Operations Strategy

by Slack, Nigel; Slack, Nigel; Lewis, Mike

• ISBN13: 9781292017792
• ISBN10: 1292017791
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-12-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Ideal for Advanced Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, this book builds on concepts from Strategic Management, Operations Management, Marketing and HRM to give students a comprehensive understanding of Operations Strategy.

 

Features

• Comprehensive and accessible with authoritative authorship and an excellent blend of theory and practice
• A European context
• Engaging case studies

New to this edition

 

·    An approach that highlights some of the developments in operations strategy, especially how its concepts are having wider application.

·    Many new and updated examples, which cover the topical issues in operations strategy. Two thirds of the examples used are new or updated for to this edition.

·    The inclusion of some new material relating to such issues as the links between operations management and strategy, triadic supply relationships, knowledge management, and organizational ambidexterity.

·    New longer cases, but retaining those that proved popular from the previous edition. These cases can still be used form the basis of a whole course in operations strategy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:   Operations strategy – developing resources and processes for strategic impact

Chapter 2:   Operations performance

Chapter 3:   Substitutes for strategy

Chapter 4:   Capacity strategy

Chapter 5:   Purchasing and supply strategy

Chapter 6:   Process technology strategy

Chapter 7:   Improvement strategy

Chapter 8:   Product and service development and organization

Chapter 9:   The process of operations strategy – Formulation and implementation

Chapter 10:    The process of operations strategy – Monitoring and control

Case studies