n.01 | November 2006 |
Global Management Challenge fast international growth This has been the best year of international expansion of the Global Management Challenge. Since January four new countries joined the GMC competition, so far, the larger number of entrances verified in only one year. It is estimated that by the end of 2006 two more entrances may happen, this time of African countries. United Kingdom, Denmark, Ukraine and Russia are the four countries that recently formalized their entrance in the Global Management Challenge. In Russia, the organization of this competition of strategy and management created in Portugal, 27 years ago, is in the responsibility of the company Labius Ltd and the National Academy of Economics. The competition has already started and in April 2007, in Macau, the winning teams of these countries will be joining the international final. Luís Alves Costa, founder of the Global Management Challenge and President of SDG – the company that, in partnership with Expresso, the Portuguese leading weekly newspaper, organizes this one hundred percent Portuguese competition – comments that «this has been the best year of international development.» The Portuguese internationalization started in 1981, with Brazil and since then countries of Latin America, Europe and Asia joined the Challenge, 22 in total today, plus Portugal. In recent years, the biggest international expansion of the Global Management Challenge, has been in the East European countries, with the entrance of Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania and this year Russia and Ukraine. According to SDG this is a trend that may continue, but there are already in perspective new entrances, in Portuguese language countries, namely in Africa. The SDG is in conversations with Angola and Mozambique and there is strong evidence that point these two countries will join the Global Management Challenge. If this is verified, there is the possibility of being present in the international final in Macau. |
News of the Global Challenge - The second phase of the Global Management Challenge in Portugal has already started and the results are being published, as usual, in the Expresso Weekly. By the end of the traditional five rounds, eight teams will dispute the national final. - With the date scheduled to November 9th, the national final will decide which will be the team that is going to represent Portugal, in the international final of the Global Management Challenge, on the 25 April 2007, in Macau. The impact of simulators in training SDG is preparing training sessions for companies, for the fourth trimester of 2006. This activity uses Management Simulators in Training, Recruitment and Evaluation Programs of Private and Public Companies. This is the first year that SDG associates with the Human Resources Directors of some of the most important national organizations, to innovate their programs in the Human Resources Department. More information about the use of simulators in your company can be obtained by e-mail: info@sdg.pt |
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