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Edie, South Africa

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

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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Sam Hwambo. BA Hons. Bus Stud (Open)
Accountant, Zimbabwe
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

Operations strategy relates to the day-to-day running of the business and is short term in nature.
The business strategy is the overall business vision looking further ahead, giving direction as to where the business wants to be say, in the next five years or so.
The operations strategy is controlled by the business strategy.

 
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Rajeev Kumar, India
 

Operation versus Business Strategy

There is no clear demarcation between operation and business strategy. However the business strategy is more holistic and affects the business in long term, while the operation strategy helps company to serve its customers in a better way. Operation strategy also helps to improve the bottom line of the company.

 
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KOVIT SKULSANGJUNTR
Management Consultant, Thailand
 

Operation Strategy and Business Strategy

Operation is what you do to achieve business results. Operation strategy is mainly considering your ... Sign up

 
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Kroon, South Africa
 

Operations - versus Business Strategy

Although the business strategy and operation strategy form an integrated whole, they both require a ... Sign up

 
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Robert
Consultant, United States
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Business strategy is the bigger picture plan looking ahead for "WHAT" your company should do and be;... Sign up

 
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Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos
Business Consultant, Greece
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Kroon from South Africa has given the best description. Although we rarely talk about "operations s... Sign up

 
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Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos
Business Consultant, Greece
 

Operations and Business Strategy

Tomas, your answer is OK. To put it more simply, "strategy" refers generally to business. When we ta... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Operation is Part of Business Strategy

A link that seems to be missing here is that strategic management is carried out to obtain the corpo... Sign up

 
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Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos
Business Consultant, Greece
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Straegy

If I am reading Gary Jones' comment correctly, he is not saying that operations is part of business ... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Control and Evaluation of Strategy

Whatever title you give strategy, it is imperative that you have a measurement of its success. Witho... Sign up

 
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Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos
Business Consultant, Greece
 

Control and Evaluation Strategy

Yes, but you have to take all elements of managerial actions in a logical sequence, otherwise you ri... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Control and Evaluation Strategy

Yes I agree - it is consistent with my initial entry in this forum. Strategic management is the prio... Sign up

 
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Steven Cofrancesco, USA
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

This is an interesting thread, and I hope I can contribute: There are considered to be three (or po... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Steven good answer. Corporate strategy is strategic planning (rationalist paradigm). The business st... Sign up

 
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Steven Cofrancesco, USA
 

Operations and Business Strategy should be Bidirectional

Thanks for your response, Gary. I think you are absolutely correct, that strategy formulation is not... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Steven its very difficult to get out ideas out in so few words. But I will have a go. By definition ... Sign up

 
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Steven Cofrancesco, USA
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Gary, I'm not sure I'm understanding your main point: are you saying that because any corporate or b... Sign up

 
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Joseph Pangilinan
Turnaround Manager, Philippines
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Strategy, at any level, has to do with the efforts of a company to win & to keep winning in the mark... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Steven. Different words - same meanings. Strategic planning relies on its strategic processes to enc... Sign up

 
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Steven Cofrancesco, USA
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Thanks for your input, Joseph. I think you make a good point about alignment of strategies across le... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Steven. Best way for me to sum up what I am saying is refer you to an article by Henry Mintzberg and... Sign up

 
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Joseph Pangilinan
Turnaround Manager, Philippines
 

Strategic Health of the Goose, not Just Golden Eggs

What is the point of doubling sales, if you end up with half your sales and/or production force? St... Sign up

 
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Steven Cofrancesco, USA
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Thanks once again, Gary. I think one more point deserves attention: now I see that you are talking a... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

Operations versus Strategy

Hi Steven and all that are watching us butt heads. You are exactly right. There is an inception poin... Sign up

 
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Ambiguous Terms..

Steven, Gary, unfortunately there is no common and agreed definition of the terms 'strategy', 'strat... Sign up

 
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Steven Cofrancesco, USA
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

Thanks once again, Gary; I think it's been a beneficial discussion. The Editor also makes a very a... Sign up

 
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Nasir Awan
Strategist, Saudi Arabia
 

Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy

In fact once the business strategy is well set than the next steps are execution and integration in ... Sign up

 
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Jose R Paz Barahona
Professor, Costa Rica
 

Strategic Planning Going to Lower Levels

In the practical day to day reality, I don´t feel that strategic planning must always go top and dow... Sign up

 
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Lesley Govender
South Africa
 

Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy

Both are intertwined. However there is an hierarchy to eventually achieving results. Whilst business... Sign up

 
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Ajai Dayal, India
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

The "operations strategy" is traditionally / normally referred to as "operations planning and contro... Sign up

 
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Prof. Alkis S. Magdalinos
Business Consultant, Greece
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Straegy

Dear Ajal, you are quite right. A long period of time is far more difficult to extrapolate than a sh... Sign up

 
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Joe N.Cavada
Management Consultant, Philippines
 

Strategy: Business and Operations

@Robert : I agree business strategy focuses on WHAT, while operations strategy focuses on the HOW. ... Sign up

 
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rio-roshi merit
Student (University), Nigeria
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

- Operations strategy takes into consideration only the day-day activities. - The operations strate... Sign up

 
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Moses Mutethia Muriungi
Strategy Consultant, Kenya
 

Who is Dealing with Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy?

I like these scholarly managerial contributions from all of you, and I concur that business strategy... Sign up

 
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Moodley, United States
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

Business strategy is when a Mark Zuckerberg decides to design a new generational social network webs... Sign up

 
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Steven Delport
Consultant, South Africa
 

Three Levels of Strategy

Depending on the type of organisation there will be three or two levels of strategy - corporate, bus... Sign up

 
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Alan Kennedy, Canada
 

Operations versus Business Strategy

If we accept Henri Fayol's observation, in General and Industrial Management, 1916, that there are s... Sign up

 
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Bernhard Keim
Business Consultant, Germany
 

Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy

Operations Strategy is about HOW to go, Business Strategy is about WHERE to go. Operations refers ... Sign up

 
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Thomas Solomon
Student (University), Nigeria
 

Response to Sams Reaction

@Sam Hwambo. BA Hons. Bus Stud (Open) what you take to be business strategy is not, but rather an or... Sign up

 
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Ajai Dayal, India
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

Business Strategy is 1. Choosing an empty space to conquer when there is no competition 2. Choosin... Sign up

 
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
 

Business Strategy versus Operations Strategy - an Oxymoron?

If the business strategy is to compete with the operational strategy in a business the result must b... Sign up

 
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mattwatson
Business Consultant
 

Operations Strategy versus Business Strategy

Basically Operation strategy is a small side of Business strategy. A business strategy should be pla... Sign up

 
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
 

The Good Ship Strategy

Assume, for an instant, that the business is a ship. The overall determination of destination and fu... Sign up

 
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K.Narayana Moorthy
HR Consultant, India
 

Operations Versus Business Strategies

Operations Strategy is typically dealing with: cycle time; working capital; customer service; cost; ... Sign up

 
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rajiv gupta
Business Consultant, India
 

Understanding Operations versus Business Strategies

A simple analogy is to equate business strategy with 'doing the right things', which is usually in t... Sign up

 
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Bernhard Keim
Business Consultant, Germany
 

Doing the Right Things Right

The business strategy handles the "raison d'ętre" of a business. It focuses on the business model, t... Sign up

 

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