Archives with Category : Leading

15 May 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Secret Weapon Against Crisis?

Guest post by Radek Špicar, Vice-President of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Prague

“If Lehman Brothers had been ‘Lehman Sisters‘, today’s economic crisis clearly would look quite different” – a famous comment by Christine Lagarde, Head of the IMF and former Finance Minister of France, on whether more women in the boardrooms of major financial institutions would have averted, or at least mitigated, the impact of the debt crisis. More women in senior management roles is a hot topic and a big discussion within the EU. By 2020, publicly listed companies – according to European Commission legislation adopted in November 2012 – should increase the female presence on their corporate boards to a minimum of 40%.

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3 May 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Power Mums

Guest post by Andrea Ainsworth, FMP Program Leader at GE Capital Europe; COO of the GE Women’s Network East Central Region

Usually you expect a piece on praising working mothers to be written by someone who looks at them as an outsider, either with the reassurance of “I have been there” or the fear of “It will happen to me too”. This is not the case as I have been with GE for 17 years in different poles, businesses and several leadership roles professionally and also have 2 boys to be a mother for. I know that the “work-life-balance” is something to aim for and never the finish line. It takes effort and time to keep both family and your employer happy. It is not an easy thing, but luckily, you do not have to do it alone. Stillettos and strollers used to be old fashioned antagonism – these days, it is a choice of life for many.

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15 April 2013 Posted by Joerg Bauer

Go for Sustainable Healthcare

Guest post by David Boyd, GE Healthcare Europe’s Director of Government and Public Policy

Some 18 months ago, as European governments and healthcare providers were coming to terms with the realities of the financial crisis, The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR), the trade association for Europe’s diagnostics and healthcare IT sectors, was suggesting that investing in innovative technologies to improve healthcare systems would be a wise use of the limited finances available in countries. Primarily, COCIR was thinking of public financing – through government procurement or through the use of EU Structural Funds in eligible countries such as those in Central and South Eastern Europe, to expand healthcare infrastructure.

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12 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Poland to Lead

Guest post Agnieszka Jankowska, Director Government Affairs and EU Policy GE Central Europe.

As you could read in a recent guest post by a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, who’s nickname is ‘Ms Innovation’ there, history taught us that mankind can overcome crisis either by wars or innovation. We Europeans have a bad historical record of wars in the 20^th century therefore we should happily vote for the second tool. But innovation cannot be done only by the EU, the government or by the business or by individuals on a large scale. They jointly have to change the European or our country’s culture for a more innovation friendly one. Who and how should make it happen is the next question you may ask.

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10 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Innovate or Stagnate

Guest post by Hugh Gillanders, GE’s Director for Public Affairs Europe

If Europe is to drive growth and competiveness it needs to invest in building an EU wide ‘innovation ecosystem’ to avoid what the EU’s Commission for Innovation and Research, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn described as ‘an innovation divide in Europe’. Similarly, this will ensure Europe remains competitive in the global economy. The message once again for the EU is: ‘Innovate or Stagnate’.

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18 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Move in the Right Direction?

Guest post by Bartosz Wojszczyk, Managing Director, Global Growth and Strategy, GE Digital Energy

We are just a day away from one of the most interesting energy-related events in the Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw will host the 9^th Annual CEE Energy Conference 19-20 March, where over 150 senior level representatives from incumbent and private utilities, international investors and financiers, consultants and advisors, leading law firms and many more industry experts will discuss the most important issues facing the development of the energy market in Central and Eastern Europe. The participants will discuss among others market trends, current and future market needs as well as financing systems and the latest developments of renewable projects - the potential of PV Solar and Wind. GE will contribute to the discussion, and I will be at the event, giving you exclusive updates.

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8 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Celebrating… women

Some countries do it, some don't. No matter where you live, we would like to remind you how much we appreciate the women who touch our lives and work. Watch our video and share it via the blog or our Facebook site.

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8 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Czech Milestones in Innovation

Following the innovation roundtable events in Warsaw and Budapest, another high level meeting discussing innovation as a strategic advantage for CEE took place in Prague on 5 March 2013.
Stakeholders of the Czech government, universities, non- governmental and business institutions gathered to the roundtable event organized by GE and AmCham where the results of the 2013 GE Global Innovation Barometer were discussed in addition to the possible means of improving collaborative approach in the Czech Republic.

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18 February 2013 Posted by Zbigniew Mularczyk

Appetite For More

We live in a fast moving environment where innovations are made at high speed and the future is unclear, even for those involved in shaping it. These are the key sentiments reflected in the results of GE’s Global Innovation Barometer 2013. After its official presentation at the meeting of the Warsaw City Hall Innovation Council on 14 February 2013, you can now dive into the charts of the main Polish findings and see what our experts have to say about the results.

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15 February 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Let’s Collaborate

Yesterday two simultaneous high level stakeholder roundtables discussed the need of a collaborative approach to innovation. The events took place at the Warsaw City Hall and in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest which are about 600 km far from each other, but the distance did not show in the content of the debates as the results of GE Innovation Barometer connected them. Both sessions were open for media.

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