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15.769 Operations Strategy provides a unifying framework for analyzing strategic issues in manufacturing and service operations.

Students analyze the relationships between manufacturing and service companies and their suppliers, customers, and competitors. The course covers strategic decisions in technology, facilities, vertical integration, human resources, and other areas, and also explores means of competition such as cost, quality, and innovativeness.

Course Curriculum

    • Course introduction; Innovation and operations discipline Unlimited
    • Frameworks for strategy and the decision category approach Unlimited
    • Value chain dynamics and operations decisions Unlimited
    • Vertical integration and outsourcing Unlimited
    • Business processes Unlimited
    • Process technology decisions and multiple plants Unlimited
    • Capacity strategy: How to make decisions on capacity and capacity expansion Unlimited
    • Facilities strategies and globalization Unlimited
    • Summary lecture on facilities strategy and globalization Unlimited
    • Competing on cost versus competing on availability Unlimited
    • Globalization, joint ventures Unlimited
    • Supplier power and overseas sourcing Unlimited
    • Student presentations and course wrap-up Unlimited

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