Course content

• Fundamentals on Service Operations Management; Healthcare service operations; Design and management of service process; Managing service resources; Demand planning and forecasting,
• Basics on Inventory management, Basics on supply chain, Management of queue, Staff scheduling, Project management, Supplier network management, Lean Management, Time and motion study.
• Fundamentals on Quality Management; Understanding customers voices; expectations; perceptions; service quality, survey research; Inspection; Statistical Process Control; Design of Experiments; Six Sigma Methodology, ISO standards.

References

• Text book:
• (i) Service Operations Management: Improving Service Delivery, R Johnston, GClark, M Shluver, Pearson, 4th edition,
• (ii) Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, L J Krejewski, L PRitzman, M K Malhotra, S K Srivastava, Pearson, 9th edition
• (iii) Healthcare Operations Management, D B. McLaughlin, Julie M. Hays, AUPHAPress, Washington, DC, 2008(vii) Total Quality Management (TQM), D. H. Besterfield et al., Pearson learning, Revised3rd Edition, 2011
• (iv) Design and Analysis of Experiment (DAE), D. C. Montgomery, 8th Edition, WileyPublication, 2014
• (v) Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists, G. P. Quinn and M. J.Keough, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Journal References
• (i) A history of research in service operations: What302222s the big idea? R B. Chase ,U. M. Apte , Journal of Operations Management, 25 (2007) 375302226386
• (ii) Quality management in healthcare and industry: A comparative review and emergingthemes, A Komashie, A Mousavi , J Gore , Journal of Management History,Vol. 13 No. 4, 2007, pp. 359-370
• (iii) Lean Management302227The Journey from Toyota to Healthcare., ST Teich, FF Faddoul.RMMJ 2013;Vol. 4 (2):e0007
• (iv) SERVQUAL: A Multiple-Item Scale for Measuring Consumer Perceptions ofService Quality, A. Parasuraman, V. A. Zeithaml, and L. L. Berry, (1988), Journal ofRetailing, Vol. 64, pp. 12-40.
• (v) Service quality: a tutorial, J Harvey, Journal of Operations Management 16 _1998.583302226597
• Business Cases
• (i) Apollo Hospitals Differentiation through Hospitality, S Kulkarni et al. (2013),IIM Bangalore, HBR Case
• (ii) Forecasting Demand for Food in Appollo Hospital, S Roychoudhury et al. (2014),IIM Bangalore, HBR Case
• (iii) Six Sigma at Academic Medical Hospital, D. C San et al. (2002), HBR Case(iv) Aravind Eye Care System, S Deo & K Ramdas, 2018, HBR Case SoftwareMinitab, R, Excel