You Make the Call
Orchestrating Outcomes
1.
Explain the “Orpheus Process” as a system of
operations management. In what ways is it
important to the orchestra’s productivity, com-
petitiveness,
and
overall
organizational
performance?
2.
How would you explain “quality” in an orches-
tral performance? In what ways are the eight
dimensions of quality in Table 15.2 useful in
explaining the quality of a concert? In what
ways are they not useful (or at least difficult to
apply)?
3.
Discuss the importance of quality in Orpheus’s
operations in terms of competition, productivity,
and costs.
4.
In what ways does the “Orpheus Process” reflect
the basic elements of total quality management,
particularly strategic commitment, employee involve-
ment, and methods?
ENDNOTES
1
Vivien Schweitzer, “Players with No Conductor and,
Increasingly, with No Fear,” New York Times, May 7, 2007, www
.nytimes.com, accessed on January 2, 2014; Jennifer Higgs,
“Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Embodies Democratic Principles,”
Axiom News, http://axiomnews.com/orpheus-chamber-orchestra-
embodies-democratic-principles, accessed on January 2, 2014;
Amanda Gordon, “Self-Governing Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Has Broader Lessons to Offer, Says Banking and Civic Leader John
Whitehead,” New York Sun, www.nysun.com, accessed on January
2, 2014; Harvey Seifter, “The Conductor-Less Orchestra,” Leader
to Leader Journal, No. 21 (Summer 2001), www.pfdf.org, accessed
on January 2, 2014; and J. Richard Hackman, Leading Teams:
Setting the Stage for Great Performances (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 2002), http://books.google.com,
accessed on January 2, 2014.
2
Paul M. Swamidass, “Empirical Science: New Frontier in
Operations Management Research,” Academy of Management
Review, October 1991, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 793–814.
3
See “Made in the U.S.A.,” Time, April 22, 2013, pp. 22–29.
4
Office of Services, International Trade Administration, http://
ita.doc.gov/td/sif/index.html, accessed on January 2, 2014.
5
For an example, see Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder,
“Develop Profitable New Products with Target Costing,” Sloan
Management Review, Summer 1999, pp. 23–34.
6
Joan Woodward, Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice
(London: Oxford University Press, 1965).
7
“Thinking Machines,” BusinessWeek, August 7, 2000, pp. 78–86.
8
“Thinking Machines,” BusinessWeek, August 7, 2000, pp. 78–86.
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