Operations Strategy

Increasingly, companies in world markets are competing through their operations. To be able to do this, their operations strategies must both support other functional strategies within the company and provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace. In this module you will pursue the links between the operations function and a company's corporate strategy.

Topics usually covered include:

Time, trade-offs and targeting
Capacity configuration
Choice and implementation of technology
Capacity dynamics
Supply networks
Development and improvement
Implementation.

By the end of this module you will have:

Understood how operations strategy contributes to the competitiveness of the business
Appreciated the links between operations objectives and its overall role in the organisation
Examined each of the individual elements of an operations strategy
Used case examples to develop your analytical skills
Gained an overall framework for developing and implementing operations strategies.

There is another elective module available in this field.

Service Management