1- How did the company start?
(origin)
2- What is the company’s big picture that the company wants to achieve in the future? (vision)
how will this vision be reached? (mission)
3- What are the things that need to be accomplished to achieve the company’s strategy? (goals)
4- What stages do the raw materials go through to be transformed to the final product?
5- What role does the operations management play in the overall strategy of the organization?
6- What does the company do better than all the competition? Strength
7- What can you improve within the company? Weakness
8- What good opportunities can the company spot? Opportunity
9- What are your competitors doing that might be of concern? Threat
10- Who are the company’s main competitors?
11- What strategy does the company use to stay ahead of the competition and maintain the
number one position?
12- What are the least requirements that a company needs to meet product wise to sell a product in
this business? and what exact product make consumers choose you instead of the competitors?
How does that product affect the competitiveness of the company?
13- What factors play a role in the productivity of the company? How is that productivity measured?
How can the company be more productive?
14- How does the company choose its product designs and when to change them?
15- What type of product design does the company aim for? Example: standardization?
16- How did the company decide on what it’s capacity should be? What factors influenced this
choice?
17- How does the company react to changes in needed capacity? (increasing capacity) and does a
certain time mean more capacity might be needed?
18- Does the company prefer making all it’s parts by itself or does it outsource some parts? and
why?
19- Where does the company prefers to locate its facilities? and why does it prefer locating them in
that location?
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