Globalization and for decades was considered as an eminent thing for several 2nd and 3rd world countries who had the opportunity to gain entry to world’s strong and established markets, in addition to the possibility for them to export back their relatively cheap merchandizes. While from global corporations’ perspective, then they had the opening to […]
Author: BasemAlabbasi
When the ERP implementation strikes you hard!
Well the story goes like this, with top managers at Levi Strauss decided to revamp their information technology systems. So the executives decided to migrate to a single SAP system and hired a team of Deloitte consultants to lead the effort. The risks seemed small, and the proposed budget was less than $5 million. But […]
Innovation Portfolio Management (IPM) at 3M
The notion of Innovation Portfolio Management (IPM), is primarily correlated with the process of provisioning corporate’s resources through its portfolio of new services and products that are aligned with the business strategy (Meifort, 2016). Thus, and to ensure superior control of growing rivalry, corporates must have an efficacious IPM in place that would safeguard a […]
Innovative Culture at Google
The principal foundations of Google’s corporate strategy were always connected to diversification. Google accomplished its diversification strategy over a series of acquisitions, innovations as well as corporate entrepreneurship. Which subsequently empowered Google to extend its contributions and reduce its rivalry. Therefore, and as industry front-runners, Google utilized aggressive strategies that were reinforced by continuous innovation […]
Bureaucracy vs. Holacracy
As an MBA student and a close observer to general market dynamics, I can categorize the types of business changes under three main groups: 1) Episodic, 2) Continuous and 3) Disruptive (Daft 2013), with the third one being substantially critical due to its direct ties with immediate and sudden changes in market constraints, that would […]
Barriers to Change
Visionary leadership is crucial for change; however, managers should expect to encounter resistance as they guide the organization along the curve of change. It is natural for people to resist change, and many barriers to change exist at the individual and organizational levels. 1. Excessive focus on costs. Management may possess the mindset that costs […]
When you’re with someone who frets about the future, a real hand wringer and nail-biter, simply tell this childlike story
Clocks usually are calm, regular creatures, but one litter ticker worked himself into a frenzy thinking about his responsibilities for the coming year. “I have to tick two times per second,” he said. “That’s 120 ticks per minute, 7,200 per hour, 172,800 per day.” Continuing his calculations, the clock worried that he’d never be able […]
SharePoint is falling behind sharply in the WCM domain
After being leaders back in 2009/2010, It is quite disappointing to see SharePoint falling behind sharply in the WCM domain. However I don’t believe that was out of coincidence, but on contrary and pragmatically speaking, I would say that was due , but not limited to, the following: Any dedicated, focused WCM effort is disappearing […]
Being supervised by a “RoboBoss” ?
@Gartner: One of the top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond, is that by 2018, more than 3 Million workers globally will be supervised by a “RoboBoss” !!! Get ready to be doomed by the SkyNet …