Analyzing Operations Management at Google: Key Strategies

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Google's operations management, emphasizing key approaches such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, and Just-in-Time (JIT) philosophy. It explores Google's product design, quality management, and human resource strategies, highlighting how these elements contribute to operational efficiency and achieving company goals. The presentation underscores the importance of operations management for Google, emphasizing its role in improving productivity, meeting customer expectations, and optimizing resource utilization. Furthermore, it suggests incorporating lean principles to minimize waste and enhance teamwork, inventory control, and customer interaction. The conclusion summarizes the discussed strategies and reinforces the significance of operations management for Google's success.

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INTRODUCTION
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Operations management is the establishment of corporation practices creating the highest
efficiency of performance viable inside the company.
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Thus, this presentation will highlight the operations of Google inclusive of quality
management, product designing etc. which will be managed through key approaches like six
sigma, total quality management etc. that will help company in accomplishing their goals.
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Moreover, the presentation will frame the importance of operational management for the
Google.

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Key Approaches To Operations Management
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Google’s operations control entails distinctive management teams like Google’s product
layout method relates to the design of products and offerings selection place, quality
management a way to keep the product’s satisfactory consistent and job design and
human sources the way to make sure the adequacy of human assets for production.
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Google manage these operations with the help of certain key approaches:

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Total Quality Management: Total quality control (TQM) is a management technique for
successful operations through fulfilling consumer expectations. In a TQM, all
personnel's of a company participate in developing processes, production, services, and
the surrounding wherein they work.
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Thus, TQM helps Google in designing and creating a product which the patron virtually
wants and desires.

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Just in time philosophy:
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The Just in time is a control approach that line up raw materials orders from providers
directly with manufacturing schedules.
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Companies use this strategy to increase efficiency and reduce waste by acquiring goods
as they want them for the manufacturing system, which reduces stock prices.

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Importance And Values Of Operation
Management
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Operations management is essential for Google for minimum two reasons: Firstly, it
improves productivity, which in turn improves the company's financial health.
Secondly, it enables the Google to meet clients expectations and desires.
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Operation control is compulsory for the Google to manipulate the each day activities
smoothly, thus, with its help, the company is able to make optimum use of its assets like
workers, raw material, cash and different assets.

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Operation management helps the Google in controlling various activities that take place
within the company and thus, helps in making the goods to that satisfies patron’s
necessities.
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Through operation management, there's the most advantageous utilization of assets
which leads to considerable earnings of the Google. The efforts of the personnel and the
various raw substances are successfully applied and transformed into the services and
items required by the company.

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The operations' management allows Google to determine and manage the resources they
want to fulfil their business objectives. Thus, by matching assets inputs and production
objectives enables the company to reap organizational effectiveness and this is due to
the fact the company is capable to adjust the speed, reliability, quality and adaptability
of the company's operations
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Operation management helps the Google to examine and measure the technical and
manufacturing potential of their assets.

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Evaluations on improvement in
efficiencies of operational management
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However, from an above evaluation, Google should include lean principles along which
six sigma and just in time philosophy as the intention of lean is to get rid of waste, i.e.
Non-added value components in any method.
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Thus, It can enhance how a crew works together, inventory control, and even client
interaction.
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Further the lean principle is based on 5 principles namely: identify the value, value stream,
create the flow of value, establish pull, seek perfection and on the basis of such principles
Google can manage its wastage of production.

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CONCLUSION
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This presentation summarizes the operations of Google namely product and design
management, quality management etc. which is based on key approaches like six sigma,
Total quality management etc.
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That have framed the role of leaders and managers within each of the approach that helps
the company achieving their objectives.
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Further, the presentation have highlighted the importance of operation management for the
Google and along with that it has suggested that the company should use lean principle
within their production activity to reduce waste.

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