Syeda Asiya Zenab Kazmi

Healthcare Transformation Through Change Management Process for Innovation

This analytical survey-based article aims to explore options linked to the process of effective change management in a European public-sector healthcare organization. The aim of the research is to suggest collaborative innovative options combined with leadership solutions to effectively finalize corporate reformation process targeting the regions of Vaasa, Laihia and Vahakyro, (i.e., areas situated in the northern part of Finland). This review-based analysis offers multi-perspective approach by covering the knowledge linked to the concept of innovative healthcare business research in addition to highlighting the aspects of the ADKAR model as a prominent source to evaluate and highlight healthcare change management process by identifying the resistance points.

Inspiring European Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Sector by Inserting Effective Business Transfer Process

In Europe, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) are key economic driver in terms of GDP, employment as well as the overall societal uplift. However, the critical point in the SME sectoral survival and success is linked to the effectiveness of the business transfer process handling by the new entrepreneurs. Hence, this paper pursues the effectiveness and authentication of a training program supported through a newly established tool to educated the new entrepreneurs to effectively handle business transfer process and ensure business growth and survival. A survey method was implemented to collect data from Finland, a pilot partner in the second phase of a European Union project focusing on seven selected European countries. The study data was evaluated and analyzed by employing structured questionnaires and implementing several descriptive statistical methods to obtain authentic analytical findings. The study results revealed that in SMEs where resources and capabilities are scarce, new entrepreneurs get effective assistance through the newly established tool to ensure smooth business transfer process for the survival and sustainability of Finnish Small and Medium Enterprises.

Transformational Leadership: A Leap Towards NPD Team’s Effectiveness

Transformational leadership has been the center of interest for organizational behavior theorists and management experts due to this leadership style’s significance and appeal with reference to organizational team performance, effectiveness as well as innovativeness. In addition, new product development is considered the core operation of each and every industrial concern. The success of new product development related operations are becoming more challenging in today’s’ turbulent economic conditions. Hence, the current study is an attempt to explore the inter-connection between transformational leadership and new product development team’s effectiveness to support organizational innovation. The empirical study was conducted based on the implementation of especially devised and validated quantitative and qualitative tools. The study sample represented the new product development team’s working at three different global locations of an energy sector company. The data obtained through the mixed mode survey tools was analyzed statistically and qualitatively by implementing statistical methods. The research outcomes revealed that the dimensions of management initiatives (innovation variable), collaboration (NPD team effectiveness variable), communication (NPD team effectiveness variable) and affiliation with leader (transformational leadership variable) have positive association among each other while product innovation (innovation variable), communication (NPD team effectiveness variable) and leader’s competence to empower its team (transformational leadership variable) have shown negative internal association.

Effective Corporate Communication: A Solution to Foster New Product Idea Generation Dynamics

To make critical decisions, organizational leaders ensure to collect and analyze information through various sources by employing variety of analytical tools. Consequently, they manage to integrate the results of their analysis to offer diagnostic view by pinpointing the weak areas. Following the above sequence of analytical procedure, the current study presents a diagnostic review of highlighting weak operational areas in a European multinational company. The study findings suggest that the critical gaps are causing communicational breakdown and consequently affecting new product idea mechanism. Such operational areas include; the potential of target company’s internal communication system, data collection and record keeping capability, management’s approach to harness corporate potential of new idea generation and employee empowerment mechanisms. The referred areas are directly linked to the target company’s new product idea generation initiatives, the activities linked to the introduction of innovative products and service styles as well as the overall operational growth.