- Shows how effective operations can have a huge strategic impact throughout the organization
- Provides guidance on how to respond to the most important challenges facing the practice of operations management
- Offers direction on how to set the agenda for developing operations capabilities
The Operations Advantage
A Practical Guide to Making Operations Work
Get guidance on how to set the agenda for developing operations capabilities; know what you should expect from your middle managers; and find new ways of facilitating operations improvement.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9780749473549
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 233x158
312 pages
About the book
The study and practice of operations has shifted to reflect the new challenges and uncertainties of how to thrive in today's ever-changing world. The Operations Advantage identifies the most significant challenges to the practice of operations management and gives guidance on how businesses can respond. Leaders need to link the strategic objectives of the business clearly and logically to its operations performance objectives. The book presents a series of ten activities that will help them to do this and therefore make operations work better, such as designing and configuring internal processes and resourcing the operations appropriately.
Based on the global teaching, training and consultancy conducted by the author, The Operations Advantage looks at the application of operations management across a range of sectors, including finance, healthcare, professional services, oil and gas industries. Although these diverse sectors require operations practitioners to apply knowledge in different ways, they essentially deal with the same set of processes. The book is an indispensable and unique guide for anyone with an operational role in any organization, as well as operations management students and academics.
About the authors
Nigel Slack is Emeritus Professor of Operations Management and Strategy at Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK and the former head of its Operations Management Group. He acts as a consultant in many sectors, including Financial Services, Utilities, Retail, Professional Services, General Services, Aerospace, FMCG, and Engineering Manufacturing.
Fascinating case examples and highly relevant operations strategy concepts. Particularly relevant for senior leaders in strategic functions or business units who wish to operationalize strategies into even more effective execution.
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