GMT6049 Strategic Operations Management

Assessment 2 - Group Assignment

Trimester 2, 2025

Due date: 03/08/2025.

Submission: Marks: 45 marks

Strategic Operations Management - Group Work. Blackboard through Turnitin

Assessment Brief: Assessment 2 - Group Assignment

Assessment 2 is a group assessment task. The purpose of this assessment is to:

i. ii. iii. iv. Interpret, analyse, and evaluate theories, goals and outcomes of operations management and

its relationship to the strategic direction of the organisation.

Critically analyse the nature of operations management and its contribution to supply chains,

value chains, strategy, and quality

Critically evaluate, apply and discuss strategies and concepts from operations management to

improve business practices and organisational performance.

Make strategic operations management decisions to maximise the organisation's competitive

position and demonstrate leadership capacity to develop and manage strategic operations.

Deliverable 1:

Your group will select an organisation and an operations process of your choice within the organisation

that provide opportunity for innovation. Evaluate the organisation and shortcomings in your selected

process and develop innovative new solutions and strategies for improving the process. Your report

should include the following:

Identify and describe the selected organisation.

Describe the selected process.

Analyse the shortcomings of the process.

Propose your innovative ideas and supporting rationales.

Justify the value of this idea expressed applying or using convincing operations management

terms, including what it will achieve.

Address the operations management aspects of this innovation in terms of processes, capacity

management, capital requirements, resourcing, human resource management, quality,

customer service, supply chain management and long-term sustainability of the innovation.

Describe how the idea and proposed changes will be implemented, operated, and sustainably

managed. A detailed project plan is not required, but general implementation phases are

required.

Note you do not need to provide a financial analysis.

Deliverable 2:

You will complete a Peer Review report for your group. Only write in bullet points for each of

the members in your group (Due 5th Aug, 2025). Further details will be discussed in the class.

ChatGPT: This unit does not permit the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI), such as Chat

GPT, for any assessment/submission in this unit; any suspicious of Gen-AI writing will be

investigated for Academic MisconductReferences: All writing and illustrations must be adequately and appropriately referenced. Your report

should consist of a minimum of 15 - 20 scholarly references. All references must be from credible

sources, such as journal articles, research books, industry-related journals, company documents and

recent consultancy reports such as from KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte.

Word Count: The length will be approximately 4000 words, and the assignment will be submitted

through Turnitin. No appendices are required for the report.

Use the report format:

Please refer to the following link:

https://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/uniskills/assignment-skills/writing/reports

Presentation Standard

The report submitted should comply with the following standards:

A4 size paper

Font Times New Roman

Font size 12 pt for normal text

Font size 14 pt bold for major headings, 12 pt bold for minor headings

1.5 line spacing

Page numbering (centered at the bottom of each page)

4cm margin left of page, 2.5cm margin top, bottom and right of page.

All figures, tables, diagrams are to be consecutively numbered and appropriately labeled.

Rubric: A marking rubric designed for the unit MGMT6049 will be uploaded in Blackboard.