Assignment: Operations Management
Business Idea: adding a supervised play area for children to all Whole Foods grocery stores.
You will submit a discussion of the operationalization of adding a supervised play area for children to all Whole Foods grocery stores.
Summary:
You will consider the means to manage service quality in a lean business environment using a quality control plan. Consider first the overall quality approach, such as TQM, ISO 9000, or Six Sigma, then state the specific technologies you intend to use, such as acceptance sampling, statistical process control, and capabilities analysis.
Develop a work breakdown structure for your business idea. Your work breakdown structure should include at least three tasks with at least three subtasks each. Provide a narrative justifying each task and subtask that is part of your work breakdown structure.
Identify key milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements associated with operationalizing your business idea based on your work breakdown structure. The key milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements should be supported with an explanation of how they will help the project meet scope-time-cost objectives. Assess potential obstacles and impediments to meeting scope-time-cost objectives of the project, supporting your assessment with rationale.
Determine appropriate risk mitigation strategies to address the obstacles, impediments, and risks you have identified. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
II. Operationalization: In this section, you will discuss the operationalization of a business opportunity, specifically the business product, service, or other idea from your business plan in the Marketing and Strategy course.
Specifically, you should (THESE ALL NEED THEIR OWN SECTIONS):
a) Project the potential costs, risks, and benefits of operationalizing your business idea. Your projections should be supported with rationale.
b) Develop a work breakdown structure for your business idea. Your work breakdown structure should include at least three tasks with at least three subtasks each.
c) Provide a narrative justifying each task and subtask that is part of your work breakdown structure.
d) Identify key milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements associated with operationalizing your business idea based on your breakdown structure. The key milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements should be supported with an explanation of how they will help the project meet scope-time-cost objectives.
e) Assess potential obstacles and impediments to meeting scope-time-cost objectives of the project, supporting your assessment with rationale.
f) Determine appropriate risk mitigation strategies to address the obstacles, impediments, and risks you have identified.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.