Exercise – The four Vs dimensions of operations can be used for many types of exercise. For example, one could ask different groups to identify different types of restaurant, food retailer, car servicing operation, cinema, club or pub, etc. and plot the similar but different operations on the four dimensions. Alternatively, many television programmes can be recorded off-air, which illustrate operations. These often look behind the scenes of well-known operations such as airports.

Any of these could be used to promote group discussions on what operations management might be like in such operations, and especially the differences (in terms of the 4 Vs) between the processes shown.