MBA - 'operations' and 'project management' difference

Project Management deals with the management of a specific project, which has a commence date, number of tasks and a completion date.Whereas, Operations Management refers to the ongoing management of daily works of a company, such as technical support, network management, etc. and has no set end point. Project management is part of Operations Management. Sarika Kadlag Pune

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Project management is one sub division of operations management

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The difference is between the tasks. (1) A team experience is crucial to the success of any undertaking versus individual experiences. Individuals have to gel as an efficient and effective team in a specialized knowledge area. Otherwise, each individual with different experiences will do their own thing. On the other hand, a project manager who has sufficient experience in handling several different teams successfully can make different individuals gel to work as a team. Factors such as culture, specialized knowledge integrity and sound project management and operations management skills are necessary though for project managers tasked with handling new teams. (2) Process experience in the specialized knowledge area is important but most significantly, process experience in the operations of the business owner hiring a projects service provider is crucial. For instance, the CRM systems integrator may be well-versed in installation, customization and roll-out and yet it would lack experience in the actual processing of customer transactions. The operations management perspective of the business owner is significantly different from the operations management perspective of the hired systems integrator.

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