Essential Guide to Operations Management

* Provides a practical and theoretically sound insight to the contemporary management of operations, stressing that creating value for stakeholders is key. * Focuses on important topics that comprise an important component of senior Operation Managers' activities such as Business Intelligence: Technology, Industry 4.0, Managing Supply Networks and Improving Global Operations. * Reflects recent developments in Operations Management theory and practice by taking a reflective organizational perspective of the task of the Operations Manager. * Promotes an understanding of operations in an international context, linking operations decisions with topics such as business strategy, creating and sustaining value, supply chain management.