Written by Philippe5 October 2017 As a young company preparing the next round of investment, the availability of money in the world is a key topic.
In this very interesting episode of “C dans l’air”, economists discuss the impact of negative interest rates on the economy and more specifically on SMEs.
See www.france.tv/france-5/c-dans-l-air/1061767-dette-taux-negatifs-une-bombe-a-retardement.html
Note: it’s in French.
Written by Philippe1 October 2017 Many of the startups we have seen around the world in the past years digitize most of their processes in order to be lean and effective.
As a young company, INGAGE has made the choice from the very first days to make full use of digitization (virtual teams, video conferencing, digital processes, paperless) while keeping the human factor in the center of our team.
You can read more about this on our blog.
Written by Philippe1 October 2017 Most large companies nowadays use online cooperation tools. Video conferences are now part of our daily lives. They also have LMSs (e-Learning Management Systems) to train their employees online.
However, many individual trainers and smaller companies still lead workshops in physical meetings rooms, thus being unable to train people across regions. There are many tools for online collaboration, for video conferencing, but the trick is to combine them effectively in order to train people online in an engaging way. You can use Skype or Skype for Business, to talk, see each other and share your screen. You can also use Webex or Zoom, which enables participants to hand over the control of their own computer to a distant participant. The technology is there.
The challenge though comes when there are several people in the meeting room and participants scattered around the world via video conferences. One trick we found useful (for our own team) is to have everybody participate via their own computer with their own webcam. Even the people who are together in a same meeting room in a same location! Thus, there is no effect of a group vs. individuals. Everybody is on the same foot. Everybody can see clearly the other participants, as individuals.
Written by Patrice26 September 2017 The Chinese finally started to travel more outside of greater China than ever (51.2%)!
Switzerland enjoyed a 30% increase in Chinese visitors number in 2015.
While France, Italy and Spain see their numbers of Chinese visitors drop significantly (primarily because of terror attacks), other newer upcoming touristic destinations for Chinese people, like Norway and Croatia are becoming a fierce competitor for the Helvetic state.
A 2016 article from CNBC revealed the results of the study, showing that the Chinese population will be a lucrative group to count amongst your clients, as they will represent about $255billion in 2025, as they slowly (or not so slowly) increase their standards of living, and counting for a staggering 1/8 of all international travels.
The traditional and still beloved group traveling method will slowly give way to independent traveling plans from smaller groups of Chinese people. This also means less influence from the tour guides and travel organizations on them as to which store they should visit and which brand they should buy.
This more volatile population will then need to be catered for extremely well in order to get their business and loyalty. It will be a question of understanding their culture and also speaking the bit of their language, mostly Mandarin Chinese.
In 2016, Swiss businesses, like Confiserie Bachmann and the Ramada Hotels have already started to get ready for this influx of Chinese tourists by doing 2 things simultaneously. The first is hiring a Chinese speaking staff and the second, is organising introduction workshops of the Chinese language and culture for their other staff, mostly focusing on the host/guest relationship and oral communication in shops and hotels (http://belinguo.com/index.php/client-testimonials/hospitality).
If you are also thinking of preparing for this massive business opportunity and challenge, Belinguo is here to support you… at least on the language and culture aspects! For more information visit !
Hungry for more? Here are the interesting facts and figures about Chinese tourist economics:
Written by Philippe25 September 2017 The INGAGE Academy contains a series of engaging online courses that detail our products, services, methodology, tools, technology, company and much more.
They help our team members become knowledgeable and confident in what INGAGE, our team, our products do and what they don’t. Thus, you will have everything required to promote and implement our products effectively and efficiently at our clients’ while ensuring top quality service for them.
You can also get in touch with the rest of the team through the forums and chat functionalities.
Last but not least, you will use our own product for this training!
Written by Philippe22 September 2017 If you have found your way to this blog, it is quite probable that you work or have worked for an insurance or reinsurance company, or maybe a brokerage firm in this industry.
We see more and more projects popping up in the industry where companies claim to implement the “Agile” methodology. According to your experience, is/was this company truly agile?
Join our discussion! (members only)
Written by Philippe12 September 2017 In this new course, Patrick Grand shares his outstanding experience in the insurance and reinsurance with newcomers to the industry.
Written by Philippe2 September 2017 Here is an interesting article about this topic (in French): https://www.xos-learning.fr/blog/le-cone-dapprentissage-dedgar-dale-nest-pas-celui-que-lon-croit/
#learning #learningpyramid #learningretention
Written by Patrice25 January 2017 Our new online course about GDPR for software developers in financial services is now available!
Welcome to this GDPR course, specially designed for Software Development!
My name is Lucas Gros and I’ll be your guide through this training module. In less than one hour, you should become familiar with the new (and still too mysterious for some) General Data Protection Regulation and how it will impact your software development activities.
We’ll be covering GDPR requirements for each step of the SDLC : from Business Requirements until Release.
Let’s get started, shall we?
Written by Philippe16 January 2017 As a young company, we are convinced that coaching is not only good but actually absolutely necessary to succeed.
One of our very first steps was to constitute a Board of Advisors. This helped us tremendously!
Without them, we would not be where we are now.
Thanks to our great coach Urs!
Written by Philippe10 January 2017 Have you considered your exposure to cyber risks?
“Cybersecurity insurance is designed to mitigate losses from a variety of cyber incidents, including data breaches, business interruption, and network damage. A robust cybersecurity insurance market could help reduce the number of successful cyber attacks by: (1) promoting the adoption of preventative measures in return for more coverage; and (2) encouraging the implementation of best practices by basing premiums on an insured’s level of self-protection. Many companies forego available policies, however, citing as rationales the perceived high cost of those policies, confusion about what they cover, and uncertainty that their organizations will suffer a cyber attack. In recent years, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has engaged key stakeholders to address this emerging cyber risk area.”
Written by Philippe22 December 2016 You can prepare the game this way:
1. Print the following picture (you can download it below in this page)
2, Then, cut it along the dotted lines, as indicated.
3. Without bending nor folding any further, you try to organize the 3 pieces of paper so that you see each jockey sitting in his own horse!
4. Remember to start the timer to know how much time you needed to do it! Fair play, please. So, how long did it take you? 😉
(Note: for team members, check out https://edu.belinguo.com/course/view.php?id=112)
