Integration of modern management techniques into a strategic planning framework to aid implementation of operations and strategy management (OSM) in industrial companies

  • Luay Elia Aboalsof

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Abstract

Many industrial companies are ambitious for rapid expansion, and in conducting accelerating of growth revenue - Thus, increasing trends towards expanding of working areas, or to diversify into multi - product and services provider. However, most of these companies are uncertain, and have no consideration in regarding stable operations or significant strategic planning to achieve these growth targets, another view neither any of those companies has had considered any operational dialectic threats or determining the operational consequences of that ambition to evaluate strategic alliances and new methods of work.
Every day we heard a business or organization, that has fallen or bankrupted for a various reason; therefore, it is has been extremely necessary to develop the business techniques in relationship to strategic management, of how implementing a future strategy of any business or organization capital delivery programme, in line with nowadays worldwide challenges, based on current, future forecast circumstances, market difficulties, challenges, demands increasing and limitation of raw materials. The research will include utilising and discussions of a large numbers of current market and worldwide well-known academic techniques to achieve this aspect, such as, planning Gantt chart, business resources management, work breakdown structure, finance management, ERP and MRP, human resource management, Economics, logistics, product life cycle, simulation concepts, and forecasting.

On rare occasions these companies would operate to an ideal optimisation to their daily operational subsets of process implementation, as they aim for growth without investigating how they could be operating better in the first place, prior the adoption of any strategic decision, the company should have a clear vision of all ongoing daily operations, which could identify contrast between strengths to weaknesses of business departments, system processes, or consistency of success to failure on daily operations, then that will denote a sufficient indication, whether the company had a comprehensive operational set up and solid processes in place, therefore as a result of that we can confidently decide, whether they are ready and capable to take step forward, towards growth, and thrive on nearest future.

For in many similar, typical case studies, the operation of business resources management would control the delivery program and justify the improvement requirements in line with the process functionality, usually will analyse and study the principles of all instructions of any general planning, execution proposals, in collaborative with a modern engineering and techniques developments, would also enhance system analysis, system productivity, cost control improvement, planning of resources, trading, materials management, equipment’s reliability, and maintenance activities.

In real life projects, I found out the majority of the market’s worldwide leaders, and blue chip key players are implementing a bespoke or a different in-house approach inside their daily operations, using a wide variety of random techniques to improve a number of areas without criticality examination, they try to maximise the achievements of any key performance indicators to the highest performance, more specifically, focus on best budget, cost control, cash flow, data flow, improve of the customer’s satisfaction and quality of services. The evaluation of the quality control and performance improvement could be measured by the success of the critical factors, thus in line with the combination of other factored elements inside the business, the concept of this analysis would help to control, monitor and measure all key performance indicators, Firstly, in order to operate to the best ideal operations at lower cost. Secondly, in this subject, to aid the compliance to stakeholder trends, more specifically, continuously improving of key; milestones of projects delivery. Finally in this concept, to achieving highest quality, reputation, diversified cultures, satisfied customers have become a key factor for all
Original languageEnglish
QualificationMaster of Philosophy (MPhil)
Awarding Institution
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Lung, Andy, Supervisor
Award date8 Jul 2025
Place of PublicationKingston upon Thames, U.K.
Publisher
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jan 2026

PhD type

  • Standard route

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