How does an organisation ...*create and deliver products at lower cost and with higher revenue? *meet the challenges posed by changes in customer preferences, internet-based technologies and global supply networks? *promote creativity, manage knowledge and innovation, and encourage social responsibility in finding solutions to those challenges? The answer is through effective operations ...

Everyone manages processes ...Everyone is an operations manager ...integrates services and manufacturing operations further than has been done before in any Operations Management textbook. This makes the book ideally suited for an MBA audience; who come from a multitude of organizational settings. --Par Ahlstrom, Professor of Operations Management, Chalmers University of Technology This text ...

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.

Market turbulence and painful lessons taught by aggressive competitors, together with rapid changes in manufacturing technologies and methodologies, have combined to put manufacturing operations under increasing pressure. This book extends the central doctrine of competitiveness to various aspects of manufacturing.

Contains over 250 entries in operations management. This book features 93 entries across a wide range of areas, including: service, strategy, technology and innovation. It expands on core entries such as the newsvendor model. It contains entries from 31 worldwide authors, featuring more than 50 international contributors in total.

A long-time market leader in this discipline, Slack has set the standards in Operations Management which other textbooks seek to emulate. Expert authorship, an engaging writing style, and an interesting collection of cases combine to communicate the importance of managing operations and processes within a successful organisation. Operations Managementprovides a strategic perspective, whilst also

A long-time market leader in this discipline, Slack has set the standards in Operations Management which other textbooks seek to emulate. Expert authorship, an engaging writing style, and an interesting collection of cases combine to communicate the importance of managing operations and processes within a successful organisation. Operations Management provides a strategic perspective, whilst also

A long-time market leader in this discipline, Slack has set the standards in Operations Management which other textbooks seek to emulate. Expert authorship, an engaging writing style, and an interesting collection of cases combine to communicate the importance of managing operations and processes within a successful organisation.

This text provides an insight into the more advanced topic of operations strategy. Practitioners and academics alike are waking up to the power which can be released through the effective strategic management of any organisation's operations resources.