DAELP IX Dates & Course Description
RESIDENCY ONE: 23 - 28 October, 2011
UNC Chapel Hill - Center for School Leadership Development
Participants focus on strategic operations and general management principles. Throughout the program instructional activities include in-class sessions with expert faculty, simulations, case studies, project learning and corporate site visits. They are also introduced to Lean Six Sigma at the executive level.
*Participants arrive Sunday for a welcome reception in the evening.
Week 1
Session topics may include:
- Future of AMC
- Globalization & the Implications for Organizations
- Perspectives on Transformation and Business Modernization
- Defense Logistics
- Strategic Supply Chain and Logistics Management
- Strategic Mindset
- Panel Discussion: Depot & Arsenal Commanders
- Outsourcing Dilemma: Alliances and Partnerships Remanufacturing
- DoD Perspective: Depot and Maintenance Activities
- Systems Thinking and Problem Solving
- Operations Management
- Lean Six Sigma
- Product Life-cycle for Design and Maintenance
- Private Sector Manufacturing Tour GKN
- Organizational Performance & Metrics
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RESIDENCY TWO: 5-10 December 2011
Depot Locations:
Participants focus on aspects of manufacturing, operations, and supply chain management. Additionally they tour Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy facilities to share ideas, principles, and private sector practices.
Week 2
Topics may include:
- Industrial and Occupational Safety
- Lean Operations and Implementation in Manufacturing Practices
- USA Installation Tour
- USAF Installation Tour
- USMC Installation Tour
- USN Installation Tour
- Corporate Tour
This session includes field trips and facility tours with briefings at manufacturing and warehousing, facilities, and military installations. (e.g. Anniston Army Depot, Warner Robins ALC, and USMC Maintenance Center Albany)
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RESIDENCY THREE: 30 January - 3 February 2012
UNC Chapel Hill - Center for School Leadership Development
Participants focus on human resource management, workforce performance, and the legal and financial aspects of managing large government, civilian-based organizations.
Week 3
Topics may include:
- Leading Change
- Performance-based logistics negotiations
- Workforces issues
- Information Technology and Supply Chain Management Decision Making
- Ethics
- Media Relationships
- Consultants View of the Corporation
- Corporate residency examples
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RESIDENCY FOUR: PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECTOR - 6 February through 11 May 2012
In-Residence with Sponsor
Weeks 4 through 7
Participants participate in corporate residencies with leading U.S. corporations, receiving both horizontal and vertical views of the enterprise, as well as preparing a corporate consultancy project for the host company.
Participant Objectives: 2-4 weeks in length
Gain exposure to private sector leadership, techniques, organizational structures and methods of operations,
- Work closely with participants on their individual corporate consultancies, and
- Work with senior executive “mentors” and DAELP faculty advisors.
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RESIDENCY FIVE: 14-18 May 2012
UNC Chapel Hill - Center for School Leadership Development
Participants engage a new set of topics and will review, evaluate, and discuss their corporate residencies.
Week 8
Topics may include:
- Reviewing Corporate Residency and Worksite Project Experiences
- Technology and the Supply Chain Innovation
- Enabling Technologies and Wireless communication Improving Systems Design and Maintenance
- Performance-based Logistics
- Debriefing session on the Corporate & Project Experiences with U.S. Army Materiel Command senior leadership
