Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 2 Operations Strategy © 2011 Ted James & Ventus Publishing ApS ISBN 978-87-7681-828-9 Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 3 Operations Strategy Contents Contents 1 Introduction 7 2 Defining Operations Strategy 8 2.1 What is Operations Management? 8 2.2 The Role of Services in Operations Management 8 2.3 What is Strategy? 9 2.4 What is Operations Strategy? 10 3 Operations Strategy
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Part I: Company Overview Founded in 1963 by Stanley Goldstein, Sid Goldstein, and Mark Steven in Lowell, Massachusetts, Consumer Value Store (CVS), has quickly grown to be the second largest pharmacy and convenience store with over 7,600 pharmacies and drugstores nationwide. Since the beginning, CVS has always strived to be the largest retail pharmacy-which led to the development of their growth strategy. Furthermore, CVS continually strives to “reinvent” the pharmacy and make healthy living
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It is not difficult to find examples of Scientific Management in the 21st Century; the car and computer manufacturing plants, the work environments we go to everyday, the hospitals we are treated in and even some of the restaurants we might eat in, - almost all of them function more efficiently due to the application of Scientific Management. In fact, these methods of working seem so commonplace and so logical to a citizen of the modern world that it is almost impossible to accept that they were
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Analysis 7 Competitive Landscape 7 Competitors 7 Furniture & Room Design Services 8 Social & Cultural 9 V. Market Segmentation 11 Description/Percent of Sales 11 Target Effectors 11 VI. Alternative Marketing Strategies 12 VII. Selected Marketing Strategy 13 Website Improvements 13 Price promotion 13 Outsourcing & Specialization of Customer Service Expertise 13 Furniture Design Service 14 Automatic Re-Ordering System 15 Toner Recycling – Add “Green” Value 15
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steel suppliers it used and locate a supplier with a common desire to enter into a longer-term alliance. Whirlpool’s organizational goals were to leverage the selected supplier’s technical capabilities through early supplier involvement, day-to-day redesign support, and process improvement. At the same time, top
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Summary 3 Situation Analysis 3 The Internal Environment 3 The Customer Environment 7 The External Environment 9 SWOT Analysis 12 Developing Competitive Advantages 12 Developing a Strategic Focus 13 Marketing Goals and Objectives 13 Marketing Strategy 13 Primary and Secondary Target Markets 13 Product Strategy 14 Pricing Strategy and Distribution/Supply Chain Strategy 14 Promotion Strategy 15 Marketing Implementation 16 Structural Issues
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leads to inability to reach consensus and indecision – Too much time spent on bargaining rather than acting rapidly to resolve problems • On balance, organizations should be open to conflict and recognize its value 6 Relationship Between Conflict and Organizational Effectiveness 7 Pondy’s Model of Organizational Conflict Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 • Latent Conflict • Perceived Conflict • Felt Conflict • Manifest Conflict • Conflict Aftermath
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COST AND VALUE MANAGEMENT IN PROJECTS Ray R. Venkataraman and Jeffrey K. Pinto John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or
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The McDonald's restaurant concept was introduced in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald of Manchester, New Hampshire. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald brothers and formed McDonald's Corporation. Early history In 1937, Patrick McDonald opened "The Airdrome", a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) near the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California.[4] Hamburgers
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