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Operations Management - Which came first?

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Anyone who has looked under the hood of a car has a good impression of the tasks of operations management.

Consider all of the equipment that is crammed into that relatively small space. This raises some interesting questions.

Was the space designed first and then all of the equipment (engine, battery, etc.) designed to fit in it?

Or was the equipment designed first and then the space designed to accommodate it?

Interesting, huh?

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