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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: Capacity Planning
Status: Competitive Analysis
Course15 hours

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MJ

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2020

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

LD

5.0Reviewed Dec 28, 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.

VB

5.0Reviewed May 2, 2023

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

NM

5.0Reviewed Jul 10, 2022

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

AK

4.0Reviewed Mar 7, 2017

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

DS

5.0Reviewed Feb 12, 2018

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

VK

4.0Reviewed May 16, 2020

Good and definitely has given some new concepts and food for thought, but a bit short.

OO

5.0Reviewed Jan 9, 2023

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

MM

5.0Reviewed Apr 19, 2023

Clear, detailed. I love the contents and the e-learning proposed in this course.

AA

5.0Reviewed Nov 24, 2021

I learned so much from this and have applied a great amount of it in my profession as a Business Development Lead. Thank you very much to the instructors!

RT

5.0Reviewed Dec 18, 2022

an immaculate course that sharpening your operations skills! recommend for who you need to scaling up your business or operations.

SA

4.0Reviewed Feb 15, 2023

Both Profs presentations are crisp and to the point,logical and use cases are good to practice

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