Key Terms

business strategy 30

operations strategy 30

mission 32

environmental scanning 33

core competencies 35

competitive priorities 37

cost 37

quality 39

time 39

flexibility 40

trade-off 41

order qualifiers 41

order winners 41

structure 42

infrastructure 42

productivity 44

total productivity 44

partial productivity 45

multifactor productivity 45

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