Operations Strategy
Brief
Description
Building on the success of
the Slack et al Operations Management text, now in its third edition, this major new text
provides a comprehensive and refreshing insight into the more advanced topic of operations
strategy. This is particularly timely because of the increasing demand for courses in
operations strategy at all levels. Practitioners and academics alike are waking up to the
power which can be released through the effective strategic management of any
organisation's operations resources. In fact, operations is increasingly seen as the area
where the dynamic requirements of the marketplace and the developing capabilities of the
organisation's resources must be reconciled. Building on concepts from strategic
management, operations management, marketing and human resources, this text takes the
reader towards a rich and potent understanding of operations strategy, making it suited to
the needs of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and practising managers.
Features
- Covers
such topical issues as supply networks, capability development, learning and risk.
- Includes
many international boxed examples from a wide range of industries.
- Provides
easy to read, rigorous critical analysis.
- Pedagogical
features include a coherent model of the subject that runs through the text and explains
how the chapter fits into the overall subject; key questions which set the scene at the
beginning of each chapter; definitions of key operations strategy terms; boxed examples
illustrating real-world cases; theory boxes demonstrating the underlying principles which
support the ideas discussed in the text; summary answers to key questions; case examples
at the end of each chapter which provide 'food for thought' and discussion.
- An
instructor's manual accompanies the text.
Contents
Preface, PART 1 . THE
NATURE OF OPERATIONS STRATEGY.
1. Operations Strategy - The Two Perspectives
2. The Content and Process of Operations Strategy
3. Time, Trade-offs and Targetting
PART 2. THE CONTENT OF OPERATIONS STRATEGY
4. Configuring Operations Capacity
5. Capacity Dynamics
6. Supply Network Relationships
7. Supply Network Behaviour
8. Process Technology - Definition and Characteristics
9. Process Technology - Choice and Implementation
10. Operations Organisation and Role
11. Operations Development and Improvement
12. Product and Service Development and Organisation
PART 3 . THE PROCESS OF OPERATIONS STRATEGY.
13. Operations Strategy and 'Fit'
14. Operations Strategy and 'Sustainability'
15. Operations Strategy and 'Risk'.
546 pages