assignment study trip

1. Berlin business school
Julie D’hondt and Shan Cheng

2. Topics
How to do business with Germans?
Entrepreneurial hotspot berlin
German economy

3. How to do business with
Germans?
 Intercultural competence
 Different values
 High and Low context cultures
 Cultural types :The Lewis model
 The culture map
 Conclusion

4. Intercultural competence
 The iceberg model
 Openness, flexibility, self reflection ,
Empathy, tolerance for ambiguity..

5. High and low context cultures

6. The lewis model

7. Conclution
 Be on time
 Have only a short small talk
 Deal with the business seriously
 Be thoroughly prepared
 Present everything in a logical structure way
 Be aware of direct question and comments
 Have a profound argumentation
 Be frank and create trust
 Stay to your word(Germans take everything literally)

8. Entrepreneurial hotspot berlin
 What is an entrepreneur ?
 Why berlin is a hotspot ?
 What tools do entrepreneurs use ?

9. What is an entrepreneur?
 9 signs you might be an entrepreneur
 Definition of entrepreneur
 5 factors determine the success as a start up

10. Why is berlin a hotspot ?
 The interesting facts of Berlin
 The capital city
 Economic geography – east vs. west

11. What tools do entrepreneur
use ?
 The brain
 Business plan

12. German economy
 The German economy and politics in a nutshell
 Some interesting facts
 The economical system
 Start-up hotspot berlin
 Social market economy

13. The economical system
 Largest national economy in europe ,5th in the world
 Developed infrastructure
 Large capital stock
 Low level corruption
 High level of innovation

14. Facts

15. Social market economy
 Social and economic system
 Combine free market capitalism
 Supports private enterprise
 Alongside social policies which establish both fair
competition