Description
Organizations need to strive for operational excellence to create value and to sustain business growth. In this course, we examine the foundations of quality improvement and the leading international frameworks for business excellence. Our focus is then on business improvement and the application of agile and other improvement principles to framing the context for improvement.
We ask you to identify a business operational improvement opportunity, and then assess its viability, before developing a plan for improvement program implementation.
COURSE DETAILS
- Suitable For: Senior Managers and Consultants
- Course Duration: 20 Hours
- Access duration: 90 days from date of enrolment
- Certification: Download your Certificate on completion
- Additional Resources: Download comprehensive Learners manual, additional articles and worksheets.
COURSE CONTENTS
This course comprises the following lessons:
Lesson 1 – Getting Started
SECTION 1: DEFINING QUALITY IN THE ORGANIZATION
Lesson 2 – Understanding Quality Management
Lesson 3 – Understanding Quality Standards
Lesson 4 – Customers and Quality
Lesson 5 – Total Quality Management
Lesson 6 – The Costs of Quality
Developing Operational Excellence – Quiz 1
SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
Lesson 7 – Business Excellence Frameworks
Lesson 8 – Understanding Processes
Lesson 9 – Process Improvement
Lesson 10 – Business Process Re-engineering
Lesson 11 – Agile Operations
Developing Operational Excellence – Quiz 2
SECTION 3: PLANNING FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Lesson 12 – Identifying Improvement Opportunities
Lesson 13 – Opportunity Analysis
Lesson 14 – The Improvement Plan
Lesson 15 – Wrapping-Up
Developing Operational Excellence – Quiz 3
Developing Operational Excellence – Course Evaluation
CERTIFICATION: DOWNLOAD YOUR CPD CERTIFICATE ON COMPLETION
