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Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution

Over the past several decades, operations strategy has played an increasingly important role in business’ success. In this course, we will equip you with concepts and tools to build operations in a way that not only supports your competitive strategy, but also allows you to create new opportunities in the market place. Scaling operations: Linking strategy and execution is a five-week course dedicated to making strategic decisions that are grounded in operational reality. Together, we will study how to build and evaluate the “operating system” of the firm to maximize value. This involves tailoring the firm’s operational competencies, assets, and processes to a specific business strategy. Each week, we’ll explore case studies, engage in discussions and examine realistic data. Thanks to our data-driven approach, you’ll be able to implement your learning directly into practice. At the end of this course, you’ll be ready to build an effective, actionable plan to scale your department or organization.

Status: Strategic Decision-Making
Status: Operational Analysis
Course15 hours

Featured reviews

LD

5.0Reviewed Dec 28, 2022

this was a highly valuable course. It was very dense in some areas, but if you really focus on the ideas and the math, you can get a lot out of this course.

SK

4.0Reviewed May 5, 2017

The content of the course is intense and assignments of the course is bit tough. Overall good learning from course. Thanks to Coursera and Professors.

AR

5.0Reviewed Jun 1, 2018

It was a great course and would be beneficial to the the people who has basic idea on operations and have some work experience in the industry

NM

5.0Reviewed Jul 10, 2022

Good Content. A lot of innovative quantitative models for all the commonly read concepts.

VB

5.0Reviewed May 2, 2023

Informational, practise-focused, and well delivered. Good idea to make slides available

MM

5.0Reviewed Apr 19, 2023

Clear, detailed. I love the contents and the e-learning proposed in this course.

VK

4.0Reviewed May 16, 2020

Good and definitely has given some new concepts and food for thought, but a bit short.

EB

4.0Reviewed Oct 31, 2021

Case M​aterials should be tables and not images, to save transcription time

SB

5.0Reviewed Aug 15, 2020

A good refresher if you forgot about your operations management class in uni. I will recommend this course to anyone interested

KS

5.0Reviewed Apr 26, 2017

Thanks to prof. Gad and prof. Jan for a piece of practical view. I will be happy to keep in touch if you don't mind. Also, please inform me if you've got next course. thanks, Kirill ks@mashtabator.ru

AA

5.0Reviewed Jun 25, 2020

Few useful tools to analyze how to run optimization and expansion plans looking to the right KPIs.

MJ

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2020

Its great platform to learn ,Thanks to professor s who share his best knowledge to me.

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