Fundamentals of Operations Strategy: Competitive Dimensions

This technical note is part of a set that focuses on the fundamentals of operations strategy, including basic competitive dimensions, productivity measurements, understanding productivity as a relative measure, and the balanced scorecard. While designed to be used together, these four notes can also be used as stand-alone documents to support particular learning objectives. The other notes in this set are “Fundamentals of Operations Strategy: Productivity” (UVA-OM-1637), “Fundamentals of Operations Strategy: Productivity as a Relative Measure” (UVA-OM-1638), and “Fundamentals of Operations Strategy: The Balanced Scorecard” (UVA-OM-1639). These materials form one module in our collection of introductory operations management topics, and all are appropriate for an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level introductory course on operations management. The complete list of the materials in this collection is available in the teaching materials included with this technical note.