Business Models and Operations

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Offered all semesters. Prereq., or corequisite one of STAT 216 , SOCI 202 , PSYX 222 , or FORS 201 . Operations are the activities of a business where products in the form of goods or services are produced. Inputs in the form of material, labor, capital, energy, and ideas are transformed by these activities into products to serve the needs of customers. This course will foster understanding of how operations integrate with finance, marketing, management, accounting, and management information systems to produce goods and services. This end-to-end conception of a business will focus on different models of the business to achieve this productive integration. Students will learn various means of production, methods of integration with other business functions like finance and marketing, and explore in depth specific topics like the management of projects, supply chains, inventory, and quality. Team projects will be assigned where students develop an integrated production system.