Prentice Hall

Business



Operations Strategy, 2/E
Nigel Slack
Mike Lewis, Bath University

ISBN-10: 0273695193
ISBN-13: 9780273695196

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 496 pp
Published: 09/27/2007

Suggested retail price: $149.33
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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.

  • Comprehensive and accessible with authoritative authorship and an excellent blend of theory and practice,
  • European context
  • Engaging case studies,
  • Teaching resources including an Instructor's Manual with extensive case notes and PowerPoint slides.

  • This new edition has been focused to concentrate on the most significant topics in the subject, with 10 chapters replacing the previous 15. New material has been added and coverage of some older topics has been revised (see new table of contents).
  • End of chapter cases exercises have been replaced by major end-of book 'Harvard-type' cases.
  • New to the Instructor's resources online: additional cases and a set of questions and answers for class use / exam use.
  • New coverage of hot topics, such as the implications of E-Business on ops strategy, agility & it's inter-relationship with lean, complexity, supply management issues, operations strategy for competitive advantage and SCM, and implementation.

Brief contents

 

 List of figures, tables and exhibits from case studies

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1        What is operations strategy?

Chapter 2        Operations performance

Chapter 3        Capacity strategy

Chapter 4        Supply network strategy

Chapter 5        Process technology strategy

Chapter 6        Improvement strategy

Chapter 7        Product and service development and organization

Chapter 8        The process of operations strategy – sustainable alignment

Chapter 9        The process of operations strategy – substitutes for strategy?

Chapter 10      The process of operations strategy – implementation?

Case studies

Bunge Limited

From Russiawith love

Ikea’s global sourcing challenge: Indian rugs and Child labour

McDonald’s Corporation

Kuhn Flowers

Inditex: Zara and beyond

Delta Synthetic Fibres (DSF)

The GreenvilleOperation

Turnround at the Prestonplant (revised)

DisneylandResort Paris

 

Index

 

Operation Strategy

Second Edition

Nigel Slack and Michael Lewis

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
  • Teaching resources including an Instructor’s Manual with extensive case notes and PowerPoint slides at www.pearsoned.co.uk/slack.

What’s New?

  • This new edition has been focused to concentrate on the most significant topics in the subject, with 10 chapters replacing the previous 15. New material has been added and coverage of some older topics has been revised (see new table of contents).
  • End-of-chapter case exercises have been replaced by a major end-of-book section of ‘Harvard-type’ cases.
  • New to the Instructor’s resources online: additional cases and a set of questions and answers for class use / exam use.
  • New coverage of hot topics, such as the implications of ERP and Six Sigma on ops strategy, agility and it’s inter-relationship with lean, supply management issues, operations strategy for competitive advantage and SCM, and implementation.

 

 

 

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