Operations Strategy: Focusing Competitive Excellence (Quantitative Methods and Applied Statistics Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0205142532 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 607 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Very Difficult to Read and Understand A Customer I purchased this book to prepare for a course on manufacturing strategy. Am very disappointed now how little I gained from this book. My expectation was that it would help me get some better conceptual and practical understanding about operations strategy. While the book seems to cover all pertinent topics on operations strategy, it lacks clarity in its definitions and it has no flow, which makes it extremely difficult to read. I took at least three attempts to read various chapters to better understand s
The book is comprehensive and integrates the classical foundations with recent application advances. This perspective integrates corporate strategy formulation and implementation within long range business planning, midrange operations planning and short-range tactical execution of the strategy, without losing its linkage with operations management fundamentals.. Unlike other books, which are primarily casebooks, books of readings, or designed for a non-classroom audience, this book is primarily text, with some cases and numerous real-world examples. The chapters are organized to show the importance and interrelationship of each topic, describing all relevant algorithms, showing their applications, and noting the strategic operations issues of how, when, where and why
The chapters are organized to show the importance and interrelationship of each topic, describing all relevant algorithms, showing their applications, and noting the strategic operations issues of how, when, where and why. From the Publisher Unlike other books, which are primarily casebooks, books of readings, or designed for a non-classroom audience, this book is primarily text, with some cases and numerous real-world examples. This perspective integrates corporate strategy formulation and implementation within long range business planning, midrange operations planning and short-range tactical execution of the strategy, without losing its linkage with operations management fundamentals. The book is comprehensive and integrates the classical foundations with recent application advances.