Instructor Support to "Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice"

I maintain this site to support instructors with their teaching using our Operations Strategy textbook, some chapters, or cases (to adopt individual cases or chapters, email permissions@vanmieghem.us).

To make this work well, I have two requests to you who uses any of these support materials:

1. Please do not share your passwords. The site is password protected to prevent student access. (Unfortunately, Northwestern University requires us to change passwords about every 100 days, so I will have to send you new passwords periodically.)
2. Please share any suggestions or improvements you have. For example, it would be great to have a cooperative mechanism where we all share exam questions. If anyone has a good idea how to set this up in an incentive-compatible manner, let me know.

Most recent Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2018)

These are my most recent slides. They were taught in Winter quarter 2018 for two sections of my elective during the day. Class met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time.

1. Winter 2018 instructor slides (big zip file: 226MB b/c embedded videos!) The slides with _JVM in the file name contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. Please do not share this deck with any students. I no longer have a syllabus in Word; everything now is in Canvas and my syllabus there is publicly visible. If you can't access it, the basic structure follows this syllabus document that I share with students before bidding (but it is not detailed/maintained).
2. Our cases are also available directly from permissions@vanmieghem.us

Most recent Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2017)

These are my most recent slides. They were taught in Winter quarter 2017 for two sections of my elective during the day. Class met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time.

1. Winter 2017 instructor slides (big zip file: 61MB!) The slides with _JVM in the file name contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. Please do not share this deck with any students. I no longer have a syllabus in Word; everything now is in Canvas and my syllabus there is publicly visible. If you can't access it, the basic structure follows this syllabus document that I share with students before bidding (but it is not detailed/maintained).
2. Our cases are also available directly from permissions@vanmieghem.us

Most recent Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2015)

These are my most recent slides. They were taught in Winter quarter 2015 for two sections of my elective during the day. Class met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time.

1. Winter 2015 instructor slides (big zip file: 40MB!) The slides with _JVM in the file name contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. Please do not share this deck with any students. I no longer have a syllabus in Word; everything now is in Canvas and my syllabus there is publicly visible. If you can't access it, the basic structure follows the 2014 syllabus (of course, improved).
2. Our cases are also available directly from permissions@vanmieghem.us

Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2014)

These slides were taught in Winter quarter 2014 for two sections of my elective during the day. Class met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time.

1. Winter 2014 syllabus and Winter 2014 instructor slides (big zip file: 40MB!) The slides with _JVM in the file name contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. Please do not share this deck with any students.

Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2013)

These slides were taught in Winter quarter 2013 for two sections of my elective during the day. Class met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time.

1. Winter 2013 syllabus and Winter 2013 instructor slides (big file: 27MB!) The slides with _JVM in the file name contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. Please do not share this deck with any students.

Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2012)

These were taught in Winter quarter 2012 for two sections of my elective during the day. Class met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time.

1. Winter 2012 syllabus and exam and Winter 2012 instructor slides (big file: 60MB!) The slides have two versions: those with _JVM in the file name contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. The end of the file contains additional slides that I used in the past. Please do not share this deck with any students.

Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions-1.5hrs-each day class (Jan-Mar 2011)

These are the slides for the day class that taught: It met 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session = 30 hours contact time. In Winter 2011 quarter, I taught one section of my Operations Strategy elective (sold-out class: 65 students enrolled) during the day. I will add materials as I update my teaching this quarter.

1. Winter 2011 syllabus, instructor slides and others: these contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. The end of the file contains additional slides that I used in the past. Please do not share this deck with any students.

Powerpoint slides for 10-sessions-3hrs-each night class (Jan-Mar 2009)

These are my most recent slides for a night class, which meets 10 times, once per week, for 3 hours per session (including a 15 min break) = 30 hours contact time (minus 3hour break).

This Winter 2009 quarter, I am teaching one section of my Operations Strategy elective during the evening. I will add materials as I update my teaching this quarter. Slides come in two versions:

1. Current instructor slides: these contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. The end of the file contains additional slides that I used in the past. Please do not share this with any students.
2. Student slides: these are the sanitized Powerpoints that students can download and that are in their casepack. They are instructor slides with deleted notes and deleted case solutions.
3. Winter 2009 syllabus (Word file); PDF

Powerpoint slides for 20-sessions day class (Sep-Dec 2007)

These are my most recent slides for a day class, which meets 20 times, twice per week, for 1.5 hours per session: total = 30 hours contact time. Slides come in three versions:

1. Current instructor slides: these contain my full teaching plan (including examples, hints, questions to ask and answers) in the "notes" section of the Powerpoint slides. The end of the file contains additional slides that I used in the past. Please do not share this with any students.
2. Hardcopy handouts: the actual hardcopy handouts distributed to students in class.
3. Student slides: these are the sanitized Powerpoints that students can download. They are instructor slides with deleted notes and deleted case solutions.
4. Note that these slides are for my current Fall 2007 class which meets twice a week for 1.5 hours per session. Total is 20 sessions and 30 hours of contact time. Fall 2007 syllabus.

Case teaching support

The way I teach the cases now is described in the notes sections of my Powerpoint slides. Here are some detailed notes and additional materials I wrote a while back.

• Chapter 11: Harley-Davidson: teaching plan, teaching note, and a video that you could show for introduction (I no longer do): as Real Audio file (92MB!) or as WindowsMedia file (228MB!).
• Chapter 12: Seagate Technology: teaching plan, teaching note.
• Chapter 13: Peapod: teaching note, and some pictures of my visit to their Lake Zurich distribution warehouse in Spring 2007.

Powerpoint slides (Jan-Mar 2007)

These are older slides from January-March 2007 when I taught the class during the evening. Class met once per week for 3 hours per session. Total is 10 sessions and 30 contact hours (minus a break).

1. Instructor slides
2. Winter 2007 syllabus

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Last updated Aug 15, 2018 by JVM.