Efficient and effective operations enables an organization to achieve major competitive advantages through enhancing its ability to respond to customer and market requirements quickly, at a low cost, and with high quality and is thus vital to attaining sustained profitability and growth through increased market share. The GBR special issue on Operations Management and Innovation aims to cover a broad range of application domains from both manufacturing and service perspectives. It would emphasize the strategic role of operations in creating and enhancing value for the customer, analyse the current concepts and issues of operations management and explore application of analytical methods and problem-solving tools to the analysis of operations problems.
The special issue invites original unpublished articles covering any aspect of this broad theme. An indicative list follows, though articles within the broad theme of Operations Management and Innovation and not included in the list below are also welcome:
• Open innovation systems
• Innovativeness and innovation ecosystems
• New product and service design/development
• Product and service quality
• Innovations in supply chain management
• New developments in Project Management
• Strategic decisions for global operations
• Adoption of new technology
• Service excellence from innovations
• Servitization and its implications on organizations
• Big data analytics in the operations context
• E-business and operations

Last date of submission of manuscripts: December 15, 2017

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