MIT OpenCourseWare
Operations Strategy
- Instructors
- Prof. Charles H. Fine, Prof. Donald Rosenfield
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 14 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 15.769 · Fall 2010 · Study here (this version)
- 15.769 · Spring 2003 · Study here
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.769 Operations Strategy, Fall 2010, Prof. Charles H. Fine, Prof. Donald Rosenfield — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (13 items)
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
14 files
- Session 1 · Course introduction; Innovation and operations discipline Download
- Session 2 · Frameworks for strategy and the decision category approach Download
- Session 4 · Value chain dynamics and operations decisions Download
- Session 7 · Vertical integration and outsourcing Download
- Session 8 · Business processes Download
- Session 9 · Process technology decisions and multiple plants Download
- Session 10 · Capacity strategy: How to make decisions on capacity and capacity expansion Download
- Session 11 · Facilities strategies and globalization; Comparisons of plant productivity Download
- Session 12 · Summary lecture on facilities strategy and globalization Download
- Session 17 · Competing on cost versus competing on availability Download
- Session 21 · Globalization, joint ventures, sourcing overseas, and macroeconomic effects of off-shoring Download
- Session 22 · Supplier power and overseas sourcing: Moving up the value chain in outsourcing Download
- Session 24 · Student presentations and course wrap-up · Lecture notes (file 1 of 2) Download
- Session 24 · Student presentations and course wrap-up · Lecture notes (file 2 of 2) Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Charles H. Fine, Prof. Donald Rosenfield, 15.769 Operations Strategy, Fall 2010.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2010 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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