BDO specialists participated in The Moscow Times conference
On November 17, 2010 The Moscow Times conducted the first conference in course of “Effective business management in Russia. Best-practices of foreign and Russian executives”. On the invitation of the editors office BDO specialists joined in the round table. Outsourcing topic raised great interest of Russian and foreign executives who shared their experience of moving to outsourcing in several discussions when the topic of discussion touched upon internal company’s business processes. “Outsourcing is often used during business organization or reorganization, outsourcing is a multisided phenomenon, complex outsourcing is frequently used, in some cases especially on the first stage companies prefer to start cooperation, transferring part of their functions to a provider, then they enlarge the range of services, outsourcing company is a strategic partner since it improves business efficiency” - these and other opinions were given on the conference.
In general two opinions were presented on the conference – of foreign executives who have achieved success in Russia and of leading Russian executives on the topic “When business geography is very large. Organizational structure and communications”.
During the first part of the conference a special guest Stuart Lawson, consultant, lecturer in Moscow school of Management SKOLKOVO (risk management module), former CEO of HSBS in Russia up to June 2010 held a speech. He described the peculiarities of running business in Russia, from the point of view of a foreign entrepreneur. He specified the main possibilities and faults that should be taken into account when planning business processes.
The second part of the conference was held in the form of discussion in which the following representatives participated - Nikolay Nikolenko, first deputy chairman, Russian Insurance centre; Emilia Garsia, senior vice-president corporate management, managing director of production association, Rostiks group; Vyacheslav Vorobyov, the General Deputy President – Chairman of Board, Director of division of VTB24 network; Boris Bobrovnikov, the General Director of CROC; Hannes Chopra, head of Allianz Eurasia, CEO of ROSNO; Madina Suyunova, strategy director, Russian JSC Eastern energy systems; Sergei Khomyakov, general director of Polycom in Russia and CIS countries. They discussed principles of effective business organization in regions, ways of controlling such businesses, effective communications creation, as well as risks that appear if you have a large network of branches.
