Operations and Project Management

Operation and Project
Management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
1. Brief description of the organization..................................................................................3
2. The relationship between various operational areas of an organization.............................4
3. Challenges in Operations management..............................................................................5
4. Techniques that can be used to resolve the operational challenges....................................6
5. Role of project management within the organizational context.........................................8
6. Typical issues and approaches in effective Project Management......................................9
7. How project management can contribute to achieving organizational objectives...........10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
In today's business world, Operations and Project Management (OPM) where operations
management is referred to daily activities that takes place in a company and decisions are made
in order to resolve strategic business issues in a systematic manner. On the other hand, project
management can be defined as organizing, planning, controlling and motivating as well in
relation to different resources opted by a company to attain different desired goals and objectives
(Akanmu, Anumba and Olayiwola, 2020). In present context, company that has been taken into
consideration is Projacs International. On the other hand, report is going to be enclosed with
different interrelation among operational areas of Projacs International. Also, challenges within
operations management and techniques which are utilised to resolve will be indulged in this
report. Lastly, assessment will be putting light on project management's contribution towards
attainment of different desired objectives of Projacs International.
Main Body
1. Brief description of the organization
Projacs International is the organisation found in the year of 1984 and dealing under Egis
company. Basically, this organisation is offering its clients with construction engineering
services and reputed as a company offering high level professional management along with
consulting services. Mainly, Projacs International is working at international level especially
among different regions like Northern Africa, Middle East, North America, Europe and so on.
On the other hand, merger that took place of Projacs International and Egis has helped this
company to become one of the crucial regional player within construction industry and explored
a different range of segments in relation to construction market. North Africa along with
Northern Africa has grabbed various opportunities to boost its presence within Middle East
region.
In present time, the construction industry of Middle East region is at it's boom where it is
considered to be the industry that has reached to the second-largest productive industry that is
impacting positively on international economic conditions after oil. Under this, it can be said that
because of hike within construction industry, Projacs International has started witnessing high
demand for construction engineering project management. Including this, in the year of 1984

company specifically took into consideration of Projacs Academy so that to support the
construction industry’s awareness of Project Management.
2. The relationship between various operational areas of an organization.
There are different operational areas within an organisation that work in coordination with
each other in order to ensure that organisational goals and objectives are achieved effectively.
The relationship between the various operational areas within an organisation are explained
below -
HR and Finance Department – Both these departments work towards the primary goal
of enhancing the overall performance of business performance as well as increasing the overall
profitability. The finance department is responsible for effective allocation of funds for various
HR activities like recruitment, selection, advertising etc. this is because these processes are
viewed as expenses for the organisation. On the other hand, the HR department identifies any
vacant position within the Finance department and hires employees accordingly. Therefore, this
is the way in which finance as well as human resource departments work together in achieving
organisational goals and objectives. This ensures that the goals as well as objective sof the
company are achieved in an effective manner.
Marketing and Operations Department – The marketing area within an organisation is
responsible for undertaking research and development of the marketing plan that is developed by
the management of the company. It ensures that all the strategies included in the marketing plan
are executed successfully. The primary responsibility of marketing operational area is to carry
out various marketing processes like advertising, branding, promotions etc. for the products that
are developed by the operations department. The operations department ensures that high quality
goods and services are manufactured and delivered to the customers on time. The main
responsibility of the marketing department is to price the products and bring in customers while
the operations department ensures that there is no compromise on the quality during the
production process.
Purchasing and Sales Department – Employees working in both these departments are
interrelated with each other. This is because they are in constant contact with each other and
work towards linking the suppliers as well as the customers. The purchasing department makes
sure that the inventory is available for carrying out the sales of the company effectively. On the
other hand, the sales department is responsible for ensuring that the sales of the products and