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  • Senior Retail Executives from across the GCC are set to attend The Retail Leaders Circle in Dubai

    Some of the world’s top retail minds, including professor and bestselling author Lerzan Aksoy, Tim Keiningham, Nitin Sanghavi and Chris Roebuck will be joining an impressive line-up of speakers from companies such as IKEA, Chalhoub Group, Gap, Dubai Duty Free, Deloitte and Ipsos.

    Over two (2) information-packed days, executives will get the opportunity to network, engage with industry peers, and discover what’s trending in the global retail space. Topics include retail optimization, customer engagement, omni- channel performance and transformational leadership. A key highlight on the second day is the first time presentation of the findings of PWC’s Middle East 2015 Total Retail Survey on ‘Online Shopping Habits of the Middle East Shopper’.

    Attending organizations include Bukhatir Group, IKEA, Azadea Group, Alshaya, Virgin Middle East, Paris Gallery, Etisalat, Nakheel Retail and many more.

    Read more at Zawya

  • Scaling Up Business Growth Workshop, with Verne Harnish

    Scaling Up Business Growth Workshop, with Verne Harnish

    Verne Harnish

    Scaling Up Business Growth Workshop, with Verne Harnish

    The world-renowned Scaling Up Business Growth Workshop gives you proven tools and strategies to achieve greater:

    Alignment: Get faster results with less effort when you can inspire your entire team to follow your rock-solid plan.

    Accountability: See your company’s reputation (and revenues) soar as employees fulfill 100% of all promises with no more excuses.

    Acceleration: Light your revenue records on fire and gear up for a legendary year of business growth. (You’ll want to keep this executive workshop a secret from your competitors.)

     

    About Verne Harnish

    Verne HarnishVerne is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and chaired for 15 years EO’s premier CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants”, held at MIT. Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with hundreds of partners on six continents, Verne has spent more than 30 years educating entrepreneurial teams.

    The “Growth Guy” syndicated columnist, he’s also a regular columnist for Fortune magazine. He’s the author of Scaling Up, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and, along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. Verne chairs annual Growth Summits in North America, Europe, and Asia and continues to teach in the MIT-based executive program he founded.

    Residing in Barcelona, Spain, he’s married with four children and enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

  • The internationally recognized certification for PA’s, “The Advanced Certificate for the Executive Personal Assistant (ACEPA)” is coming to Riyadh, KSA

    acepa-bannerThe Advanced Certificate for the Executive Personal Assistant (ACEPA™) course is designed to help executive personal assistants and secretaries successfully meet the increasingly demanding roles that are expected of them in the modern corporate environment. Led by an experienced international Director and ex Big 4 Management Consultant, the course focuses on delivering a fundamental conceptual understanding of areas such as strategic thinking, corporate finance and HR, as well as practical skills. Upon successful completion of the course, attendees will receive an internationally recognized certification by the UK regulatory body Qualifi.

    “The ACEPA training is offered worldwide and it’s now exciting to bring this training and certification to Saudi Arabia, a country with a strong growing sector of skillful Executive Personal Assistants and Secretaries. It is a power-packed program delivered from a unique top-down perspective that spans the range of duties now assigned to executive PAs, from basic presentation skills through to corporate strategy” says Richard Arnott, facilitator of ACEPA.

    Read more at Zawya

  • The New York Institute of Management (NYIM) brings the Retail Leaders Circle to Dubai

    The US based New York Institute of Management (NYIM) is launching a new initiative for the global retail industry, “The Retail Leaders Circle” (RLC), a preeminent global retail education destination dedicated to provide the world’s retail executives with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve global market needs. RLC 2015 will feature an impressive line-up of visionary speakers raising top industry’s concerns and presenting pressing retail case studies, best practices and cutting edge insights that will help delegates to drive their business and career forward.

    The launch locations and dates for the initiative to be rolled out have been announced and Dubai, UAE, has been selected to host the inaugural event in June this year, followed by a session in Chicago, USA, in October.

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    “The Retail Leaders Circle is an exclusive, power-packed, program that brings together the next generation retail executives from around the world for a truly unique experience; participants will sharpen their leadership skills, learn from international and experienced industry experts, and attain the perspectives needed to successfully respond to the challenges of the ever evolving retail landscape,” said Panos Linardos, Executive Director of NYIM. “We are very excited about bringing the world’s leading Retail experts to Dubai, as it is increasingly becoming the most vibrant retail center of the world.”

    Read more at Zawya

  • FATCA enforcement affecting large portions of the financial services sector, including insurance

    More than 100 countries including India, China and Russia have already entered into agreements with the US on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and with new FATCA requirements coming into effect on 1st of January 2015 applying to U.S. and non-U.S insurers and insurance brokers, large portions of the financial services sector are being affected.

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    After a relatively quiet four-year ramp up, America’s global tax law is now being enforced. FATCA requires foreign banks to reveal Americans with accounts over $50,000 and considering the risks of being frozen out of U.S. markets, everyone is complying.

