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Duration

15 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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  • Get Access to Course Videos & Readings & Practice Quizzes
  • Offered By Northwestern University
  • Earn shareable certificates on successful completion
  • Certification Course
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Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Shareable Certificates
  • Course Videos & Readings
  • Practice Quizzes
  • Graded Assignments with Peer Feedback
  • Graded Quizzes with Feedback
  • Graded Programming Assignments
  • At the end of this course, you'll be ready to build an effective, actionable plan to scale your department or organization
More about this course
  • 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.

Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution
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Curriculum

The VCAP Framework

Introduction and Motivation

Scalability

Operations Strategy

Adopting a Resource, Process, and Capability

Value Creation and Operations: The Investor View

Introduction and Motivation

Quantifying Value

Linking ROIC to Operations with a ROIC Tree

Planning Scalable Growth in the ROIC Tree and Summary

Capabilities and Competition: Defensibility and Trade-offs

Introduction and Motivation

The Concept of Tradeoff Curves

Tradeoff Curves to Analyze Competitive Threat

Example: Sugar and Spice

Process Strategy: Strategic Sourcing

Introduction and Motivation

Forecasting and Modeling Uncertainty

Tools to Incorporate Uncertainty into Capacity Analysis

Optimal Capacity Sizing

Asset Strategy: Capacity Sizing

Introduction and Motivation

The Spectrum of Sourcing Relationship

A Framework for the Outsourcing Decision

Total Cost of Ownership and Total Landed Cost

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