Texas, November 11, 2025.- The last quarter of any fiscal year is decisive for multinational corporations. It is a period where short-term operational pressure converges with long-term strategic planning, requiring managers to balance performance, people, and future positioning. In 2025, this challenge … Continue reading Managing Employees in a Multinational During the Last Quarter of 2025
October 1, 2025.- Today marks a very special moment in my professional journey. After several years developing projects in Europe, I am returning to work in the United States for the whole of the Americas. The USA has already played a … Continue reading Thank you, Alimak Group – Leading the Americas
Madrid, August 5, 2025.- In a world where multinational companies operate across borders, time zones, and cultures, leadership cannot follow a one-size-fits-all approach. Success increasingly depends on the ability of executives to adapt their leadership style to local contexts — while … Continue reading Adaptive Leadership in Multicultural Environments: Balancing Local Sensitivity with Global Vision
Madrid, June 9, 2025.- In today’s global business environment, transparency is no longer a soft value—it is a strategic imperative. For multinational companies, managing operations across borders, cultures, and regulatory frameworks requires a governance model rooted in openness, accountability, and clear … Continue reading The Strategic Value of Transparency in Multinational Management
Madrid, May 12, 2025.- As the Country Sales Manager for Spain and Portugal at a multinational company providing solutions for the construction sector, I observe that the Spanish construction sector is undergoing a significant transformation, shaped by the dual forces … Continue reading Latest Trends in the Construction Industry: A Strategic Outlook from Spain
Madrid, April 7, 2025.- Executive presence refers to a leader’s ability to project confidence, authority, and charisma, inspiring respect and trust in others. It is not an innate trait but a set of behaviors and skills that can be learned and … Continue reading How to Develop Your Executive Presence
Madrid, 14 January 2025.- My assessment is that mentoring is always a strategic tool. The transfer of knowledge, experience, technological innovations, etc., between the human capital of any company means profitability. However, is it true that today mentoring is in … Continue reading Is mentoring a strategic tool today?
Madrid, December 9, 2024.- Enterprise resource planning software is an essential tool for business management. It is an integrated solution that optimizes processes, centralizes data and improves project management. Throughout my career, I have experienced three major ERP transitions, each … Continue reading Keys to choosing and implementing the best ERP in your company
Madrid, November 14, 2024.- Below, I present a tutorial on Norwegian business culture, sourced from a consultancy, which explores the essence of being a business manager in this country. Drawing from my extensive experience working with Nordic companies and Nordic colleagues … Continue reading Debate on Norwegian business culture
Madrid, June 3, 2024.- Artificial intelligence solutions for the business world, far from being a fad, are today a reliable strategy with positive results, for example, in their application in supply chain management. The Harvard Business Review magazine has published real … Continue reading Revolutionizing the Supply Chain: Profitable AI Applications
Madrid, March 11, 2024.- Every day we wake up with a new AI (Artificial Intelligence), a new machine learning algorithm that leaves us surprised by the empowerment of computing. However, today, management empowerment, the stage of generating trust among your business … Continue reading Is AI reinventing trust frameworks?
Madrid, December 1, 2023.- The integration of cutting-edge technologies such as 3D, BIM, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, and mixed reality platforms within the construction industry supply chain stands out as a the most remarkable key success factor for 2024. Additionally, the public … Continue reading Construction Industry Trends (2024)
Madrid, November 3, 2023.- The vast majority of successful CEOs practice small daily routines that help them get energized and start or finish the day in a positive tone. Those who know me are aware that in my case, I´ve always … Continue reading Mastering the Tech CEO daily routine: Blueprint for Success
Madrid, October 19, 2023.- Knowing that is the right time for those that still use them, for preparing and finalizing the 2024 Business Plan and budgets, I have selected several graphs showing the 2023 world economic development and the 2024 projections … Continue reading A look at global trade in 2024
Madrid, August 3, 2023.- The world is constantly changing, and we must change with it, how many times we have heard these words and didn´t get the message. Current enterprises scale of values and the economic dynamic environment is inviting many … Continue reading The 50 years old threshold for top managers
Madrid, July 14, 2023.- Workplace culture plays a vital role in the overall performance and satisfaction of employees in an organization. It is the personality and character defining your organization, hence it’s one of the most significant factors that employees consider … Continue reading A healthy workplace culture: The cornerstone of success
Madrid, April 20, 2023.- A CEO who has managed to lead the auto industry towards electrification. A CEO who started the race of private space flights and services and even making us dream of colonizing Mars. A CEO who has acquired … Continue reading What should the new CEOs rescue from Elon Musk’s management?
