signal
- Risk assessment
- Controlling a process
- Risk management strategy
Audience
- High-level manufacturing or service managers who shape an organization’s operations
- Managers who want to improve existing operational systems
- Consultants and engineers who must justify the cost of improvement projects
- Production-control specialists
- Federal Government managers with oversight of institutional or organizational processes
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
- StartingApply anytime.
More details
- START: April 28 at 1:00 PM; END: April 30 at 12:00 PM
- START: November 18 at 8:30 AM; END: December 22 at 12:00 PM
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus, Online
Disciplines
Project Management Entrepreneurship Management Studies View 134 other Short Courses in Entrepreneurship in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Who Should Attend:
- High-level manufacturing or service managers who shape an organization’s operations
- Managers who want to improve existing operational systems
- Consultants and engineers who must justify the cost of improvement projects
- Production-control specialists
- Federal Government managers with oversight of institutional or organizational processes
Tuition Fee
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International
6900 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6900 USD for the full programme during 3 days. -
National
6900 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6900 USD for the full programme during 3 days.
April: $6,900
December: $4,150
Living costs for Evanston
1100 - 1500 USD /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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