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Knowledge Hoarding – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #551 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #551. 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. There is no denying the fact that we are a nation of hoarders. We love to hoard. Our traders are known for hoarding goods, particularly eatables, to create artificial shortages and enhance the prices. In the recent times, we saw major hoarding campaigns of sugar and wheat/wheat flour where the government could not do anything, which is also usual. The prices rose and availability became normal. At home, we hoard everything. Our homes are one-way abysses where items come in but cannot go out, not even their packaging. Every household carries trinkets from the last 50-60 years. It is not enti...

Scaling Up the Organization as it Grows 5 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #525 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #525. 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. Continued from Previous…… We continue to look at challenges and issues faced during scaling up the organization. People Development Most Small/Medium enterprises have no system in place for people development. People may learn on their own and develop on their own. Unguided and unfocused development leads to retarded or stalled development. When it is desired that a bigger responsibility may be given to someone, it becomes difficult to find appropriate ‘someone’. People development used to be the personal philosophy of all managers previously. The organizations also p...

Dear Colleagues!   Today is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #136. Pharma Veterans shares your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others for the benefit of entire Pharma Community. It aims to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals.  Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  Please share your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Business Development – What kind of products to look for (ii)? In the last blog, I talked about product selection vis-à-vis organization needs. We move this discussion further towards organization capability. Organization Capability May be defined more specifically as what the organization can handle effectively. 1.      Organization Infrastructure. Licensed products usually require good marketing vision and capability, a developed regulatory function and p...