Madrid, March 2, 2023.- The business leader of 2023 has to accumulate years of experience in team management and obtaining optimal results. A business leader attentive to technological trends and calculating to make the right decisions, just in time. A business … Continue reading Profile of the new leader that is needed today
Madrid, October 13, 2022.- We all know that success is only achieved by teams with a strong structure and working in a very supportive context but how about if you are stuck in your team having to work with someone(s) … Continue reading Can we do anything and change it into a win-win situation?
Madrid, March 16, 2021.- The 2008 global financial crisis lasted more than 10 years and fulfilled the characteristics of other crises of the past. The COVID-19 economic recession is unprecedented, unique, without antecedents, without manuals, without standard solutions. Therefore, its effects … Continue reading The negative consequences of the COVID-19 economic recession may last longer than the 2008 crisis
Madrid, February 9, 2021.- Disorientation, muddiness. These words summarize the current state of the vast majority of the world population. We strive for certainties, stability, security, veracity, but we cannot see them around this world. In this hostile reality, it is … Continue reading A compass to a hostile reality
“Al margen de vaivenes políticos, al margen de la preponderancia de corrientes populistas o extremistas en varios países occidentales…el sector privado de las economías desarrolladas será el que equilibre desajustes irracionales coyunturales. Sin duda, un aval y una garantía muy tranquilizadora … Continue reading La fortaleza de la #economía frente a la ocupación del parlamento americano
Madrid, 8 de diciembre del 2020.- El capitalismo nunca duerme. A pesar de sufrir la mayor pandemia sanitaria y recesión mundial de los últimos 100 años, la región Asia Pacífico ha dado un golpe en la mesa para firmar el mayor … Continue reading El mayor Tratado de Libre Comercio: Asia-Pacífico toma la delantera al resto del mundo
Madrid, October 27, 2020.- In the current difficult circumstances of today and for all companies operating in developed economies around the world, the management of compliance is experiencing a decisive development period which might become critical for their survival. The Covid19 pandemic still lacks a clear horizon of certainties, with no date for its eradication and its coexistence among human beings as just another virus.
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NY, February 11, 2019. – The human capital of companies must also prepare for the next changes in communication, leadership, technological adaptation, culture of improvement. In the following report from Fast Company magazine we can find some answers and reflections.
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UK, August 8, 2018.- Digital reading is synonymous with texts linked or enriched to other documentation. Thanks to this marvel I had the opportunity to know the great work done by the public initiative: Innovate UK. The first click landed on this video:
Continue reading “The keys to the transformation of construction programs and heroes of innovation”
UK, July 10, 2018.- The data is the new oil of the 21st century. And the personal data of each human being is the object of desire of private companies, public administrations and other interest groups.
The protection of our personal data is endangered, above all, by the technological giants and the social networks we carry on smartphones. That magical device, connected to the Internet, where we carry our whole life and that we can not despise.
Computer security experts say that a Smartphone is only safe when it is turned off. That is, a Smartphone, laptop, tablet or PC will never protect our personal data if they are connected to the Internet.
Continue reading “Is the protection of our personal data a lost battle?”
The dynamics of the large economic blocs in the world are very sensitive to political decisions and the initiatives of corporate corporations, among other factors. Any modification affects our pocket, we pay more for some products, we raise direct taxes and indirect taxes, higher uncertainties in pension systems, etc. For example, if the United States moves towards the protectionism of its economy and raises tariffs on imports of products from different economic areas, it will affect our particular economy. If there is a trade war between the West and the East, it will affect our particular economy Continue reading The economy of each consumer threatened by the dynamics of the large economic blocks
UK, January 13, 2018.- Crazy ideas, no, technological revolution in the construction industry. We can foresee for real a new era in construction, design and planning put together in 4d virtual reality for massive efficiency improvements.
UK, October 9, 2017. In the 21st century, in the fourth industrial revolution, the internet of things, there are still old problems that require modern solutions. For example. The wage gap between men and women has a very current reference to the report published on the subject on the BBC. I mention here an information published by The Guardian:
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UK, august 4, 2016.- Automatic climbing formwork SKE plus. The crane-independent climbing formwork for structures of any shape and height. For every type of structure, the modular design concept of the crane-independent Automatic climbing formwork SKE provides an economical solution for any type of structure, for steady progress irrespective of weather conditions and maximum safety for the entire construction crew.
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Britain, November 13, 2015.- We suffer the greatest economic recession of the last hundred years. Each country has faced this economic cycle differently. I have carefully read the diagnosis published in The Guardian. And I have here because it provides data, charts and conclusions that serve for debate and reinforce strategies for the future. The thesis of this English newspaper, one of the most influential is that Britain, has faced this economic downturn better. I invite you to read their arguments:
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LUÍS MORRAL, Sales Director - Americas Construction at ALIMAK GROUP 