IIM Raipur | Executive Development Programme in Operations & Project Management (Batch 01)

Course Modules

Month 1: Foundations of Operations Management (12 hours):

Week 1-2:

• Introduction to Operations Management (6 hours)
• Definition and scope of operations management.
• Operations Management: Manufacturing vs. Services
• Contemporary innovations in operations management: Sharing economy

Week 3-4:

• Process Optimization and Efficiency (6 hours)
• Principles of process optimization.
• Lean management principles and practices.
• Six Sigma methodologies for process improvement.

Month 2: Analytics in Operations Management (12 hours):

Week 1-2:

• Introduction to analytical methods in operations management (6 hours)
• Linear programming and optimization
• Formulating operations management problems as optimization problem

Week 3-4:

• Forecasting in operations management (6 hours)
• Forecasting in operations management
• Data-driven methods and tool for forecasting

Month 3: Supply chain and Quality Management (12 hours):

Week 1-2:

• Supply chain fundamentals (6 hours)
• Basics of supply chain management
• Strategies for supply chain resilience
• Case studies on successful supply chain management

Week 3-4:

• Quality management (6 hours)
• Operational excellence from six-sigma perspective
• Continuous process improvement
• Measurement systems

Month 4: Project Management: Planning and estimation (12 hours)

Week 1-2:

• Project fundamentals and planning (6 hours)
• Operations vs. projects
• Project scope definition
• Project Selection
• Project estimation: time and cost perspectives
• Core concepts and methodologies.
• Overview of popular project management frameworks

Week 3-4:

• Project scheduling (6 hours)
• Creating comprehensive project plans.
• Resource allocation and scheduling techniques.
• Gantt charts and project scheduling tools.
• Project life cycle and key stages

Week 1-2:

• Risk mitigation in projects (6 hours)
• Identifying and assessing project risks
• Mitigation strategies and risk response planning
• Real-world cases on project risk management
• Project evaluation and responsibility matrix

Week 3-4:

• Stakeholder management agile methods (6hours)
• Principles and practices of Agile methodologies.
• Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile frameworks.
• Implementing Agile in different project environments.
• Effective communication strategies with project stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

Month 6: In-campus immersion (12 hours spread over 2 days)

• Project presentations
• In-class case discussions
• Simulation exercises
• Classroom lectures