TY - GEN AU - Brown, Steve AU - Bessant, J. R. AU - Lamming, Richard TI - Strategic operations management SN - 9781138566132 U1 - 658.8 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Strategic planning KW - Production management KW - Strategic Operations KW - Operations Management N2 - This text reveals that successful operations management depends on developing strategies which combine manufacturing and service expertise and competencies to provide a comprehensive customer offering. This means that strategic relations must be established with many other players - operations management is no longer a firm-specific matter." "Strategic Operations Management combines four themes; strategy, services, innovation and management of relationships both with other parts of the organization and in supply chains and networks. This is supported by dividing chapters into a past/present/future scenario approach which illustrates how these strategies affect business." ER -