Gulf Integration Industry Consulting Project: A Comprehensive Analysis

This report provides an overview of Gulf Integration, a multinational business operating in the Gulf region's energy sector. The report details the company's diversified business model, encompassing six independent business units including power and energy, sports accessories, telecom and IT services, management consulting, electro-mechanical solutions, and pharmaceuticals. It explores the industry context, highlighting the company's diversification across multiple sectors in Saudi Arabia, including oil and gas, telecommunications, and sports. The report also discusses the company's operational approach, emphasizing its role as a coordinator of its business units. Furthermore, it establishes a connection between the author and the company through an internship experience, emphasizing the significance of the company's business model in the context of Saudi Arabia's economic landscape, especially considering the fluctuations in the oil and gas sector. The paper concludes with a list of relevant academic resources.

Gulf Integration Industry Consulting Project
(Author’s name)
(Institutional Affiliation)
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Overview
Founded in the year 2012 by one of the most prominent Saudi Business Groups, Gulf
integration is a multinational business heavily invested in the Gulf regions energy sector
(Gulfintegration.com. 2017). The company is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with 6 key
branches in different parts of the Kingdom (Gulfintegration.com. 2017). The organization
operates under a diversified business model with 6 independent business units that are
seamlessly integrated together to ensure that the company is able to achieve its objective of
obtaining unrivalled success in its areas of operations (Gulfintegration.com. 2017). The 6 key
business units under the company’s umbrella are power and energy, sports accessories, Telecom
and IT services, Management Consulting, Electro mechanical solution, Management consulting
and Pharmaceutical. This paper seeks to provide a pictured organizational chart describing Gulf
Integration modus operandi, the industry context under which it operates and the company’s
nature. The paper will also highlight the connection between the author and the company.
Industry Context in which Gulf Integration Operates
Unlike most companies in the Saudi Kingdom which focus primarily on the construction
and energy sectors, Gulf Integration has effectively diversified its product portfolio. Due to its
diversification, the company operates in 6 different industries representing its key business units.
The company has significant interest in the Oil and Gas sector where it is investing in the
production of alternative forms of energy.
The company also has interest in the Telecommunications and IT industry where it deals
in the design, sales, implementation and maintenance of data and communication solutions.
Another industry in which the business operates in is the sporting industry where through it
provides quality solutions for sporting fields. Other industries where the company has interests in
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include the pharmaceutical industry, ISO compliant Industries, Construction industry, Health and
Education Industry and Power and Energy Industry.
Gulf Integration Modus Oparandi
Gulf Integration’s main responsibility is the coordination of its different business units to
ensure that they operate effectively. As a result of this, Gulf Integration operates more like a
coordinator of its 6 key business units. The company seeks to ensure that its global network is
able to operate effectively with little complication and that its clients obtain the best of services
that are in the market (Koch et al., 2015).
Connection with Industry
As a citizen of Saudi Arabia, I greatly admire the company because of its desire to
integrate the different key sectors in the country’s economy. Through its actions the company
demonstrates how the different aspect of Saudi Arabia’s economy can coordinate with each other
to ensure economic progress (Wright 2016). I got the opportunity to work in the company
through its internship program and through this opportunity I was able to learn of how the
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various sectors of the country’s economy interrelate with each other. The business model
employed by the company is quite important as it helps to ensure continued operations and
survivability of a country even when one sector of the economy experiences a downfall. This is
currently being witnessed in the oil and gas industry which has been struck by a significant
decline in prices due to global over production (Baumeister, and Kilian 2016).
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Bibliography
Gulfintegration.com. (2017). Gulf Integration | Integrating Diversity. [online] Available at:
http://gulfintegration.com/ [Accessed 6 Oct. 2017].
Baumeister, C. and Kilian, L., 2016. Understanding the Decline in the Price of Oil since June
2014. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3(1),
pp.131-158.
Koch, C., Mathiasen, J.B., Nyffeler, N. and Schorderet, A., 2015, August. Mechatronics: From
systems combination to business integration. In Management of Engineering and
Technology (PICMET), 2015 Portland International Conference on (pp. 1576-1584).
IEEE.
Wright Jr, J.W. ed., 2016. Business and economic development in Saudi Arabia. Springer.
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