5starcooks Operations Management A Complete Guide - 2019 Edition

Can efficient materials handling reduce manufacturing cycle time or customer service time? Does your supply chain strategy call for the advantages of forming strategic alliances? How can existing products and services be adapted or extended into new profitable areas? How do operations give added value considering the differences between services and goods? How far have you gone with deploying your applications on container based environments? How would you show that small business is becoming a more important part of the economy? Is information technology services entitled to all software installed on its resources? Should your organization enter, expand, contract or withdraw from any business segments? What is the role of applications and platforms in the service providers offering strategy? Why is human resource management important in achieving the goals of your organization? This Operations Management Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Operations Management challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Operations Management investments work better. This Operations Management All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Operations Management Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Operations Management maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Operations Management improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: Diagnose Operations Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices. Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals. Integrate recent advances in Operations Management and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines. Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Operations Management Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Operations Management areas need attention. Your purchase includes access to the Operations Management self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.