Week 5 – Quality Management and Lean Systems Our final week and I found myself taking off Friday just to get everything submitted on time. We talk about another favorite of mine and that is quality. I like the idea of quality, of incrementally improving step by step towards the unattainable. There is hope in …
Week 4 – Operations Strategy We delved into strategy by reading “What is Strategy” by Kryscynski and “Don’t Just Create Value – Capture It” by Ryall. We also read Iansiti’s “Operations Strategy”. This was a content heavy week with topics I would expect in an MBA class. We talked about the Value Capture Model (VCM) …
Our little Ted is starting to not be so little anymore. We celebrated his twelfth birthday with a trip to Kings Island and dinner with my siblings at Oriental Wok. He’s always wanted to be one of the birthday celebrants there who gets to wear the funny hat and watch the sparkler burn in a …
Week 3 – Risk Management and Resilience We read two papers, one titled “Building Resilient Supply Chains Won’t Be Easy” by Levi and one titled “From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal with Disruptions” by Fiksel. We learned about stress testing to identify points of weakness and risk. We also went into supply chain vulnerabilities …
Baseball Practice Ben is learning how to swing a bat and play baseball. He is getting pretty good listening to his coaches. I try to play catch with him to keep him sharp on catching and throwing, but I do not know enough about swinging to make him powerful at the plate. I did not …
Week 2 – Sustainability I am not a fan of what is considered “sustainability” unless it relates to building resiliency to market forces. I believe much of the environmental impacts people fret over with NIMBYism is just shipped overseas with more relaxed measures in place and to let those places suffer. It makes sense to …
Ben and I went to Cub World together for a day of archery and BB guns, but he decided he didn’t want to do that when we arrived. Instead, he wanted to go for a hike, or at least spend some time with me. We ended up hiking all over Cub World and up through …
Week 1 – Intro to Supply Chain and Clusters The focus on this class will be in supply chains. The professor has extensive experience in supply chains so there will be real world examples in the lectures. The majority of the class looks to be case studies and papers, with exams, and discussion posts. There …
We took a little trip out of town with the family for Spring Break since we are not going anywhere this year. We skipped out on Indian Rocks Beach for our annual trip, I was not able to take a full week off with my new role and being in school at the same time, …
Week 5 – Industry Dynamics and Firm Innovation We finish up the final week with a bit of a busy schedule. We are expected to both finish up a traditional fifth week of work and a final week that includes a consultant type slide deck for Wendy’s, which is currently undergoing financial difficulty. Our readings …