HANS STOISSER
Managing in a new VUCA world
African companies will also be hit very hard by the impacts of this pandemic. However, African companies are much more used to a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment.
HANS STOISSER
Category Management and Leadership
“Hysteresis” – What will not go back to normal
How the pandemic might change our interlinked global society. The level of interconnectedness will not decrease compared to the pre-pandemic level but increase. However, it will be different.
An experiment at the Learning Journey – What we can learn from China
Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah. 18 Europeans visited Nairobi in January. For four days we were exploring "Digital Africa", "Urban Africa" and opportunities for "Co-Creation".
Turning a crisis into an opportunity
Cape Town is running out of water. DAY ZERO - the day when water reserves are at zero - is approaching. For three consecutive years rainfalls were less than normal. But it is not the missing rainfall, reasons for the water shortage in the urban agglomeration of 3,8 million people go deeper, says the Economist. It is a ...
Africa, the next factory of the world
The African industrialization through Chinese entrepreneurs, that is the theses put forward by Irene Yuan Sun. Her new book "The next factory of the world - How Chinese Investment is reshaping Africa" ....
Ten tips to start a business in Africa
Climbing a volcano can be compared with a business venture. At home in Europe, as well as in an African country. The only difference probably is, those African volcanoes are usually somewhat hotter.
Kenya is worth the trip
Did you notice that elections in Kenya disappeared from media coverage in Austria/Germany before the exact outcome was resolved? Learn what determines African societies and economies. Watch out for opportunities to cooperate.
First Innovation, then Regulation
First Innovation, then Regulation – What we can learn from Africa “You can not innovate under regulation. You have to take risks”, says Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication in Kenya. He knows. During his time in government, from 2005…
Software is eating the world – about African innovation
Software is eating the world – about African innovation “Why software is eating the world” has been the title of a famous essay by Marc Andreessen in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. Being in Nairobi, I have been heavily reminded…
Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015
Claiming our Humanity – Managing the Digital Age … … is the theme of the Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015 (#GPDF15), taking place in Vienna on November 5th and 6th, 2015. High ranking speakers and participants, from Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg, Tammy…