....” Cluster analysis Lean Lean manufacturing Operations strategy Business performance Manufacturing operations In the last decade, significant interest has been shown by researchers and practitioners in the idea of “lean manufacturing,” originally developed by Toyota Motor Company (Womack et...

...Christian Koch; Ole Friis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how operations strategy (OS) innovation occurs in a project-centred production and organisation. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal case study encompassing the processes at the headquarters of the company...

...Dr Sabry Shaaban; Dr Abdul Salam Darwish; Kalinga Jagoda; Senevi Kiridena Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance and dynamics of alternative operations strategy (OS) processes towards developing a more complete picture of the strategy process-context-performance nexus...

... of a macro-study, and at the onset we posed four specific questions, namely: Service systems Operations strategy Manufacturing Successful manufacturers Product-service systems Servitization Operations management Manufacturing systems The evolution of manufacturing industry has seen...

... Group Publishing Limited 2006 Philosophy Culture Lean production Manufacturing systems Productive maintenance Operations strategy This paper examines the underlying reasons surrounding low rates of successful lean initiatives. Mora (1999, p. 2) , submits that “only some 10 per...

... learning into the authors’ conceptual frames. Contends that this is necessary in order to understand more clearly the processes through which strategic development takes place, and especially to appreciate the sources of transformational change. New product development Operations strategy...