TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Alex AU - Hill,Terry TI - Operations strategy: design, implementation and delivery SN - 9781137532763 AV - HD30.28 .H55 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan Education KW - Strategic planning KW - Production planning KW - Case studies KW - Production management KW - Print books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I: INTRODUCTION.- 1. An Introduction to Operations Strategy.- PART II: DEVELOPING AN OPERATIONS STRATEGY.- 2. Creating Value for an Organisation.- 3. Developing an Operations Strategy: Principles and Concepts.- 4. Developing an Operations Strategy: Methodology.- PART III: IMPLEMENTING AN OPERATIONS STRATEGY.- 5. Delivering services.- 6. Making products.- 7. Service and Product Profiling.- 8. Focusing Operations: Principles, Concepts and Methodology.- 9. Make or Buy and Managing the Supply Chain.- PART IV: DRIVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE.- 10. Developing Infrastructure.- 11. Measuring Performance.- 12. Developing a Business Case.- 13. Conclusion: Future Directions N2 - This textbook caters primarily for MBA students studying modules in Operations Strategy or Operations Management, and is also suited to postgraduate students studying Operations Strategy on specialist courses such as Operations and Supply Chain Management or Logistics and Operations Management ER -