Managing Global Supply Chains – Striking a Strategic Balance

Global supply chains are facing difficult times as the marketplace shifts to a more global environment. Companies want to enter new markets with lower costs and better speed. However, many executives are struggling to meet goals in the face of new challenges.   Factors such as higher transportation and energy costs are enough to throw…

Enterprise Software Benefits That Can Turn a Company Around

We’ve all heard success stories about enterprise software – 30% increase in profits, products to market five times faster, project management overhead cut in half – but how, exactly, do those companies accomplish that? Here are three of the most important elements.   Sorting out flaws in organizational structure and processes:   In some companies…

Ways by Samer El Bizri to Stop Social Loafing In Cross-Functional Teams

People often take less accountability for individual and team performance when doing work as part of a group. This tendency, called “social loafing”, is well documented. In these cases, some of us may take advantage of a situation in which it’s harder to pinpoint responsibility-a situation created by the fact that many people have a…

How to Build an Effective and Efficient Team from Scratch?

If you’re in a managerial or team leading role, then it may get quite difficult to manage a group of people who are extremely opposite for each other, when it comes to thoughts, ideas, and conceptualization.   Finding mid-way resolutions and resolving on-going conflicts isn’t an easy task for everyone, but all of this can…