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February 03, 2012

EU policy on corporate social responsibility

At the end of last year, there was issued a new European policy on corporate social responsibility - you can download it here: A renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility

If you are interested in this policy and its impact on Czech business environment, you can join a survey, that the platform Byznys pro spolecnost has decided to conduct to know opinion of businesses in the Czech Republic. Click on the title to read more.

February 03, 2012

Current Economic Situation: What to do and how to survive next 2 years?

AmCham members and invited guests met on February 2nd to discuss Economic outlook for 2012-2013, changes in taxation, commercial law.... and get other advices what to do in the next 2 years.

February 02, 2012

Real Estate Committee met on February 1_minutes of the meeting

AmCham Real Estate Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming activities. Minutes of the meeting attached. Next meeting of RE Committee will take place on March 14, 9am at AmCham offices.

January 27, 2012

Workshop: Making IT security empowering, rather than paralysing

AmCham IT commttee organized first small workshop in 2012 on Making IT security empowering, rather than paralysing - best practices.

January 27, 2012

AmCham HR Committee met on January 27, 2012

AmCham HR Committee met on January 27 to discuss and plan upcoming activities. Minutes of the committee attached.

January 25, 2012

AmCham Marketing Committee met on January 25, 2012

AmCham Marketing Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming activities. Minutes to the meeting can be found in the attachement.

January 20, 2012

AmCham Finance Committee met on January 19 - Minutes

AmCham Finance Committee met on Thursday, January 19, to discuss and plan upcoming activities. Minutes of the meeting are attached. Members interested to join the Finance Committee please contact Renata Paceltová at rpaceltova@amcham.cz

January 18, 2012

AmCham IT Committee met on January 17 - Minutes

AmCham IT Committee met on Tuesday, January 17, to discuss and plan upcoming activities. Minutes of the meeting are attached. Members interested to join the IT Committee please contact Renata Paceltová at rpaceltova@amcham.cz

 

January 16, 2012

Interview_John Raddall of Quanta Consulting: Each organization is driven by human energy

John introduces new and important principles of managing human energy in organisations and individuals through the important tool - the e-fractal that has the power to bring a new and chosen future into the present through changing behaviour in a very special way.
To see the video interview please click here.

 

January 16, 2012

Corporate Social Responsibility Committee met to discuss cooperation with NGO Market

The Committee meeting held on January 12 was devoted to a discussion about possible cooperation of AmCham and NGO Market.
AmCham will work with the NGO Market and a) help with organizing a discussion on cooperation between private sector and NGOs, and b) the chamber will support the Good Business event, that should facilitate deals between companies and NGOs. For more information please see the Minutes attached.

 

January 06, 2012

Real Estate Committee met on January 5

AmCham Real Estate Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming events and further activities for 2012. Minutes are attached.

January 05, 2012

2012 Marketing Committee Chairman Elections_Results

Based on results of AmCham Marketing Committee chairman elections Ms. CRISTINA MUNTEAN of Media Education CEE was elected and approved by AmCham Board of Directors to serve as the Marketing Committee chairwoman for 2012.  Congratulations. 

Cristina will chair Marketing Committee for the first time on January 25th, 9-10.30am at AmCham offices where she´ll share her plans and ideas for the development of the Committee in 2012. All members working or interested in Marketing & Communication are welcome to join the committee meeting.

December 14, 2011

“Czech Eating Habits - Challenge for Business?” Business Case of Strategic Social Responsibility

On December 13, AmCham held a discussion focused on social issues in the area of nutrition and Czech eating habits and potential of their solving by companies. Peter Sokol of CSR Consult introduced concept of transition from “Sharing Created Value” to  “Creating Shared Value” by Michael Porter. Social issues were outlined by Petr Havel, agriculture analyst and journalist. Business cases were introduced by Martin Walter of Nestle and Renata Lukášová of Zátiší Group.

November 30, 2011

Overview of the current Real Estate market and the market outlook for 2012_seminar´s presentations

AmCham RE Committee organized the seminar on Current RE market and its outlook for 2012 on November 30th. To download presentations from the seminar please register under your username and password.

November 29, 2011

AmCham HR Committee met on November 25th, 2011_minutes

AmCham HR Committee met on Friday, November 25, to discuss and plan upcoming activities. Minutes of the meeting are attached. Members interested to join the HR Committee please contact Lucie Vrbová at lvrbova@amcham.cz.

November 25, 2011

CSR Committee met on November 22

Corporate Social Responsibility Commitee met this week. For more details about the Committee meeting outcome please download the attached file.

November 25, 2011

What makes organisational change happen? (Diagnostics of Corporate Culture)_workshop presentation

What makes organisational change happen? In a word, people.
People make the organisation. So how do you get people to work toward a better organisation?
How do you get everybody on the same page, at the same time, moving in the right direction?
Human Synergistics provide very detailed look into organizational culture.

November 24, 2011

January 2012 - committees' meetings

Click on the title to see upcoming AmCham committees' meetings.

New representatives of all AmCham members are welcome.  Come to discuss topics of AmCham planned seminars, roundtables for 2012, to meet other members, to know more about their businesses and needs.

November 23, 2011

Marketing Committee met on November 23, 2011_minutes

AmCham Marketing Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming activities and also to open the 2012 Marketing Committee Chairman elections.

November 23, 2011

2012 Marketing Committee Chairman Elections

3 nominees to run for the chairmanship:

  • Cristina Muntean, Founder of Media Education CEE (nominated by Tomáš Kortán, Brendan Donnellan)
  • Brady Clough, Managing Partner of Southpaw Production (nominated by Karel Eliáš)
  • Tomáš Kortán, Executive Director of Adbentrust (nominated by Ekaterina Bednar)

To see rules for voting please go to details of this release.

 

November 15, 2011

Real Estate Committee met on November 11_minutes of the meeting

AmCham RE Committee met to discuss following issues:

  1. Upcoming events for REC members
  2. Best business practices part - Events 2011, 2012 planning
  3. Legislative part - Issues of:
    Increasing investors´ certainty
    Construction law

To see the minutes from the meeting please log in under your username and password and download them.

November 09, 2011

Seminar on How to Plan an Effective Marketing/Communications Strategy held on November 8, 2011

The aim of this workshop was to provide interested AmCham members detailed information on new approaches and tools for managing successful marketing and communications strategies for their companies. The workshop consisted of two parts: an initial theoretical session led and a practical session featuring sample case studies on successes and challenges in managing corporate/organizational communications and marketing.
To see the presentations please log in under your username and password and open the attachements.

November 08, 2011

IT Committee - planning for 2012

AmCham IT committee met on November 8th to discuss and select topics for first seminar in 2012.

1)introduction

2) planning January´s event

3) other topics discussed (February panel discussion)

4) Evening Committees´Mixer

October 29, 2011

Marketing Committee chairman election_nominations open

 

Starting January 2012 – AmCham Marketing Committee will be run by elected chaiman/chairwoman.

Starting October 31st, 2011 until November 22nd, 2011 nominations are open:

  • an individual, employee of AmCham member company can be nominated by other member or can nominate himself/herself;
  • nominations can be sent to Lucie Vrbová at lvrbova@amcham.cz;
  • nominees are requested to provide their summary (300 words description of their past experience) and ideas for running and development of the committee (approx. 300 words).

October 27, 2011

AmCham Marketing Committee met on October 27, 2011

AmCham Marketing Committee met to discuss and plan its next activities and also to announce that the Marketing Committee chairman election will be held and that nominations are open.

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