Operations Management, Leadership and Kaizen Presentation

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of operations management within a business context, focusing on the relationship between leadership and management. It explores the impact of operations management on the business environment, emphasizing concepts like global competition, customer service, and technological advancements. The presentation delves into the Kaizen continuous improvement model, including its elements and phases, and demonstrates its application in enhancing business operations. The principles of Lean Production Theory are also discussed, highlighting its role in cost reduction and waste elimination. Furthermore, it contrasts Kaizen and Lean methodologies, illustrating their respective focuses on continuous improvement and waste reduction. The presentation also analyzes how leaders and managers can improve operational management and addresses the influence of various factors, such as ethics and resource availability, on business operations. Finally, it examines the challenges of meeting stakeholder expectations and concludes by summarizing the key aspects of operations management, leadership, and continuous improvement within a business.

Operations
Management
in Business

Introduction
 The presentation includes the overall description of the operations management
used in the business.
 The proper relationship between leadership and management will be discussed in
this presentation.
 The operations management gives a great impact on the business environment that
is also discussed in this report.
 The continuous improvement concept will also included in this overall
presentation that are used to improve the various operations of the business.

Relationship between leadership and
management
 The leadership and management are closely related with each other as
they both performs almost same role in the business organization.
 Although leadership and management performs different functions in
the organization but management includes planning, staffing, organizing
and directing and leadership includes listening, building relationships,
motivating and persuading the followers.
 There are lot of differences between leaders and managers. As leaders
have people follow them and managers have people who work for them.

Continued……
 The owner of the business needs to be have both the qualities
leaders as well as manager to achieve the success in the business.
 The leaders get authority from his followers and managers get
authority by the virtue of his position.
 The leaders follow their own instinct and manager follow their
own policies.
 Management is reactive and leadership is proactive.

Impact of operations management on
the business environment
 The business environment affected by the operations management and the
operations implemented in the business.
 The main impact of operations on the business environment is that it
creates global competition in the business.
 It creates quality, customer service and cost challenges in the overall
environment of the business.
 This creates rapid expansion of advanced technologies.

Continued….
 By the proper operations management, the service
sector of the business achieves proper growth in the
market of the business.
 This process of operations management create several
social responsibility issues.
 This process also creates scarcity of capital, materials
and many more things related to the business.

Kaizer Continuous Improvement concept
 Kaizen is the approach used for the continuous improvement in
the business organization.
 This approach is based on the idea that create positive changes in
the major improvements of the business.
 The Kaizen model include various elements that include
teamwork, improving of morale, personal discipline, quality
crisis and suggestions for improvement.

Continued…
 The continuous improvement in business is necessary as it manages all the operations of
the business in a proper manner.
 Kaizen follows the different principles for improving the various methods of the
business.
 This approach improving everything continuously and maintain all the business functions
in a proper manner.
 The Kaizen process include six phases that are identifying a problem, analyze the
process, develop an optimal solution, implement the solution, analyze results and
standardize the solution.

Use of Kaizer Continuous Improvement
Concept in improving the operations
 Kaizen is an approach used to improving the overall operations
continuously and increasing the benefits of the business.
 The radical changes in the operations will be included in the continuous
improvement.
 The continuous improvement designed to empower the employees to solve
the problems that improve the overall efficiency of the workplace
operations.
 The operations management become effective by using the continuous
improvement process.

Continued….
 The overall operations of the business is more
important for achieving the several objectives of
the business.
 The Kaizen continuous improvement is all about
the achievement of the improvement of the
operations.
 The operations improved by the overall process
of the business.

Lean Production Theory
 The lean production analyzes the overall production with
the increasing of the company profit by focusing on the
cost reduction and waste elimination in the organization.
 The waste elimination does not add value to the
customer that’s why it could be eliminated.
 The lean production includes the customer value and
increases the process in a continuous way.

Continued…
 The lean production theory is also used in the operations management as it
improves the overall operations of the organization.
 The lean include seven principles that are waste elimination, build quality, create
knowledge, respect people, optimize the whole process and respect people (Boies,
et al., 2015).
 Lean production aims to cut costs by making the business more efficient and
affect the needs of the market.