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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: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Status: Capacity Planning
Course15 hours

Featured reviews

AR

5.0Reviewed Jun 1, 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

SK

4.0Reviewed May 5, 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.

NM

5.0Reviewed Jul 10, 2022

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

VK

4.0Reviewed May 16, 2020

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

MJ

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2020

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

KK

5.0Reviewed Jun 30, 2018

Great course. Easy to follow, useful for a broad range of operations roles.

KS

5.0Reviewed Apr 26, 2017

Thanks to prof. Gad and prof. Jan for a piece of practical view. I will be happy to keep in touch if you don't mind. Also, please inform me if you've got next course. thanks, Kirill ks@mashtabator.ru

MM

5.0Reviewed Apr 19, 2023

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

OO

5.0Reviewed Jan 9, 2023

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

SS

4.0Reviewed Oct 24, 2017

The ROIC Model tree and the examples attached to scaling operations with case studies are very well connected and presented

AK

4.0Reviewed Mar 7, 2017

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

AA

5.0Reviewed Jun 25, 2020

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

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