All operations conform to this resource-transformation-product model.
For example, hospitals have supplies of doctors, nurses and other medical staff, administrators, cleaning staff, beds, medical equipment, medicines, blood, among others. Its purpose is to transform sick patients into healthy patients.
The product of operations are patients served, test results, medical research, and “best practice” procedures.
Operations managers work on the diagram above.
They manage the resources, transformation processes and products of an organization.