    Firms that fail to comply with FATCA will be subjected to a stringent 30% withholding tax on any US sourced income even if they do not have any US customers. The compliance aspects being forced upon financial services firms globally by the US tax authorities are complex and costly. It includes amending everything, from more thorough KYC requirements to changes in the account opening processes for new customers to take into account the new information required under FATCA, and systems will have to be updated to comply with the withholding taxes if so required. Insurers and insurance brokers will have to comply with new information gathering and reporting rules when U.S. insurance and reinsurance premiums are sent outside the U.S.

    Read more at Zawya

  • ICTN

    ICTN

    ICTN – International Consulting and Training Network Offshore s.a.l.
    is a consulting and training firm specialized in Enterprise Optimization and Customized, Experiential Training. With offices in Beirut and New York we have been serving the MENA since 1993.

    ICTN Vision
    ICTN’s vision is to make a positive and measurable change in every life and every business that we touch.

    ICTN mission
    ICTN’s mission is to help clients become more profitable by developing their people and their organization using integrated solutions and applying the latest and most effective international methods and technologies.

  • Wealth Management Symposium with spotlight on Middle East, Swiss and Asian asset allocation set to take place in Dubai in December

    The Wealth Management Symposium

    With Wealth Management becoming a major point of interest for the GCC market and its associated institutions, the Wealth Management Symposium that will take place on 14-15th of December at the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel in Dubai, UAE will offer insights into applications of Wealth Management by presenting market principles from Switzerland, the Middle East and Asia.

    Its scope is to provide banking and financial services professionals a clear view of best practices and offer those tools that will assist in developing a localized value proposition focusing on an international audience/clientele on Wealth Management and Asset Allocation.

    Anastasios Avranas, Co-Founder and CEO of INTERFIMA says:

    “In a constantly shifting and mobile world, new wealth rises, new regions and locations in Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere are competing with traditional centers like Switzerland and the UK for the lines of services and products offered, claiming a portion of the investment and asset placement globally. This symposium will address and highlight trends and changes in asset allocation, new UK Regulations, automatic exchange of data, online wealth management strategies, new segmentation strategies, FATCA, UCITS and AIFMD to mention just some of the topics.”

    Read more at Zawya

  • New financial US law FATCA attracts high level executives to workshop in Dubai

    The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a new US law aimed at foreign financial institutions (FFIs) and other financial intermediaries to prevent tax evasion by US citizens and residents through the use of offshore accounts.

    It represents a complex and costly compliance task being forced upon financial services firms globally by the US tax authorities. Firms that fail to comply with FATCA will be subjected to a stringent 30% withholding tax on any US sourced income even if they do not have any US customers.

    Account opening processes for new customers will have to be amended to take into account the new information required under FATCA and systems will have to be updated to comply with the new requirements for KYC and the withholding taxes if so required. FATCA is already in process, and what is required is already being implemented.

    All these key FATCA and due diligence requirements will be addressed during the 2 day workshop on FATCA that will be taking place on 15-16th of October at The Address Dubai Marina Hotel in Dubai.

    Read more at Zawya

  • Innoverto at The Brand Leaders Middle East

    Christianna Tsiterou – Co-founder and Managing Partner of Innoverto in Dubai, speaking to The Brand Leaders Middle East.

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    Hi, my name is Christianna Tsiterou and I’m the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Innoverto. Innoverto was established in Dubai, UAE, three years ago this August.
     
    Well, the future of Marketing, I guess it’s an ongoing process and it’s also very fluid, so I think once all of us, which are in the business, learn a new marketing tool which is successful then, basically, the consumer base gets quite intelligent in that sense and then you need to come up with the next best thing.  
     
    From our hand, since Innoverto is in the corporate training and events management business, most of our marketing is done through direct marketing. So, in other words, direct marketing emails that are sent across to our target data base per product.  For us that works really well because what we have notice is that the emphasis needs to be put on the value, so it’s not so much the frivolities. We don’t look at any special techniques but rather, what we do emphasize on is making sure that we put across the value of what we are selling. It is very much value-driven and direct marketing is the key element that we are using. The second angle that we have started using recently, I guess we were the back wagon of most organizations, is social media. We’ve notice that specially Twitter is gaining a lot of momentum and is working really well when it specially comes to short messages and it also challenges us in being very precise and very direct in the message, and that has worked really well.

    Watch the video here

  • Innoverto to promote Paul McKennas events

    Paul McKenna, the world’s foremost authority in human development will appear at the Dubai World Trade Centre in end of October/ November 2014. It will be his first appearance in the Middle East.

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    McKenna, famous for his work with celebrities such as Elle DeGeneres, Russell Brand, Roger Daltrey and Simon Cowell is also the UKs number 1 non -fiction selling author with ‘I Can Make You THIN‘ being the number 1 best-selling self-help book in UK history. His other successful titles include ‘Quit Smoking Today Without Gaining Weight’, ‘I Can Mend Your Broken Heart’, ’I Can Make You Rich’, and most recently, ’I Can Make You Happy’, which reached number one in the UK.

    In 2010 Paul released ‘THIN, CONFIDENCE, QUIT SMOKING and SLEEP’ which reached number two on the US book charts – beaten only by Barack Obama’s autobiography. His books have helped millions of people across the globe conquer both personal and professional obstacles. McKenna uses scientific psychological procedures to make dramatic and captivating changes in people lives, and has appeared on national TV shows in the United States including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Rachael Ray and Anderson Live, among others.

    Read more at AmeInfo

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