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    Operations Strategy

    As taught in: Fall 2005

    Installing body wiring on the Cadillac assembly line.

    Workers performing their specific duties in the Cadillac assembly line. (Image courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.)

    Instructors:

    Prof. Donald Rosenfield

    Dror Sharon

    MIT Course Number:

    15.769

    Level:

    Graduate

    Course Features

    Course Description

    The class provides a unifying framework for analyzing strategic issues in manufacturing and service operations. Relationships between manufacturing and service companies and their suppliers, customers, and competitors are analyzed. The material also covers decisions in technology, facilities, vertical integration, human resources and other strategic areas. Means of competition such as cost, quality, and innovativeness are explored, together with an approach to make operations decisions in the era of outsourcing and globalization.