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We are a premier Czech-Slovak consulting group with strong ties to Austria. Over the past 30 years, we have become one of the best-known and most frequently recommended one-stop-shop Central European boutique consultancies with global reach delivering complex Strategic Leadership, Management and Public Policy services.
Through our consulting teams active within global partnerships and networks we manage to keep a finger on the pulse of latest developments and thus offer proven experience combined with innovative expertise in and beyond the central European region.
We have many clients including international companies, Czech and Slovak companies, investors, private holdings, family businesses, as well as the public and non-profit sector. Our consulting teams are committed to creating mutually beneficial partnerships and building long-term relationships.
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Through our consulting teams active within global partnerships and networks we manage to keep a finger on the pulse of latest developments and thus offer proven experience combined with innovative expertise in and beyond the central European region.
We have many clients including international companies, Czech and Slovak companies, investors, private holdings, family businesses, as well as the public and non-profit sector. Our consulting teams are committed to creating mutually beneficial partnerships and building long-term relationships.
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Articles & Studies
A Case of Globalization: Building the Future – 2
15.12.2015
Building a strong organizational culture has been the cornerstone of the company´s success. To find out how Genpact (an independent business process re-engineering company which employs 68,000 employees with 73 delivery centers and a presence in 25 countries around the world) used its values and culture to drive agility and global growth, Amrop interviewed Pramod Bhasin, Founder and former President & CEO of Genpact.
Talent Strategy: The Re-invention of Office Space
18.11.2015
Corporate Leadership has to think in much broader terms today – not just about business strategy and people, but also about how those people engage and interconnect. This includes the physical space they inhabit: the office. The way in which it is structured for operation, and meets the needs of diverse groups, are increasingly recognized as critical to business performance.
Leadership: Personal Governance – 3
12.10.2015
With trust in business leadership at an all-time low, it’s not surprising that ethics has become such a common word in the lexicon. But what do ‘ethics’ actually mean for leaders? In Part 3 of our series, Amrop takes a journey into the Second Principle of Personal Governance. In this tour of the often-confusing ethical landscape, the author Fredy Hausammann provides signposts for leaders who are seeking to do – and be – ‘the right thing’.
Leadership and Boards: Crossing Over
20.9.2015
As anyone who has heard the joke about the consultant and the shepherd knows, professional services firms and corporate organizations often have a love-hate relationship. Yet they share one need – superlative leadership. How do both sides benefit from mixing DNA?
Leadership: Personal Governance – 2
18.8.2015
Just as a well-run organization has a guiding Mission, so do managers with good Personal Governance. This ‘Life Plan’ is an ongoing project, far-reaching and carefully orchestrated. It serves as a common thread, a ‘leitmotiv’, to guide, motivate and inspire executives through uncertainty and change, success and opportunity. As a personal, core Mission, its translation into action needs regular monitoring.
BOARDS: Raising the Bar for the Nominations Committee
29.7.2015
As day-to-day listed business announcements reveal unexpected high-profile departures and last-minute recruitment scrambles, how can Nominations Committees take a more robust, strategic and wide-ranging approach to succession planning? Join the exploration by Amrop and Dina Medland.
Smart Factory, Smarter Leaders: Conversations with the C-Suite
8.7.2015
What does the C-suite really think about the Smart Factory? Is it a true paradigm shift? Or a case of the ‘emperor’s new clothes’? How high is the topic on the strategic agenda? What are the implications for human capital? Finally, what could make for Smarter Leadership? To find out more, Amrop conducted confidential conversations with a select group of senior manufacturing executives from Europe and the U.S.A.
There is no better employee as a mother on maternity leave
5.7.2015
The publicist Róbert Kotian talked about whether we still live in a man’s world and other related topics with Miriama Letovanec for the daily newspaper SME. She is the advisory officer of US ambassador for economic issues, but currently on the maternity leave with an eleven months son. This May she became the chairwoman of Women Entrepreneurship Forum of Slovakia.
Leaders of the 21st century
17.6.2015
The quarter-century is a period long enough for the trend assessment. Therefore, the event organized by Amrop Slovakia and Slovak-Austrian Chamber of Commerce (SOHK) in Slovak institute in Vienna, a discussion evening with the leaders of the Slovak Financial Sector – Regina Ovesny-Straka and Michal Liday was mainly marked with the assessment of the past 25 years. However, it was marked with the look to the future too.
Personal Governance/The Cornerstone of Corporate Governance and Leadership
31.5.2015
How can senior managers make a change for the better in their own lives and, by association, in Corporate Leadership and Governance? Via their Personal Governance, how can they take steps towards a more credible and widely-accented form of governance as a whole? Fredy Hausamman, member of the Amrop Global Executive Board and managing partner of Amrop in Switzerland, adds the personal Governance dimension to the existing concepts and rules of Corporate Governance. Because strong and sustainable Corporate Governance can only happen if the people in charge of organization can demonstrate solid Personal Governance.
