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We know how difficult it can be to get a marketing strategy executed on – so we have uploaded this Marketing Strategy Template that makes the job a whole lot easier. Ideal for companies large and small, the Marketing Strategy Template helps you link the initiatives between all your marketing efforts – as well as pull in all…

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. And because of the circular, cyclical nature of this leadership journey, it sure does help to have a leadership wheel to help you accomplish your leadership challenges – and speed you on your journey. How can The Leadership Wheel help the hard-pressed leader today accomplish those challenges? How The Leadership Wheel…

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) – Every Business tool for Growth and Optimization Every year, manufacturing industries spend millions of dollars on systems to help in achieving their desired results during production processes. Monitoring how our machines work on the floor is crucial during production and other related activities. The system that controls the entire process…

There is often confusion between Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Both are important tools in manufacturing, but they serve different purposes. MES focuses on execution and control of the manufacturing process, while ERP manages the overall business. MES System vs ERP System An MES system provides real-time data and information…

We’re asked a lot of times whether there is any value in a company embarking on a leadership development programme (or initiative). Our answer, invariably, is yes. What makes us so confident? Two things, at the very least… 1. The value of Leadership Development (research) The first factor behind our confidence comes from a little-known study into…

We’ve seen before how chronic employee disengagement is affecting companies’ growth prospects, so we thought the time was right for a post on one approach companies in general and HR departments and managers in particular can do to better manage the malaise. This works for companies of any size, and draws its inspiration from the 2011 movie Moneyball starring Brad…

A key challenge facing leaders at every level of an organisation is how to execute on their strategy. They may take tens of thousands – even hundreds of thousands – of man hours defining and articulating a strategy, and then… …nothing happens! This is an age-old problem that has exercised many a management theorist, and in this…

‘Collaboration’ is a word used a lot in companies these days – yet few professionals find it easy to articulate exactly what it is. There’s a sense collaboration has something to do with teamwork, but even our concept of what a team is can be quite confused. In our technological age, where the word seems to…

HR is typically seen as the ‘cost centre’ of a company’s activities. While Marketing might command as much as 30% of a company’s internal expenditure, Human Resource Departments routinely operate on as little as 1% of budgets. Yet is this practice just a little… misguided? This post has a look at one key contribution HR makes…