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Advanced Operations Strategy

4.5
2 reviews
  • This place wasn't what I was expecting, I am highly disappointed and can't recommend. I won't recommend this course to anyone. The lecture quality wasn't good. Personally, I didn't like it.
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  • I had a nice time in all, thanks for everything. I enjoyed.
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Short course

In Hammersmith

£ 5,175 + VAT

Understand the meaning of operations strategy and how all parts of the business can use perspectives on operations strategy!

  • Type

    Short course

  • Location

    Hammersmith

  • Duration

    2 Weeks

Would you like to give an impulse to your professional life? If so, you should check this Advanced Operations Strategy Course, organized by London Business Training & Consulting, that Emagister.co.uk has added to its catalogue.

This training is suitable for chief operations officers and chief executive officers; operations directors and managers; heads of departments; senior operations executives, officers and staff; those who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between operational resources and market requirements.

It is also targeted for those who wish to transform their companies’ prospects through the way they manage their operations resources strategically, turning their operations capabilities into a formidable asset; those who wish to use operations strategy as a major source of competitive advantage in for-profit businesses or the route to achieving social welfare in not-for-profit enterprises.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand the meaning of operations strategy and how all parts of the business can use perspectives on operations strategy to establish a connection between strategy and operational processes and resources.

Are you interested in this course? If so, you should contact London Business Training & Consulting through Emagister.co.uk right now! The opportunities are on the palm of your hand.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Hammersmith (London)
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W6 0NB

Start date

On request

About this course

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
The meaning of operations strategy and how all parts of the business can use perspectives on operations strategy to establish a connection between strategy and operational processes and resources.
How to judge the performance of operations.

Chief operations officers and chief executive officers; operations directors and managers; heads of departments; senior operations executives, officers and staff; those who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between operational resources and market requirements; those who wish to transform their companies’ prospects through the way they manage their operations resources strategically, turning their operations capabilities into a formidable asset; those who wish to use operations strategy as a major source of competitive advantage in for-profit businesses or the route to achieving social welfare in not-for-profit enterprises; those who appreciate operations strategy as central, ubiquitous and vital to any organisation’s sustained success.

Certificate.

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Reviews

4.5
  • This place wasn't what I was expecting, I am highly disappointed and can't recommend. I won't recommend this course to anyone. The lecture quality wasn't good. Personally, I didn't like it.
    |
  • I had a nice time in all, thanks for everything. I enjoyed.
    |
100%
4.7
excellent

Course rating

Recommended

Centre rating

Student reviewer

5.0
02/03/2020
About the course: This place wasn't what I was expecting, I am highly disappointed and can't recommend. I won't recommend this course to anyone. The lecture quality wasn't good. Personally, I didn't like it.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Joseph F,

4.0
30/06/2018
What I would highlight: I had a nice time in all, thanks for everything. I enjoyed.
What could be improved: nothing to improve
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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This centre's achievements

2018

All courses are up to date

The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 5 years

Subjects

  • Operations Management
  • Monitoring
  • Market
  • Supply
  • Consulting
  • Strategic Planning
  • Technology
  • Strategy Development
  • Strategic Business Management
  • Resource Management
  • Operational Risk
  • Operations Strategy

Course programme

Developing Resources and Processes for Strategic Impact
  • Why is operations excellence fundamental to strategic impact?
  • What is operations strategy and how is it different from operations management?
  • What is the ‘content’ of operations strategy?
  • The operations strategy matrix
  • What is the ‘process’ of operations strategy?
Operations Performance
  • Operations performance can make or break any organisation
  • Judging operations performance at a societal level
  • Judging operations performance at a strategic level
  • Judging operations performance at an operational level
  • The relative importance of performance objectives changes over time
  • Trade-offs – are they inevitable?
  • Targeting and operations focus
Substitutes for Strategy
  • Fads, fashion and the ‘new’ approaches to operations
  • Total quality management (TQM)
  • Business process reengineering (BPR)
  • Six Sigma
  • Some common threads
Capacity Strategy
  • The overall level of operations capacity
  • The number and size of sites
  • Capacity change
  • Location of capacity
Purchasing and Supply Strategy
  • Do or buy? The vertical integration decision
  • Contracting and relationships
  • Which type of arrangement?
  • Supply network dynamics
  • Managing suppliers over time
  • Purchasing and supply chain risk
Process Technology Strategy
  • Process technology should reflect volume and variety
  • The product-process matrix
  • The challenges of information technology (IT)
  • Evaluating process technology
Improvement Strategy
  • Operations improvement
  • Setting the direction
  • Importance-performance mapping
  • Developing operations capabilities
  • Deploying capabilities in the market
Product and Service Development and Organisation
  • Innovation, design and creativity
  • The strategic importance of product and service development
  • Product and service development as a process
  • A market requirements’ perspective on product and service development
  • An operations resources perspective on product and service development
The Process of Operations Strategy – Formulation and Implementation
  • Formulating operations strategy
  • What is the role of alignment?
  • Maintaining alignment over time
  • What analysis is needed for formulation?
  • The challenges to operations strategy formulation
  • How do we know when the formulation process is complete?
  • What is operations strategy implementation?
The Process of Operations Strategy – Monitoring and Control
  • What are the differences between operational and strategic monitoring and control?
  • How is progress towards strategic objectives tracked?
  • How can the monitoring and control process attempt to control risks?
  • How does learning contribute to strategic control?

Advanced Operations Strategy

£ 5,175 + VAT