Event Background

Personal and organizational excellence is the key element for business success in a modern knowledge-based business environment. In contemporary business environment organizations their competitiveness is kept not only by focusing on their key competences and optimizing their own resources, but also by regional and global outsourcing and development of authentic, network-based business models. The key elements of dynamic, innovative business models are an envision of global industrial and business trends, identification of areas of business interests and performance, decisions about specialization and sourcing, allocation of outsourcing needs, development of authentic organizational support and a good leadership.

Event Objectives

• To explore new challenges by presenting different international business cases from different industries and regions,
• To discuss characteristics and trends of emerging global knowledge markets and the new roles of knowledge providers (universities, research organizations etc.), knowledge sellers (management consulting companies, training companies, sellers of different high value-added services etc.), knowledge buyers (value migration on the markets of profit and non-profit organizations from different industries) and a business-supporting environment (chambers of commerce, different business-supporting agencies, professional associations etc.),
• A critical analysis of the present global situation and the needs for strategic transformations, of changes in personal and corporate attitudes and organizational as well as personal competences,
• Needs for a corporate and personal culture change,
• What do we need to achieve, what are the required changes and how to make it happen?