Our interim managers were used as project or gap managers 10-15 years ago. As the economic processes are globally changing at an accelerating pace, our interims have been asked to manage and eliminate the ongoing regional crisis for the past 3-4 years. Often, several interim managers work together to manage
What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?
Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. As a result of capital
Customer Experience Excellence Report
“Customer experience has truly become a top of mind topic for CEOs and managers across all industries. The emergence of new generations of consumers, digitalization, e-commerce paired with a resurgence of purchasing power have all but reshaped the Hungarian consumer markets. In this rapidly changing environment companies are also finding
Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile: What is the difference?
What is the difference between Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile? I often get asked what the difference is between those terms. “Is lean startup opposite of design thinking? oh no, maybe it is the same?” and “Ah ok, so you mean agile?” or “I think Agile is a better word for it”. Those are some
Our day
Although many of us are working on projects on most of the weekdays, carry out work in the countryside, or participate in meetings according to the needs of our clients, sometimes we need to get together without the pressure of the external business life. On October 13th, more than two
Unrestrained growth of Knorr-Bremse Budapest – 14.11.2018
Jointly organized by the Joint Venture Association and Hammel & Hochreiter Kft., the company executives visited the development and production center of the railway industry in Knorr-Bremse Budapest. The company had started as a family business at the beginning of the last century and was introduced in the stock exchange
It is not the age, but the personality that counts
To confuse personality with age can be a real trap. Györgyi Kristóf spoke about this topic on behalf of Hammel & Hochreiter. In a roundtable debate of Digitalia-geneRÁCIÓK Autumn Conference, Györgyi Kristóf represented Hammel & Hochreiter. Generation issues are more and more frequent among the clients of her company, specialized
„It’s easy to lie with emoticons”
If you spread rumours in a Facebook group which have a sensitive impact on your supervisor or another colleague, it can be as unpleasant as if you were gossiping on the office corridor. Moreover, the situation does not get better when someone makes a screenshot of a private chat conversation
Risk – Most of the Hungarian family businesses do not have a succession-strategy, it is difficult to replace the charismatic founder/owner.
The world’s oldest family business was set up in Japan in the year 718. The 100-room Buddhist hotel is currently run by the 46th generation. In the history of family businesses, we mainly find Italian families, but there are also French, German and British family businesses, which are already over
Consciously, fashionably and even successfully?
It is October and autumn has inevitably begun! The warm summer weather in September has not changed our dressing habits yet, we did not have to select new sets of outfits. Our days started with the usual summer routine. Basically, we enjoyed summer since April and it is not easy