IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbpma/v1y1998i1p13-27.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Generic trade-offs and responses: an operations strategy analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Nigel Slack

Abstract

Trade-off analysis is presented as a useful approach not only to conceptualising the process of operations performance improvement, but also to explain why certain trade-offs are chosen by companies. Two case studies are presented and subjected to similar analyses. The purpose of the paper is to identify three "generic" types of trade-off which need to be addressed by operations managers. Managers can then focus on the actions required to overcome these three types of trade-off over time. Furthermore, it will frame these improvement activities in terms of enhancing various aspects of operational flexibility. This is not a new idea. Previous studies have put forward flexibility as a key aspect of the "pivot" of any trade-off. Finally, the paper will discuss how organisations choose which trade-offs to tackle by examining the nature of the trade-offs themselves

Suggested Citation

  • Nigel Slack, 1998. "Generic trade-offs and responses: an operations strategy analysis," International Journal of Business Performance Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(1), pages 13-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbpma:v:1:y:1998:i:1:p:13-27
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=4542
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Stratton, Roy & Warburton, Roger D.H., 2006. "Managing the trade-off implications of global supply," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(2), pages 667-679, October.
    2. Fichtinger, Johannes & Chan, Claire (Wan-Chuan) & Yates, Nicola, 2019. "A joint network design and multi-echelon inventory optimisation approach for supply chain segmentation," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 209(C), pages 103-111.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijbpma:v:1:y:1998:i:1:p:13-27. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=3 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.