- Looks at common strands that can inform strategy from a practical operating perspective
- Highlights the core fundamentals that business leaders should be guided by in order to achieve organizational success
- Offers a framework for achieving super performance
Business Operations Models
Becoming a Disruptive Competitor
Achieve super-performance through effective operations management using a strategic framework to implement a transformative operating model.
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EAN: 9780749473310
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 235x155
264 pages
About the book
Most successful companies have operations management at their heart. It enables strategy and should be part of boardroom discussions. However, Cranfield research has shown that business strategy barely recognises the world of operations management.
Recognising that operations management needs to be more strategic, Business Operations Models is a revolutionary new title that looks at the interrelationship of operations management and strategy.
In Business Operations Models, Martin Christopher and Alan Braithwaite identify the characteristics of market-leading businesses that have transformed their markets and delivered super performance for their stakeholders. It points to the theory gap between strategic thinking and operations and how many high-performing businesses arrive at their new operating models as much by chance as judgement. Unpacking those observations leads to some clearly defined features of winning competitors, including eliminating waste, leveraging technology, and utilising transformative business models. Business Operations Models offers a framework for achieving super performance and understanding when and how a company may be able to leverage its capabilities to outperform.
The book provides detailed international case studies that illustrate how the principles work in practice, including Apple, Dell, Amazon, John Lewis, Southwest Airlines, Aldi, Toyota and many others.
About the authors
Alan Braithwaite is Visiting Professor at Cranfield University and specializes in supply chain strategy and operational excellence in the retail, manufacturing and service sectors. He is the founder of LCP Consulting, which collaborates with over 400 companies internationally.
Martin Christopher has been at the forefront of the development of new thinking in logistics and supply chain management for over 30 years. He is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield University, where he helped build the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management into a leading centre of excellence. His published work is widely cited by other scholars and he has been invited to participate in academic and industry events around the world.
Business leaders crave greater simplicity but sometimes end up confusing themselves with an overload of data or 'analysis paralysis'. Braithwaite and Christopher draw on years of experience to cut through the confusion with lucidity and compelling evidence. Their business operations models are based on admirably clear principles. Their approach could help you reinvent your business and set you on a path to greater success.
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