Open to MBAs. Issues, concepts, objectives, and criteria in determination of capabilities, characteristics, and configurations of manufacturing and service systems. Examination of analytic and synthesizing methodologies for selection of capacity, location, technology, processes, material movement and storage systems, facilities, work group structures, and jobs. Open to MBAs. Definition and scope of operations strategy and its relation to corporate strategy, importance of productivity and its amplification in global competition, positioning the system to match market requirements, capacity decisions, product and process technology, work force and job design, strategic implications of operating decisions, suppliers and vertical integration.
Case analyses involving strategic issues in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing situations.
Open to MBAs. Lecture, three hours. Designed for second-year graduate students. Exploration of operating issues involved in managing entrepreneurial enterprises. Integrative course, building on methodologies, principles, and concepts provided in requisite functional and strategic core courses.