Companies with teams dedicated to innovation, organizational structures that allow for agile decision making and that quickly migrated to teleworking, are those that have best adapted to the new commercial reality.
The pandemic brought about a scenario of changes in the business models, the companies had to apply radical changes in an accelerated way in order to successfully face the challenges represented by the changes in people's habits.
The feeling of owning your company can not be understood "until you finally experience it: an exquisite satisfaction, seasoned with spicy uncertainty, dressed in the joy of vertigo."
A young businesswoman puts on paper her journey of running her own company, with the conviction of one who knows she has found her way in life.
'...I start the day unexpectedly with a tingling in my hands or an unanswered question.
Companies recognize how important managing a growing international and mobile workforce is for the future of their businesses, but they do not know how to do it.
Companies do not have an appropriate strategy to deal with the transformation that is happening the way of working in the world -from the convergence of five generations to operations spread across the planet- which will lead to a crisis in management, attraction and retention of talent, concludes the Workforce 2020 study, prepared by Oxford Economics and SAP.
To be successful you need a good idea to accompany an indispensable ability and entrepreneurial drive.
A report entitled "Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Lot of Companies and Little Innovation," prepared by the World Bank (WB), reports that in the region one in three workers are self-employed or a small employer. However, most of them rarely hire workers and remain small, even after decades of operation.
The XIII National Private Enterprise Conference 2013 will be held on April 29, and will focus on the role of businesses and the investment climate.
The event will be held at the Sheraton Hotel Presidente from 1:30 pm. The current role of Salvadoran businesses will be discussed as well as prospects for improving the investment climate and socio-economic development of the country.
True entrepreneurs are like the pirates of the seventeenth century, for whom the possibility of making a fortune was the excuse for adventure.
The risks of the sea pirates were very high. The chances of drowning, hanging or pierced by a sword, were much higher than those of becoming rich. There is no doubt that living with 100 other pirates in a small boat should not be very comfortable, even for the captain.
Should you join the millions of people every year who take the plunge and start their first ventures?
Daniel Isenberg, in an article in Harvard Business Review, tells us: “I've learned in my own years as an entrepreneur — and now an entrepreneurship professor — that there is a gut level ‘fit’ for people who are potential entrepreneurs”.
So he developed a 20 yes-or-no question test to conclude if you have the traits of a born entrepreneur.
Business incubator "Ciudad del Saber" (City of Knowledge), signed an agreement with IDB, for fostering entrepreneurial culture and supporting business projects.
Besides promoting entrepreneurial culture and fostering projects in Panama, the business incubator at 'Ciudad del Saber' will create a sustainable technical and financial framework for developing, incubating and financing these business ventures.
If you approach doing business in China as only an exercise in short-term profit-making, then you might as well stay home because you'll be disappointed.
In China, success is defined by more than just the economic impact of a deal. To be successful in business ventures with (and in) China, you need to invest time in building relationships, understanding cultural dynamics and gaining Guānxi - the personal connection and understanding between two people which helps to get things done.