Course Highlights

• Helps participants plan the most efficient use of material resources and manage complicated global networks
• Provides analytical, strategic insights into vertical integration, outsourcing, product strategy, supplier management, process technologies, capacity and risk management, and global networks
• Confers a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Why attend Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy?

Enterprises are increasingly complex, with supply chains, manufacturing, and service delivery processes spanning cultures, time zones, geographies, and geopolitical situations. To navigate this intricate world filled with new and different kinds of risk, executives need to know how to make the most efficient use of a company’s material, people, and processes; how to manage more complicated global networks; how to optimize service and quality levels of performance; and how to minimize risks yet maintain required capacities.

This program will draw on real issues confronting manufacturing and service companies today, providing strategic frameworks to enable executives to make smart choices so their companies can deliver the high-quality products and services they are committed to providing their customers.

This operations management course offers unique, MIT-developed approaches to business operations strategy based on best-practice research conducted among the world’s leading companies. The program helps participants plan the most efficient use of material resources and manage complicated global networks. It also offers analytical, strategic insights into vertical integration, outsourcing, product strategy, supplier management, process technologies, capacity and risk management, and global networks.

Course Experience

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Applying to the Course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

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Many participants attend this operations strategy program along with Supply Chain Strategy and Management.