Cases in Operations Management

This exercise aims at familiarizing students with the operations strategy. The cases are:

 Operations Strategy
1. Butler Metal Products: Focusing the Factory 2 students
2. Mitel Semiconductor 2 students
3. Electrosteel Castings Limited 3 students
4. Blinds To Go: Invading the Sunshine State 3 students
5. ASIMCO International Casting Company (A) 3 students
6. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 4 students
7. Navistar: Environmental Management (A) 2 students
8. Indian Oil Corporation Limited. - The Mathura Refinery 3 students

Required:
You are required to present two documents (Report & PPT presentation):

For the report:

1. Summarize the introduction before the cases.

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 2. For the assigned case:
a) Start with an executive summary of the case that points out the problem at
hand.
b) What decisions were taken and why.
c) Your opinion and suggestions about the decisions taken.

For the PPT presentation:

1. You are to prepare a 5-7 minutes presentation that briefly explain the case.
2. No need for the entire group to present it, one person is sufficient for this task.

Hint: In order to obtain good grade, you need to address the learning objectives LISTED at the
end of the summary of each case.

Grading;

All the group members will get the same grade for the case. The distribution is as follows:

75 % for the submitted material

25 % for the presentation

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