Question

Operations Management

1. Is operations management relevant to non-business organizations such as colleges and hospitals?
   
2. Why or why not? Provide examples that support in your answer.

Answer 1

Operations Management / Research is highly relevant to hospitals when it comes to analyzing beds, equipment, machinery, ER and doctors ' efficiency.
It is similar with colleges. You may define planned registration, class sizes, teacher distribution, classrooms, machinery and equipment.
Often helpful in handling other services such as transportation networks on campus, police / security and other such utilities.

Managing operations is a pretty wide domain. Anything that includes resource efficiency can be viewed in a wider scope. For example, it is an operational problem to optimize the number of doctors needed to serve patients with acceptable waiting time. It is an operational problem how many lets say waiting chairs are required at the reception. Similarly, college capacity planning is also the management of operations.

When profit margins decline, the ability to continuously improve productivity while delivering higher quality treatment and service has become critical to hospital survival. To order to keep pace in this field, several hospitals have recruited or consulted with industrial and process engineers.