Lean Operations
offered by Northwestern University

Private University
240 acre campus
Estd. 1851

Lean Operations
at
Northwestern University
Overview

Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening flow time, reducing variability and improving quality while managing risk and uncertainty

Duration	5 days
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Total fee	₹3.46 Lakh
Mode of learning	Online
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Course Level	UG Certificate

Lean Operations
at
Northwestern University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from the Northwestern Kellogg
Learn from expert faculty

Lean Operations
at
Northwestern University
Course details

Skills you will learn

Kaizen Risk Management Operations Simulation Operations management

Who should do this course?

For High-level manufacturing or service managers who shape an organization's operations
For Managers who want to improve existing operational systems
For Consultants and engineers who must justify the cost of improvement projects
For Production-control specialists
For Federal Government managers with oversight of institutional or organizational processes

What are the course deliverables?

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
Learn operations risk management

More about this course

This program will give you the tools and framework for operating a world-class organization
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
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

Lean Operations
at
Northwestern University
Curriculum

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

Lean Operations
at
Northwestern University
Faculty details

Jan A. Van Mieghem

Jan Albert Van Mieghem is the A. C. Buehler Professor and Professor of Operations at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in Business and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and holds an electrical engineering degree from the University KU Leuven, Belgium.

Achal Bassamboo

Achal Bassamboo is the Charles E. Morrison Professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is also the co-director of the MMM program which is dual degree program between Kellogg and Segal Design at McCormick School. Professor Bassamboo joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2005, after completing his Ph.D. in Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.