Operations Technology: Blind Spot in Strategic Management

Wickham Skinner
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Wickham Skinner: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachusetts 02163

Interfaces, 1984, vol. 14, issue 1, 116-125

Abstract: Innovation in operations equipment and process technology can be used strategically as a powerful competitive weapon. It can bring to bear many other strategic factors besides achieving low costs---superior quality, shorter delivery cycles, lower inventories, lower investment in equipment, shorter new product development cycles, and new production economics.

Keywords: planning: corporate; technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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