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Operations Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century

Sara L. Beckman, University of California, Berkeley
Donald B. Rosenfield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ISBN: 0072500786
Copyright year: 2008

Feature Summary



  • Integrates strategic and tactical decision-making: Includes description of basic operations management topics (e.g., quality management), which allows for integration of concepts learned in an introductory OM course or to teach some of the fundamentals along with strategy.

  • Provides practical guidance on: how to tackle each of the operations strategy decisions; specific tools to use in making those decisions; and examples of companies making those decisions.

  • Provides a unifying approach to strategy development

  • Treatment of sourcing and globalization found in chapters 5 and 6

  • Includes analytic approaches to a wide range of issues


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