Strategy and Performance: Creating a Winning Business Formula

by John Mills , Ken Platts , Andy Neely , Huw Richards , Michael Bourne

• ISBN13: 9780521750295
• ISBN10: 0521750296
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The right manufacturing strategy is vital to maintaining profitability and running an efficient business. Manufacturing, however, is a complex business, and it is often difficult to know where to start when reviewing and developing long term strategic plans. This industry guide explains in clear, simple stages how to review your current processes and procedures, and how to build on this information to develop, present and implement new manufacturing strategies. Based on a uniquely structured approach developed over many years with major industry clients, including Rolls-Royce and Federal Mogul, its holistic approach can be applied to every area of operations from the entire organization down to individual business units or processes. CD included.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
Introduction to strategy and an overview of the approach	5	(18)
What is strategy?	7	(4)
What is manufacturing strategy?	11	(4)
Overview of the approach	15	(8)
Selecting a facilitator	23	(6)
Why start and how to start?	29	(14)
History and argument	31	(1)
Comments from users and non-users	32	(2)
Time, resources and planning the first steps	34	(3)
Do you have a problem? (1)	37	(1)
Do you have a problem? (2)	38	(5)
The approach	43
Identifying customer product groups	47
What are our business objectives?	55
What is our current strategy?	71
Can current strategy achieve our objectives?	85
Navigating towards our business objectives	95
Embedding strategy-making into the culture	111