The document discusses key concepts in operations strategy and competitiveness. It covers competitive dimensions like cost, quality, delivery speed and flexibility. It defines order qualifiers and order winners and how they relate to customer needs and corporate strategy. The document also outlines Kaplan and Norton's generic strategy map and its components related to financial perspective, customer perspective, internal perspective, and learning and growth perspective. It provides examples of productivity measures and how outputs and inputs are used to calculate total, partial and multifactor productivity.