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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