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The International Management Challenge

International management consists of building an effective strategy, structuring an appropriate organization, design and managing people in a cross-cultural environment. Throughout these activities, companies must handle bureaucratic, technical, political, economic, linguistic, behavioral and cultural differences

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Why VMS?

International, intercultural management expertise is the key to successfully operate in a global environment. Understanding the markets, customers, partners and own teams is crucial.

By understanding and accepting the differences in culture, education and experiences and guiding the managers to develop crucial hard business- as well as soft business skills and in turn let them teach and develop the local teams. In an international organization the ‘one size fits all’ approach will naturally lead to friction, misunderstand and silo mentality. Instead ignoring the differences, it is often beneficial to embrace and utilize the individual cultural approaches.

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Roland Valentini:

“Having lived and worked in 4 countries and throughout the career teamed up with and successfully managed people from 12 different nations I understand myself as an international person”

“Measurements drive behavior”. Accepting this simple truth is a major milestone to create/set up/modify and monitor KPIs that actually help the business thrive instead of just making a manager happy by archiving an arbitrary number. More often than not KPIs are designed from finance or senior management to help their limited view of the operation, driving counterproductive behavior that harm the business.”

We can offer you full time, part time or project-based support – depending on your individual challenge and needs

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