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Is it Supply Chain or Demand Chain?
Have you thought about this question, do you appreciate the difference between Supply Chain and Demand Chain? Is it relevant to you and your role in your organisation?This short blog will try to answer these questions giving you the knowledge to...
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Would You Like Fries With That?
While you may not have recognized it, the last time you ordered from a fast food restaurant or went to the post office, there is a good chance you experienced some type of cross-selling or up selling. Cross-selling and up selling are...
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Barriers to Improving Negotiation Effectiveness
Effective negotiation is difficult – very difficult. If you think it is easy then you are probably doing it wrong. Indeed we know that many studies show that most people are actually ineffective negotiators and fall short of their...
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Delivering Successful Projects
All Change!It is evident with each passing year that the rate of change in all types of organisation continues to increase. So whilst competence in the core skills required to manage day to day operation will always be key to short term performance,...
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Training – “The Times they are a Changing”
There is a wind of change relating to training. Despite huge sums spent on training – has the investment produced the desired results? Regretfully suppliers of training who deliver unstructured and out of date training have plagued the Industry....
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Business Process Management: How to Thrive During the Economic Downturn
The Economy of the Middle East has changed greatly in the past thirty years. The oil industry significantly impacts the entire region, both through the great wealth and improvements in the standard of living that it generates and through the...
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Survive And Thrive During An Economic Slow Down
Cycles of boom–bust–boom have historically followed repeated patterns, and during difficult economic periods it is vitally important for organisations to quickly identify key financial areas of focus to ensure not only their survival but to...
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Coping with Uncertainty – The Need for Agility
Almost all decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty. The planning models that served us so well in the past are proving to be less effective in an era of globalised supply-demand chains, shortening product life cycles and structural shift...
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Get The Habit - The Power of Praise
STOP READING THIS ARTICLE …. for just one minute and think back to when a colleague, friend or family member took the time to observe something you did and praised you. Perhaps the scenario goes back a long time in your life, perhaps it was more...
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What’s this got to do with Time Management?
Last year I was facilitating a course on time management. It’s a great course and unlike many programmes, explores how our complex work environment often seems to conspire to make managing time and achieving goals difficult. I was a bit taken...
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Management Systems to Help Your Organisations Survive and Thrive
With the depressed oil market and the general economic concerns affecting industry, commerce and government around the world it is an opportune time to look at how to make your organization more efficient and effective. Many organizations have...
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The UAE Economic Climate and the Future of Dubai
The economic climate in the Middle East has slowed. There is no escaping that reality, the fall in crude and wider political instability has lead to a slow in growth of the UAE private sector. Newly released research by the Emirates NBD Economy...
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Financial Awareness: Leave it to the bean-counters just will not do
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee – in an economic downturn, financial awareness really is crucial for non-financial managers as well accountants and financial managers.Since mid-2014 when the price of crude oil began to fall...
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The Impact of Falling Oil Prices in the Middle East on Britain
Last week, credit ratings agency Moody’s announced planned reviews to possibly downgrade four Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, The UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. This comes after 18 months of turmoil in the oil and gas industry and oil plummeting to less than...
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Focus on Contracts Management
The declining oil price has been widely documented in recent times and we are still uncertain as to what is really happening in the market and what even the short term future will hold. One thing for certain is that current projects face increasing...
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