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Rotating Operations Manager Root CA with Custom CA certificate

Recently a customer reported an issue with harbor UAA login after using custom certificates and we identified the root cause was the mismatch in the root ca of harbor and opsmanager. By default, the harbor vm root CA is same as the Opsman root CA. We suggested the customer to get the opsman root ca updated which resolved the issue. In this blog post, I will take you through how we can replace the…

Unitec Project Based Learning Team Award

Sukesh Sukumaran announced the winner of the Team Project for The Pallet Company comprising team members Sumit Devanand Tiwari, Priscilla Hunter, Sarah Zhang, Harsh Kumar, Mohmmad Alhdad (absent), and Harsh Rajeshkumar Shah (absent).

The team conducted a project-based learning investigation to improve productivity at The Pallet Company, a company with a high reputation for its innovation and market dominance. The project team analysed individual processes, such as the cutting optimiser, surprising the client with opportunities to improve its efficiency, whilst also considering their recommendations to impact on the broader factory operation. The team has worked together energetically and constructively drawing upon their diverse professional backgrounds and cultural heritages. In particular, the team adapted and applied its knowledge of several operations management methodologies, such as lean six sigma and the Toyota Production System (TPS) to the context and absorptive capacity of the company.

The award was  presented by their lead learning partner, Associate Professor Peter Mellalieu. The team conducted their project as part of their studies in operations management.

Further information

Additional photographs of GradFest 2015 at: http://petermellalieu.zenfolio.com/gradfest2015

Mellalieu, P. J. (2015, November 9). Learn operations management in an applied workplace setting. http://pogus.tumblr.com/post/132838920923/learn-operations-management-in-an-applied

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Unitec's Gradfest 2015 - Business, Communications, and Computing

'Wealth WITH green': Lessons from an academic assignment

The team assignment 'Wealth WITH Green' (WWG) assigns students to identify practical recommendations for improving the environmental practice of a business concern. The ambition for the assignment is that students discover and gain inspiration from exemplary, world class businesses that contribute a positive impact on the natural environment whilst also achieving superior business outcomes.

The focus of the WWG assignment is that students draw lessons from relevant international companies for their client: a small-medium company operating in a similar industry in New Zealand. Exemplary companies that the students studied included Unilever (FMCG food), Interface Flor (carpet tiles), Toyota (automobiles), Toll Holdings (freight), Dulux (paints), Fetzer (wine), IKEA (furniture), Umicore (chemicals), Ben & Jerry's (ice cream), and Natural Burials (funerals).

Undertaking the assignment over a 12-week period, the students audit the existing 'green' practices, strategies, policies, products, and outcomes of their target client. Next, they search for an international benchmark business in a similar industry from which they can adapt lessons appropriate for their client. Concurrently, they make a particular study of Interface Flor, a company renowned for its strategic intent to achieve a zero environmental footprint by 2020. Part way through their project, the student teams present an oral progress report on their findings. The feedback received on their oral presentation is used to refine the final technical report.

The assignment forms part of the Unitec course BSNS 6350 Business Process Improvement (BPI).

Further information

http://tinyurl.com/wealthwithgreen

 Mellalieu, P. J. (2015, December 16). Wealth WITH Green: A professional academic course. Retrieved from http://pogus.tumblr.com/post/118188712763/wealthwithgreen