MBAMS 652 Lean and Six Sigma Management

A revolution in management methods is moving through the global economy at breakneck speed, High performance, Six Sigma, Lean and IS management methods among them. The new methods aim to create competitive advantage which every enterprise needs in order to create sustained growth of its net income. In this course students study how to use the new leading edge methods for creating the required competitive advantages. The course focuses on how a company can create and deliver high value and quality to end-users, how it can design products and services so these will start their lives as growth products when launched, how the companies can manage its value chains so they become capable of operating with a productivity advantage at competitively low costs, how the two - the value and the productivity advantages - drive sustained growth of the “bottom line” - a company’s net income. The student will study how, in this very competitive world, these new high performance methods will achieve stellar “bottom line” business results in an accelerated time frame under dynamically changing circumstances

3 Credit(s)