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Operations strategy principles and practice by jan a. Operational strategy links operations with customer needs. According to ericsson and his associates, practice time is more important than almost anything else if you would like to reach that elite level you seek. Towards a dynamic theory of strategy michael porter smj 1991 why firms succeed or fail is the crux of strategy. Van mieghem and allon are the worlds leading authorities on operation strategy. The book shows how to tailor the operational system. Jun 11, 2016 van mieghem, jan albert, three rs of operations management.
Sklar, and kurt akeley and published by addisonwesley. Their new book provides the definitive source for essential knowledge on how to use operations to drive longrun value creation. Toledo toledo is being used for this learning activity. The following readings are required for the class and have assigned questions for discussion.
How to achieve excellent enterprise risk management why. Request pdf on jan 1, 2015, jan van mieghem and others published operations strategy. Buy operations strategy principles and practice by jan a. Figure 5 a tailored basesurge policy orders a constant fraction from the lowcost source and orders from the responsive source to respond to surges the mexicochina sourcing game. Performance analysis of communications networks and systems. Readings operations strategy sloan school of management. Operations strategy 454 course syllabus 3 of 16 building and evaluating the operating system instructor. This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of a potentially flexible and adaptive intended course of action. The following texts are required readings for the course.
Learningzone mapping against ilm level 7 nvq management and. An operations strategy is typically driven by the overall business strategy of the organization, and is designed to maximize the effectiveness of production and support elements while minimizing costs. Call for papers journal of strategic information systems. Om forumthree rs of operations management pubsonline. A number of cross sectional theories about the determinants of firms success have been developed over the years but not one that deals with thisissue in a longitudinal way. The relationship between practice and strategy cmoe. Jan 25, 2014 this paper studies the structure and value of strategy in its everyday sense, starting from a functional definition of strategy as the smallest set of core choices to optimally guide the other choices.
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As strategy as practice is a new perspective, this book both sets out some theoretical foundations for the field and provides a body of empirical work, which. Professor van mieghem is the coauthor of the mba textbook managing busi ness process flows. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Do you need to include more practice time in your strategic plan. Exploring the concept of strategy by using a practice lens. R anupindi, s chopra, sd deshmukh, ja van mieghem, e zemel. Exploring the concept of strategy using a practice lens. F steering committee on the results and progress of the fund. The authors do a marvelous job at developing a modelbased framework for understanding operations strategy.
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Principles and practice is a textbook written by james d. Operations strategy in manufacturing and services ku leuven. Ten years later i summarized the course into a textbook van mieghem 2008 where each chapter was accompanied by a minicase. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Unfortunately, risk assessments are often informal, poorly constructed and fail to identify and prioritize key risks. He serves as academic director of the executive mba programs and previously as senior associate dean and as department chair.
Course description and objectives the goal of this course is to make strategic decisions that are grounded in. Towards a dynamic theory of strategy michael porter smj 1991. In practice, both design and emergence occur at all levels of the organization. Going beyond telling warstories, my goal is thus to describe the practice of operations strategy while revealing its driving principles in a structured manner. Process alignment for strategic implementation bonnie mcilrath and tim kotnour, ph. Through their highly interfunctional and coherent framework.
In addressing strategy as practice, the focus of research is on strategy praxis, strategy practitioners and strategy practices, i. This growth strategy required a growth in elective courses, and i started in 1998 to develop a fullquarter operations strategy mba course. Van mieghem and gad allon this book provides a unified framework for operations strategy. Principles and practice is my guiding motto throughout this book.