Using origami to teach production management
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-1997
Abstract
Design is a process of creation; it is neither wholly rational nor wholly intuitive, but both. It is more a process of the mind than of material. Design sets the parameters for products, processes, organizations, quality and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. Even though design is a key to competition in business, few undergraduate business curricula offer students needed opportunities for learning to design. The extended origami exercise meets this need. Success in the exercise depends on skills of process layout, quality control, management, and paper folding technology, so students connect disparate areas of learning and investigate problems for which they have no precedent. As they work their way through uncharted territory they begin to see themselves as solvers of problems and designers of systems. These are far better personal visions for aspiring business persons than allowing themselves to be constrained by the artificial boundaries of a functional area.
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Barry, "Using origami to teach production management" (1997). College of Business and Economics- Faculty Publications. 64.
https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/college_business_economics/64