Author: Philipp Bircher Online communications is the perfect way to get in touch with your customers – it’s fast, it’s easy and supposedly the best method to reach a broad client base. Meanwhile, some would say that it is also very anonymous and lacks the personal touch which is such a crucial factor in doing […]

Author: Kimberley Jeker The 36 stratageme are a set of powerful Chinese aphorisms embodying the essence of the ancient Chinese Art of Cunning. “Swiss negotiate inefficiently – Chinese effectively and purposely make usage of their traditional thousand year old art of cunning”. First mentioned about 1,500 years ago, the 36 Stratagems were committed to paper […]

Authors: Michael Domeisen, Doris Kündig, Colette Richter Worldwide there are approximately 4000 location promotion agencies and offices trying to attract international operating businesses and organizations to open up branches in their specific areas. According to OSEC Switzerland is The international Management Gateway to Europe. More than 800 North American companies with a presence in Switzerland […]

Author: Manuel Blunier Photo: Chemische Fabrik Schärer & Schläpfer AG Nowadays small chemical producers face immense challenges. The chemical industry is in continuous upheaval due to the growing competition from Far East. In addition, raw material prices are tremendously volatile. Especially small Swiss companies have many more problems to tackle. High fixed costs, a strong currency and […]

Author: Colette Richter You can call it Web 2.0, the social Web or any other neologism, more and more companies and organizations do have internal social media policies to protect themselves and their brand reputation. If not, it is absolutely overdue. If your business is involved with any social media channel, it’s important that you […]

Author: Ana Ingold “We hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don’t market to anyone other than that”, said Mike Jeffries CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch. This is the business philosophy Abercrombie and Fitch has been building its apparel […]

Author: Philipp Bircher Berlin-Berne, we have a problem! Well, not just one, we certainly know that. But there’s one controversial subject that outshines all the others at the moment: the dispute over non-taxed funds of German citizens in Swiss banks. In a nutshell: The German government accuses Swiss banks to be a shelter for German […]

Author: Colette Richter Images from “East meets West” by Yang Liu @Yang Liu Design, www.yangliudesign.com Hermann Schmidt Verlag Mainz, 2012, 9. Auflage ISBN 978-3874397339 Being responsible for several overseas markets including China, I often receive questions from staff members or friends why guests from China are like this or business people behave like that… How […]