Category: Sustainability

Gender Equality

I was reading this report from IBM Institute for Business value titled ‘Women, Leadership and the Priority Paradox‘ and it just came to my mind : how obvious and commonsensical this actually is.

Everybody should agree that intelligence is equally distributed among two genders. At least all of us could see that in the primary and secondary schools, where boys and girls are both able to understand math, learn languages, science and arts. Still, later in life, in the western and most of modern societies, men have more power and money and women less of it. Maybe you would say : “Men earn money to bring home and women decide how to spend it”. But who decides within these companies and governments how to spend money ? Following the same logic, then shouldn’t it be the women ?

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From FDI to the Investment in Outsourcing

From April 11 to April 13, I attended Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) in Dubai, one of the most important world forums on the promotion of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).

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I had an honor to moderate a session on outsourcing within this conference, whose objective was to advise the governments on how to capture opportunities in this dynamic and global market of outsourcing. Here is a brief account on this session.

My panelists were renowned experts and global industry thought leaders:

  • Christina Knutsson, Director at GDP Global
  • Jon Becker, Legal Counsel at Clearly Legal Ltd
  • Michael Ansah, Vice President of Dell
  • Roland Jabbour, Chairman at Jabbour Holding Group
  • Zhengping Yu, Executive Director of IBM China GTS GCG

Outsourcing was selected as one of the hot topics at AIM due to the fact that more and more money is being channeled into the alternative forms of investment, like mergers and acquisitions, licensing, subcontracting and outsourcing.

Foreign Direct Investments

Several thousands participants, ministers of more than 100 countries, government officials, industry experts and consulting companies convened to a large number of sessions and country presentations. Here are just few numbers to illustrate the current state of foreign direct investments in the world:
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