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Managing Change and Innovation

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Besides the controversies about humanoids taking over this world by replacing us, capturing most of our jobs causing mammoth workforce redundancies due to inbuilt vast robotic knowledge, their reigning work style, rapid rate of learning and the data capturing; question arises that why humans are not accepting the reality of preparing and modifying themselves to meet the futuristic demands. We certainly will need appropriate organizational and social reforms to challenge the new revolutionary era of humans and humanoids interface while being in control overall. Purpose of this literature review is to indicate here my initial understanding towards theory of managing change & innovation and my thoughts about artificial intelligence (AI) – humans’ interactions. This exercise will certainly help me to analyze the importance of innovation in creating competitive advantage in contemporary organizations and assists me to cover necessary re

ELECTORAL REFORMS IN PAKISTAN “Drawing upon previous experience and building for the future”

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State elections are believed to be backbone of democratic countries’ legislature systems which provide their citizens a legal chance to select their representatives through fair and free procedures within their constitutional and administrative frame works. These organizational frameworks are required to be autonomous, unbiased, efficient, effective by regular reviews and necessary modifications under modern administrative and managerial measures. This is not only to ensure compliance with international standards and obligations but also to reflect a wider political system, to involve public participation and to maintain their confidence in the efficiency of the improved democratic system. It has been further observed that political and democratic structures are always strengthened by ensuring receptive and comprehensive electoral processes. Additionally, fair and free election process generally increases electorates’ confidence on electoral system. Also, candidates easily acce

Privatization of PTCL “An Unforgotten Failure of Governance"

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Privatization of public assets was emerged in the United Kingdom during early 90s when public experienced a widespread and continued sale programme of public enterprises to elevate economic growth. D enationalisation of public institutions has become a worldwide movement in developed as well as developing nations by selling all kinds of public enterprises including key utilities providers such as electricity, water, gas, telephone services etc. British Telecom was contracted out in 1984 (3) around two decades before the privatization of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) in 2006. PTCL had a public domination on all local telecommunication services, but the telephone industry has been gradually deregulated beginning in 1994 when 12% stocks were sold to people worth more than $900 million and again in 2006 when 26% shares along with its overall management control were surrendered to Etisalat by Pakistan Government (partially privatized to Emirates Telecommunicatio

Case Study of an Entrepreneur; Nasser Ali Mohammed

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Nasser Ali Mohammed a professional optician was born around 35 years ago in an educated Qahtani family belongs to suburban area of Khamis, south-west of Saudi Arabia. I personally know him since his childhood being his neighbor and school fellow. Though his father was a professional pilot and traditional man, but he encouraged his children to choose the fields they like. His elder brothers graduated in medicines while he completed his master in Opticology from King Saud University in 2006. Since his early childhood, he had business potential. He was the odd one out in his family who always thought differently. We all friends made fun of his early ideas and used to call him “a businessman”. At the age of nine, he started selling simple toys to his relatives’ kids, neighbors’ children, school friends and even his own younger siblings. He used to purchase toys from nearby mall and then sold them at the door steps of his early customers. His young fellow customers also loved to buy t

Case Study of an Entrepreneur- Hesham Tomeizeh

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T his is a true inspiring story of an amazing simple young person, born thirty years ago in an ordinary Palestinian family, electrical engineer by his profession, who had been trying differently to pave a secure and successful path for his family and his deprived society. Only his passion to develop a large enterprise in his city Hebron, West Bank- Palestine to make every single workers (100 teenagers of martyred families) as shareholders of his community business; actually influenced him to do something different. Few years back, he started his first personal small size business, Al-Taher Partnership Center of Computer in Palestine with his elder brother as his co-partner. He was the first person in his family who thought outside the box by taking initiative to start a business believing on his in-built capabilities and thirst for achieving his dreams. Due to prolonged war, unsustainable condition and significant economic damages to his country by rivals, he sadly shut down his