BUS 8140 Managing Complex Operations
This course is designed to enhance the understanding of managing in a complex operational corporate culture in the areas of function, process, and ideology. Topics will include quality assessment, lean, six-sigma, process improvement, understanding techniques for charting and technical variable data, statistical process control, and total quality management. Students will study complex operations from an inspirational view of managing from a Christian perspective in developing managerial skills. Students will explore the failures in quality initiatives, managerial mistakes, and how the lean Six Sigma approach drive and support top management. Students will investigate the complexity of managing people, data-based technology, decision making to achieve, and measure the organization performance.
Prerequisite
BUS 8000 - Introduction to Doctoral Business Studies