Of Bloat, Work-Life Balance, the Asian Century and Ministers on Bicycles

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Managing Partner, Anthonie Versluis, discusses:

- Roland Berger - German origins - Europe-based strategy consultants - competitors BCGs, McKinseys and Bains; 

- The European Psyche - how European businesses think, act and speak; 

- What Asian businessmen and the companies they run need to know about how Europeans conduct business - the 'Essential European'; 

- What European / Western businesses need to know about the typical Asian businessman - the 'Essential Asian'; - The cultural divide - pwoer distance ratio - issues; 

- July 2012 - Roland Berger opened KL office - update; 

- Details: clients - sectors - staffing; 

- Views: Ports - urban development - rail sector - logistics - overlapping legislation, power circles and 'certain parties';

- The bloated civil service and the need for more simplification; 

- The Holland / Europe Political Comparable; - Elections - outcomes - importance of relationships - commercial implications; 

- ASEAN - non-BRIC market potential; 

- Roland Berger - thought leadership - intellectual force - 

(Adopted issues include a new business model for a European rating agency, or the possibility of an economic and financial recovery in Greece, initiatives to reindustrialize Europe, mobilization of private investors for infrastructure development in a European growth strategy, Africa's role as a global growth engine and analyses of the economic opportunities presented by mega-trends such as demographics, resource scarcity and technological progress) 

- Adapting these ideas in an Asian context.