by Gabriela | Aug 13, 2011 | Doing business, Uruguay
Following from our recent popular blogpost on “ten things I do every week in Britain that I wouldn’t have done in Uruguay”, here comes the most unexpected version… the things that remain the same, here, there (and everywhere?) 1- Hearing people complain...
by Gabriela | Aug 4, 2011 | Doing business, Uruguay
A bit of fun with some local knowledge – these are ten things I do weekly in Britain that I wouldn’t have done in Uruguay… 1- Fill up the tank. Oh, no. Definitely not. This is something someone else would have done for me. I would have stopped at a petrol...
by Gabriela | Jul 28, 2011 | Doing business
Bloomberg has put it very clearly: “South America is the next retail frontier as Brazil, Uruguay and Chile top China and India for new expansion opportunities”. The first question is why. South America has hardly seen any recession while in Europe we have gloomy news...
by Gabriela | Jul 17, 2011 | Doing business
It was with great excitement that I recently received my copy of the Superbrands 2011 Annual. The book is superbly well-researched, exquisitely presented and beautifully written. It gathers la crème de la crème of brands in Britain, some brands coming from abroad and...
by Gabriela | Jul 14, 2011 | Doing business
Guest Blog by Hugo Teruzzi Globalise UK Hugo tells us a real story about how (lack of) communication and understanding across different cultures within the same business can have a real impact on performance – and what to do about it. In many projects, clients...
by Gabriela | Jun 27, 2011 | Doing business
At a recent UKTI course in North Yorkshire, Simon Bedford mentioned the term “micro-multinational”. I was hooked. In a way it summarised what I have passionately shared with my clients: you don’t have to be huge to go global. So what is a micro-multinational?...