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Operations Technology: Blind Spot in Strategic Management

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  • Wickham Skinner

    (Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachusetts 02163)

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Innovation in operations equipment and process technology can be used strategically as a powerful competitive weapon. It can bring to bear many other strategic factors besides achieving low costs---superior quality, shorter delivery cycles, lower inventories, lower investment in equipment, shorter new product development cycles, and new production economics.

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  • Wickham Skinner, 1984. "Operations Technology: Blind Spot in Strategic Management," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 14(1), pages 116-125, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:14:y:1984:i:1:p:116-125
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.14.1.116
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    1. Katrin Oettmeier & Erik Hofmann, 2017. "Additive manufacturing technology adoption: an empirical analysis of general and supply chain-related determinants," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 87(1), pages 97-124, January.
    2. Tsionas, Mike G. & Patel, Pankaj C., 2023. "Accounting for intra-industry technological heterogeneity in the measurement of operations efficiency," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 260(C).
    3. Lefebvre, Louis A. & Lefebvre, Élisabeth, 1992. "Efforts innovateurs et positionnement concurrentiel des PME manufacturières," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 68(3), pages 453-476, septembre.
    4. Mellor, Stephen & Hao, Liang & Zhang, David, 2014. "Additive manufacturing: A framework for implementation," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 194-201.

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    planning: corporate; technology;

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