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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: Business Operations
Status: Strategic Sourcing
Course15 hours

Featured reviews

VB

5.0Reviewed May 3, 2023

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

SK

4.0Reviewed May 6, 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.

LD

5.0Reviewed Dec 29, 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.

AR

5.0Reviewed Jun 2, 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

MJ

5.0Reviewed Apr 15, 2020

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

AA

5.0Reviewed Jun 26, 2020

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

EB

4.0Reviewed Nov 1, 2021

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

OO

5.0Reviewed Jan 10, 2023

Brilliant Course! Worth every minute of it. Thanks to the Tutors and Coursera, I appreciate all your efforts.

DS

5.0Reviewed Feb 13, 2018

Exceptional course for business professionals. I really liked the level of depth and detail that this course went into.

NM

5.0Reviewed Jul 11, 2022

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

GR

5.0Reviewed Jun 11, 2020

Great course and learned a lot but it would have been more helpful to have more in depth discussion of how problems were solved.

AK

4.0Reviewed Mar 8, 2017

Sometimes the correct answers were not provided, which made the assignments difficult to learn from.

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