BBQ Fun: Operational Plan Analysis, Development, and Implementation

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the operational plan for BBQ Fun, a leading outdoor lifestyle retailer. The report begins with an introduction to operational management planning and its role in achieving business growth. Task 1 focuses on analyzing and developing an operational plan to meet resource requirements, including staffing management, consultation processes, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess organizational performance. It also covers the implementation of contingency plans and strategies for strengthening team performance. Task 2 delves into the models and methods for operational plans, the role of operational planning, and budgeting processes. Furthermore, it explores alternative approaches to developing KPIs, relevant legislative and regulatory contexts, and organizational policies. The report emphasizes the importance of resource planning, consultation processes, KPI implementation, and contingency planning for BBQ Fun's success. The report concludes with a synthesis of the key findings and recommendations.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
1. Analysis and development of operational plan in order to accomplish resource requirements
of the firm....................................................................................................................................4
2. Implementation of consultation process..................................................................................5
3. Key performance indicators to analyse performance of organisation.....................................6
4. Implementation of contingency plans to achieve effective operational planning...................7
5. Plans regarding strengthening the team performance and obtaining approval of these
strategies......................................................................................................................................7
Activity 2.........................................................................................................................................8
Developing and implement strategies.........................................................................................8
Implement strategies and developing Physical resource and services acquired with in the
organization policies, procedures and practices..........................................................................8
Recognising and incorporate for intellectual property rights and responsibilities in recruitment
and acquisition of resources and services...................................................................................9
Developing, motoring, reviewing the performer system and processes to assess progress in
achieving profit and productivity plans and targets....................................................................9
Analysing and interpret budget and actual financial information to monitor and review profit
and productivity performance...................................................................................................10
Identifying areas of under performance, recommend solutions and take prompt action to
rectify the situation....................................................................................................................10
Planning and implementing system for mentoring and coaching provided to team and
individuals ,safely, economically , use resources.....................................................................11
Negotiating recommendations for variation to operational plans and gain approval form
designated groups......................................................................................................................11
Developing and implement system for procedures and records that associated with
documenting efficiency and performance manage according to the organizational needs. .....12
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................12
Describe models and method for operational plans..................................................................12

Role of operational plan............................................................................................................12
Budgeting processes..................................................................................................................13
List of alternative approach of developing key performance indicator to meet business
objectives..................................................................................................................................13
Legislative and regulatory context relevant to operational plan of organization......................14
Organizations policies, procedure, practices that directly related to operational plan. ............14
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Operational management planning can be considered as the development of plans and
strategies which will be helpful in achieving the effective management for successful
development and growth of business. This report will be based on the operational management
plans of BBQ fun. This enterprise is basically a leading outdoor lifestyle retailer which deals
with huge operational activities of furnishing new and renovated dwellings. The study will
provide resourcing plans which are required to be implemented in order to sustain growth of
organisation. This document will mainly concentrate in developing a consultation process which
is referred as an integrated operational planning (Ajmani and Kumar, 2017). It will also focus in
effective recruitment process which can be used in efficient and effective functional development
of BBQ fun. Further this document will also provide establishment of developing and monitoring
plans which helps in maximising the performance of the firm in order to achieve the profits and
productivity of company.
TASK 1
1. Analysis and development of operational plan in order to accomplish resource requirements of
the firm
Resource planning can be considered as a strategic implementation of those requirements
which are used to carry out the operation function of the business. These requirements may
include recruitment of new workforce or retraining of the existing employees in order to achieve
successful development and growth of the firm. It can be referred as important challenge of
project manager who require a great observation to assign multiple duties to line manager. Being
a consultant of the BBQ fun, one needs to identify lacking needs for sustaining the growth and
development of business (Alles and Vasarhelyi et.al., 2018). These needs may be equipment,
machinery or human requirement which tends to accomplish the main objective of organisation.
It may includes several roles and responsibilities of team member throughout achieving the
successful project planning. These activities are as follows:
 Identification of roles and responsibilities to members of the team.
 Organizing the tasks which needs to be accomplished.
 Establishing Staffing management plan which helps in bringing fresh people and human
resources to company. This contains multiple tasks such as recruitment and selection of
new workforce, facilitating trainings for those employees who require training

