E-MANAGEMENT: Obstacles and Challenges in Egypt

Radical changes in the business environment suggest new boundaries to the traditional information-processing view of knowledge management. The new business environment, characterized by dynamically discontinuous change, requires a new re-conceptualization of management and leadership. The organizations where managers lead people who live and work in different locations are becoming more common every day. The aim of this paper is to review and analyze the obstacles to E-management in Egypt. It provides information on the challenges of managing E- business systems, which an organization should both assess and then ensures that they have adequate plans to address. One of the goals of this paper is to find out, among of the many different factors that will be discussed; the major ones that delay the implementation of E-management in Egypt and the different main barriers that affect the adoption of E-management. An important part of our research was to gather firsthand information on the main obstacles that hinder the implementation of e-management in Egypt. We developed a questionnaire focusing on the state of use of technological tools in the managerial processes in different categories of organizations. The findings of this study verified, as expected, some given main barriers that influence the adaptation of E-management in Egypt. Such barriers include: lack of relevant training for employees, lack of IT training availability, limited knowledge level and knowledge sharing, lack of IT specialists in organizations, lack of Internet connectivity, lack of IT training availability, limited knowledge level and knowledge sharing, lack of PCs in management, Limited budgets.