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Operations Strategy » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Operations Strategy by Nigel Slack

Authors: Nigel Slack, Mike Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780273695196, ISBN-10: 0273695193
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: October 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Nigel Slack

Book Synopsis

This new book provides a comprehensive and refreshing insight into the more advanced topic of operations strategy. It builds on concepts from strategic management, operations management, marketing, and human resources.

A three-part organization covers the nature, content, and process of operations strategy.

For practicing managers.

Booknews

This text provides insight into operations strategy at the organizational level, covering issues such as supply networks, capability development, learning, and risk. It offers coherent models of the subject that run through each part of the text and explain how chapters fit into the overall subject. Pedagogical features include opening questions and summary answers, key terms, real-world cases, and theory boxes demonstrating the underlying principles that support the ideas discussed in the text. The audience for the text includes undergraduates pursuing business or technical degrees, MBA students, postgraduate students, and executives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Pt. 1The Nature of Operations Strategy1
1Operations strategy - the two perspectives3
2The content and process of operations strategy39
3Time, trade-offs and targeting77
Pt. 2The Content of Operations Strategy111
4Configuring operations capacity113
5Capacity dynamics147
6Supply network relationships179
7Supply network behaviour213
8Process technology - definition and characteristics244
9Process technology - choice and implementation277
10Operations organisation and role320
11Operations development and improvement353
12Product and service development and organisation391
Pt. 3The Process of Operations Strategy429
13Operations strategy and 'fit'431
14Operations strategy and 'sustainability'468
15Operations strategy and 'risk'500
Index537

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