Culture is essential today in helping employees and management survive in today’s environment. Survival has become a strong word today. Without culture, everyone in the organization would act or behave differently. No one would be able to anticipate someone else’s behavior, and no one would understand why people behave the way they do. When this happens, the organization’s performance would be very chaotic.

What is culture? Organizational Culture is a learned process and is developed by the organ

Supply chain thinking used to be limited to the managers of a few global companies—companies that were struggling to coordinate internal information and materials. This, however, led to an exciting boom in cross-business coordination based on Supply Chain Management concepts.

Today, the field has broadened and shifted over time. Current supply chain trends—differentiation, outsourcing, compression, and collaboration—are being used to restructure supply networks and improve coordination. As more c

One of my readers reached out to me after I introduced the strategy funnel last week which made me decide to prepare an example of how the approach works for a prolonged crisis, like COVID-19. One of my sons co-manages the bars in a three-level restaurant offering a variety of dining experiences. It is located in Manly here in Sydney, which is a tourist area. I have been thinking a lot about the restaurants and hence his future. So I thought I would use the restaurant’s owners as an example.

A la

Virtual Data Rooms, or VDRs, serve as a secure way to store information that many users need to access simultaneously. Virtual Data Rooms are commonly used by businesses when they merge, work on a project or other joint venture requiring access to shared data. VDRs are known to be more secure than digital records as there is no chance of failure during transit or accidental destruction. Normally, activities such as copying, printing, and forwarding are prohibited in VDRs.

What is a virtual data r

Post-merger Integration (PMI) can be complex, time-pressured, and unfamiliar for most organizations. It is a highly complex process. It requires swift action as well as running the core business activities simultaneously.  There is no one-size-fits-all approach to a successful PMI Process. However, careful planning focusing on the strategic objectives of the deal and the identification and capturing of synergies will help maximize deal value.

It is inevitable that some elements of information wil

Dried fruit is very nutritious. One piece of dried fruit contains almost the same amount of nutrients as fresh fruit, but is contained in a much smaller box. By weight, dried fruit contains up to 3.5 times the nutrition, vitamins and mineral content of fresh fruit. One serving may therefore provide a significant percentage of the recommended daily intake of many vitamins and minerals, such as folate.

Dried fruits have ample health benefits in store to appreciate and reap the rewards. One of the b

Transformation of an organization into a Next-generation Learning Organization (NLO) is a challenging endeavor.  The main hurdles include convoluted hierarchies, bureaucratic red tape, delayed decision making, and complicated organizational systems and processes.

To develop a learning organization, leadership needs to trim down bureaucracy and complexities.  They should make the best use of technology to gather holistic real-time data, deploy Artificial Intelligence at scale, and develop data-dri

According to TechSci Research report, “Asia Pacific Farm Equipment Market By Type (Tractors, Harvesters, Planting Equipment, Irrigation & Crop Processing Equipment, Spraying Equipment, Hay & Forage Equipment, Others), By Automation (Automatic, Semi-Automatic, Manual), By Sales Channel (OEMs v/s Aftermarket), By Application (Land Development & Seed Bed Preparation, Sowing & Planting, Weed Cultivation, Plant Protection, Harvesting & Threshing, Post-harvest & Agro Processing, Others), By Country, F

Pain management devices help to reduce chronic pain suffering. The primary goal of hospice pain management is to enhance quality of life. Managing the pain can also help improve the physical and mental functions of an individual.

Chronic pain continues and is subdivided into cancer-related pain and non-malignant pain such as arthritis, low back pain and peripheral neuropathy. Inadequately managed pain can lead to adverse outcomes for individual patients and their families, both physical and psych

Growing urbanization and industrialization across the globe to drive global soil testing equipment market

According to TechSci Research report, “Global Soil Testing Equipment Market By End Use Industry (Agriculture, Construction, Others), By Type of Tests (Physical Test, Chemical Test, Residual Tests), By Degree of Automation (Manual, Automatic, Semi- Automatic), By Site (Laboratory Vs On- Site), By Region, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025”, global soil testing equipment market is expe

Welcoming guests is key to the success of any organization, from schools to hospitals to large companies. Visitors play a key role in schooling, finance, manufacturing, and other sectors, and are a key part of sustained success in many areas. However, having visitors at your facilities doesn't have to mean sacrificing safety. A visitor management system can help to welcome visitors quickly and easily while maintaining control of who gets in, how long a visitor stays, and what aspects of the faci

Real estate as a whole has been quite a hard hit sector by the pandemic, with dozens of agencies shutting down due to clients cutting down budgets or pausing their services. It's mandatory, at this stage, in fact, to create a working architecture which is supposed to operate and help business owners in maintaining clients and prospect for longer. Let's find out what's the future of real estate. 

Going Digital 

Rightmove says traffic to its website returned to pre-lockdown levels on the day the mar

When organizations go through a Post-merger Integration, often management realizes that it is never a simple undertaking. It is a highly complex process. Swift action is required as well as being able to run the core business activities simultaneously.  There is no one-size-fits-all approach to a successful PMI Process. However, to maximize deal value, there is a need for careful planning focused on the strategic objectives of the deal and the identification and capturing of synergies.

The PMI Pr

Team collaboration can be extended to various types of business relationships such as bosses and subordinates, multi-team representatives, employees of two collaborating organizations, and company partners of service providers, contractors, volunteers, or vendors.

Teams with successful collaboration methods tend to deliver advantages such as faster project turnaround times, more time frames met, and, as a result, less money spent. In addition, effective team collaboration helps employees learn ab

“A problem well framed is a problem half-solved.” — Jay Galbraith

Organizational Design is more than just structures. It is having policies and strategies that are aligned with one another.  When this is achieved, it allows organizations to operate at maximum efficiency and achieve Operational Excellence.

The Galbraith Star Model™ is the foundation on which a company bases its design choices. The organization’s design framework consists of a series of design policies that are controllable by manag

This is a transcript of our interview with Zac Cohen, COO at Trulioo.

You can watch the original interview here

Boris: Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to our interview with Zac Cohen. Zac is a Chief Operational Officer at Trulioo. Trulioo is a hyper growth Vancouver startup solving global identity challenges associated with international regulatory compliances, fraud, prevention and trust and safety online. Zac, thank you for taking your time and coming to our interview today.

Zac: It’s

Rapid advancements in neurostimulation technology provide relief to an unprecedented number of patients affected by debilitating neurological and psychiatric disorders. Neurostimulation therapy includes invasive and non-invasive methods that include the use of electrical stimulation to control neural function inside a circuit.

Clinically, proven intrusive electrical stimulation devices are used to induce therapeutic neuromodulation of damaged neural circuitry.These implantable neurostimulation de

I’ve taken a sales and marketing tool and turned it into a strategy tool that you might find very helpful right now. The concept works like this:

There are a range of possible futures playing out for each of us. None we can be certain about. The further out in time we look the more uncertain the view. Nothing new here. What is our response? Generally, scenario planning and forecasting. The questions you should be asking yourself now is how many scenarios should I be considering and how can I move