developing skills, timely monitoring of their activities to improve performance and
motivational rewards in order to get effective efforts of workers etc. Below presented
table will be helpful in providing the operational management strategies and plans which
are required to accomplish resource planning of enterprise. These are as follows:
Roles Action Interval
Higher management Plan to provide timely meeting
of staff members for
estimating the current
activities and level of
performance(Bozarth and
Handfield, 2018).
This needs to be organised
quarterly meetings, say 4
times in a year.
Project manager The duties of project manager
is to coordinate the activities
between the effective efforts of
employees using efficient
resources and equipments.
These tasks need to be
monitored monthly for
achieving constant growth of
company.
Team leaders These strategies include
motivation and inspiring
attitude of leaders. This is
required to maximise the
productivity of team members.
This plan need to be achieved
weakly by accruing current
working position of
employees(Bozarth and
Handfield, 2018).
2. Implementation of consultation process
Consultation process of BBQ fun is mainly a concept which manages the operational
plans and management also promote informal and informal communication within the company
to involve those employees which ensures proper functioning of operational management
strategies (Amit and Nixon et.al., 2017). Certain stages are involved in implementation of
consultation process these stages are enumerated below:
 Assessing the requirements which need to be changes and determining the main
consequences of applying these alterations in management plan of BBQ fun.
Communicating these restructured plans.

 Measuring the improvement area of current plans and strategies. Stating the clear vision
of such altered procedures in order to formulate effective plan of operation and
management.
 These changes need to be documented for communicating clear visions to staff members
so that successful growth and development of business will be achieved.
 Identifying the threats and behaviours of workforce which will restrict the growth of such
structured plans and also determining the opportunities, these new structure possess.
 Project manager need to develop change implementation plan which also consist of a
proper communication plan.
 Assignment of roles and responsibilities to staff members in order to achieve effective
implementation of restructured objectives.
 Determining the effectiveness of change implementation plan and various ways to
maintain changed objectives in organisation.
3. Key performance indicators to analyse performance of organisation
This is a measurable value that demonstrates the effectiveness of key business objectives.
Key performance indicators (KPI) are generally applied to evaluate the functional objectives of
organisation. It is termed as comprehensive record tracker in which current position of business
is estimated and optimal plan changes factors are applied accordingly. It may be categorised into
four categories such as revenue improvement, Cost reduction, process cycle- time improvement
and increased customer satisfaction. This may consists of multiple levels which helps in
estimating the success at reaching targets (Banerjee and Mishra, 2017). There are various KPI
involved in maximising the productivity of enterprise. Some of these KPIs are as follows:
 Business process KPI: It generally represents the growth rate in percentage. It also
manages to control the average process overdue time, average process age. It mainly used
to estimate percentage of process where number of assigned planned resources are more
than estimated assigned resources. It also evaluates average time which is required to
complete planned actions and the sum of those activities in which processes are stopped.
 Service level agreement: This can be referred as cost of services which are agreed upon a
particular time period. This KPI in BBQ fun works as resolving the required number of
answered queries within a particular time duration. It also helps in estimating average

