Activities of XOPS
XOPS plays an important role in providing the XIMB community with indepth insights regarding the developments in the Operation Management field.Say it through magazine,immersion courses,workshops or facilities for certifications.
Furnished below are the details of some of the activities which XOPS do actively throughout the year.
MAGAZINES
Operations management is no longer focused only on shop floor activities or the day to day details of business. Operations strategy today is a source of competitive advantage across manufacturing and service industries alike. The magazines encompasse different views of the industry professionals, academia and students across the many B-Schools in the country in an effort to address the burning issues.
Time to time XOPS decide a theme for the magazine. Last magazine published is :
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations.
IMMERSION COURSES & WORKSHOPS
Immersion Courses are courses designed for highly focused topics on which people from different industry interact with the students on a classroom teaching format.These help the students to know more about wide aspects of operations management. The courses include various subjects which are not present in the curriculum. Some being :
1.Logistics & supply Chain Management by Aswath Nagendra Chief Operating Officer at Forbes and Company Limited
2.Issues and challenges of SCM in Automotive, Retail and Rural sectors in India by Prof. Ranjan Ghosh, Faculty, IIMC (Rtd.)
CERTIFICATIONS
Through continuous negotiations and dealing XOPS has pinned down to some of the major certifications in the field of operations. These certification courses help the student community of XIMB to stay abreast with the Industry Standards.Some of the certification courses are :
1.Green belt Six Sigma
(Awarded by Indian Statistical Institute)
2.Project management
(Awarded by PMI)
3.Total Quality Management(TQM)
4.Project Management Proffessional(PMP)
Please find below the links to different magazines.
......................Happy Reading....................