Operations Strategy: Text and Cases by David A. Garvin
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Operations Strategy
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Highly practical in focus, this volume proceeds from broad discussions of operations strategy, to assessments of specific strategies (competing on quality, productivity, and new products and processes), to discussions of how those strategies can best be implemented over time.
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Table of Contents
I. MANUFACTURING AS A COMPETITIVE WEAPON.
1. Indalex Ltd.2. Manufacturing-Missing Link in Corporate Strategy.
3. Chandler Home Products.
4. Sensormatic Electronics Corporation.
5. Intercon International.
6. The Roles and Responsibilities of the Corporate Manufacturing Staff.
7. Teradyne: The Foundry.
8. How Should You Organize Manufacturing?
9. FMC, Crane and Excavator Division.
II. STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES.
10. American Food and Grains: Commodity and Ingredient Procurement.11. Quest for the Best.
12. Steinway and Sons.
13. Sanyo Manufacturing Corporation-Forrest City, Arkansas.
14. A Note on Quality: The Views of Deming, Juran, and Crosby.
15. Quality on the Line.
16. A Day at Midwest Equipment Corporation.
17. Applichem.
18. Why Some Factories Are More Productive than Others.
19. North American Rockwell Draper Division.
20. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation.
21. The Case for Managing by the Numbers.
22. Note on the Aerospace Industry and Industrial Modernization.
23. Vought Aero Products: Factory of the Future.
24. Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project.
25. Allstate Chemical Company: The Commercialization of Dynarim.
26. The Rogers Corporation: Electroluminescent Lamps.
27. Project Nantucket.
28. The Boeing 767: From Concept to Production.
29. Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc.
30. A Note on Value Analysis: Its History and Methodology.
III. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING OPERATIONS STRATEGIES OVER TIME.
31. Building on the Past.32. Digital Equipment Corporation: The Endpoint Model.
33. A Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII).
34. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (A).
35. Signetics Corporation: Implementing a Quality Improvement Program (D).
36. Copeland Corporation: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy, 1975-1982.
37. Competing Through Manufacturing.
Index.
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CIN0136389171VG
9780136389170
0136389171
Operations Strategy: Text and Cases by David A. Garvin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
19911101
592
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