number of complaints received, answered and total time in which these responses are
properly answered.
 Service quality: This type of key performance indicator plan mainly focussed because it
determines the total time a particular request takes to deliver services. This can also
helpful in finding total call length, number of remainders, total number of escalations
arrived and customer rating service in order to get satisfied customers.
 Efficiency: It is determined as average cycle time calculated from request to delivery,
number of staff assigned to receive such calls and reporting of remainders and alerts.
 Compliance: It can be considered as average time lag between identification of external
compliance issues and its resolution methods. It usually helps in calculating budget and
frequency compliance reviews.
4. Implementation of contingency plans to achieve effective operational planning
The purpose of establishing this plan in company is application of changed strategies and
objectives in order to manage the operations of business(Bozarth and Handfield, 2018).
Contingency plan is generally structured in order to provide a clear vision to business
management so that proper resources can be utilised with irrespective of available budget plan of
business and availability of resources in organisation.
 Contingency planning responsibilities: Being a consultant of BBQ fun. One is responsible
for implementing a plan which determines the funding controls for developing new plans
and strategies. Leaders and managers are required to maintain the effective
implementation of operational plans.
 Plan development and implementation: This can be developed by identifying various
functional and regulatory aspects of business. It can also be developed by making
alternative goals if in any case situation will be uncertain.
 Time taken to accomplish these stated strategies: This contingency plan is established
mainly developed to estimate the time which is taken in implementing the specific plans
and strategies.
5. Plans regarding strengthening the team performance and obtaining approval of these
strategies.
This plan ensures the effective management and implementation of strategies throughout
the project. Project manager needs to be communicated about restructured plans which are

required to be implemented in order to achieve the effective management and operation plan in
BBQ fun.
Being a consultant advisor of the company, these changed plans and strategies need to be
communicated to all the top management staff members (Baumgartner and Rauter, 2017).
Approval of top management in changing objectives of company plays important role to further
function these procedures. Management need to clearly communicated the goals and policies to
sustain the growth and development of organisation.
Activity 2
Developing and implement strategies
Developing and managing the business strategies which help for determining the best
candidates of organization. BBQ fun is a leading outdoors lifestyle retailer and provide the best
quality of product such as outdoor furniture. Many organizations use different process for hiring
the new employee. According to activity, it is important for BBQ fun to communicate with the
stakeholder provide the supporting information, team work, negotiate variations etc. Human
resource department conducting different program to their employee. Human resource
department following different strategies like legal requirement, career advancement program,
employee engagement and performance management system (Bozarth and Handfield, 2018). The
main objective of human resource management such as develop a new organizational culture,
improve business performance, competitive advantages, advance innovation and flexibility etc.
Implement strategies and developing Physical resource and services acquired with in the
organization policies, procedures and practices
According to the knowledge and skill, student develop an operational plan which
acquired resources both physical and human. They also manage the sales of product and services.
Strategies planing is an important for organization to manage the business plan and also modify
according to the need and requirement. Company policies, practices and procedure help for
managing the entire operations and functions in proper manner. Plans and policies are required
for organization to increase their productivity and profitability in marketplace. They also
planning an effective strategy as followings:
 managing the rules and regulation
 resource management
 innovation planing

Recognising and incorporate for intellectual property rights and responsibilities in recruitment
and acquisition of resources and services
Intellectual property is created by employee because it is tricky issue in the organization.
Employer and employee both have equal rights to perform their task and operations within the
company and enterprises(Popescu, 2018). These are important property for employee to provide
the rights to take decision regarding the business development and management. There are
following intellectual property right for employee in organizations.
 It is set up the business apart for other competitors.
 It is providing the necessary revenue stream of company.
 They offering many services and product to their customer.
 This property will help for marination the marketing and brand value in marketplace.
 It also used for security purpose(Bozarth and Handfield, 2018).
In corporate world, Intellectual property required for employee because this help for managing
their business rules and regulations. Human resource management has responsibilities to recruit
the new candidates with full of resources and services.
Activity 3
Developing, motoring, reviewing the performer system and processes to assess progress in
achieving profit and productivity plans and targets.
The implementation of plans should be part of business to manage the entire functionality
and operations. Monitoring and reviewing are basic concept for improving performance of
business activities. Monitoring provides to check the accuracy of predictions and input. It also
analyses to provide the right direction for implementing new planning and strategies. There is
generally a strong association between the monitor and feedback. This association will help for
implementing successful plans for business growth and development. There are some important
implementing planning for business success.
 It makes sure that each and every member of organization to understand their role and
responsibility towards the company (Bruno, 2018).
 They also develop clear and specific rules to minimize the personal risk.
 They also following written agreement.
 Hold business meetings and monitor that all employee spend time for working on
business planning and development.

