601Course · Foundation

Operations Foundations

The discipline of doing the same thing well.

The Course

Operations is the discipline of doing the same thing well, on purpose, again. This course teaches the value stream, Little's Law, and the three altitudes — strategy, operations, execution — that keep firms from optimizing the wrong thing.

Outcomes
  • 01

    Define operations institutionally.

  • 02

    Distinguish it from strategy and from execution.

  • 03

    Diagram your firm's core value stream.

Pacing

1 week · ~3 hours.