business objectives

From the manufacturing strategy point of view, manufacturing strategy must be in-line with business strategy, and manufacturing can potentially play a major role in developing a firm’s competitive advantage, like cost, quality, delivery, and flexibility. But, below 2 questions: 1. how business and manufacturing strategies are aligned; and 2. how manufacturing contributes to building business competitive advantage are a point of continuous discussion, lacking empirical evidence, yet of important theoretical and practical implications. To highlight these topics, this dissertation focuses ...

The Information Technology (from now on IT) market is changing rapidly, what is considered modern to day might very well be outdated tomorrow. This has forced organizations to view IT as a continuously changing organism that needs to be controlled. Strategies are formed years in advance, often in combination with the business strategy. This has led to organizations creating a new role, the Chief Information Officer. This thesis aims at describing the ...