What a great day, when you walk in the office, and your colleagues surprize you with a most delicious apple pie!
Many-many thanks for that to Assel, Anna and Aiym, our new interns from Almaty Management University! It's a great privilege to have you all on board!
Seeking and giving advice are central to effective leadership and decision making. Although people typically focus on the content of advice, those who are most skilled attend just as much to how they advise as to what they advise.
It’s a mistake to think of advice as a one-and-done transaction. Skilled advising is more than the dispensing and accepting of wisdom; it’s a creative, collaborative knowledge-sharing process—a matter of striving, on both sides, to better understand problems and craft promising paths forward. And that often requires an ongoing conversation.
For more information, please, read the Harvard Business Review article of Professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis available online at https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-art-of-giving-and-receiving-advice.
The on-demand economy is the result of pairing the workforce with the smartphone, which now provides far more computing power than the desktop computers which reshaped companies in the 1990s, and to far more people. Connected to each other and to yet more data and processing power in the cloud, these devices are letting people design or find ad hoc answers to all sorts of business problems previously solved by the structure of the firm.
As a consequence, knowledge-intensive companies have started to contract out more work to the market, partly to save costs, and partly to free up their cleverest workers to focus on the things that add the most value.
What sort of world will this on-demand model create? Where are the opportunities of costs saving? And which are those activities knowledge workers should focus on within global enterprises and government institutions?
Please, have a look at the recent article about the on-demand economy in the Economist: http://econ.st/1vK2cbq, and let's have a chat how to find the right answers to the above questions.
It's an old tradition of us, that every year we sponsor the Christmas Cocktail Party of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hungary and the British Embassy in Budapest, organized jointly this year with the British Business Center.
Participants of the Christmas Cocktail Party will also have the chance to win free subscriptions for the BCCH Business Certificates, our e-learning course portfolio jointly developed with BCCH and Corvinus University of Budapest.
BCCH Business Certificate targets junior and senior staff as well as mid-management, with different online knowledge resources tailored to their development needs. In addition, a vocational course portfolio enables specialisation opportunities in sales, call centers, marketing, etc.
Meet us in the Old Banking Hall of the British Embassy in Budapest, on the 17th of December.
Innotica Group has been invited to contribute with their expertise to the new MSc Program in Business Analytics, to be launched by CEU Business School in September 2015. We consider this a very exciting opportunity, since our core services are focusing on converting everyday's data into practical knowledge.
This new MSc program is anchored on knowledge from Economics, Management, Statistics and Technology, which provides the bases for new skills and competencies. The result of such new capabilities is an ability to create value from data analysis, especially Big Data, in a business environment. Emphasis is placed on linkages and communication between all relevant disciplines and on improving understanding between business decision makers and data experts.
The kick-off meeting has taken place at CEU Business School, yesterday.
