Authors:
Ming Yu Cheng, Tan Hoi Piew, Fok Kuk Fai
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Talent is the key to economic development and the network built among talents is the resource crucial for national competitiveness. Talent is highly mobile and a more talented individual tends to show higher tendency to move on and respond to better economic opportunities. Therefore, managing talent is a challenging job. This paper examines the evolution of brain drain to talent mobility and also analyses talent networking for a special group of talent, that is, academics. The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and patterns of academic networking, and the challenges in forming and maintaining this network.
Keywords: Talent Management, Networking, Globalization, Knowledge Economy
Authors:
Mobin ul Haque, Sarwar M. Azhar
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Research in market orientation has overlooked the importance of its impact on various aspects of marketing strategy, especially on distribution channel strategy. Using Kohli & Jaworski's framework of measuring market orientation (MO) and pesticide industry of Pakistan as a context, this article explores the relationship between various constructs of MO with channel strategy. This paper draws survey data from the pesticide industry in Pakistan. Given the low response rate, a norm in developing countries, bootstrapping technique is employed and tests are run. The results reveal that level MO has an impact on how channel strategies are formulated. Findings of the research indicate that higher level of MO is associated with selective channel strategy involving low intensity of distribution and higher channel control. The results also suggest that the right channel strategy helps an organization to create differentiation and to improve performance in a commodity market.
Keywords: MO, Market Orientation, Channel Strategy, Distribution Channels, Commodity Markets
Authors:
Khubaib Ahmed Qureshi, Syed Jamal Hussain
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The role of true e-Government is becoming vital and gaining much attention as
modern businesses need adaptive, dynamic and strategic business partnerships in
the form of Virtual Organizations and e-Enterprises to survive in the turbulent and
global competitive environment. Therefore, managing today's dynamic,
collaborative and networked nature of government environment is quite
challenging. Real e-Government solution is expected to use, flexible and reusable
technology to support valuable citizens and modern business expectations to
access necessary government services and information. Here comes the
requirement for more efficient ways of integrating their systems together under
appropriate e-Government solution. It enables citizens and business organizations
to interact with government on nearly all matters, 24/7, without knowing which
part of the government is providing the required service. In fact, much research
work is being done in e-Business Integration but e-Government Integration is
comparatively ignored. As a matter of fact, practical implementation of 'seamless'
government across jurisdiction is the most challenging aspect of the future of eGovernment which is the subject of our research. In this research, we first formalize
the basis/requirements of such e-Government Integration framework as standard
and then analyze all candidate software solutions which could help us in
development of better and appropriate integrated solution of e-Government, and finally develop the required e-Government Integration framework that adheres to the requirements. Fulfilling our requirement, major approaches like SOA and EDA, transformation of supporting technologies starting from Electronic Data Interchange to WS's and integration at processes level through XML are primarily examined with the intent to give easy to use, reusable, flexible, scalable and adaptable e Government Integration solution. Our proposed solution encompasses the most difficult problem of efficiently connecting varied inter eGovernments and intra e-Government activities with citizens and modern business configurations like: Virtual Organizations (VO), e-Enterprises, etc. allowing the governments to respond efficiently.
Keywords: e-Government Process Management, Government Integration Framework, e-Government Framework, eGovernment and eBusiness Process Management, Services Federation
Authors:
Muhammad Ali Butt, Hadiya Sarfraz,, Ahmed Bilal
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There are many theories and framework which suggest performance link to strategy and / or resources. In order to succeed in the
market, the organization must transform its core strengths into
competitive advantages so that it becomes harder for its rivals to
snatch its customers and market share. This paper has attempted to
integrate the issue of weakness emanating out of the capability
frame in terms of strategic decision in outsourcing. With the help of our proposed “Integrated Decision Making Model” for strategic outsourcing,, significant advantage can be achieved by directing investments and efforts in areas where firms perform better as compared to others. Over time, a continued effort to develop core competencies by building strategic capabilities (strengths) and minimizing strategic liabilities (weaknesses), bar the present or future competitors to expand into the company's areas of interest, thus helps to defend the strategic competitive advantages lying in the firm's value chain.
Keywords: Outsourcing Strategy, Strategic Outsourcing, Strategic Capabilities, Strategic Liabilities, Parity Effect, Value Chain, Strategic Competitive Advantage, Organization Resources, Resources' Rarity & Value, Competitive Intensity, Competitive Heterogeneity, Robust Advantage, Core Competencies, Integrated Decision Making Model Make or Buy, Business Cost
Authors:
M.M. HARIS ASLAM, KAMRAN RASHID, TASHFEEN M. AZHAR
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Supply chain management and optimization is a critical aspect of modern enterprises and an expanding area of research. Modeling and optimization are the traditional tools of supply chain management. The techniques have been used by many companies for planning, manufacturing, and other decision areas in supply chains. Current study is motivated by the fact that optimization studies in supply chain management have mostly considered network optimization. Supply chain management however, requires alignment between the supply chain partners at the tactical level. As a first step towards achieving this goal, current study presents a model that incorporates the activity level planning at the focal firm in a supply chain. This paper presents a new mixed integer programming model that incorporates optimization of production planning at the focal firm while optimizing the strategic alignment of the supply chain entities. The model represents a four step, multi-echelon
supply chain including supplier, warehouse, manufacturer, and retailer. The manufacturer in this network represents the focal firm. This model is an attempt to integrate the production planning decisions in the network optimization decisions.
Keywords: Supply chain management, optimization, aggregate production planning, supply chain optimization, network models
