The phrase "operational development" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a process of improving or introducing new systems and processes at an organization. For example: "The company has recently invested in strategic operational development in order to bring in more efficient processes and increase productivity."
London Underground's operational development and upgrades director, Nigel Holness, said he was disappointed at the threat of industrial action over new trains.
"You've got to be quite hardy to be a play ranger," says Sarah Davies, operational development manager at WPA. "If it's pouring with rain, you stick a tarp over your head and get on with it if children turn up".
Her role is to lead the strategic and operational development of the Athena SWAN Charter – a scheme that recognises excellence in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment for women in higher education.
The essential objective must be to reestablish the balance between management and the board so that the former runs the company while the latter contributes to its strategic and operational development and provides the oversight needed to satisfy shareholders.
Specifically, the key documents reviewed included operational development plans of the City of Harare with the Local Development Plan No 17 and city's strategic plan 2012 2025 being the main data sources.
Applied optimization problems such as design, identification, design of controlled systems, operational development of prototypes, analysis of large-scale systems, and forecasting from observational data are multicriteria problems in essence.
Although it will report unfolding operational developments rapidly up the chain of command, it is principally interested in moods and intentions.
The continued conceptual and operational developments in metadata required to support comprehensive automated scientific workflow systems portend many challenges and opportunities.
Improved communication among operational agencies, perhaps using the PROMISE web pages (http://www.pol.ac.uk/promise/) to facilitate exchange of information on systems, operational developments and experience, is suggested as a means of encouraging collaboration and dissemination of new techniques.
Thereafter, the succeeding planning documents should concentrate on organisational and operational developments at the micro level.
This article discusses the pre-operational development for data assimilation of radial wind observations in the High Resolution Limited Area Model (HIRLAM) at the Finnish Meteorological Institute FMII).
