Designing marketing campaigns

Transforming inputs into valuable outputs

Maximizing taxes and tariffs

Outsourcing internal processes

Batch process

Jobbing process

Continuous process

Project process

Corporate strategy

Business strategy

Human resource strategy

Designing employee workspaces

Increasing working capital

Improving dependability and minimizing costs

Reducing product features

Input types are always consistent

Changes in quality and external elements are hard to account for

All goods are easy to quantify

Accurate data is always available

Operations

Marketing and Sales

Service

Technology Development

Depletion of resources

Stable demand

Marketing strategy

Fire or natural disaster

They are the same

Productivity only applies to services

Production measures effectiveness; productivity measures cost

Production measures output only; productivity measures output relative to input

Identifying activities that add value to the customer

Reducing employee wages

Setting global expansion limits

Analyzing tax benefits

720 units/day

960 units/day

640 units/day

480 units/day