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Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy
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What are the the differences between the operations strategy and the business strategy? And what do they have in common? Thanks for your replies.
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Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy
Sam Hwambo. BA Hons. Bus Stud (Open), Accountant, Zimbabwe, Member Operations strategy relates to the day-to-day running of the business and is short term in nature.
The business strategy is the ove...  |
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Operation versus Business Strategy
Rajeev Kumar, Manager, India, Member There is no clear demarcation between operation and business strategy. However the business strategy is more holistic and affects the business ... |
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Operation Strategy and Business Strategy
KOVIT SKULSANGJUNTR, Management Consultant, Thailand, Member Operation is what you do to achieve business results. Operation strategy is mainly considering your internal available resouces and supply, whi... |
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Operations - versus Business Strategy
Kroon Although the business strategy and operation strategy form an integrated whole, they both require a different set of skill and focus.
- The bu... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Robert, Consultant, United States, Member Business strategy is the bigger picture plan looking ahead for "WHAT" your company should do and be; Operations strategy is "HOW" it will be governed ... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Kroon from South Africa has given the best description.
Although we rarely talk about "operations strategy" but simply "operations" we nee... |
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Operations and Business Strategy
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Tomas, your answer is OK. To put it more simply, "strategy" refers generally to business. When we talk about "operations" we mean " execution... |
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Operation is Part of Business Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member A link that seems to be missing here is that strategic management is carried out to obtain the corporations strategy. It is the implementation ... |
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Operations Strategy versus Business Straegy
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member If I am reading Gary Jones' comment correctly, he is not saying that operations is part of business strategy; he is saying, correctly, that it is i... |
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Control and Evaluation of Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Whatever title you give strategy, it is imperative that you have a measurement of its success. Without measurement you have no control over str... |
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Control and Evaluation Strategy
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Yes, but you have to take all elements of managerial actions in a logical sequence, otherwise you risk confusing concepts and the different ind... |
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Control and Evaluation Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Yes I agree - it is consistent with my initial entry in this forum. Strategic management is the prioritization of strategic actions and initiatives. L... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Steven Cofrancesco This is an interesting thread, and I hope I can contribute:
There are considered to be three (or possibly four) levels of all organizations: c... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Steven good answer. Corporate strategy is strategic planning (rationalist paradigm). The business strategy as defined by yourself is the processualist... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Steven its very difficult to get out ideas out in so few words. But I will have a go. By definition if the long term strategic planning (rationalist p... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Steven Cofrancesco Gary, I'm not sure I'm understanding your main point: are you saying that because any corporate or business strategy requires implementation, which th... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Joseph Pangilinan, Turnaround Manager, Philippines, Member Strategy, at any level, has to do with the efforts of a company to win & to keep winning in the marketplace, i.e. to gain & sustain competitive advant... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Steven. Different words - same meanings. Strategic planning relies on its strategic processes to encompass the power and efficiency required to... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Steven Cofrancesco Thanks for your input, Joseph. I think you make a good point about alignment of strategies across levels.
Gary, I understand your point now; than... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Steven. Best way for me to sum up what I am saying is refer you to an article by Henry Mintzberg and Joseph Lampel 'Reflecting on the Strategy Process... |
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Strategic Health of the Goose, not Just Golden Eggs
Joseph Pangilinan, Turnaround Manager, Philippines, Member What is the point of doubling sales, if you end up with half your sales and/or production force?
Strategic management (planning, organizing, l... |
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Steven Cofrancesco Thanks once again, Gary. I think one more point deserves attention: now I see that you are talking about the strategy process as a whole (the f... |
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Operations versus Strategy
Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia, Member Hi Steven and all that are watching us butt heads. You are exactly right. There is an inception point to every subunit of strategy. This is strategic ... |
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Ambiguous Terms..
Jaap de Jonge, CEO, Netherlands, Editor Steven, Gary, unfortunately there is no common and agreed definition of the terms 'strategy', 'strategic management' and 'strategic planning':
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Steven Cofrancesco Thanks once again, Gary; I think it's been a beneficial discussion.
The Editor also makes a very accurate point about no agreed upon definitions... |
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Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy
Nasir Awan, Strategist, Saudi Arabia, Member In fact once the business strategy is well set than the next steps are execution and integration in the whole operations.
Getting the business st... |
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Strategic Planning Going to Lower Levels
Jose R Paz Barahona, Professor, Costa Rica, Member In the practical day to day reality, I don´t feel that strategic planning must always go top and down, back and forth, sometime it must be set up and ... |
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Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy
Lesley Govender, South Africa, Member Both are intertwined. However there is an hierarchy to eventually achieving results. Whilst business strategies are competitor / mandate related, oper... |
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Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy
Ajai Dayal, Business Consultant, India, Member The "operations strategy" is traditionally / normally referred to as "operations planning and control".
It has a time horizon of approx 1 year. C... |
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Operations Strategy versus Business Straegy
Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos, Business Consultant, Greece, Member Dear Ajal, you are quite right. A long period of time is far more difficult to extrapolate than a short period, since the chances of extreme changes a... |
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Strategy: Business and Operations
Joe N.Cavada, Management Consultant, Philippines, Member @ Robert : I agree business strategy focuses on WHAT, while operations strategy focuses on the HOW.
Being stra... |
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Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy
rio-roshi merit, Student (University), Nigeria, Member - Operations strategy takes into consideration only the day-day activities.
- The operations strategy acts on the foundation made already/availab... |
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Three Levels of Strategy
Steven Delport, Consultant, South Africa, Member Depending on the type of organisation there will be three or two levels of strategy - corporate, business and functional.
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Operations versus Business Strategy
Alan Kennedy If we accept Henri Fayol's observation, in General and Industrial Management, 1916, that there are strategies common to all organizations, we can see ... |
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Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member Operations Strategy is about HOW to go,
Business Strategy is about WHERE to go.
Operations refers to the machine you are running, Business i... |
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Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy
Ajai Dayal, Business Consultant, India, Member Business Strategy is
1. Choosing an empty space to conquer when there is no competition
2. Choosing specific direction /parameter where it c... |
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Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy
mattwatson, Business Consultant, Member Basically Operation strategy is a small side of Business strategy. A business strategy should be planned quite early when starting a business. The ope... |
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The Good Ship Strategy
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member Assume, for an instant, that the business is a ship. The overall determination of destination and functioning of the ship is the responsibility of the... |
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Operations Versus Business Strategies
K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member Operations Strategy is typically dealing with: cycle time; working capital; customer service; cost; process activities; technology; skills and knowled... |
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Doing the Right Things Right
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member The business strategy handles the "raison d'ętre" of a business. It focuses on the business model, the market conditions etc.
The operational str... |
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