Operations Strategy OpenCourseWare: A Free MIT Graduate Study Operations Strategy Course

Published Jan 26, 2009

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Develop techniques to stay competitive in service operation and strategy in this free OpenCourseWare. Offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 'Operations Strategy' delves into manufacturing strategies, such as cost and outsourcing, which will help you excel and maintain a competitive edge. There are no prerequisites for this graduate-level course, which is designed for students majoring in supply chain management and business management.

Operations Strategy: Course Specifics

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Operations Strategy: Course Description

Discover reasons many operations suffer from inconsistent manufacturing and ways to make manufacturing more efficient. Develop a manufacturing and operations strategy and learn to make it stronger and more competitive by implementing technology and sound decisions-making strategies. The Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers this graduate level course, which emphasizes the importance of management and provides techniques that lead to greater marketing and supply efficiency. Students have the opportunity to analyze manufacturing and operations strategies to determine what works by developing new strategies to replace ineffective ones. This approach helps students earn a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management. The course also covers globalization of products and business so students learn how to operate business on a global scale while still meeting customer needs. MIT Professor Donald Rosenfield Dror Sharon teaches this course about developing operations strategies to maintain a keen edge in manufacturing, supply and management.

Lectures, notes and some assignments are available for free online with a list of course readings. To learn more about this course, visit the operations strategy course page.

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