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2-1 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
Operations Management
William J. Stevenson
8th edition
2-2 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
CHAPTER
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Competitiveness, Strategy,
and Productivity
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Operations Management, Eighth Edition, by William J. Stevenson
Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Competitiveness:
How effectively an organization meets the
wants and needs of customers relative to
others that offer similar goods or services
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Businesses Compete Using Marketing

Identifying consumer wants and needs
 Pricing
 Advertising and promotion
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Businesses Compete Using Operations
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Product and service design
Cost
Location
Quality
Quick response
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Businesses Compete Using Operations

Flexibility
 Inventory management
 Supply chain management
 Service
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Why Some Organizations Fail

Too much emphasis on short-term financial
performance
 Failing to take advantage of strengths and
opportunities
 Failing to recognize competitive threats
 Neglecting operations strategy
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Why Some Organizations Fail

Too much emphasis in product and service
design and not enough on improvement
 Neglecting investments in capital and human
resources
 Failing to establish good internal
communications
 Failing to consider customer wants and needs
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Mission/Strategy/Tactics
Mission
Strategy
Tactics
How does mission, strategies and tactics relate to
decision making and distinctive competencies?
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Strategy

Strategies
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
Plans for achieving organizational goals
Mission
 The

reason for existence for an organization
Mission Statement
 Answers
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Goals
 Provide

the question “What business are we in?”
detail and scope of mission
Tactics
 The
methods and actions taken to accomplish strategies
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Planning and Decision Making
Figure 2.1
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Strategy Example
Example 1
Rita is a high school student. She would like to have a
career in business, have a good job, and earn enough
income to live comfortably
Mission:
 Goal:
 Strategy:
 Tactics:
 Operations:
Live a good life
Successful career, good income
Obtain a college education
Select a college and a major
Register, buy books, take
courses, study, graduate, get job
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Examples of Strategies
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Low cost
 Scale-based strategies
 Specialization
 Flexible operations
 High quality
 Service
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Strategy and Tactics

Distinctive Competencies
The special attributes or abilities that give an
organization a competitive edge.
 Price
 Quality
 Time
 Flexibility
 Service
 Location
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Examples of Distinctive Competencies
Table 2.2
Price
Low Cost
U.S. first-class postage
Motel-6, Red Roof Inns
Quality
High-performance design Sony TV
or high quality Consistent Lexus, Cadillac
quality
Pepsi, Kodak, Motorola
Time
Rapid delivery
On-time delivery
Express Mail, Fedex,
One-hour photo, UPS
Flexibility
Variety
Volume
Burger King
Supermarkets
Service
Superior customer
service
Disneyland
Nordstroms
Location
Convenience
Banks, ATMs
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Operations Strategy
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Operations strategy – The approach,
consistent with organization strategy, that is
used to guide the operations function.
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Strategy Formulation

Distinctive competencies
 Environmental scanning
 SWOT
 Order qualifiers
 Order winners
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Strategy Formulation
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Order qualifiers
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Characteristics that customers perceive as
minimum standards of acceptability to be
considered as a potential purchase
Order winners
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Characteristics of an organization’s goods or
services that cause it to be perceived as better
than the competition
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Key External Factors

Economic conditions
 Political conditions
 Legal environment
 Technology
 Competition
 Markets
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Key Internal Factors

Human Resources
 Facilities and equipment
 Financial resources
 Customers
 Products and services
 Technology
 Suppliers
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Quality and Time Strategies

Quality-based strategies
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Focuses on maintaining or
improving the quality of an
organization’s products or
services
 Quality at the source

Time-based strategies

Focuses on reduction of time
needed to accomplish tasks
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Time-based Strategies
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
Planning
Designing
Processing
Changeover
Delivery
On time!
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Productivity
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Productivity
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A measure of the effective use of resources,
usually expressed as the ratio of output to input
Productivity ratios are used for
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Planning workforce requirements
 Scheduling equipment
 Financial analysis
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Productivity
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Partial measures
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Multi-factor measures
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
output/(single input)
output/(multiple inputs)
Total measure

output/(total inputs)
Outputs
Productivity =
Inputs
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Productivity Growth
Productivity Growth =
Current Period Productivity – Previous Period Productivity
Previous Period Productivity
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Measures of Productivity
Table 2.4
Partial
measures
Multifactor
measures
Total
measure
Output
Labor
Output
Output
Machine Capital
Output
Labor + Machine
Output
Energy
Output
Labor + Capital + Energy
Goods or Services Produced
All inputs used to produce them
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Examples of Partial Productivity Measures
Table 2.5
Labor
Productivity
Units of output per labor hour
Units of output per shift
Value-added per labor hour
Machine
Productivity
Units of output per machine hour
machine hour
Capital
Productivity
Units of output per dollar input
Dollar value of output per dollar input
Energy
Productivity
Units of output per kilowatt-hour
Dollar value of output per kilowatt-hour
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Example 3
7040 Units Produced
Sold for $1.10/unit
Cost of labor of $1,000
Cost of materials: $520
Cost of overhead: $2000
What is the
multifactor
productivity?
Ans. 2.20
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Example 3 Solution
MFP =
Output
Labor + Materials + Overhead
MFP =
(7040 units)*($1.10)
$1000 + $520 + $2000
MFP =
2.20
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Figure 2-2
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Factors Affecting Productivity
Capital
Quality
Technology
Management
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Other Factors Affecting Productivity

Standardization
 Quality
 Use of Internet
 Computer viruses
 Searching for lost or misplaced items
 Scrap rates
 New workers
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Other Factors Affecting Productivity

Safety
 Shortage of IT workers
 Layoffs
 Labor turnover
 Design of the workspace
 Incentive plans that reward productivity
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Bottleneck Operation
Figure 2.3
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Improving Productivity

Develop productivity measures
 Determine critical (bottleneck) operations
 Develop methods for productivity
improvements
 Establish reasonable goals
 Get management support
 Measure and publicize improvements
 Don’t confuse productivity with efficiency
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Value Results
VO10
ABTco example