Category: Leadership
Imam Ghazali on Leadership Ethics
Al-Ghazali, a renowned Muslim scholar of the 11th century from Persia, identified qualities required in kings, ministers and deputies, whose relevance to modern business management is worth exploring. Ethics in leadership and management is a topic every contemporary business person has to think about. It doesn’t matter whether you work at a major corporation or [...]
Behind Turkey’s Largest Six Sigma Deployment Borusan Holding Case Study
In May 2002, in the global context of adverse business conditions, Borusan Holding, a major Turkish conglomerate, launched an all-encompassing Six Sigma initiative (a quality management strategy/ process), which would ultimately help the Company to “Stay one step ahead in everything they do”. Since the inception of the initiative, hundreds of Six Sigma projects have [...]
Imen Bakhouche: Managing Opportunities through Networks
Tunisia based Imen Bakhouche launched NetConcept, an information technology services company, after catching the dotCom fever while pursuing her MBA in New York. Her Company grew into a group of 25 team members, with the help of a spiderweb of networks. These networks included families, friends, classmates, sororities, societal congregations and even competitors! In 2007, [...]
Na’ima B Roberts: Managing Sales-Clientele Relationship
Na’ima Roberts founded and launched UK-based SISTERS (link: www.sisters-magazine.com) in April 2007 as an online magazine. With their local advertisers weary of their purchases in online advertising spaces, SISTERS was published in print, three issues later. Sales increased immediately through the encouraging rapport between the glossy magazine and their readers. Balancing between Profit-orientation and Reader [...]
Iman Kouvalis: Managing Virtual Human Capital
“The greatest challenge in managing a virtual Human Resource team is to find Muslim graphic and web designers. This field is not as popular in the Muslim ummah as other traditional fields, like medicine or engineering. It takes more effort to find the individuals I need for the company.” Iman Kouvalis, 29, built Optimize It. [...]
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Rationale and Benefits
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are often referred to as a single term. Though there are more similarities in them than there are differences, the main factor distinguishing the two is the companies’ willingness for the M&A to take place. A merger happens when two companies decide on joining forces in their respective fields of business [...]
Indonesia Based Astra International Responds to Economic Downturn
PT Astra International (Astra), Indonesia’s largest conglomerate, recorded a profitability of USD7.7 billion at the end of 2007. However, the shifts in economic welfare towards the end of 2008 have toned the company’s high hopes a few octaves lower for 2009. Astra perceives this year as being one embalmed with necessary adjustments in order to [...]
Strategy Concepts: Porter’s Five Forces of Competition
“Moreover, in the fight for market share, competition is not manifested only in the other players. Rather, competition in an industry is rooted in its underlying economics, and competitive forces exist that go well beyond the established combatants in a particular industry. Customers, suppliers, potential entrants, and substitute products are all competitors that may be [...]
Strategy Concepts: The Experience Curve
The ultimate goal of any company is to achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace. A key component in a company’s effort to achieve this advantage is to increase the experience it has in its particular field or domain. This experience can come with time, by hiring experienced staff, or by acquiring / partnering with other [...]
2nd Arab Business Intelligence Report(ABIR) Confirms Economic Confidence
Since 2002 business, political, and thought leaders have gathered annually to discuss and debate the most pressing issues facing the broader Arab world. The forum, modeled on the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum at Davos, was known as the Dubai Strategy Forum but since 2004 has become the Arab Strategy Forum (ASF). Leaders [...]
