Production/Operation Concerns When Implementing Strategies
Production/Operation concerns when implementing strategies
Introduction
In the growing global competition, the productivity is the key for the survival of any business organization. Among different functions in an organization, production/operations function is a vital function which does the job of value addition to product/service, respectively. Maximizing the value addition automatically results in productivity improvement. This can be done starting from the stage of product development and concentrating on various other intermediate tasks and finally through implementation of proper quality control system and maintenance of equipments. This amounts to tackling the management issues in each and every sub system of production/operation function. Production/operations function is that part of an organization which is concerned with the transformation of a range of inputs into required outputs (product/services) having the required quality level.
Production and Operation are major factors which are taken in consideration when implementing strategy of an organization. Strategy begins with goals, which naturally follow from an entity’s mission. But for practical purposes goals cannot stand in isolation. They are informed by an repetitive sensing of the external environment and the organization’s internal capabilities.
Implementing Business Strategies
Business strategizing is much more than visioning, planning and forecasting. In this modern age of changing economies rapidly, all substantive issue of strategy have been redefined as issue of implementation. Nowadays business strategy of an organization is more focused between the internal capabilities of the company and its external environment. “The modern subject of business strategy is a set of analytic techniques for understanding better, and so influencing, a company’s position in its actual and potential marketplace”.
Production/Operation management is the process which combines and transforms various
Introduction
In the growing global competition, the productivity is the key for the survival of any business organization. Among different functions in an organization, production/operations function is a vital function which does the job of value addition to product/service, respectively. Maximizing the value addition automatically results in productivity improvement. This can be done starting from the stage of product development and concentrating on various other intermediate tasks and finally through implementation of proper quality control system and maintenance of equipments. This amounts to tackling the management issues in each and every sub system of production/operation function. Production/operations function is that part of an organization which is concerned with the transformation of a range of inputs into required outputs (product/services) having the required quality level.
Production and Operation are major factors which are taken in consideration when implementing strategy of an organization. Strategy begins with goals, which naturally follow from an entity’s mission. But for practical purposes goals cannot stand in isolation. They are informed by an repetitive sensing of the external environment and the organization’s internal capabilities.
Implementing Business Strategies
Business strategizing is much more than visioning, planning and forecasting. In this modern age of changing economies rapidly, all substantive issue of strategy have been redefined as issue of implementation. Nowadays business strategy of an organization is more focused between the internal capabilities of the company and its external environment. “The modern subject of business strategy is a set of analytic techniques for understanding better, and so influencing, a company’s position in its actual and potential marketplace”.
Production/Operation management is the process which combines and transforms various
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