Download or read book Strategic Operations Management written by Steve Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a substantial new edition of a successful textbook which continues to have a sensible and 'easy to read' style. Each Chapter has a past/present/future theme with a real strategic approach. Strategic Operations Managment shows operations as combining products and services into a complete offer for the customer. Services are therefore seen as key and are integrated throughout the material in each chapter. Manufacturing, service supply and other key factors are all shown to be in place. In an era where companies are fond of talking about core competences but still struggle to understand their operations, this is an important for academics and practitioners alike. Only when managers understand their operations will they be able to leverage them into any sort of capabilities that will lead to competitive advantage. Online tutor resource materials accompany the book.
Download or read book Strategic Operations Management written by Steve Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Expertly authored by a team of Europe's top scholars in the field, the text is enhanced by the addition of new case examples, graphic images, learning objectives, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading. In addition, the companion website offers a comprehensive set of web links and videos to augment the learning experience. This truly comprehensive volume underscores the differences between the core theories that underpin operations management. Students taking MBA, MSc and MBM classes on operations management, advanced operations management, and strategic operations management will find this textbook fulfills all their requirements whilst advanced undergraduate classes in these areas will also find the book an essential read.
Download or read book Strategic Operations written by Robert H. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to recent surveys, the majority of improvement programmes, such as TQM and JIT, have not been successful. This book breaks new ground by emphasising the manufacturing process itself as a competitive weapon.
Download or read book Strategic Operations Management written by Robert H. Lowson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines four themes: strategy, services, innovation and management of relationships, both in the supply chain and with other players. Mini case studies are used to supplement the text.
Download or read book Operational Leadership written by Andrew Spanyi and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customers are increasingly demanding higher levels of speed and quality, yet leaders often focus mainly on reducing the costs of operations. This book outlines the needed evolution in leadership attitudes and behaviors in the key operational areas such as new product development, sales, operations, customer service, human resources, finance, and information technology.
Download or read book Operations and Process Management written by Nigel Slack and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the subject from a truly managerial perspective, this brand new text provides clear and concise coverage, whilst the fully updated accompanying CD provides an opportunity to practice and further explore the concepts and techniques introduced.-- Publisher description.
Download or read book Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management written by William H.A. Johnson and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projects have become the de facto method of implementing business strategy and operations. As such, understanding how projects relate to business strategy and managing projects strategically is increasingly important to effective and efficient business management This book is designed as a short and concise treatise on how to go about doing that. The authors start by figuring out how the project relates to the rest of the business and environment and what separates it from other projects and functions. They go on to discuss how you can use principles of strategic management to better organize and manage the various projects you may be dealing with on a daily basis so that they are strategic in nature. In essence, this book details how to approach answering the important strategic questions in project management like—“Why is the project being implemented? How does the project relate to the major strategic goals of the organization? How do we accomplish the performance goals for the project so that they help achieve the major strategic goals of the organization?”
Download or read book Operation Iraqi Freedom written by Thomas Donnelly and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the George W. Bush administration charted the correct strategy in Iraq, but has failed to match its military means to its strategic ends.
Download or read book Lean Six Sigma Logistics written by Thomas J. Goldsby and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed to market, reducing costs, and accelerating leadtimes are vital for survival in today's competitiveenvironment. Inventory is no longer considered an asset,and strategies are needed to operate with minimalinventories. Lean Six Sigma Logistics provides thevehicle to solidify strategic position, win overcustomers, and achieve ......
Download or read book The Execution Premium written by Robert S. Kaplan and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and David Norton in The Execution Premium. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy. This book shows you how to: Develop an effective strategy--with tools such as SWOT analysis, vision formulation, and strategic change agendas Plan execution of the strategy--through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards Put your strategy into action--by integrating operational tools such as process dashboards, rolling forecasts, and activity-based costing Test and update your strategy--using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data Drawing on extensive research and detailed case studies from a broad array of industries, The Execution Premium presents a systematic and proven framework for achieving the financial results promised by your strategy.
Download or read book Ten Years to Midnight written by Blair H. Sheppard and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.” —Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership. Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness.
Download or read book NATO s Air War for Kosovo written by Benjamin S. Lambeth and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-16 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. The author sheds light both on the operation's strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to induce Milosevic to capitulate when he did. He then explores air power's most critical accomplishments in Operation Allied Force as well as the problems that hindered the operation both in its planning and in its execution. Finally, he assesses Operation Allied Force from a political and strategic perspective, calling attention to those issues that are likely to have the greatest bearing on future military policymaking. The book concludes that the air war, although by no means the only factor responsible for the allies' victory, certainly set the stage for Milosevic's surrender by making it clear that he had little to gain by holding out. It concludes that in the end, Operation Allied Force's most noteworthy distinction may lie in the fact that the allies prevailed despite the myriad impediments they faced.
Download or read book Management Science operations Research written by Peter C. Bell and published by Thomson South-Western. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been designed to fill a market need for a shorter book which can be covered in 6 weeks to one college quarter. The cases will emphasize more than just individual quantitative methods for specific situations; they will help students with problem diagnostics and modeling processes. Some topics from MIS will be integrated as well. It will be a durable and striking book since it is to be case bound with a four-color cover. The book consists of 30% text and 70% cases. The text will also include a data disk.
Download or read book Operations Strategy written by Jan A. Van Mieghem and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves written by Lucía Martínez Ordóñez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations. It aims at scrutinizing the validity of the two ideas that have governed the literature on war and warfighting: One is the Clausewitzian Fog of War, which suggests that he who is able to "see" through the gunsmoke and observe his opponent’s moves before he has to commit to some strategy himself, should be able to gain an advantage over that enemy; the other is the tradition of understanding military conflict as a zero-sum game. Combined, these ideas seem to imply that war always gives rise to a second-mover advantage. This book questions the validity of this presumption at the operational level of military planning. It provides a simple but rigorous game-theoretic framework in order to analyse operational alternatives for a whole range of typical conflicts Western military forces are facing, including the most recent ones such as Anti-Access/Area-Denial and supporting host nations' counterinsurgency campaigns.
Download or read book Strategic Operations Management written by David Walters and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword * Introduction * New Economy: New Business Models: New Approaches * The Consumer as the Principal Driver of Value * Value in the Context of the Firm * Practical Issues and Applications * Perspectives on Resource Allocation in the New Economy * Supply Chain and the Demand Chain * Demand Chain + Supply Chain = Value Chain. The Principles and Logic Underlying Value Chain Structures & Participation * The Value Chain: An Industry Perspective * The Firm's Value Chain * Performance Planning and Control * Value Chain Applications * Industry Value Drivers * Index Foreword * Introduction * New Economy: New Business Models: New Approaches * The Consumer as the Principal Driver of Value * Value in the Context of the Firm * Practical Issues and Applications * Perspectives on Resource Allocation in the New Economy * Supply Chain and the Demand Chain * Demand Chain + Supply Chain = Value Chain. The Principles and Logic Underlying Value Chain Structures & Participation * The Value Chain: An Industry Perspective * The Firm's Value Chain * Performance Planning and Control * Value Chain Applications * Industry Value Drivers * Index.
