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Technology, self-identity and organisational profits

Who am I?” and “What makes me, me? are questions that have enchanted humans since the dawn of time. Successful organisations are those that are able to convince their consumers that their products or services enhance the consumers personal identity and extended-self (external portrayal of self-identity) (Belk, 1988). Never has it been more important...

Organisations, brand and technology: An introduction

Organisational brand identity reflects ‘who’ or ‘what’ the organisation stands for and represents. Various terminologies such as brand identity, branding, corporate identity or organisational identity are used interchangeably when discussing organisational identity.

Bits and Pieces of Procurement: An Introduction

Procurement isn’t just about getting the lowest price, rather it is about getting your eyes on the bigger picture where it is more worth paying to get better quality, better reliability or faster delivery as that could save money on inventory and rework costs, thereby creating value for the entire organisation.

Supplier Collaboration goes the distance!

Suppliers are an inherent part of the Supply Chain and irrespective of the kind of business, the products made, distributed and sold, businesses cannot accomplish much without the collaboration with Suppliers and working with them is some sort of a formula to achieve value and an effective business model. How do businesses ensure there is...

Workspaces in the cloud and organisational identity

Maintaining a consistent organisational identity is a challenging task at the easiest of times. The post Covid19 workspace has created various additional dimensions into the identity mix of organisations. With an increasing percentage of staff working remotely from home, organisations now need to look at how to maintain their organisational culture, ethics, values, perspectives,...

Kids, working from home and organisational identity

Working from home changes not just the physical but also the psychological environment (Thatcher & Xiumei, 2006) within which an employee operates in. Here they navigate and balance both their identity as an employee and other identities (i.e., parent, spouse, etc) at the same time. Covid 19 seems to have expediated the working from...

Place Identity in the workplace

In what seems like an eternity, just prior to Covid19 closing doors to the world in which we lived in, I visited an organization. Each workspace looked different although the physical spaces were identical – tidy vs chaos, family portraits vs unemotional workspaces, minimalist vs archivist, hoarders vs spotless, executive vs cozy…Yet one aspect...