HANS STOISSER

Category Management and Leadership

Global Society, 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.

Hans Stoisser
16. March 2020

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership

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".

Hans Stoisser
27. February 2019

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership

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 ...

Hans Stoisser
27. February 2018

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership

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" ....

Hans Stoisser
20. November 2017

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership

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.

Hans Stoisser
28. September 2017

Emerging Africa, Management and Leadership, Newsletter

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.

Hans Stoisser
25. August 2017

Emerging Africa, General, Global Society, Management and Leadership

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…

Hans Stoisser
24. November 2016

Emerging Africa, General, Global Society, Management and Leadership

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…

Hans Stoisser
23. October 2016

Digitzation, General, Management and Leadership

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…

Hans Stoisser
27. October 2015

Digitzation, General, Management and Leadership

Digital Society – how to avoid the mistake of the 1950s

In the run-up to the Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015, a nicely featured blog series builds up momentum. A very insightful blogpost comes from Vlatka Hlupic: Let’s get the future right this time…

Hans Stoisser
17. July 2015
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