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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Operations management focuses on maximizing efficiency while minimizing costs. Projects cost money and mess up efficiency by changing ways of working, but when a project finishes, the end product is handed over into the operational environment. Let’s say you work for a clothing retailer. More on that later.

Retail 411
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Project Budgeting: An Interview with Sol Benady

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He started his career as an auditor in London, trained with E&Y where he qualified as an accountant, and then moved into consulting for retail and investment banking for a wide range of projects and clients. I talked to him in the Project Management Club on Clubhouse about project financial management and handling budgets.

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Commercial Construction Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Consider that commercial construction management entails everything from offices to retail shopping malls and medical centers. There are big, complicated projects that require project management software to organize all of the moving parts. There’s also retail construction, which can be a grocery store or shopping mall.