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What is Business Model? Different people define the concept of business model differently. For the average person, business model merely describes the way in which a firm makes money. Some see it as the company plan for generating revenues, some see it as the structure of operations and how to organize various activities to provide services, others define it as the architecture of the organization and division of resources to generate profits. Companies and society has always been the rubrics that holds the very make up of business activities. Combined, these two forces form the essence of contribution to what makes economy, shaping our daily activities, and the formation of business cycles. Given the ever-increasing complexity of the global marketplace, business (exchange of good and services, manufacturing, farming, production, distribution, sales and consumption) is rooted in the way we live and how our societies and ultimately nations, progress. A viable, efficient and effective business model is vital to organizational success of failure.
How do companies and brands go wrong? Why they make such strategic mistakes that taken near extinction? With all the knowledge and experience, company large and small do go wrong in their marketing, branding, or business strategy. This book highlights such examples and explain what and how such big names went wrong, and to derive lessons to avoid such mistakes from happening by others.
This book introduces readers, and project management practitioners to a number of global companies and projects, that went right and/or wrong. Seeing high percentage of projects failure, mounting to billions of lost revenues annually to companies on global bases, the idea to put together this body of work was born. While the lessons are significantly useful to the public and can be shared, the primary objective of this book however, remains to present the reader with lessons learnt from not only mine, but the collective experience of working with projects. Some of the lessons covered in this book includes the following; It is very good idea to initiate an innovative approach to a project, but the most important thing, is to plan for it adequately, extensively, and be ready for failures and obstacles since nothing goes as you plan. He listens covered in this book are invaluable and timeless.
The theories herewith are the most commonly discussed in educational psychology textbooks, and are studied by most students in schools of education. The theories discussed in this book, are applicable in real setting of higher education, through a process of experimentation and practice. The three main classifications of learning theories are, behaviorism, cognitivist, and constructivism. Al of which, provides a rubric and guideline for educators that help in the process of selecting teaching methodology, techniques, approaches, strategies and tools. Moreover, only through practice, an educator can develop a best practice that best fit the teacher student’s relationship according to culture, capacity of the learner, learning styles and many other constraints and resources to be taken into consideration. This book highlight the fact that certain theories and learning styles tend to be particularly important in international learning setting, whereby students are culturally diverse, and particularly if they are of “High Context Societies”, as explained in this book.
This book starts with discussion on the nature of Information Technology and how it relates to modern organizational function. Then a discussion on process design and methodology in project management, to highlight the increasing importance of project-based jobs in post COVID-19 world. The discussion on the role of information technology is all about Organizational Efficiency. In quest of the organization will remain to increase efficiency and effectiveness, which is manifested in all actions taken (strategies) of any given public or private entity. Therefore, the intertwined functions of information technology, the field of project management and organizational efficiency are inseparable. Number of cases are presented in this book to provide real examples, illustrating what companies do and how they must continuously search for approaches that increases productivity efficiency and effectiveness.
With an economically devastating pandemic like Covid-19, societies were left stumbling with an economically devastating impact, that far exceeds the health impact of the pandemic. Whatever the liberalization of global economies and free trade has contributed to the uplifting of hundreds of millions of people globally in the past two decades, has been diminished by the 2020 Covid-19. This is happening in a time of growing population, that has been left with depleted savings, and changing economics as we know it as a result of mass-digitalization, robotization and automation, and shrinking global resources. Consequently, governments worldwide are left with a very challenging task of providing services and justifying their existence. This essay explores various publications by world renowned institutions such as the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and others, to present the reader with shocking statistics regarding the future of humanity. This essay also makes suggestions as to best possible approach to deal with rising and eminent challenges.
The South East Asian market, which comprises of (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines) is a market greater of 500 million people. The growing middle-class in Asia is creating an unprecedented demand for products and services, and fuelling global growth. A slowdown in the Chinese economy (the world’s second largest) most definitely will impact global economic growth. Although Malaysia is a relatively small economy with population of 30 million, yet it provides an insight into the Asia-Pacific region with its strategic location in South-East Asia. This book will be followed by a series of other books that provides insight into more Asian companies. In 2010, Malaysia sat a target to become a high-income nation by the year of 2020 with the initiation of Economic Transformation Program (ETP). ETP is a comprehensive blueprint to move Malaysia’s economy into developed economy with a projected Gross National Income (GNI) of US$523 billion and per capita income at US$15,000 by 2020.
This book list with examples the most common methodologies applied in project management. There are numerous definitions of methodology in project management. However, there is a shared fundamental principle across all definitions. That is, methodology in project management helps project managers direct the project, and keep it in track. Methodology help organizations to achieve outcomes that aligned with strategic objectives. This is especially true when considering that projects are expensive, changing and time consuming in nature. All projects have three main components that a Project Manager (PM) constantly struggle with; cost, time, and quality. Various approaches to project methodology...
The quest for Critical Success Factors “CSF” in project management in every industry is the aim of company and project manager around the world. This is primarily because of the cost attached to such large-scale projects, especially those financed by governmental entities, municipalities and provinces. Large-scale construction projects in particular have a critical impact on governmental budgets, economic growth, and ecology. As such, determining what critical success factors that directly contribute to cost reduction, timely delivery, improvements in quality of construction and positive impact on the environment can being mutually beneficial to all participants and stakeholders. The sta...
Impressed with the economic performance of Malaysia, triggered an interest in examining how Malaysia (then under PM Mahathir) managed to pull out of the financial crisis of 1997, that gripped much of South East Asia. Years later, Malaysia managed to pull itself out of the financial crisis, and to be a rising Asian tiger. This early interest has turned into love and affection to a country with unique history, resources, and marvelous people. The deeper my research of Malaysia, the more my frustration grew with the lack of ability of a nation to move into a unique socio-economic position. That is, to equalize with Singapore, or compete at the global level with Korea. I chose 2020 to publish th...