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title: Operations Strategy
description: Operations strategy is the framework that guides how a company's operational capabilities support its long-term business goals. Learners will understand how to make strategic decisions regarding capacity, technology, supply networks, and process design to gain a competitive advantage.
category: business-entrepreneurship
subcategory: operations-management
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/operations-strategy
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# Operations Strategy

Operations strategy is the framework that guides how a company's operational capabilities support its long-term business goals. Learners will understand how to make strategic decisions regarding capacity, technology, supply networks, and process design to gain a competitive advantage.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. ASCM (APICS)

Professional body behind the CPIM, CSCP, and CLTD certifications, offering standards such as SCOR, webinars, and research reports. The site is the reference point for certification paths and the terminology employers expect practitioners to know.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.ascm.org/

**Tags:** supply chain, certification, apics, scor model, professional development

### 2. IISE - Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

The professional society for industrial and systems engineers, publishing ISE magazine, a body-of-knowledge outline, webinars, and its Problem Solved podcast. Useful for mapping what the discipline covers and which specialisations—supply chain, healthcare systems, ergonomics—exist.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.iise.org/

**Tags:** industrial engineering, systems engineering, professional society, career resources

### 3. hbr.org

Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://hbr.org

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

## Books

### 1. Operations Strategy

**Author:** Nigel Slack, Michael Lewis

First edition of Slack and Lewis's textbook treating operations strategy as the reconciliation of market requirements with operations resources. Covers capacity, supply networks, process technology, capability development, learning and risk, preparing readers to analyze and formulate an organization's operations strategy.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0273637819?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, operations-management

### 2. Manufacturing Strategy

**Author:** Terry Hill

Terry Hill's framework for tying manufacturing decisions to corporate strategy through order-winners and order-qualifiers. Readers learn to assess process choice, infrastructure and capacity against market requirements, and to judge whether a plant's operations actually support how the business competes.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/033339478X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, operations-management

### 3. Strategic Operations Management

Textbook treating operations as a source of competitive advantage rather than a cost center, covering supply relationships, process technology, capacity, quality and innovation. Readers learn to connect operational choices to strategy and evaluate them using case studies from manufacturing and services.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0750642572?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, operations-management

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