Summer 2002 MBA Course Description
IB f395: Seminar on International Operations and Management
| Instructor: | Dr. Jaime Alonso Gómez |
| Class Times: | MW 1:00-5:00 GSB 2.122 |
| Unique No.: | 72055 |
General Objective
This highly practical and participative seminar is designed for students who have academic and professional interests in organizations with present or future international operations and who plan to perform effectively in multicultural work environments. Students and professor in this seminar learn to know and understand the socio-cultural foundations and implications of current operations management strategic systems (TQM, FMS, JIT, STS, CAD/CAM, CIM), both in service and manufacturing organizations, across cultures. Group dynamics and simulation exercises enhance the teaching-learning process as a way to develop profound understanding and design capabilities inherent to the socio-technical dimensions of international operations management. The thread of planned change, technology transfer, and competitive strategy runs through the entire seminar.
This seminar particularly focuses on:
- The new complexity of multi-country, multi-cultural competitive strategies.
- How and why world-class operations management system (WCOMS) develop; including managerial, competitiveness and cultural factors.
- The value base on which these systems rely.
- Leadership and decision making styles which are consonant with specific operations management systems and the culture in which they
will be implemented.
- Diagnostic tools for identifying WCOMS implementation viability across cultures.
- Strategic guidelines and development of design capabilities for implementing WCOMS across cultures.
