Operations management.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Operations management is important, exciting, challenging ... and everywhere you look! Important, because it enables organisations to provide services and products that we all need Exciting, because it is central to constant changes in customer preference, networks of supply and demand, and developments in technology Challenging, because solutions must be must be financially sound, resource- efficient, as well as environmentally and socially responsible And everywhere, because in our daily lives, whether at work or at home, we all experience and manage processes and operations. 'Operations Management' focuses on the sustainable and socially responsible imperatives of operations management, using over 120 cases and illustrations of real-life operations around the world, including Apple, Meþdecins Sans Frontie`res, Amazon, Ecover, Dyson, Disneyland Paris, Google, The North Face, and many more