The role of operations management

Provision of a product that relies heavily on automation and machinery

• Production intensive

• Capital intensive

• Labor intensive

• Automation intensive

The impact of resource consumption of the natural environment

• Sustained productivity

• Ecological process

• Ecological footprint

• Value-added

The capacity of the natural world to meet the needs of current and future generations

• Ecological sustainability

• Preservation processes

• Social sustainability

• Green technologies

Development that meets the economic needs of present and future generations

• Economic development

• Economic sustainability

• Sustainable development

• Social sustainability

Resources needed to produce products

• Factors of production

• Human resources

• Capital factors

• Transformation resources

Environmentally friendly innovations that considers long-term impact on the environment

• Social technologies

• Green technologies

• Radical innovations

• Incremental innovations

Provisions of products that rely heavily on human involvement

• Human processes

• Labour intensive

• Social intensive

• Transformation processes

Concerned with providing the right products in a cost-effective and timely manner

• Production factoring

• Operations management

• Production processing

• Operations processing

The method of turning factor inputs into outputs by adding value in a cost-effective manner

• Sustainability process

• Triple bottom line

• Production process

• Capital intensive

A measure of efficiency levels

• Productivity

• Transformation ratio

• Concentration ratio

• Differentiation