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Operations strategy / David Walters.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0333961129 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.15 22 WAL
LOC classification:
  • HD47.3 .W35 2002
Contents:
Pt. 1. Developing a View of Strategic Operations Management -- 1. Emerging characteristics of value and value creation and delivery -- 2. Perspectives of value -- 3. Value as a business concept -- 4. Value based organisations: the growth of flexible response and virtual organisations -- 5. Supply chains and value chains: definitions, characteristics, differences and directions -- 6. Value based organisations: the value chain approach -- 7. Strategic and operational characteristics and components -- 8. Corporate value, performance management, coordination and control: issues and options -- 9. Managing customer value and the value proposition -- 10. Core competencies, key success factors, value/cost drivers and process management -- 11. Where value strategy and value operations meet -- Pt. 2. Existing Value Chains -- 12. Industry value chains -- 13. Corporate value chains -- 14. Value and value chains in healthcare -- 15. Value chains in education --
Pt. 3. Configuring the Value Chain Structure and Performance -- 16. Configuring the value chain: 1 -- 17. Configuring the value chain: 2 -- 18. Case study exercises.
Review: "This new text is designed to cater for the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking Operations Strategy or Strategic Operations Management modules." "Adopting a value chain approach, it seeks to instruct and inform the reader on the importance of the strategic issues in operations thought and practice. The text provides an up-to-date, accessible approach to operations strategy, with a comprehensive overview of the subject area as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
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Books Bishop Barham University College Library 658.15 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available
Books Bishop Barham University College Library Closed Access l Short Loan 658.15/52 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17729BBUC

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Developing a View of Strategic Operations Management -- 1. Emerging characteristics of value and value creation and delivery -- 2. Perspectives of value -- 3. Value as a business concept -- 4. Value based organisations: the growth of flexible response and virtual organisations -- 5. Supply chains and value chains: definitions, characteristics, differences and directions -- 6. Value based organisations: the value chain approach -- 7. Strategic and operational characteristics and components -- 8. Corporate value, performance management, coordination and control: issues and options -- 9. Managing customer value and the value proposition -- 10. Core competencies, key success factors, value/cost drivers and process management -- 11. Where value strategy and value operations meet -- Pt. 2. Existing Value Chains -- 12. Industry value chains -- 13. Corporate value chains -- 14. Value and value chains in healthcare -- 15. Value chains in education --

Pt. 3. Configuring the Value Chain Structure and Performance -- 16. Configuring the value chain: 1 -- 17. Configuring the value chain: 2 -- 18. Case study exercises.

"This new text is designed to cater for the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking Operations Strategy or Strategic Operations Management modules." "Adopting a value chain approach, it seeks to instruct and inform the reader on the importance of the strategic issues in operations thought and practice. The text provides an up-to-date, accessible approach to operations strategy, with a comprehensive overview of the subject area as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.

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