The technology industry offers enormous opportunity for international collaboration. At the first annual U.S. / Mexico Technology Summit, one of the principal themes will be partnership development. Most of us recognize the importance of good partnerships but the ability to nurture a partnership to its mutually beneficial limits is a rare quality. In the spirit [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘International Business’
June 24, 2010
The long view on China
It’s true what they say – until you’ve been to a World Expo, there is no fathoming its size. My first day at Shanghai EXPO 2010 it reached nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit and set a record attendance at just under 600,000 visitors. Droves of people waited in line to get in to see the popular [...]
June 10, 2010
Business Process Outsourcing: Trends for Global BPO in 2010
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is an industry on the move. Many new trends are emerging in 2010 and the tool used by many U.S. companies can be easily viewed as a trade risk or a trade opportunity. The BPO market struggled in 2009, dropping to $18.5 billion in contract value, its lowest since 2001. Sourcing [...]
May 10, 2010
Guest blog: “Invest in Slovakia Seminar” written by Peter Petrik
The Dallas Regional Chamber co-hosted a seminar last week, May 4th, at the start of World Trade Month that focused on the investment environment and opportunities in Slovakia. One of the event attendees, Peter Petrik, a native of Slovakia and local business owner and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, authored the following [...]
April 29, 2010
Brazil is on the corporate radar, but can U.S. biz successfully navigate the tax system, bureaucracy?
Brazil tops list of growing economies As the fifth largest country in the world, with the fifth largest population in the world, Brazilian officials have estimated the country will have the fifth largest economy in the world by 2026, just 16 years in the future. Although recent reports have indicated Brazil’s economy slowing slightly in [...]
March 5, 2010
Trade horror movie of 2010?
“Here’s a start for your horror movie,” Roger Cunningham, president and owner of United Risk Consultants tells me as we begin to talk about political risks for exporters in North Texas. He tells me that we are seeing ”unprecedented” worldwide insolvencies in 2009 that are continuing into 2010. This means that companies are in a lot [...]
November 4, 2009
Dallas Regional Chamber Announces Finalists for the International Business Achievement Award in the Small to Mid-Size Business Category
The Dallas Regional Chamber today announces its finalists in the Small to Mid-Size Business Category for the International Business Achievement Awards. 2009 finalists are: Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP Cressman Tubular Design Duncan Miller Ullman HRsmart RBC Life Sciences Stewart Systems The nominees submitted extensive applications and were vetted through a judges panel of business executives in the [...]
October 23, 2009
Dallas Regional Chamber Honors Local Companies and Organizations
Nine Dallas area companies and organizations were honored at the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Momentum Awards held last night at the W Dallas Victory Hotel.
October 8, 2009
Foreign Currency Fluctuation and Risk Management – How Does THAT Impact MY Business?
Every time I listen to KERA, I hear something about how China or OPEC or other countries are considering investing more in the Euro and purchasing fewer U.S. Dollars. As we all have heard, China now holds about $800 billion of our $1.58 trillion deficit. It can be quite confusing to navigate all of these related issues [...]
September 24, 2009
Dallas Regional Chamber launches new Navigating Global Risk Series
As I am wrapping up my participation in this week’s CoreNet Global Summit in Brussels, I would like to take a moment to share some thoughts discussed and announce a related initiative my team is preparing to launch. European economists discussed the economy and its recovery at length this week. The “V” curve recovery model [...]
