Talk:Operations management

message: In the Metrics section, an author specifies "Flexibility: mix, volume, gamma" without explaining what those three terms mean. If someone around here knows what they are, please explain or replace with non-jargony terms.
--Mrflip (talk) 22:05, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain Gamma 

message: These include:
Root cause analysis
Cause-and-effect analysis
Benchmarking
Statistical Process
Control Charts
Customer-driven Processes
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Mistake-Proofing
Poka-Yoke
Process re-engineering
Change Management
TQM
Malcolm Baldridge Criteria
Workflow analysis
Management by fact
Setup reduction
Work breakdown structure etc
Linear Programming  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.100.150.118 (talk) 07:45, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of sub topics may need to be listed 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I am working with an editor who is very new to Wikipedia, but who has substantial experience in the field of operations management, especially with respect to that concept is applied to service industries.
The editor reached out to Wikimedia through the OTRS system and I offered to help. The editor noted that this existing article has fine coverage of operations management but it is almost completely restricted to the manufacturing world and has almost no coverage of the service world.
One obvious approach would be to expand the current article to include coverage of services. However given that the current article is 57K, Adding substantial coverage of the service sector would come close to doubling it, which would move it to the size that we recommend splitting, so rather than integrating the material and then figuring out how to split it out, I suggested working on a draft article that emphasized operations management in the context of service industries.
That draft can be found here: User:Rgschroeder12/sandbox
I am looking for feedback on what we should do next. We obviously cannot move that draft into mainspace with the title operations management. One obvious option is to create an article with the title "Operations management for service industry". However, that would leave us with the asymmetry of an article with a simple title "operations management" which emphasizes manufacturing, and a nonparallel title for the service industry. If we did that, I think this article should have a hat note.
Another option is to convert this title into a dab page. This article would be moved to "operations management for manufacturing", and a page would contain links to both articles.
There may be other options, but my current thinking is that this last suggestion is the best option.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:18, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion, in keeping with WP:Summary style and WP:SPINOFF, the best path is to have a parent article titled Operations management that is short and overview-level, take much/most of the content that is currently here and split it off into a new child article titled Operations management in manufacturing, and then put the new/draft content in another sibling article titled Operations management in the service sector. The "in" naming follows a classic pattern in WP articles of "Parent topic" article with sections overviewing for , , etc. — ¾-10 20:50, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coverage of service sector