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the future
of the Global
Workplace
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Registration: 18:30-19:00, Conference:
19:00-21:15
Where:
PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Thomas R. Malthusstraat 5, 1066 JR Amsterdam
The conference
language is English.
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Mandar
Apte,
Business
Strategy - Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Shell Global Solutions
International B.V.
Workplace of the
future - scenarios and trends - Views of a global citizen
In today's world of increased globalization, "change" seems
to be the only constant variable. Marked by recent shifts in socio-
political environments complemented by advances made in technology have
resulted in an increased interdependence between countries and people.
Since we will all be living and working in a future world that promises
to be different from today in significant ways, the future of the global
workplace is of interest for governments, businesses, organizations,
and people, including multinationals especially threatened by the ambitious
forces of local, national and regional players. Key trends will be highlighted
and solutions proposed for issues that might be faced in the work place
of tomorrow.
Andrew
Kruseman Aretz,
Partner, Human Resource Services,
PricewaterhouseCoopers Belastingadviseurs N.V.
Changing demographics of people
flows around the World
Organisations are 'going
global' in new ways and expanding to new locations, offering considerable
benefits for the organisation. These bring a new set of employment opportunities
and problems. The traditional arguments for offshoring to new locations
have often been built around cost arbitrage, taking advantage of lower
labour and related costs in manufacturing or routine service provision.
Recent studies show that the 'new' locations can offer access to skilled
and innovative pools of talent, and to different approaches to leadership
and management. The motivation of mobile workers is also changing as
employees place different value on working internationally. The discussion
examines these changing workforce challenges and how organisations are
revising policies to meet these new needs.
Jean-Claude
Knebeler,
Director of Foreign Trade, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade,
Luxembourg
Does off-shoring hold
the key to success, especially for SME's?
Off-shoring is to most European
politicians what garlic is to vampires: the mere mention of it sends
them into convulsions. It is associated in public opinion to serious
ills ranging from wage dumping and precarious social security networks
to child-labour and slavery. Governments in mature economies face a
dilemma: they need to foster the competitiveness of their companies
while working to preserve certain social standards, at home and abroad.
Moving business processes abroad may increase competitiveness but creates
social problems. But isn't there a middle way? Must off-shoring/outsourcing
necessarily be a zero-sum game? Or does it hold the key to success,
especially for SME's, on tomorrow's ever more competitive global marketplace?
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18:30 - 19:00
Registration
19:00
- 20:00
Introduction
by our Moderator
Hedda
Pahlson-Moller, Managing
Director, Evalueserve Benelux and Omnisource International
Part I:
Mandar
Apte,
Business
Strategy - Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Shell Global Solutions
International B.V.
Workplace of the
future - scenarios and trends - Views of a global citizen
Andrew
Kruseman Aretz,
Partner, Human Resource Services,
PricewaterhouseCoopers Belastingadviseurs N.V.
Changing demographics of people flows around the World
Jean-Claude
Knebeler,
Director of Foreign Trade, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade,
Luxembourg
Does
off-shoring hold the key to success, especially for SME's?
20:00 - 20:30
Coffee break with
drinks and snacks.
20:30 - 21:15
Part II:
Panel
followed by an open discussion.
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Mandar
Apte
Business
Strategy - Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Shell Global Solutions
International B.V.
Mandar Apte is a Chemical Engineer from Mumbai, India. He then traveled
to the US to get a graduate degree in Petroleum Engineering from Tulsa
University, USA. Since 1999, he has worked at Shell in US and now in
Europe. Mandar has worked on several mega projects in Shell's EP business,
traveling worldwide and experiencing a diverse set of cultures. He has
been active in various employee networks at Shell around learning and
development and community outreach.
www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=globalsolutions-en
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Andrew
Kruseman Aretz
Partner,
Human Resource Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Belastingadviseurs N.V.
Andrew Kruseman Aretz is a tax lawyer from background and since 1990
working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has over 17 years experience
in human resource consulting and operates from the Amsterdam office.
He is specialized in international mobility management, HR in M&A
and HR Restructuring. He advises multinational clients on employment,
reward, tax and social security aspects of expanding and improving their
global business.
He leads the Dutch HR Transaction Services team, servicing Private Equity
and Corporate clients. The HR Transaction team consists of a broad range
of HR specialists in pensions, reward HR strategy and processes, performance
and organization and employee taxes, with a deal mindset and who work
on international deals with other M&A specialists.
www.pwc.com/nl
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Jean-Claude Knebeler
Director
of Foreign Trade, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Luxembourg
A career diplomat since 2002, Mr Knebeler currently
serves as Director of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of the Economy and
Foreign Trade in Luxembourg. He is providing advice to the Minister on
bilateral trade affairs as well as strategy and policy promoting Luxembourg's
economy abroad. The Department of Foreign Trade also provides direct support
to companies through trade missions and national pavillions at trade fairs.
Mr Knebeler chairs the Committee for the Promotion of Luxembourg Exports,
is a member of the Consultative Committee on Foreign Trade, the Luxembourg
Board of Economic Development as well as a board member of the Office
du Ducoire (the public export insurance provider).
He was educated at the London School of Economics & Political Science
in Great Britain and the French senior civil service college, the Ecole
Nationale d'Administration, gaining a BSc in Government & Law and
a postgraduate diploma in Public Administration.
www.eco.public.lu
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Hedda Pahlson-Moller
Managing Director,
Evalueserve Benelux and Omnisource International
Hedda Pahlson-Moller is Managing Director of the Outsourcing/Offshoring
consultancy, Omnisource International, and serves as the Benelux Client
Executive for Evalueserve - a global knowledge services company providing
customized Business/Market and IP research and analytics services to leading
edge clients worldwide. Evalueserve has a team of 1400+ professional researchers
based in its operations centers in Gurgaon, India; Shanghai, China; and
now Valparaiso, Chile.
Hedda has a B.A. from Brown University (USA), a Masters in Political Science
from Lund University, and an MBA from Copenhagen Business School. Hedda
has lived around the globe and worked for the Swedish Embassy and the
Japan Development Bank in Tokyo, the US Chamber of Commerce in Berlin,
the Centre for Science and Environment in India and spent 4 years at Hewlett-Packards
financial operations in Brussels and Grenoble.
She is Swedish-Canadian and has lived all over the world before settling
in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where she manages her businesses and
teaches Entrepreneurship at Sacred Heart University, Luxembourg.
www.evalueserve.com
www.omsint.com
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professional services organisation. Drawing on the knowledge and skills
of more than 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve
complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build
value, manage risk and improve performance in an Internet-enabled world.
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Evalueserve offers high-quality knowledge services
in Market, Investment and Business Research, Intellectual Property and
Data Financial Analytics. Evalueserve has more than 1,500 employees,
operations centres in India, China and Chile, and Client Executives
worldwide. Evalueserve has till date worked on over 10,000 projects,
in more than 150 countries and in 65 native languages. Evalueserve won
several awards in 2006, including the Deloitte Fast 500 APAC Award.
To learn more about us, visit our website www.evalueserve.com
or mail us at pr@evalueserve.com
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