Silva, Nohren S.

BSA 1E

Discuss and compare organization strategy and operations strategy and explain
why it is important to link the two.
Businesses have strategies to make to produce goods and services and deliver
them to people. There are two strategies, the organization strategy, and operations
strategy.
An organizations' strategy is a specific plan that will help your business allocate
its resources to support infrastructure, production, marketing, inventory, and other
business activities. It sets direction and priorities, we all know that without direction the
business might have no focus on the activities you do. Moreover, it also clarifies and
simplifies decision-making. We know that making a decision is hard inside the business,
the progress of the business depends on your decisions to make. And with the help of
organizations' strategies, you'll be able to simplify and clarify it for a better
understanding. Above all, organizations focus on the whole organization it guides all the
different functional areas so that businesses can meet their goals and objectives.
On the other hand, operations strategy is a narrower approach, because it is only
used for the operations function. With the word itself, "operations". It deals with different
aspects of the organization like the product, process, methods, operating resources,
quality, costs, etc.
These two strategies are linked with each other because without one of them the
business might not run the usual. It will lack in such areas, for example, when
operations strategies are not incorporated with the organization's strategy then the
business will be deficient in terms of the product, process, and methods, operating
resources, etc. One of them has a major influence on the competitiveness of an
organization. With the proper planning of strategies and there's a possibility that the
organization will become successful.

Discuss the factors that affect productivity.

Productivity increases the production of goods if properly used. And it has many
factors that affect productivity. One factor is technology, which gains productivity.
Technology improves as time passes by and this assists businesses to work harder. But
without proper use and control of technology, it may result in unproductive or inflexibility.
That is why it's important to become wise and thoughtful when using technologies in
production.
 Another factor is computer viruses. Business organizations tend to work more on
their computers and it's an aid to increase productivity, however, we cannot avoid
viruses to computers wherein works will be delayed and in the end, we become
unproductive.
Next is searching for lost or misplaced items. We cannot resist this factor in a
business because it's normal to lose or misplace an item. As a result, instead of
focusing on the production of goods, workers prioritize searching for the items that were
lost which will result again in unproductivity.
Indeed, there are many factors affecting productivity. There are not only three but
these three are some of the factors that affect productivity in the business.

How can we improve productivity in our organization and how can we able to
maintain it?
Productivity can be improved inside the organization by developing it and
applying it to different operations because it's the first step in managing and controlling
an operation. Applying it consistently is a must so that it will lead to days of good
productivity. Moreover, organizations must look at the system as a whole in deciding
which operations are most critical because organizations' productivity is overall and by
this, they should develop methods for achieving productivity in all areas of the
organization. They can gather as a team or with the workers to brainstorm ideas and
establish goals for the improvement and maintenance of productivity.
Applying these steps may help businesses achieve productivity. And we know
productivity is important in managing the business and it should be one of the important
processes that businesses must focus on to look up. Managers applying the steps in
improving and maintaining productivity leads to the productive use of the organization's
resources.