Companies need managerial technologies to generate innovation, organise production, collaborate with other companies, and manage the performance of activities. These technologies create an overview of, and help to assess, whether there is progress in innovation, production, collaboration and performance. Managerial technologies provide an important part of the knowledge and insight, which form the basis for how companies perceive their own challenges, problems and successes. For example, companies use budgets to plan their futures. They use key performance indicators to couple strategy and action. They use gate and portfolio models to structure and make decisions about innovation. They use contracts and agreements to organise relationships with suppliers and customers. They use Lean methods to generate flows in their production.

The Department of Operations Management (OM) conducts research and teaching in such topics. Using the knowledge which the department develops and disseminates, it is possible to analyse the need for managerial technologies in various company situations. We aim to explore and characterise the effects, which such managerial technologies have in various contexts. With this knowledge, companies can then adapt them to their special innovation activities, production circumstances, supply chain and logistics initiatives and performance management. The department’s focus is broadly on problems of business economics as viewed on the basis of a managerial perspective. Management is about mobilisation of resources relative to company objectives. The department’s research and dissemination act in this context within central areas of business economics: innovation, production, supply chain management and performance management.

The objective is to create research-based knowledge of high quality in an international perspective, which offers significant input to teaching and which can also be communicated in an enthusiastic manner to practitioners. The department’s research must be able to create theoretical debate and inspiration for the development of companies’ application of managerial technologies.

The department offers courses at all levels at CBS. The courses are intended to create a clear increase in knowledge and analytical competence among students.

Department of Operations Management
Copenhagen Business School /Handelshøjskolen
Solbjerg Plads 3, section B 5. floor
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg

Tel: +45 3815 3400
Fax: +45 3815 2440