OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
This report analyses the job role of operations manager in the live music events industry. This report looks at the job role and how it impacts on the company’s performance due to the performance objectives (Quality, Speed, Dependability, Flexibility, Cost) of the operation manager.
The organisation chosen for this paper is Glastonbury Festivals LTD. Glastonbury Festival LTD is owned by Micheal Eavis who formed the ever-popular festival ‘Glastonbury’ at the farmland he owns.
Although since 2002 Glastonbury Festival LTD has joined force each year with ‘Festival Republic’ (a company consisting of both Live Nation and MCD) to manage the Festival, Glastonbury Festival LTD has retained 60% of the overall share of ownership.
Micheal Eavis the owner and founder of the Glastonbury festival has retained the lead
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The operation manager has responsibility rating as gold and is the only role that is rated with this level, all other titles that hold a responsibility rating come with their own rating of silver or bronze. The Gold, Silver and Bronze ratings give a clear decision making process and each level reports to their superior rating e.g. Bronze report to Silver, Silver report to Gold.
The role of the operations management team includes authorising expenditure, it ensures there is sufficient resources available for all operations to comply with legislative and public entertainment conditions, the operations manager must attend inter agency meetings and lead the dialogue with the key outside authorities like Mendip District Council, Avon and Somerset Constabulary etc. they also chair Glastonbury festival management meetings creating a supportive working environment to maximise the functionality of
Operations refers to the transformation of raw materials(inputs) into finished products(outputs). The operations process is one of the key business functions and is a crucial component to business success. Like every business, Qantas is affected by many internal and external influences requiring it to have effective strategies to respond to these influences. Businesses that are able to adopt and utilise effective operational strategies are able to quickly adapt and either reduce or take advantage of these influences that impact the business. The effectiveness of these strategies can measured by Qantas’ performance and whether or not it is able to hold it’s competitive advantage. How well these strategies respond to the influences on operations will determine the level of success that Qantas achieves.
Operations Management Process is the central arteries within the organization because it produces the planning process for goods and services, which are its reason for existent. Operations management is linked to all organizations as every organization is producing either a product or a service. However, it cannot be said to be the most important function since there are other functional areas and boundaries within an organization. In today's fast changing world, organizations have to have a tendency towards being efficient, effective and innovative to the changing environment to succeed. Operations Management has to use metrics in order for them to accomplish their task and be successful with minimal interruptions within the organization.
Tamworth Country Music Festival (TCMF) is Australia’s largest music festival and one of the top ten music festivals in the world, attracting many visitors each year (TCMF 2016). This report will examine and outline the positive and negative impacts of this event and analyse the operational management to find out whether it has achieved the goals and objectives of the event and the satisfaction of stakeholders. The two methods the principles of sustainability and the triple bottom line will be use for evaluate the successful of this festival.
My final winter concert has come and gone quicker than I could have possibly imagined. It was certainly one I will never forget because it was my very first time performing in every band and choir group. It was a very stressful night but having it perfectly planned and having help from many of my fellow performers definitely made me feel a lot more at ease. This concert definitely had it’s ups and downs and there are somethings that I wish went a lot better. However in the end, I did enjoyed performing and gave it a lot of effort.
When carnival was created it was a day for the peasants to have freedom to do what they wanted to the kings and the hierarchy above them, but my question is why did the kings take it to heart? If what the Kings do to the peasants on a daily basis is not accepted when it is done to them on the day of carnival, then why do it at all?
Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to reduce and distribute products and services. Related activities include managing purchases, inventory control, quality control, storages, logistics and evaluations. A great deal of focus is on efficiency and effectiveness of processes. Therefore, operations management often includes substantial measurement and analysis of internal processes. Ultimately, the nature of how the operations management is carried out in an organisation depends very much on the nature of products or services in the organisation, for example, retail, manufacturing, wholesale and etcetera.
I hope that nobody will argue that an event management industry is a developing and rapidly growing industry nowadays. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find a global statistics confirming this fact, I can refer to a local statistics and existing forecasts in order not to make unsubstantiated statements.
“Glastonbury Festival Donation” Policy Versus Theory The Glastonbury Festival indicates that the majority of the festival profits would be donated to different charity. Deducted the entire dispose all the rubbish fee during the event, the profit will mainly contributed to Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid, to assist the relatively people to improve their residence and sanitation (Digital, 2017). As well as these three beneficiaries, the festival also dedicates to support the local schools and sports groups, for example, the Butleigh Primary School, Horrington School Association and Shepton Mallet Football Club (Glastonbury Festival, 2017). Regarding to the CSR policy, this policy fulfills the ethical responsibility.
Operations management strategies play an important role in any organization to achieve organizational goals. An organization uses these operations strategies to maintain and control all its operations...
What is an Operations Management? The specific breakdown of operations management comes from reading chapter 1 of the online textbook titled Operations Management. Further explained in the book, operations services are products of the transformation of inputs to outputs. Manufacturing products differ from providing services in seven factors: degree of customer contact, uniformity of input, labor content of jobs, uniformity of output, measurement of productivity, production and delivery, quality assurance, and amount of inventory (Operations Management, 2004, p.6). Operations management includes many processes, all of which should be considered thoroughly by the manager.
In every organization, different operational functions exist to ensure the smooth learning of the organization. In order for an individual to have the knowhow on how to operate the functions delegated to them they must have implicit knowledge on the functionalities themselves. Understanding markets, customers and the company goals has always proven to be a core starting point for individuals who ply their trade in the organization. The essence of the skills is evident in globalization, cooperate social responsibility and risk management issues. In operations management, the basic principles of operations should be followed to ensure that the profitability of the organization ensures the operation of the organization is
Glastonbury Music Festival is a five day celebration which is held in England a lot of people from all as far and wide as possible attempt to be a piece of it yet lamentably just a couple have the capacity be a piece of it. Diverse bands play at the Glastonbury Music Festival. Offer of the Glastonbury Festival tickets started at 9am on the fifth of October 2014. Around 120,000 tickets, costing £210 each, were gobbled up in one hour and 27 minutes, as per coordinators, who said more than one million individuals had enlisted for the occasion (Taylor 2013). It has been recorded that around 900000 enrolled clients who attempted to purchase the ticket were not able to purchase them, which left the clients baffled.
University of Phoenix(Ed.).(2003) Operations management for competitive advantage[University of Phoenix custom edition e-text]. New York: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved February 01, 2005, from university of phoenix, Resource, MGT554- operations management website: https://mycampus.phoenix.edu/secure/resource/resource.asp
Have you ever been in a music concert, and you're really, really bored, and you almost fall asleep in the middle of the concert? Well, I will be talking about some things that might make the concerts more interesting. I will also talk about some people who are just like those people who are playing, except even more important. Above all, if you want to be like a musician like the person who was playing in the concert, look at this website, and you may find something on here that you might want to try or buy. All things in this website will help you understand piano more, and you will further progress in your playing skills..
When one thinks of a concert today it is easy to name off thousands of them such as, Woodstock, Vans Warped Tour, Rock on the Range, plus many more. To most people a concert is just something to attend for entertainment. One spends money to go see their favorite band or bands. Some go just to say they went for the experience of a concert. Bands that put-on concerts and tour, bring in thousands of fans from around the world. These concerts bring in a lot on money, but the money goes to the bands and the venues to pay for expenses. That is not to say that all concerts are like this, there are some that have been created to raise money for some sort of cause. A great example of this type of concert is, The Concert for Bangladesh. The concert was