Organizations must adapt to changes to ensure their continuity. Students in the Operations Management program come from a variety of professional backgrounds, often with years of experience and are aware of local, regional, national, and international trends that could impact an organization’s operations. Using complex problem-solving techniques, students will analyze your organization's operations, identify the root causes of your challenges, and make recommendations for solutions. Students will: Apply complex problem-solving to identify and distinguish the root causes of problems. Analyze, assess, and select appropriate solutions to business situations. Determine if the chosen solutions are viable. Develop an implementation plan for the recommendations. Evaluate outcomes and revise plans as necessary. Deliver a summary of their analysis using effective presentation techniques and strategies. Apply simulation modelling, where possible, to analyze and improve operational efficiency.

Does your business focus on delivering services to individuals, families and communities? Bring on learners from Fanshawe College's Program of Social Service Work as they elevate their skills related to human behaviour, social problems and helping techniques. Learners will devote up to 300 hours over one term, practicing the skills they have learned in the classroom. Learners are expected to: Examine current social policy, relevant legislation, and political, social, historical, and/or economic systems and their impacts for individuals and communities when delivering services to the user/client Develop strategies and approaches that support individual clients, groups, families and communities in building the capacity for self-advocacy, while affirming their dignity and self-worth Work from an anti-oppressive, strengths-based practice, recognizing the capacity for resilience and growth of individuals and communities when responding to the diverse needs of marginalized or vulnerable populations to act as allies and advocates Work with individuals, groups, families and their communities to ensure that service provider strategies promote social and economic justice, and challenge patterns of oppression, discrimination and harassment, and sexual violence with clients, coworkers and communities. Develop the capacity to work with the Indigenous individual, families, groups and communities while respecting their inherent rights to self-determine, and to identify and address systemic barriers that produce ill-effects, developing appropriate responses using approaches such as trauma informed care practice.

Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from Fanshawe College to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. Students will work on one main project over the course of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Students in this program will develop an understanding of the process, issues, and techniques involved in developing a compensation system. Students will learn both the theoretical and applied aspects of the compensation function; develop and recommend strategies that link the compensation function to the goals of the organization; as well as develop and recommend compensation and reward systems that are necessary to attract, retain and motivate the required workforce.

Virtual Project Opportunity: Bring on one or more students from Fanshawe College in the Business - Marketing (BMK2) Co-op Endorsed Diploma to conduct a program-related project/Co-op based experience. In the two year program, students learn that marketing is a broad set of activities and decisions that must be made about a product or service to satisfy customer needs – everything from design and production to distribution, pricing, advertising, sales and even maintenance. Developing good marketing strategies and properly executing those strategies most often determines whether a product will be a success. The Co-op work term is sequenced for a 4 or 8 month Co-op. Students are available to engage in an employer-lead project/Co-op as early as January 6, 2025 and can continue as late as April 25th, 2025. Student co-ops can occur in-person, virtually or a hybrid and will count towards a co-op credit. Co-ops must be remunerated.