Operations Management For Dummies

Part I

Getting Started with Operations Management

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In this part . . .

  Get the lowdown on the fundamentals of operations management and understand why it’s so essential to successful businesses.

  Learn how to document and improve your business processes in order to gain a decisive advantage over your comany’s competitors.

  Figure out what you want to accomplish and then determine whether you have the processes in place to meet that goal. If your processes need improvement, find out how to improve them in a structured and systematic way.

  Discover how to overcome common process management challenges, such as shared resources, batching, and rework to keep things running as smoothly and efficiently as possible.

  Make your job as an operations manager easier by ...