By Gina-Marie Cheeseman We live in a time when information is readily at our fingertips. We can easily find out about any subject that interests us. That makes it tricky for a writer to grab the attention of readers. It […]
By Juhana Torkki A guest at Nordic Business Forum 2012 told me why he came to Jyväskylä for two days. “There are so many top speakers. I also give a lot of speeches – I hope to get new ideas […]
By Gina-Marie Cheeseman Wikipedia is a virtual tour de force on the internet. Jimmy Donal Wales, the man who created it in 2001, definitely created magic. On June 10th, 2013 we had a chance to have a discussion with this […]
by Jukka Niemelä Mr. Hans-Peter Siefen and I had the unique opportunity of interviewing Jack Welch. Expecting to interview a cold-blooded businessman, we were disarmed by his warm laughter and a request: “Just call me Jack, ok.” What Makes a […]
by Kristal Davidson While the world is engaged in heated discussions on climate change, a kind of a business and management geologist Lynda Gratton propagates a rise in temperature: hot spots are her area of expertise. Iceland, the Galápagos Islands […]
By Esa Matikainen For the last few years Finland has been desperately searching for “a new Nokia”. We have already seen some successes, for which the companies Rovio and Supercell are the most prominent examples. With the right skills, timing, […]
by Jukka Niemelä Mr. Tom Peters, a best-selling author of many business books, says most of the principles in his first masterpiece In Search of Excellence (1982) have held up “pretty well.” Most certainly they have. University students and young […]
by Petri Parvinen Contemporary research on the efficiency and effectiveness of sales hovers above two key questions: adaptive interaction and value added. Researchers and managers alike have noticed that the match between the customer’s and the salesperson’s personalities and interaction […]
Similarly to 2012, Nordic Business Report continues to follow the example set by its American counterparts and to produce various interesting ranking lists of the people in the business sphere. These rankings tend to be the most popular sections of […]
16Aug2013
by: Hans-Peter Siefen
Today, Nordic Business Report has published a list of 20 greatest business thinkers in the Nordics. The list has been formed from the opinions of a Nordic-wide jury consisting of altogether 23 people from different Nordic organizations. Spotify’s Daniel Ek took […]
As we know, people commonly avoid sales. Sadly, the entrepreneurs themselves are the best ones to avoid it. It is easy to hire someone else to do the “dirty work”, even though selling, especially in the beginning, is the most […]
Last year, foreign trade accounted for 40 % of Finland’s GDP. We are a small country with an open economy. We have benefitted greatly from the opening of world trade. Three factors speak in favour of that trend continuing further. […]
