Jay, Chuck, and I are excited to announce that the 14th edition of our Operations Management text is now available! (To order your desk copy, click here). There are many changes that we hope you will be pleased to incorporate into your course that I will detail in a few blogs over the coming weeks.
New Coverage and Examples
Here are two new topics we are discussing in the 14th edition:
◆ Industry 4.0, (the Fourth Industrial Revolution), with extensive digitalization and pervasive impact on OM, is now introduced throughout the text via discussion, photos, and cases.
◆ COVID-19 had, of course, a major impact of lives, education, work habits, and global supply chains. Not every aspect of business will return to normal immediately, and we address the fallouts throughout the text and in two new case studies.
Video Cases—Nautique Boat Company. As with each prior edition, we offer integrated Video Cases as a valuable teaching tool for students. These 46 short videos help students see and understand operations in action within a variety of industries. With this edition, we are pleased to take you behind the scenes of Nautique Boat Company, maker of the iconic Ski Nautique and other premium pleasure boats. Our four new video cases explore operations strategy (Ch. 2), product design (Ch.5), supply chain issues (Supp. 11), and inventory (Ch. 12). In addition, we continue to offer our previous Video Cases that cover Celebrity Cruises, Alaska Airlines, the Orlando Magic basketball team, Frito-Lay, Darden/Red Lobster Restaurants, Hard Rock Cafe, Arnold Palmer Hospital, and Wheeled Coach Ambulances. If you choose to assign the video cases as homework on-line, there are 4 multiple choice questions for each in MyOMLab.
New Videos to Help Students Build Their Own Excel Spreadsheets
Excel use in the OM course is more and more important. Instructors often ask their students to develop their own Excel spreadsheet models. We include “Creating Your Own Excel Spreadsheets” examples toward the end of numerous chapters to illustrate how students can build their own spreadsheets to solve OM problems, and in this edition, we’ve created 12 new step-by-step videos to accompany these examples.
More Homework Problems—Quantity, Algorithmic, and Conceptual
We know that a vast selection of quality homework problems, ranging from easy to challenging, is critical for both instructors and students. Instructors need a broad selection of problems to choose from for homework, quizzes, and exams—without reusing the same set from semester to semester. We take pride in having more problems—by far, with 850—than any other OM text. For this edition, we have added scores of new algorithmic problems and concept questions in MyOMLab.
Algorithmic Test Bank Questions
About 200 numerical multiple choice test bank questions have been converted to algorithmic so that every student sees different numbers and a different set of answers for these questions.
For those of you using our Principles of OM (11th ed.) version, note that with the explosion of etexts, we have merged the book with our longer OM text (which includes 7 business analytics modules). In effect, students will have access to a broader range of topics without paying a higher price.