Grossmont College Operations Management Case Study

  Description:

This assignment introduces a “real-time” aspect in case analysis by requiring that students use a current business situation as the basis for their learning. You will be actively engaged in creating your own case study within the context of your real-world experiences. You will find that problem-based case development heightens the recognition that there are no pre-determined “correct” answers in most authentic business scenarios; however, it heightens the recognition of issues and potential solutions.

Empowering you to create solutions to your own case study not only increases your motivation and engagement in learning but also, for a moment in time, gives you the potential to have an observable and measurable impact on your employer without the associated risks. However, if your business situation experience becomes “reality” revisited for some future employer, then you have, perhaps, a number of potential solutions! 

Course/Problematic Situation Matching

Identify a problematic situation that you have or are currently experiencing at work and recreate the problematic situation with as much detail as you can recall as the first step in your learning experience. 

If you find it easier to recreate the details of your problematic situation using the names of real people, events, documents, and companies, please make sure that you change all names, at the appropriate time defined by you, so that anonymity is assured. Anonymity MUST be assured when you finalize your Case Scenario below.

From Problematic Situation to Case Scenario

• Identify the major topic(s) of your Operations Management course your problematic situation focuses on in the context for your learning.

Rewrite your problematic situation as a case study by beginning your narration with the major OM areas behind the situation in your case.  Once your opening statement of your case scenario is completed, complete your case scenario with the details of your problematic situation created above. Please make sure that all names, events, documents, and companies are hypothetical.

• With your case scenario, your goal, now, is to achieve a deeper understanding of the problem(s) raised in your case.