Operations strategy framework slack and lewis 20112 6 diagram. This is one of the top business frameworks helping clients improve on their approach to strategy, project management, IT, HR, internal processes and client experience.See below image for the Operations strategy framework slack and lewis 20112 6 diagram. The slide was a version of this matrix from the Slack and Lewis text book “Operations Strategy” third edition 2011, Prentice Hall. The left side of this matrix is “Performance objectives” which leads to “market competitiveness” on the right side. The bottom axis is operational “Decision areas” leading to “Resource usage” at the top of the matrix.
Slack and Lewis (2002) stressed that all producers, even those whose primary source of competitiveness is different from product selling price, will be interested in keeping their costs low. Any dollar removed from the operation’s overall cost is a dollar which is added to the bottom line profits. … …
Where the Slack/Lewis approach may be superior is in the way it lays out “performance objectives”. The Operating Model Canvas has “value proposition”. But does not sub-divide the concept of value proposition in any structured way. So I have spent a couple of days trying different ways of laying out a value proposition using a similar format.