Business International:

Cultural Intelligence

Russian Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Traditional Strengths (and Weakness) & Areas of Synergistic International Cooperation

Strengths

(Competitive advantage: xx - very strong; x - strong)

Weaknesses

(Improvement required: xx - radical; x - incremental)

• Individual creativity, disruptive thinking 'outside the box' (xx)

• High IQ – intellectual quotient (xx)

• Generalists, high cross-functional expertise (xx)

• Good systems thinking (xx)

• Cross-pollination of ideas (x)

• Continuous learning attitude (xx)

• Good EI – emotional intelligence (x)

• Challenging assumptions and status quo (x)

• Creativity in teams (x)

• Radical/incremental improvement idea generation (x)

• Lack of customer focus, intelligence, service, and partnership (xx)

• Lack of strategic building of organizational culture (xx)

• Lack of disciplined approach to innovation (xx)

• Lack of process thinking (x)

• Weak execution of new ideas and technology commercialization (x)

• Lack of process/product quality management (x)

• Deficiencies in routine work, teamwork and operational efficiency (x)

• Short-term view, lack of strategic thinking and patience (x)

• Emotional, rather than reasoned decision-making (x)

• Lack of commitment to goals and consistency of performance (x)

In the new knowledge economy driven by systemic innovation, Russian cross-functionally excellent and very creative intellectuals have strong competitive advantages in many areas of innovation. As harnessing the power of diversity becomes a key to success in today's complex world, Russian intellectuals – as strategic partners, sub-contractors or team members – could help you build your sustainable competitive advantage in the following areas, inter alia:

• Creative Work

  • New Product / Service Design

  • Creative Problem Solving

• Radical Innovation

  • Outside-the-box (wild) idea generation

  • Scientific Research

• Systemic Innovation

  • Systems Thinking

  • Cross-functional Synergies

  • Mutual Creativity in Business Partnerships

• Information Technology

  • Application Software Development

  • Development of Information Systems

  • Web Design

 Case in Point  Ten³ Business e-Coach

Launched in 2001, the new-to-the-world Ten³ Business e-Coach was servicing more that 100,000 people from all over the world every month and having more than 100 (!!!) pages ranked #1 by Google by 2004. The e-Coach is a typical Russian creation. No corporation can develop and upgrade continuously such an disruptive product unless they have in their teams such passionate, creative, disruptive, cross-functionally excellent, and systemically thinking individuals as broadly educated Russians are.

Corporations, business schools, entrepreneurs, and business consultants from more that 20 countries were buying the disruptive inspirational Ten3 Business e-Coach by 2004.

Below is what some international innovation practitioners say about the Ten³ Business e-Coach:

• "It is the best self training tool!” – A.Wein, Australia

• "It makes bells start ringing for me" - Z. Helmberger, USA

• "It thrives of motivation."- Robert Gallagher, USA

• "It produces a bomb effect!" - Michael Henzler, Germany

• "It boosts my creativity!" - Udaysinh Patil, India

• "It is a work of genius!" - Rona. Putnawe, Singapore

• "It is interesting as to what it has done for me." - Dean Prebble, New Zealand

• "You are a blessing to this generation." - Pastor Daniel Afolayan-Cameo, Nigeria

• "I hope God will keep you under his blessing." - Ebrahim Shams, Bahrain

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