Operations Management: Assignment 3: Goal Write-up

Operations Management: Assignment 3: Goal Write-up
The Goal – Write Up
Assignment 3: Goal Write-up
Due Week 7 Day 7 (Weight: 17.5%)
A number of years have passed since the writing of The Goal. Since then developments in both technology and operations-management theory have changed the toolset that is available to a plant manager like Alex Rogo (e.g. lean six sigma the internet etc.).
Write a 3-5 page paper in which you do the following:
1. Discuss how the availability of newer tools might have affected the choices and priorities on which Alex focused.
2. Determine if Alexs goal would have been the same in light of these new tools.
3. Discuss what Alex would bring to the challenges he faced that are absent in the Goldratt & Cox text.
4. Determine where he might have applied new ideas and/or what ideas he might have discarded.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
The following are specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment:
Identify operational strategies and the importance of plant ownership.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality logic/organization of the paper and language and writing skills using the following grading criteria.