change management

One of the most important elements of project management, especially in Pakistan is to manage change and expectations. Expectations is something which I feel is up to the PM on how he or she does it considering the overall organizational culture, but change management is something which can be learned a lot from existing theories. Propably on of the best books I have read on it is Kotters: Leading Change. Its a materpiece in my opinon and a must read for all proffesioanls, especialy those who are into intense IT projects which will dramaticaly change the working culture and exising processes.

Karachi the new flag store

A lot has changed over the past few weeks in Pakistan. The ineligibility of the Sharif brothers to the rise of the long march and ultimately the restoration of the chief justice not to forget the popularity of Nawaz Shareef as the hero and savior of the nation (damn it..why does history repeat itself)...one thing which I have personally noticed a lot in Karachi especially when driving down on Share e Faisal, is the new concept of using street light stands as flag polls. Over the months, I have seen various political parties and religious groups trying to portray their strengths on the street of Karachi...which to be honest looks very dirty. I can't understand that at one place our city Nazim Mustafa Kamal comes on television and compares us with the west and says that they have gone to the moon and we still have no civic sense bla bla and on the other permits these groups and parties to display their strength by putting flags pretty much everywhere. Why can’t he see that these flags on the street of Karachi just don’t look very clean, not to forget it portrays the intense group culture in the city...is this something we should worry about?

Milking It To The Max

Engro Foods is a 3-year old company and started in 2006 with one brand of Olper’s. In a market space where Nestle was ruling the world and Haleeb was very close behind, the company started off as a local group with all the energies possible. In a short span of 3 years, Olper’s captured over 30% of the packaged milk market share and rapidly climbed to number two in the market.

How does a company having such limited experience in the food business, manage to pose such a challenge to the market leader? There’s quite a story about the role technology has to play in making this local ‘multi-national’ the company to watch out for ........

http://ciopakistan.com/2009/03/milking-it-to-the-max/