Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1012998 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Managing Operations: A Focus on Excellence
This is a terribly cumbersome book to use. It is in 2 volumes. It is full of "supplements" that should have been put into a separate study guide. There is no index at the back of the book, so it is not easy to use as a shelf reference. The book was not done with high-quality publishing software, but rather just a low-end word processors. Consequently, figures and format are not appealing to the eye. And finally, and most important, it is overloaded with Goldratt's Theory of Constraints and Thinking processes, to the point of making the user think that there is nothing more to OM than TOC.

If you're buying this for your own use and not for an MBA class.. don't bother..
The text has no index, many typos, little relevant case studies included to the concepts included. It seems the book was created only on an old word processor. I would've expected better quality graphics too.

Painfully, horrible classroom textbook
I purchased this book as a requirement for my university's MBA program. My goodness, what a nightmare of a book!! It has no index, is painfully long and just a horrible read. In fact, my class ended up using an online tool using the same ideas as those incorporated in Goldratt's Theory of Constraints and Thinking. When I tried to match up the theories and lessons of those learned online - it was difficult to understand from this two volume book set because it is so poorly presented.