Tips to develop modern teaching skills
Improving on your teaching skills can be quite rewarding. It can help you keep your students’ attention, keep them receptive, interactive and engaged. You magically transform a dull topic into a lively and exciting session. When you possess appropriate teaching skills, students will always look forward to your lessons and passing tests for such students […]
Scenario planning
By basing their judgment on objective techniques and adding a little imagination by means of their own intuition, researchers are often able to create a series of alternative future scenarios. Each of these alternatives needs to be consistent and to have some probability of occurring. The purpose of such forecasting is to stimulate creative thinking […]
What is PRINCE2?
PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) is a structured project management method based on experience drawn from thousands of projects and from the contributions of countless project sponsors, Project Managers, project teams, academics, trainers and consultants. PRINCE2 as a standard embodies established and proven best practice in project management. It navigates you through all the essentials […]
The development of strategy
An organisation’s strategy is based on what its managers intend to be the direction in which the organisation should proceed, although subsequent actions at the operational level can cause the overall strategy to be changed. Other factors which can have an effect on the way in which the strategy develops may come from either within […]
Role of the Chairman in risk management
Kodak’ was a leading brand for over a hundred years. Its descent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012 represented a strategic failure to reinvent itself and a missed opportunity to adopt the very digital technology that it had itself invented in 1975. Kodak was ultimately unable to take strategic risk. Internally, Kodak saw itself as […]
Why businesses succeed or fail: a study on small businesses in Pakistan
If you are studying through iQualify UK for an ABE qualification then you have free access to a database of academic journals on business topics. This is a great way to keep up to date on the latest academic thinking. One such recent article, by Shabir Hyder and Robert Lussier, investigates why small businesses succeed […]
Marketing myopia
If there is one article which every aspiring professional marketer should read it is ‘Marketing myopia’ by Theodore Levitt. It was written in 1960, but the fundamental point has withstood time and it can correctly be called a classic. Indeed for a long time it was given to most new MBA students on their first […]
Motivating employees: going beyond the pay cheque
Each employee is different from the other, by virtue of their qualifications, experience, knowledge, professional expertise, expectations, and last but not the least, their motivation. It is true that a happy employee can help a company to prosper. However, that happiness or satisfaction may not be derived from one common factor, a salary. Most employers […]
SWOT analysis – a basic understanding
Any organisation, be it big or small normally operates in a dynamic environment. This environment is made of up of numerous factors which may or may not be good for the organisation in the long run. The organisation has the responsibility to identify all such factors and then adjust itself accordingly. This constitutes the dynamic […]
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): In response to social concerns
Let’s begin with the basics. Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, is the deliberation of social concerns and public interests in vital business decision-making. Each corporate is responsible for the impact of their actions and activities, on the environment, on their consumers, communities, employees, stakeholders, and all others, who are directly or indirectly under the impact. CSR, […]