Saeys / Gregson / Gebhard Business Heroes - worldwide

Helden für den Mittelstand - weltweit
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-86638-166-7
Verlag: Dielmann, Axel
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 161 Seiten

20 consultants in the field of SMB from 17 countries tell about their carrier and their daily business - an entertaining book, rich with ideas and examples for the successful usage of "interculturality". And a striking description of todays IT-industry and the world of Small and Medium Size Businesses worldwide.
How to place for instance a German product in the bilingual market of Canada, which is used to the American markets but "culturally European"? How to found a foreign company's dependence in Malaysia with its 9 mother tongues? How to enter the Eastern European market with a concept "made in Germany"? What to pay attention to, if international negotiations should be done in China? How to approach as a consultant in an Arabic kingdom accompanying the build-up of a huge modern University in the dessert?
This book is about cleverly used human network, it is about way of living and working beyond the usual. It is consultants and business people from different cultures speaking about their careers and efforts - and they offer a fine reader with anecdots, a helpful guidebook to intercultural aspects of business - and non-business life.
By the way this book surprises with some highlights. For instance SAP-Co-Founder Hans Schrader for the first time tells the story of internationalisation of SAP, and the CEO Toru Yamashita from NTT Data, Tokyo, big japanese IT-company, gives his vision of a global company, driven by interculturalism. Hans Königes, Chief Editor of the leading IT-magazine Computerwoche about the book:
Consultants always have some nice story to tell, as they meet with divers people from around the world. Most interesting all this becomes - as this volume shows - if consultants and customers come from different cultures and countries. This means mentalities and cultures clash.
Do we know each other in the global village? No, still we are surprised by the variety of ways of life, still we are astonished, still we find lots of things to learn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saeys, Tom

Gregson, Leanne

Gebhard, Alexander

Mugica, Juan Carlos Encio

Miyajima, Reiko

Frei, Armin

Witczak, Krzysztof

Cairat, David

Baev, Alexander

Popovich, Jean-Yves

Peresypkin, Roman

Baum, Ina

Pavla, Rajmund

I,

Schlegel, Hans

Roach, Jennifer

Pótsa, István

Leitner, Robert

Song, Xiaodong (Liam)

Nielson, Thomas Stig

Song, Xiaodong

Schoon, Dieter

Vogel, Herbert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Königes, Hans

Schrader, Heino

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dieter Schoon (Global Head of Human Resources itelligence AG)
Business Heroes Worldwide - The Story So Far ...

Herbert Vogel (Chairman of the Board of itelligence AG)
The Conquest Of America - Part 2

Juan Carlos Encio Mugica, Spain
If Something Can Go Wrong It Goes Wrong - So You Will Fix It!

Jean-Yves Popovich, Canada
Old World And New World - One World

Alexander Gebhard, Malaysia
The Quest For The New

Reiko Miyajima, Japan
The Plastic Disc

Tom Saeys, Netherlands
KAUST - A World Within A World

Ina Baum, Germany
Intercultural Intermission: The Long Run - And Lots Of Short Cuts

Krzysztof Witczak, Poland
Business Cards

David Cairat, France
"Lost In Translation" - Found In Japan

Armin Frei, Switzerland
Convincing Or Headstrong?

Toru Yamashita, Japan (President and CEO of NTT Data Group)
An Interview: The Marvellous Parts Of IT Industry

Hans Schlegel, Germany (Former Member of the Board SAP AG)
The First Ten Years Of The Internationalization Of SAP

Jennifer Roach, USA
It's The Culture

Xiaodong Liam Song, China
Way Out! - Earthquake In Japan And My Way Up

Rajmund Pavla, Czech Republic
Dealing With Bicycles And Bytes

Thomas Stig Nielson, Denmark
IT Evolves With Your Business - Choose It!

Roman Peresypkin, Russia
Starting Signals

Alexander Baev, Russia
Our Understanding Of "Meeting"

Leanne Gregson, Great Britain
Well, This Is It

Robert Leitner, Austria
A Day's Long Journey On My Way To Austrian SMBs

István Pótsa, Hungary
"There Is No Cold!"

The Editors

This book has been gathered
from the employees of itelligence AG
and is dedicated to all go-betweens
amongst the cultures of our world.

Leseproben

Preface by Dieter Schoon
Head of Human Resources itelligence AG
Business Heroes Worldwide -
The Story So Far
Communication does play such a major role for all of us in everyday life as well as in business life - since we take this fact for granted, we tend to forget about it:
But communication will not work well, unless we have thoroughly understood our business partners' attitude. Only if we are willing to understand each other more and more while communicating, we will truly be able to talk to each other.
Communication can neither be dealt with on the surface only - nor superficially.
Only if communication is applied with intensity, it will lead everyone concerned towards the same path and reach a certain depth and lasting effect.
IT-consultants strive daily to fulfil this goal - in more than one way. On the one hand we are craftsmen and know the techniques and instruments of communication by heart - that is, hardware and software. AND on the other hand we have to be able to understand our business partners' values and attitudes - otherwise we will not be able to suit their structures of communication, their data flow, their systems of information to their actual needs to keep everything moving smoothly.
If you will not cooperate right from the start, you will talk nonsense. If you do not listen to each other, you will not be able to hear the truth. Itelligence and our staff therefore provide a real treasure chest of communication. We can communicate with very different people and business cultures, we at itelligence are masters of this art!
That was our reason for publishing our first book "Helden für den Mittelstand" in 2010. In this book we cast an image of ourselves. It was a real presentation of the exceptionable culture of itelligence and their staff - experts in the matter of exchange and communication.
People who know how to listen to others and who are used to express their opinion as consultants, made contributions to this book, writing about their work and their lives, they constructed a human frame for the business of consulting. That was a lot of work, but also a pleasant task for everyone who participated.
While we were working on this first book, we were already wondering about questions like: What is it like in all the other countries? What is business life like, what kind of life do the employees lead abroad - wherever itelligence is working on new and foreign ground? How do we deal with these tasks: listening and comparing, emphasizing und responding, if we have to work as consultants with international colleagues and clients?

Über Autor(innen)

Dieter Schoon
has studied pyschologie and employment law at Bamberg university. His professional life began in 1992 working at Gemini Consulting, later on at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young as a consultant for questions about employees and organisational developement.
In 2000 he switched to the newly founded strategy consulting firm Cell Consulting as the responsible for germany still for the same questions and additinally as marketing manager. In 2003 Dieter Schoon left to support the managment of Advanced Micro Devises (AMD) in planning of staff and organisations for the new microship factory »Fabrik 36«. In 2004 he switched to the stop of the staffsector of itelligence AG in Biefefeld.
Since then Dieter Schoon is responsible for the strategic and operative issues of staff at itelligence AG Head of HR worldwide.

Herbert Vogel
was born in 1953. He studied electrotechnology at the university of Paderborn until 1975 and afterwards computer science in Berlin. He started his professional carrer in 1978 as a EDP- system analyst at »Blaupunkt«. In 1980 he transfered to Bertelsmann working as a project leader and three years later to Mohndruck, where he became the head of department for buying/logistics in 1985. Since 1987 Herbert Vogel works as a freelance buisnessconsultant.
On the 21st of June 1989 Herbert Vogel cofounded with Wolfgang Schmidt S&P Consult, which developed into SVC AG and later on to itelligence AG.
Since founding the compamy Herbert Vogel is the director or rather managment board member and since march 1999 spokesman of the board of SVC AG and after the junction also of the itelligence AG.- Since Janary 2001 he is chairman of the board of itelligence AG.