Culturally speaking, how easy would you say it is to do business with the UK?
Well the Business Culture Complexity Index ™ (BCCI), which assesses the potential complexity of a country's business culture, has just the answer!
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Satiate your inner Culture Vulture with regular news and posts about cultural awareness, doing business abroad, working in a multicultural environment, HR diversity and global mobility.
What is Cross Cultural Training?
The increase in cultural diversity within many countries due to immigration, resettlement and other factors combined with the evolving demands of globalisation have led to an increase in the need for cross cultural training. Although such training is
How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation & Promote Cultural Awareness Instead
Once upon a time cultural appropriation was something theorised and discussed solely at universities. Now, due to our globalized, interconnected, social media fuelled world, the use (or in this case, misuse) of another’s cultural property can turn in
10 Very Cool Facts About South Korean Culture
Discover some of the more unknown aspects of South Korean culture and society! At Commisceo Global, we know South Korea is hot stuff! Not only do we spend a great deal of time engaged in cultural awareness training for companies working with South Ko
Since the introduction of its outward looking economic ‘Doi Moi’ policies in 1986, Vietnam has evolved into one of Asia’s strongest exporting countries.
This expansion has generated a myriad of opportunities for expats relocating to Vietnam, which are likely to continue to increase in the long term due to trade wars and increased production costs in China.
Evey company working on the international stage needs to prepare their staff with the skills and knowledge to work across cultures.
Where online cultural training is not an option, then it’s essential to provide staff with easily accessible, bitesize, digestible materials.
Indonesia is a growing market in a part of the world full of economic promise. As a result, more and more international companies and organisations are investing in the country and sending personnel to work with Indonesians.
In this blog we we’ll cover some important tips around Indonesian business culture to help visitors to the country make the best impression possible.
If you want to know how easy it is to do business with China, then look no further than the Business Culture Complexity Index ™ (BCCI), a tool which provides some great insights for expanding businesses.
The BCCI uses a number of data comparisons to produce a single ‘ease of doing business’ score for the world’s largest 50 economies, culturally speaking that is.
Danes have every reason to celebrate! The Business Culture Complexity Index™ has ranked Denmark as having the easiest business culture among the top 50 economies of the world.
Let’s discover how this tiny western European country, famous for Lego, butter, bacon and Carlsberg beer, has created a culture, that according to the data, is open, trusting, transparent and open for business!
When it comes to cultural sensitivity training, it’s a little misleading to think of Middle Eastern culture as something homogenous.
Why? Because the Middle East is a melting pot of ethnicities, languages and religions. These elements all fuse together to give us a rich cultural tapestry.
Despite a history of limiting the visibility of women, the application of harsh gender laws have instead made them the most visible part of the Saudi identity.
As such, when many Westerners think of Saudi Arabia, niqab clad women without any rights, are one of the first images that come to mind.
We hear a lot in the news about cultural differences with Western companies going East, but rarely about Eastern companies coming to the West.
A great little article in the South China Morning Post by Mark Magnier suggests that when it comes to navigating different business cultures, Chinese companies are finding very similar challenges when working on the global stage, especially in the USA.
Being able to communicate and collaborate across cultures is crucial for many of today’s professions; engineers included.
However, a Japanese-led research team suggests that the intercultural communication skills being taught to today’s engineers are not fit for purpose.
Living abroad gives you some excellent insights into foreign cultures and some of the key cultural differences viz-a-viz other cultures.
In this blog, we hear from someone who spent some time living in Thailand and her reflections on Thai culture; in particular how it differs to US culture.
With talk of a mega trade deal between The USA and The UK, British business is gearing up for a potential export rush across The Atlantic.
To help prepare British exporters for future opportunities, The Institute of Export and Open to Export recently hosted a webinar to which Commisceo Global were invited to speak.
Did you hear about the supermodel, the airport lounge and the cultural faux pas that caused uproar in Saudi Arabia and the UAE?
No? Well this is a great little example of culture gone wrong!
Are you planning on doing business in the Nordic region? Maybe you already do? Want to learn more about the business culture? Then this blog is for you!
When working in a foreign culture its essential to understand a bit about the people and how they like to do business.
We have been helping inbound UK professionals and their families get to grips with British culture for over 15 years.
Have you heard the story about the French student keeping money in his shoe?
Well, then we’re going to tell you a true story about a young French student called Victor who travelled to Thailand.
A common question foreigners moving to or working in the Middle East ask at cultural awareness training sessions is, "Why do the men wear the head-dress?"
Great question! So let's discover more about the reasons behind it.
Working in the ASEAN region? Looking for some quick tips on how to do business? Need to know some of the main cultural differences you may come across?
Then this blog is for you!
With so many cultural differences between China and the West, the decision to relocate to China as an expat can be a difficult one.
Although expats do indeed have some complex cultural differences to navigate however, there are a huge number of positives for people taking the move.
Providing relocation training for expats moving to the Middle East means that we get to hear a great deal about people’s experiences in their new home country.
Although moving to the Middle East can be an incredibly positive experience, it goes without saying that adapting to new cultures and ways of doing things can be a challenge.