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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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This could be anything from a new product, a new service, a new retail location, a new branch or division, or even a new factory. Operational project management deals with the planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling of resources to achieve project objectives. A strategic project is about creating something new and innovative.

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Production Control: Process, Types and Best Practices

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Once the production line is in action, managers need to keep a close eye on what’s happening to ensure they’re meeting the production schedule and delivering goods on time to retailers. Production control is about monitoring and controlling all aspects of a manufacturer’s production and operation. What Is Production Control?

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Business Project Management Basics

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Their responsibilities are the same in that they plan, review plans, schedule tasks and monitor and control projects to ensure that they’re delivered on time without overspending. Those are called the project phases and they are initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling and, finally, closing.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Even if you aren’t using a formal lifecycle or specific methodology, you’ll still be planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring tasks in order to meet objectives – that’s project management. Let’s say you work for a clothing retailer. Projects usually require project management practices to help them get delivered.

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7 Key Behaviors for Facilitating Productive Project Meetings

International Institute for Learning

Meetings are a reality of every industry and certainly for every project. A successfully facilitated meeting can add significant value to your meeting participants, your projects, and your organization. Leading and facilitating projects meetings that are productive and high-functioning doesn’t need to be challenging.

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Push vs. Pull Marketing: A Quick Guide

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You can set a baseline to monitor your planned effort against your actual effort in real time to stay on track. They have to develop strong relationships with retailers and distributors or it’s not going to work. The biggest plus for marketers is that they bypass retailers and market directly to consumers.

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Production vs. Manufacturing: Key Differences

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Production planning: This is the process of managing resources more efficiently to meet product or customer demands. It’s the what, when and how to produce products and establishes production capacity while identifying the raw materials required to meet demand.