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Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #770 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #770 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Artem Podrez Photo Credit: Christina Morillo Photo Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Photo Credit: Muffin Creatives Continued from Previous…… When I started this discussion four weeks ago, I had not thought about taking this discussion to twelve blog posts, but the arguments kept coming up which could not be ignored. I shall now conclude and complete this discussion. SUM UP I started by coining the term ‘Tired Organizations’, which is not a standard term. I have seen several struggling organizations, but the struggle differs entirely.  All ...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 10 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #769 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #769 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Kampus Production Photo Credit: George Milton Photo Credit: RODNAE Production Continued from Previous…… We continue with the suggested cures.  Implement/ Update Technology Technology has helped to revolutionize the way work is done in every sector, and it is not just about technology industry. Have you been to an embroidery unit lately? One design made by computer and copied into the HMI – Human Machine Interface – is embroidered on a length of cloth simultaneously by 10 – 100 machines in synchronization; the sight is not just aweso...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 9 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #768 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #768 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: fauxels Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Continued from Previous…… After having looked at the appearance, symptoms of the tired organizations, and the reasons why these are so, we now come to the cures. Turning around a tired organization will take serious, concerted, and consistent effort, but it is quite possible and viable. In many ways, it is still better than establishing a new enterprise. The enterprise is already there, revenue stream is there, the enterprise in earning some profit, functions are clarified, staff...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 8 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #767 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #767 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Marcelo Moreira Photo Credit: fauxels Photo Credit: Moose Photos Continued from Previous…… There are several more reasons for the underperformance of tired organizations, some of which are described here. Quality of leadership – The quality of leadership in an organization is a critical factor in its success. Inadequate leadership can result in a lack of direction, poor decision-making, and low employee morale. We are not just talking about the quality of leadership of the chief, we are referring to leadership at all levels; heads of fun...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 7 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #766 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #766 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Marcus Aurelius Photo Credit: Anastasia Shuraeva Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Continued from Previous…… We explore reasons why organizations fail to perform up to mark and become tired.  Technology Aversion Alan Greenspan, the long time and more famous head of Federal Reserve in the US, recounts in his book ‘The Age of Turbulence’ his early days of work. According to him, they used to have large size registers in which they made data entries manually. The same data was used for analysis. Now US has the most advanced technologies in t...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 6 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #765 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #765 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Craig Adderley Photo Credit: Edmond Dantès Continued from Previous…… We explore reasons why organizations fail to perform up to mark and become tired.  Keeping Tight Control When an entrepreneur starts an enterprise, particularly a small one, he has to do all major functions himself and also have to keep a tight control so that nothing may go wrong. Also,  that he can do necessary corrections and adjustments even on day-to-day basis. As the business grows, core functions evolve, and some delegatio...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 5 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #764 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #764 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Alexander Dummer Photo Credit: Christina Morillo Photo Credit: Christina Morillo Photo Credit: Elijah O'Donnell Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Technology Adaptation Pharma Industry in Pakistan has also had its share of technology adaptation during the last 15-20 years. Technology upgrade has occurred in several areas, such as manufacturing, packaging, and storage. However, the biggest change has come in the Quality Control a...

Tired Organizations – Reasons & Cures – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #763 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #762 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Yan Krukau Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Clay Elliot Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Human Resource Anomalies Human resource is still not recognized as even a resource; it is considered more as a labor which is easily replaceable. Right-person-for-the-right-job is also not universally applied in organizations; the once closest to the chief gets the highest position. Sometimes I wonder about where we are on the...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #762 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Photo Credit: Sora Shimazaki Continued from Previous…… We continue our discussion on tired organizations, which are those who have been left behind in the process of progress. Time Sensitivity The importance of time changed in so many ways in the world. There was a time when things happened in millions of years as science tells us, then it started happening in millennials, then in centuries, then years, then months, and now we count time in days, hours, and minutes. All international sports competitions use a timer of 1/100 of seconds, and the irony is that we buy time from mobile carriers by minutes ...