Authors: Nigel Slack, Mike Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780273695196, ISBN-10: 0273695193
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: October 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition
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.
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
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Pt. 1 | The Nature of Operations Strategy | 1 |
1 | Operations strategy - the two perspectives | 3 |
2 | The content and process of operations strategy | 39 |
3 | Time, trade-offs and targeting | 77 |
Pt. 2 | The Content of Operations Strategy | 111 |
4 | Configuring operations capacity | 113 |
5 | Capacity dynamics | 147 |
6 | Supply network relationships | 179 |
7 | Supply network behaviour | 213 |
8 | Process technology - definition and characteristics | 244 |
9 | Process technology - choice and implementation | 277 |
10 | Operations organisation and role | 320 |
11 | Operations development and improvement | 353 |
12 | Product and service development and organisation | 391 |
Pt. 3 | The Process of Operations Strategy | 429 |
13 | Operations strategy and 'fit' | 431 |
14 | Operations strategy and 'sustainability' | 468 |
15 | Operations strategy and 'risk' | 500 |
Index | 537 |