Course Terms of Use

All Saylor Academy courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For licensing purposes, a “course” is defined as the structure, syllabus, learning outcomes, unit descriptions, and the framing text that accompanies resources curated from third parties. That excludes the third party resources themselves, including the following resources used in this course, which contain the individual licenses listed below:

Exploring Business, v2.0

Corporate Governance, v1.0

Developing New Products and Services, v. 1.0

Building Strategy and Performance, v. 1.0

Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology , v. 2.0

The Open University’s Understanding Operations
Management

Wikibooks: Business Strategy/Approaches to Strategic
Management

Boundless resources

Hazz Design Channel videos

TEDx Talks Channel videos

rivervalleytv Channel videos

Tufts University: Electrical and Computer Engineering Handbook

JISC InfoNet: “Project Management”

Hindawi Publishing Corporation: Journal of Industrial Engineering

“Sustainable Supply Chain Design: A Configurational Approach”

“Implementing Lean Practices: Managing the Transformation Risks”

“Analysis of Technology Effectiveness of Lean Manufacturing Using Systems Dynamics”

“A Framework for Successful New Product Development”

DTUbroadcast Channel videos

OpenIDEO for IDEO

Wikipedia resources

ids355: Operations Management Wikispace resources

Wisc-Online resources

tcmc Quality Management Services Channel videos

Department of the Navy, Total Quality Leadership Office resources

The Operations Plan

MyBusinessExcellence Channel videos

“Reducing the Bullwhip Effect in the Supply Chain: A Study of Different Ordering Strategies”

“Assessing the Impact of Prices Fluctuation on Demand Distortion Within a Multi-echelon Supply Chain”

“The Strategic Importance of Supplier Relationships in the Automotive Industry”

“Improving Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management Systems in Resource-Limited Countries: Time to Change Approaches to Capacity Building”

“Enhancing Pharmaceutical Procurement”

Bob Allen Channel videos

Principles of Management, v1.1

“Operational Efficiency”

The Glossary of Education Reform resources

Kira Greer Channel videos

“Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement Based on Data”

OpenStax CNS resources

  • Attributed to Rice University and the Global Text Project
  • Licensed under CC BY 4.0
  • Original version can be found here: http://cnx.org/

AgileLionInst Channel videos

Indian Institute of Technology resources

“Productivity Improvement through Process Analysis for Optimizing Assembly Line in Packaging Industries”

“Assembly Line Balancing Methods: A Case Study”

“Time Motion Studies in Healthcare: What are we talking about?”

“Evaluation of Work Measurement Concepts for a Cellular Manufacturing Reference Line to enable Low Cost Automation for Lean Machining”

Principles of Marketing, v. 2.0

All other resources are copyrighted, and may not be reproduced without explicit permission from the copyright holder.