Operations management is how business leaders take raw materials and convert them into saleable goods. This is true when the saleable products are products or services. The organizational strategic ...

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People start their own businesses for many reasons, but topping that list -- besides being self employed -- is creating sustainable income. But to create income, smart business managers recognize that ...

When a business specializes in selling a product or service to consumers, that company typically must maximize quality and minimize price in order to thrive. The leaders who have expertise in quality ...

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Have you ever wondered how your online orders manage to arrive in just two days (or, let’s be honest, sometimes two weeks)? Or how your favourite fast food restaurant, like KFC, can produce thousands ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors — like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...