The Operations Management Journal

You need to develop an operations management plan and want a guide to do so.

What if you had one tool that you could carry into meetings and write inside, that guided you step-by-step to build the business case for your operations strategy, generate the size-of-the-prize, guide your team, design the tests for the hypotheses, conduct focus interviews, analyze how good your company wants to be (value-gap analyses), analyze how good they should be (external benchmarking), analyze how good they can be (internal benchmarking), calculate what they should aspire to (top-down business case), calculate the bottom-up benefits case, lay the foundation for a pilot implementation, track your daily and weekly tasks, plan each major meeting, plan the message for your team and manager, manage the project and guide you through critical update meetings? Now you do. The Operations Management Strategy Journal is the companion guide to our popular books Succeeding as a Management Consultant, Strategy, and The Strategy Journal, a bestseller.

This journal is not an encyclopedia of every single operations analysis available. Our readers told us they wanted to see what an operation plan looks like. They wanted to know how to start, develop and execute an operations plan. They wanted to create a plan that led to action. They wanted to know how to determine what analysis to perform. They wanted to know how to manage the rollout. They wanted a guide to help them on Monday Morning 8am at the office. We meet this need with the 100-page step-by-step visual example of an operations management plan.

This journal helps readers walk into any situation in any organization anywhere in the world and understand how to develop an operations strategy via to-do list prompts, self-assessments and strategy calendars. All based on the combined best-practices of the author and the ex-McKinsey, BCG, et al. partners who produce all the strategy training programs on StrategyTraining.com.

Among other tools, this journal contains a 120-page visual guide to an operations strategy to guide the reader.

The Operations Strategy Journal was used by many of our very successful clients and summarizes the approach we used to help them increase their productivity, transform their careers, set daunting career goals, outperform peers and measure the value they create.

Through daily and weekly prompts, to-do list guides, client reminders, end-of-day scorecards, templates, completed examples, checklists and reminders, the journal takes the best practices from ex-McKinsey, BCG, et al., partners and our most successful clients to help you solve mankind’s most pressing problems.

The journal helps you learn the routine to solve operations and business problems like a partner. As you follow the guide, you will learn the habits of the highest-performing operations strategy thinkers. The journal teaches you how to be a balanced and successful professional with a strong ethical compass.

The heart of this journal revolves around the visual examples and pages to plan your study: from clarifying the problem statement all the way to developing the presentation and quantifying the benefits case in $.

The journal is divided into 4 parts: Operations Strategy Visual Example, Overview, Guided Example, and Your Study.

The OVERVIEW offers you a 1-page guide to the entire process we will use to create a highly customized solution for your client.

In the GUIDED EXAMPLE, we will work together through a study/project to show you how each page will be used.

Thereafter, we create blank templates and guides for you to use on YOUR STUDY.

• Visual depiction of an Operations Management Study
  • Executive Update 1
    • Objectives
    • Deliverables
    • Approach & timing
    • Focus interview results
    • Focus group results
    • The business case
    • Initial analysis — Financial decomposition
    • Initial analysis — Benefit levers
  • Executive Update 2
    • Executive Summary
    • Implementation Engagement Themes
  • Executive Update 3
    • Executive summary
    • Findings and opportunities
    • Production
    • The way forward on implementation
    • Steamcharters and Approaches
    • BMP and HR
    • Engagement resourcing
    • Vision engineering & Leadership
• Start here
• Guided example
• Work on your study
• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• End of Study
• Operations Management Journal Video Program
• Why did we create this journal?

As usual, a lot of copies of slides (some of them repeated a number of times. But in this book there is some context and explanations from time to time, that are worthwhile and some viewpoints that are interesting. But mostly they are just sorted into different areas…

And I don't like that I have to pay extra for access to the slides shown (the majority of the book) so that get a drop in ratings.

Still, if you're into Operations Management (or rather the analysis of it), this could be a worthwhile book.