Business Jump Start, EO style

Every month a group from EONetwork.org joins me in studio to share their business story.

WOW is all I have to say as we go from perfume to rusting tankers this week.

Need a business kick?  This is 45 minutes is worth the investment!

Off The Rack Business Essentials!

My big complaint about education is that it is out of touch. Great textbooks that are wonderful historical documents BUT they are not really good at looking at what is happening right now! This show, with Narain Jashanmal, is a great conversation about some essential reading off the magazine rack. This is a free education! Here is the podcast.

Joey Fitts

Joey Fitts joined me on the line to talk about his book!





"If you want to understand, explain, and predict your company's
performance, buy and read this

www.joeyfitts.com

Starting with a Foreword by Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton, creators of the revolutionary Balanced Scorecard approach,this groundbreaking guide is filled with first-hand accounts from Fortune 500 companies who are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decision-making into their organizational DNA.

Drive Business Performance explains the competitive advantage experienced by organizations that create and manage a "Culture of Performance."

This innovative, jargon-free book demystifies performance management,with detailed guidance for organizations to replicate top performers' practices, including the recommended skills and assets needed to successfully compete in today's business environment.Winning strategies for achieving competitive advantage with world-class performance management capabilities.

Praise for Drive Business Performance

Performance management systems and processes will be a major focus of firms over the next decade, as they attempt to harness vast volumes of transaction and customer data. Drive Business Performance provides a clear roadmap for navigating this important territory. If you want to
understand, explain, and predict your company's performance, buy and read this book.

- Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College

Drive Business Performance is a pragmatic guide for world-class decision making. It provides important new thinking on a management approach that empowers people to amplify their impact on organizational results. This is a ground-breaking book that executives and managers alike should read.

- Randy Benz, Chief Information Officer, Energizer Holdings, Inc.

Providing everyone in the organization with a clear understanding of how day-to-day decision making and tactical execution relate to organizational success is critical to running a high performing business. Drive Business Performance provides specific and easy-to-follow guidance to deliver results. A must read for any organization seeking to win.

- Christopher Liddell, Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft Corporation

June 14--- Hayati Healthcare UAE

www.hayatihealthcare.com



Dr. Michael Malty and Tariq El-Titi talk about Hayati Healthcare, www.hayatihealthcare.com, and the fact that it is the 1st short-term medical loan facility in the middle east.

And they just won the the MIT Arab Business Plan Award.

HAYATI is the first ever dedicated Patient Financing company in the UAE and throughout the entire Middle East! Whatever your healthcare requirements, if your medical insurance policy doesn't cover the costs of the procedures you need, HAYATI is there to support you. HAYATI Health care Financing ™ allows patients to pay convenient and affordable repayments over time, instead of paying 'up-front' cash payments prior to treatment, so you can get the procedure you need, when you want it!!

MIT Arab Business Plan Awards Declared

(Staff Report)

13 June 2009http://www.khaleejtimes.com/biz/inside.asp?xfile=/data/business/2009/June/business_June546.xml&section=business

Two fledgling companies, one involved in patient financing, and another, a service provider that can rank non-spam emails according to their importance, competed with more than 1,200 companies from 17 countries spanning North Africa, the Gulf and Levant, and emerged as first place winners to split the $50,000 prize money in the 2009 MIT Arab Business Plan Competition. UAE’s Hayati Health Care, led by co-founder and chief executive officer Dr. Michael Matly, and partners Dr. Tarig El-Titi and David Matly, shared the prize with Saudi Arabia’s Syphir — a five-man team led by spokesperson Ghassan Fayad and co-creators Husain Al-Mohssen, Courtland Allen, Faisal Alibrahim, and Abdulrahman Tarabzouni. In second place with a $10,000 prize, was Egypt’s Rice Straw Fertilizer Company with team members Ibrahim Khater Youssef, Ahmed El Dorghamy, and Mohamed Abdel Raouf. Third place honors with a $5,000 prize went to Jordan’s Blog Souq composed of Ahmad Takatkah, Adey Salamin and Ammar Ibrahim. A special award was given to another UAE team, Vaxeal Therapuetics, a therapeutic vaccine research company formed by Dr. Ahmed Bouzdi, Dr. Bernard Maillere, Giampietro Corradin and Wassim Chehadeh. “This year’s competition turned out an amazing quality of participants, we had a very good quality of people and teams with very unique business plans,” said Ziad Younes, vice-chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum for the Pan Arab Region in Lebanon. The MIT Arab Business Plan Competition is the equivalent of the MIT business plan competition in Cambridge which was initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association. The non-profit and volunteer-driven organisation builds connections to technology entrepreneurs and to communities in which they reside, as well as produces a series of educational programmes about entrepreneurship through its network of 24 worldwide chapters. “The quality of the participants’ business plans reflect that they understand what the competition is trying to achieve - that is so have a new crop of entrepreneurs that takes into consideration sensitivities and specifities of the Arab region,” said Younes. Hayati Healthcare is the first ever niche ‘‘patient financing” company in the Middle East. It markets and sells patient financing loans either through Healthcare providers to their patients, or directly to patients. Michael Matly, a Lebanese-American who holds an MBA degree at Harvard and an MD degree at at Mayo Medical School, innovated on the widely-used US model by including medical procedures such as dentistry and orthodontics, fertility treatments, LASIK and ocular plastics, knee replacements and other procedures that are not covered by conventional medical insurance and which, require large out-of-pocket cash payments by patients. “I was working in Dubai with my partner, Dr. El-Titi at the Dubai executive council, and we started seeing that the quality of healthcare in UAE is improving, but because of that, it was becoming more expensive, so we realised there was a funding gap. Patients wanted to have medical procedures that are not covered by insurance, or they did not have money to do it. We thought of creating a financing company, this is already being done in the US. We have a partner bank that is underwriting loans, our company is the intermediary between the bank and patients. We want a health care program that is more affordable and accessible to people,” said Matly. Syphir co-creator Ghassan Fayad, who is finishing his Phd in mechanical engineering at MIT this year said the team has already come up with three prototypes of systems that would rank email based on their importance.

June 9 Dr. Lynda Moore talks about her research on Emirati Women and Leadership

The UAE has grown at a very rapid pace since 1971 and there is a tremendous amount of research and public policy to be done when it comes to Emirati employment.

Of particular interest in the UAE is the role of women, Emiraties, in the workplace.

Professor Lynda Moore has started that research and she speaks to us about her findings.

March 24---Wild Peeta and FACETS

In hour one we learned about WILD PEETA from the Al Awadhi brothers.

In hour 2 it was FACETS the 3rd round of the 50 word short story contest. Peter Hassell talks us through it all literally!

April 2 Trust Business? Government?

Jessica Swann producer of the Business Breakfast on 103.8 DUBAI EYE and Al-Harith Sinclair a partner with DLA Piper Middle East---huge law firm--- talk about business and you and I and why we don't care! Or do we?

You can guess there was a lot to say!

PIA

PIA is it safety? Is it business?

The EU has banned PIA's Airbus 310 fleet and its aging 747s.

Dubai has not?

Really?

So is the EU too cautious?

Catch the JAMESCAST of last night!