The book is a contemporary and novel treatment of Operations Management. It complements the existing set of texts by taking a fresh insight to Operations Management. It explores fundamental operations management principles, equally applicable to service and manufacturing situations. It adapts a strategic stance by providing a framework for effective decision making This book is aimed at practising managers, who need to make decisions, manage change and design working processes within a strategic framework. The framework and supporting case vignettes allow the practitioner to grasp essential concepts relatively quickly in a range of different operational contexts. In addition to the case vignettes, the authors provide Inclusion of key Reading Lists and useful web addresses at the end of each chapter A useful formulae listing for the quantitative side of operations management
Book Details:
- Author: David Bamford
- ISBN: 9780470685396
- Year Published: 2010
- Pages: 224
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
The book is a contemporary and novel treatment of Operations Management. It complements the existing set of texts by taking a fresh insight to Operations Management. It explores fundamental operations management principles, equally applicable to service and manufacturing situations. It adapts a strategic stance by providing a framework for effective decision making This book is aimed at practising managers, who need to make decisions, manage change and design working processes within a strategic framework. The framework and supporting case vignettes allow the practitioner to grasp essential concepts relatively quickly in a range of different operational contexts. In addition to the case vignettes, the authors provide Inclusion of key Reading Lists and useful web addresses at the end of each chapter A useful formulae listing for the quantitative side of operations management
Operations Management is more than a business function: it pervades the work of all managers. The teaching of OM has undergone a substantial shift, from a manufacturing/engineering base to a services base and to greater emphasis on design, quality, teamwork issues and global networks. Increasingly the teaching of the subject crosses into areas of strategic management. This is reflected in the current literature, and here the authors have adapted their text to the needs of executives and of post-experience managers on short courses. The proposed new book provides focus on recent developments in OM such as project management, technology transfer, the latest quality improvement measures and supply chain strategies.. The authors are respected lecturers in the field, at Manchester and Birmingham business schools, where they have extensive experience of teaching MBA and executive MBA courses.
AUTHOR PLATFORMS: The authors have experience in industry as well as being respected lecturers in the field, at Manchester and Birmingham business schools. The book is based on their MBA and executive MBA courses at MBS and Birmingham.. Ideal for executive teaching: the book offers a concise guide to key principles of OM The contemporary case vignettes makes this a useful resource for pre- and post-experience management degree programmes. Provides focus on recent developments in OM such as project management, technology transfer, the latest quality improvement measures and supply chain strategies. MARKETING: OM is a core management subject and foundation course for all MBAs. This new book can be marketed alongside our existing Wiley HE texts, as well as promoted to the key professional associations (list attached). UNIQUE HOOK:. The concise framework and supporting case vignettes allow the practitioner to grasp essential concepts relatively quickly in a short, affordable set of notes. The book is based on current courses at MBS and Birmingham Business School.
About the Author
Both authors have worked in the manufacturing sector as Operations Managers, including senior management positions, prior to embarking on academic careers. Dr David Bamford joined Manchester Business School in 2000. He is an experienced industrialist/academic and a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management. In 2006 he won the University of Manchester Award for Teaching Excellence. His research interests include healthcare systems reform and review, strategic change management and organisational systems design. His many teaching/programme administrative activities have included: Director- NHS Leadership Programme, an MSc programme for senior NHS Directors in partnership with PriceWaterhouseCoopers; University lecture programmes in Operations Management (MBA and BSc); Quality Management: Concepts Quality Management: Tools Business Improvement Tools Organisational Change (MSc). Dr Paul Forrester is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and Director of a Full-Time MBA. His research interests lie in the strategic, design and organizational issues of managing operations, the extension of operations management concepts to service organizations, and the management of technology transfer projects. Though his early work was predominantly UK-based, the research has become increasingly international in nature, the latter having included studies of the impact on companies of foreign direct investment and technology transfer, and comparative studies of operations management practices in the emerging economies of Pacific Asia and Central/Eastern Europe.