Task assigned:

Students should select an organisation (Retail industry) and work through the following questions relating to operations within the organisation. Students should write a report (using the headings below as a guide) discussing the operations of the organisation, and making recommendations for improvement.

You may adopt a reasonably formal style and structure for your report. Include an executive summary and conclusions and recommendations. Students should note that they do not need to look at an entire company but instead may decide to focus on a particular business unit or operation. For example the group may want to look at a large international company but only have access to one part of the organisation this is perfectly acceptable (but you may wish to discuss this with your lecturer/counsellor before starting).

Discuss the operations strategy of your chosen organisation. Does your chosen organisation have a clear operations strategy? How does the operations strategy support or complement the business strategy? How has the operations strategy developed and changed in recent years? If the organisation doesnt have an operations strategy can you help them broadly define an operations strategy or give them guidance on what they should do to develop one?

[ 500 words ]