Highly practical in focus, this volume proceeds from broad discussions of operations strategy, to assessments of specific strategies (competing on quality, productivity, and new products and processes), to discussions of how those strategies can best be implemented over time.
This is the ideal text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
This book provides a treatment of operations strategy which is clear and well structured, and seeks to apply some of the ideas of operations strategy to a variety of businesses and organisations.
Although these two approaches are different in many respects, they have a common theme, where the different levels of an operations strategy are considered as a whole, so that formulation effectively reflects the needs of the different ...
`This reader is an outstanding piece of work. It captures the essence of operations management by providing an interesting and sometimes provoking set of readings. It also provides an excellent review of the topic.
In addition, this is an important text for final year level undergraduate students studying Operations Strategy or Strategic Operations Management.
Porter's configuration-coordination framework studies value chain globalization with two dimensions, namely configuration and coordination. Prahalad and Doz's integration-responsiveness framework assesses activities along the dimensions ...
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Unlike other books, which are primarily casebooks, books of readings, or designed for a non-classroom audience, this book is primarily text, with some cases and numerous real-world examples.
This revitalized new edition of Strategic Operations Management focuses on the four core themes of operations strategy, a vital topic for any company's objectives: strategy, innovation, services, and supply.
This is a substantial new edition of a successful textbook which continues to have a sensible and 'easy to read' style.