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Emerging Europe — opinion, analysis and intelligence. Updates on business opportunities, economics, politics and culture of central and eastern Europe.
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When the old title no longer fits
9+ hour, 18+ min ago (615+ words) Emerging Europe When the old title no longer fits Andrew Wrobel is the chief reinvention officer at Reinvantage. The Last Word: A longer life will require more than one version of you, and the judgement to know which of the…...
Supply chain resilience: Broken links
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (911+ words) Emerging Europe Firms worked hard to make their supply chains greener. The more urgent threat is the weather now breaking them, and few have a plan for it. Nearly nine in ten (87 per cent) of pharmaceutical companies across the G7 expect…...
AI + 4IR: Ambitions and options for CEE
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (204+ words) Radu Magdin is a global analyst and consultant, and former prime ministerial advisor in Romania and Moldova. Artificial intelligence is the technology of the moment, and Central and Eastern Europe can meet it as eleven competitors or as one region....
Working harder at the wrong thing
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (188+ words) Andrew Wrobel is the chief reinvention officer at Reinvantage. The Last Word: When competitiveness is beginning to slip, asking people to work harder can actually look suspiciously like moving backwards. Against that backdrop, the debate feels strangely familiar. When an…...
AI advertising: Ads infinitum
1+ week, 3+ day ago (639+ words) emerging-europe.com OpenAI is putting ads in ChatGPT and Anthropic will not touch them. It is hardly a reinvention, yet ads never stopped anyone using Google. Artificial intelligence is a powerhouse of reinvention, or so we’ve been told. AI is…...
Integrating Africa
1+ week, 4+ day ago (639+ words) Emerging Europe A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity. Africa trades as much as East Asia relative to GDP but without the structural transformation. The problem lies not just in…...
AI: A solution in search of a problem
1+ week, 6+ day ago (710+ words) Emerging Europe A solution in search of a problem Sold as a cure for everything, AI is too often a solution bought before the problem is found. Firms are now paying hard to undo the mistake. We’ll fix it with…...
Corporate bullshit: Plain speaking
1+ week, 6+ day ago (723+ words) Emerging Europe Bridges, corridors, gateways, nodes, clusters, springboards, launchpads, powerhouses. Paradigms, verticals, deep dives, deliverables, headwinds, synergies. I could go on (and on), but you no doubt get the idea. The list of corporate buzzwords used to signal new and…...
In praise of imperfection
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (602+ words) Andrew Wrobel is the chief reinvention officer at Reinvantage. The Last Word: Technology will force us to make it clear where perfection genuinely creates value and where it simply removes uniqueness. When I travel, I often want to bring something…...
Conspicuous thrift: Second thoughts
2+ week, 4+ day ago (649+ words) Emerging Europe For Generation Z, spending less, not more, has become the ultimate flex. The second-hand trade is booming; the luxury trade, rather less so. If you’ve got it, flaunt it. Not anymore, it seems, especially when it comes to…...