Since I´ve been extremely
busy over the past few weeks, I wasn´t able to post as much as I´d have liked,
but today I´ll try to make this up with a post that I´m sure will help more
than one in their quest of knowledge and entertainment.
I´m currently enrolled in a
thrilling course on Operations Management. It´s an eight week long course that
hopefully will teach me how to analyze and improve business processes, at the
same time I learn how to improve productivity, how to provide more choice to
customers, how to reduce response times, and how to improve quality.
I have gone through the
second week and I´ve found it more demanding than expected, but I´m sure the
effort will be worthy.
The course consists of
lecture videos plus standalone homework that are not part of video lectures. At
the end of the course there is a final exam and the option to complete a course
project along the way which supposedly applies the learnings from the modules
to a real world problem.
I´m not quite sure if I´ll
be able to complete the course project due to the time it will require, but
I´ll do my best to at least do my weekly homework and the final exam!
There are many other free
courses at the Coursera website, but I´ve found this specially interesting due
to the fact that over the first weeks of the course some of the topics I have
written about on previous post have been mentioned, for example lean
operations, kaizen and the seven sources of waste that mostly impact any
process, therefore you can find extended information here to complete you
assignments.
This is the link to the
course, offered by Coursera in association with the University of Pennsylvania:
Coursera website
