Advanced Operations Strategy
Kurs
In London (Grossbritannien)
Beschreibung
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Kursart
Kurs
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Ort
London (Grossbritannien)
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Dauer
2 Wochen
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
The meaning of operations strategy and how all parts of the business can use perspectives on operations strategy to establish a connection between strategy and operational processes and resources.
How to judge the performance of operations.
Standorte und Zeitplan
Lage
Beginn
Beginn
Hinweise zu diesem Kurs
Chief operations officers and chief executive officers; operations directors and managers; heads of departments; senior operations executives, officers and staff; those who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between operational resources and market requirements; those who wish to transform their companies’ prospects through the way they manage their operations resources strategically, turning their operations capabilities into a formidable asset; those who wish to use operations strategy as a major source of competitive advantage in for-profit businesses or the route to achieving social welfare in not-for-profit enterprises; those who appreciate operations strategy as central, ubiquitous and vital to any organisation’s sustained success.
certificate
Meinungen
Themen
- Monitoring
- Service
- Business
- Operations management
- Technology
- Strategic Planning
- Resource management
- Supply
- Operations Strategy
- Strategy Development
- Strategic Business Management
- Operational Risk
Inhalte
- Why is operations excellence fundamental to strategic impact?
- What is operations strategy and how is it different from operations management?
- What is the ‘content’ of operations strategy?
- The operations strategy matrix
- What is the ‘process’ of operations strategy?
- Operations performance can make or break any organisation
- Judging operations performance at a societal level
- Judging operations performance at a strategic level
- Judging operations performance at an operational level
- The relative importance of performance objectives changes over time
- Trade-offs – are they inevitable?
- Targeting and operations focus
- Fads, fashion and the ‘new’ approaches to operations
- Total quality management (TQM)
- Business process reengineering (BPR)
- Six Sigma
- Some common threads
- The overall level of operations capacity
- The number and size of sites
- Capacity change
- Location of capacity
- Do or buy? The vertical integration decision
- Contracting and relationships
- Which type of arrangement?
- Supply network dynamics
- Managing suppliers over time
- Purchasing and supply chain risk
- Process technology should reflect volume and variety
- The product-process matrix
- The challenges of information technology (IT)
- Evaluating process technology
- Operations improvement
- Setting the direction
- Importance-performance mapping
- Developing operations capabilities
- Deploying capabilities in the market
- Innovation, design and creativity
- The strategic importance of product and service development
- Product and service development as a process
- A market requirements’ perspective on product and service development
- An operations resources perspective on product and service development
- Formulating operations strategy
- What is the role of alignment?
- Maintaining alignment over time
- What analysis is needed for formulation?
- The challenges to operations strategy formulation
- How do we know when the formulation process is complete?
- What is operations strategy implementation?
- What are the differences between operational and strategic monitoring and control?
- How is progress towards strategic objectives tracked?
- How can the monitoring and control process attempt to control risks?
- How does learning contribute to strategic control?
Advanced Operations Strategy