2. Biography - Education, Experience and Expertise
Tamer Tamer Salameh
Dr. Salameh is a veteran practitioner of Leadership and Management with a focus on Strategic Management and Strategic Information. His education is grounded in multicultural and multinational environments spanning the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the United Kingdom, and the United States. He continues to be a student and holds a BSc. in Business Administration, MSc. in Management and Organizational Development, MBA in Management, DBA in Strategic Management (First Class Honors), plus a Post Doctorate in Strategic Information/Leadership from United States International University (USIU), currently Alliant International University (AIU).
He has gained 40+ years of experience and expertise in Strategic Management and Strategic Information theory and practice. During his education, he was an active participant at the University in various capacities: student, teacher, administrator, and community service, in an environment encompassing 90+ nationalities.
He worked for and studied under Dr. H. Igor Ansoff (Father of Strategic Management). As a Strategic Management Consultant, he assisted Dr. Ansoff in coaching and consulting with some of the world's largest firms, including AMF, GE, KONE, IBM, Shell, Phillips, and Nokia.
During the tenure of General Kenneth MacLennan (decorated and distinguished four-star General of the United States Marine Corps) as an interim President of the University. Dr. Salameh was Chair of the University’s Planning Policy Committee, Chair of Academic Computing, and a member of the Budgeting and Finance Committee. Whereas, with the guidance of General McLennan, he founded & chaired the University Council. A first-of-its-kind entity, combining Alumni, Faculty Senate, Student Body, Administration, and Staff, that improved performance.
He assisted Dr. Ernest Dichter (Father of Motivational Research) with his milestone work “Finding out Why?”. Additionally, he was associated with Dr. Efraim Turban (Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems, and Artificial Intelligence Guru) for developing one of the first MIS programs for graduate and undergraduate studies.
At the Private Department for His Highness (HH) Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan (Father of the United Arab Emirates), strategic management met with the realities of practical implementation and bottom line. Practiced in more than 50+ countries, thousands (10+) of employees, 90+ nationalities, and over $20 billion in net worth. As the Executive Advisor with profit-and-loss responsibilities, he directed planning, information systems, business development, special missions, and external audits conducted by Arthur Anderson then, followed by Deloitte.
He worked on projects that used innovative, entrepreneurial, sometimes novel methods and concepts, such as renewable energy, lasers, executive security, real estate, investments, and more. Examples include water from the air with Energy Labs, alternative-energy vehicles with Panasonic, and vertical farming with Vitality Concepts. Additionally, he led the team that developed a $7+ billion Master Plan for Al-Reem Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
He is interested in researching leadership and management with an emphasis on strategic management from an epistemological perspective, to bridge the gap between theory and practice, in a complex, high-tech, global, knowledge-interconnected, multicultural, multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary, multi-educational, multi-generational, multi-ideological, multi-ability, and multi-ethnic business environment. Coupled with verifying their impact/urgency on performance in society and vice versa, through in-depth emphasis on developments, applications, and experiments, as follows:
• KARTS - Knowledge and Action for Results over Time in Society.
• Strategic Democracy - The missing part of Democracy.
• 1SMX - 1st Strategic Media Exchange.
• SDb5 - Strategic Database 5.
• Periodic and Real-time Strategic Behavior.
• Individual and/or Organizational Flexibility, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.
• Strategic: Myopia, Information, Leadership, Democracy, and Learning.
• Effective, efficient, and equitable performance.
Published in International Review of Strategic Management, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and Journal of Information Systems Management. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses at USIU, AIU, and currently teaching at Southwestern College while coaching at Strategic Posture. Cover the foundational principles, inherent nature, strategic methods, scope of impact, and challenges of purposeful progress and development, all while championing a dynamic openness to change.