Analysing and interpret budget and actual financial information to monitor and review profit
and productivity performance
Budget is financial plan which useful for reviewing the regular activities as part of annual
planning lie cycle(Popescu, 2018). An organization manages the entire budget to calculate the
need and requirement. They server budget in different ways:
Revenue and cost are indicator in organization and they are linked with each other to perform
different activities in organization.
Various method providing the information and support to the management take right decisions.
Controlling and monitoring main part of business to check the performance and efficiency. For
boosting the business performance so that it is required for organization to monitor the business
drivers because this driver impact on the business activities (Choi Chan and Yue, 2017). There
are important factors that affecting the business efficiency and performance. Cost sales Working capital
Identifying areas of under performance, recommend solutions and take prompt action to rectify
the situation
The most important challenging areas for managing employee is dealing with
underperformance. Some employee not getting job done in proper manner. It is required for
organization to hire skill and knowledgable employees to managing the entire business process
effectively and efficiently(Popescu, 2018). Skill and knowledge helps for remove all threats or
distraction in business process. Employee see their struggling team member for being
encouraged to implement innovative ideas. There are few steps help for maintain the
underperformance in the organizations.
 Fix clear vision and expectations.
 Match staff member to skills required
 monitor performance review
 provide an essential training to employees
 Encourage to employee.

Planning and implementing system for mentoring and coaching provided to team and individuals
,safely, economically , use resources
Mentoring- mentoring is a term, relationship based on different activity and specific
goals and objectives. Mentor provide the facility to the individual or group for some time
periods.
Coaching – coaching is mainly for concern about the efficiency and performance which
help for improve their ability.
Mentoring and coaching are both important part of organization to interact with the
people to understand their strength and weakness. A coach helpful for providing direct feedback
to employee (Danese, Molinaro and Romano, 2018). They also work with the organization for
achieving specific goals and objectives.
Coaching and mentoring is appropriate for
 Senior manager conduct training course for employee.
 Manager need space to develop and improve their existing skills and knowledge.
 Employee establish their own knowledge and skill move towards their career path.
Negotiating recommendations for variation to operational plans and gain approval form
designated groups.
There are various things that influence the operational plan between the approval, finalization
and implementation. Sometimes, unnecessary influence negative impact on the organization. For
example- Raw material price drops would positive impact towards goals and achievements. It is
important for organization to manage the negative impact. Some impact may major and minor
that handle in day by day management of operational plan.
The performance is occurred variance in the documented of the budget. The significance
issue affect the overall budget because of resources cost changes continuous.

Developing and implement system for procedures and records that associated with documenting
efficiency and performance manage according to the organizational needs.
There are important table the specific stages for establishing a monitoring program for
records(Popescu, 2018). These stages are useful for monitoring the performance of programs and
their executions.
Stages 1: Setting the performance of goals and objectives.
Stages 2: measure performance
Stages 3: storing and collecting data.
Stages 4: identifying and analysing outcomes and result
Stages 5: Implementing the performance improvement
Stages 6: review and reporting
Performance monitoring is continues process to observe the regular activities of organization.
Record management program is an essential for company to create business plans for achieving
their goals and objectives.
TASK 2
Describe models and method for operational plans
Operational plan is an essential for organization to manage the entire business process in
proper manner. It is based on written documentation that describe the business nature like
marketing strategy, sales and vision, goals, direction of company.
There are different type of method useful for creating an effective operational business plans
(Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017).
Strategic plan-This plan will help for identifying the mission, vision of company and it
also plans future goals and objectives.
Operational plan low-level management- this method is basically used in a single area of
business. This plan help in low level to support the day by day activities. Of organization.
Tactical plan mid-level- This management will cover single areas of business and it
supports the specific action towards strategic plans.
Role of operational plan
There are following roles of operational plan in the organization.
 It develops simple plans for business purpose.
 It also brings the emergency response together team and group.