Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge 1st Edition

If you are currently working in the manufacturing field, or intend to, this book provides some of the best academic research available. Of course, you have to be enough of a scholar-practitioner to be able to take the lessons from academia and apply them to the real world. If you are able to do that, you will find this book to be a real gem. If not, you may toss it aside as too much theory. I would strongly recommend this book for manufacturing executives, students seeking advanced degrees in engineering and manufacturing, and professors teaching courses in that area.I use this book in a course I teach in manufacturing strategy at a major universities' engineering graduate program.

Do you think following "best practices" is a great way to guide your operations philosophy? Do you think focusing on efficiency is the best way to achieve overall organizational success? Think again.

This book is both comprehensive and easy to digest. I recommend for anyone interested for operations strategy or operations management.

The writing style is so old and hard.

I did not pay 27$ to buy a used book.

This book was a required read for an Operations Management class I was taking. It is very well written, though my biggest complaint is that the 4 Harvard authors get a little too wordy at times and tend to make it a tougher read than it needs to be. The concepts are very well presented and provide an excellent introduction to operations management if you have never learned much about it. They spend quite a bit of time on the IT and internet-related industries, and their insight is valuable. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about operations and be able to communicate more effectively on the subject.

I am using this as I strive to be a first-time author. I'm writing on service strategies, my target audience is primarily in the IT services industry. Providing guidance for those responsible for the operation of IT services infrastructure is a key requirement for the book I'm writing. This book helped me achive clarity in my own mind. The concepts are solid and rest on sound principles that I have known from elsewhere.

The book was in excellent condition, looks almost brand new and in the same condition described in the listing. Shipping was very fast, being shipped 3 days after the purchase.