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Technical Review | April-June 2012


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It may be possible to transform a project or a product into a remarkable success, which may have miserably failed in its original intended purpose. A product innovation shall not attempt to change the behaviour of people to suit the product but rather move towards enhancing their lives.


If a ratio R defined as R=X/Y where X is the numerator and Y is the denominator, the value of R can be increased either by increasing the X or reducing the Y. Most of the organizational efforts such as corporate planning, strategic planning, organization restructuring, business process re-engineering, etc. all focus on denominator management functions, which attempt to make the inputs efficient. Most modern companies who have made it a success in a short time applied the concept innovation known as numerator management, which is the key to success in the 21st century. A concept innovation immediately causes a paradigm shift in the industry that will compel the others to follow the new trend. This comes about with strategic thinking, what is most essential for the 21st century.


The core objective of this workshop was to create the mindset that decision making is the core of all managerial activities and to acquire the thinking process to make the best decision under conditions of uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox and chaos using modern tools and techniques to enhance the decision making capabilities of the participants to a higher level.


This participants were presented with topics such as; The Norms of 21st Century Management; Significance of Knowledge in Modern Management; Innovations & Paradigms; a conceptual overview of the DISC Ideology; Decision Making


The New Radio-in-a-Box from ABU: RiB Mark II


The ABU’s Radio-in-a-Box (RiB) is truly an FM Radio station in a portable box. It is very versatile, comes complete with audio production facilities and an FM transmitter, configured in a flight case that is portable and can easily be transported. The radio station can be quickly and easily deployed at remote locations requiring only a simple power source, such as a power generator.


The RiB has been recently re-designed, as RiB Mark II, to be more compact, lighter and cost effective. The unit is equipped to play and record from MP3 and other supported digital audio formats, directly from a USB or common memory cards. The unit comes


A session from the workshop


Process and the Limitations; and a conceptual overview of Risk and Strategy. The presentations and discussions looked at the decision support systems, techniques of motivating human resources (peers & sub-ordinates), developing positive leadership styles and communication skills.


In addition to the lecture sessions they also participated in exercises which allowed them to try and understand the concepts of human resource management, developing strategic plans and innovative ideas for problems in hand and how to approach and analyse situations for decision making.


The workshop was attended by more than 35 participants representing heads of organisations and senior executives and staff involved in management and decision making in their daily activity. The workshop leader and expert, Mr Ajith Rohana Colonne, is a consultant and lecturer in Management and Business Economics with many years of experience in innovating and training on the concepts of 21st Century Management practice.


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