Challenges and Key Processes in Business Operations Management

Business Operations
Management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Overview of organisation............................................................................................................1
Gantt Chart..................................................................................................................................2
Analysis of challenges faced by firm..........................................................................................2
Evaluation of key processes utilised within delivery of services................................................5
Identification continuous improvement framework....................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
The area of management that is associated with controlling as well as designing of
processes related with production as well as redesigning of activities for production of services
or goods is referred to as operation management (Bharara, Sabitha and Bansal, 2017). Firms
emphasise on making sure that operations are carried out in efficient manner with respect to
usage of resources that are required for meeting requirements of customer. They are involved
within formulation of plans, there organisation along with supervision of activities that are being
carried out. This report is based on Ovation System Ltd which are specialised within designing
as well as manufacturing of rugged higher performance of surveillance products for military,
police as well as governmental law enforcement agencies. They are based in United Kingdom.
This report comprises of overview of firm, challenges faced by firm, analysis of key processes
utilised within production along with identification of quality improvements.
Overview of organisation
Ovation System Ltd was founded on 19th March, 1987 and deals within manufacturing of
electronic components. They are specialised within developing designs and manufacturing
rugged surveillance products which involves video encryption and scrambling systems for
protecting convert wireless links from any kind of interceptions (Bromiley and Rau, 2016).
There products comprises of digital video recorders, equipments, surveillance systems and delay
lines. An instance can be taken into consideration to understand the quality of services being
delivered by Ovation System Ltd, Micro-Viewlock II is ultra compact version which furnishes
video encryption system. It possess smaller dimensions as well as have lower DC power
consumption which is apt for highly covert applications like merging within third party video
surveillance tools or body worn installations.
The key strength of firm is designing as well as development of their own product range
and enhanced technical support for responding to requests made by users (Ovation System Ltd,
2020). The rationale of Ovation System Ltd is to furnish products which will impress as well as
accomplish requirements of their customers. There vision is to bring in continuous advancements
within technology for different industries along with their implementation within security as well
as surveillance industry. Ovation System Ltd designs as well as manufacture their products
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within UK but are delivered to different law enforcement agencies around the world (Ovation
Systems Limited, 2020).
Scope: As technology is evolving, there is wider scope for development as Ovation
System Ltd can make use use them for developing products as well as they can bring in new
there own technologies for making sure that they meets the altering needs of the society (Busing
and Palocsay, 2016). Along with this, illegal practices like thefts whether online or offline are
also increasing therefore, appropriate measures can be formulated by them (as they are involved
within manufacturing of these products) through which the rate of such activities might be
declined.
Gantt Chart
The graphical tool that is liable for showing tasks or activities that are being carried out
against specified time is referred to as Gantt Chart. This is also referred to as visual
representation of projects in which activities are broken as well as displayed on chart which
makes this easy to acknowledge as well as interpret the information depicted in this (Chikán and
Sprague, 2019). Within Ovation System Ltd, Gantt chart will act like a popular tool which can
be utilised for drilling down the activities which must be carried out within stipulated time period
and is also utilised within tracking the schedules related with project.
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