Essentials of Operations Management

Nigel Slack

ISBN 10: 0273752421 / ISBN 13: 9780273752424

Published by Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Essentials of Operations Management

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Essentials of Operations Management is a brand new concise version of the market-leading text Operations Management. It has been developed forstudents on short courses in operations management - for example, doing an initial course at undergraduate, postgraduate or post-experience level.  In these books the author team have set the standards in Operations Management which other textbooks seek to emulate: Expert authorship, an engaging writing style, and an interesting collection of cases combine to communicate the importance of managing operations and processes within a successful organisation.

From the Back Cover:

Operations management is critical to the success of all organisations, no matter how large or small. It enables them to provide services and products that we all need; it is central to changes in customer preference, networks of supply and demand, and developments in technology; and its responsibilities are financial and logistical, social and environmental. Whether at work or at home, we all experience and manage processes and operations...

 

Thousands of students worldwide have benefitted from the expert approach of the market-leading text Operations Management. The ‘grand master’ authors now transfer the same winning formula to this concise textbook, based on the bestselling Operations Management and particularly aimed at those studying just the essentials of operations management.

• Focus on the sustainable and socially responsible imperatives of operations management.

• Over 50 cases and illustrations of real-life operations around the world.

• Greater emphasis on ‘process management’, making the discipline directly relevant to all areas of an organization’s activity.

• Worked examples to give you confidence in applying qualitative and quantitative problem-solving techniques.

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