switzerland

Switzerland

Part 1Some services and communities in Switzerland.

Part 2People living in Switzerland.

Part 1

Some services and communities in Switzerland

Food services and communities

Rooftop greenhouse in Basel with fresh fish and healthy vegetables

http://urbanfarmers.com/projects/basel/

Sourceshttp://www.aldi-suisse.ch/http://www.bachsermaert.ch/http://www.barkat.ch/http://www.coop.ch/http://www.migipedia.ch/http://www.migros.ch/

Transportation services and communities

Sourceshttps://bringbee.chhttp://www.mitfahrgelegenheit.ch/

http://www.mobility.chhttp://parkit.chhttp://www.parku.chhttps://sharoo.comhttp://www.zvv.ch

Price comparison services

Sourcehttp://www.toppreise.ch/http://www.comparis.ch/

Healthcare services and communities

Sourceshttp://www.galenica.com/http://www.lonza.com/http://www.novartis.com/http://www.roche.com/

When I talk about telemedicine, I always cite the example of Medgate, out of Basel.

Medgate is very successful. The service currently handles around 4,000 or 5,000 patients a day: people call in either by phone or the Internet.

SourcesS. Yunkap Kwankam, CEO, Global eHealth Consultants.https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/373475/global_investor_healthcare_en.pdfhttp://www2.medgate.ch/

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Innovation services and communities

Sourceshttps://www.atizo.com/http://www.forumenergie.ch/https://www.mila.com/http://swissvolunteer.ch/http://zurich.impacthub.net/https://twitter.com/OpenDataZurich/

Funding services and communities

Sourceshttps://www.cashare.ch/http://c-crowd.com/http://impact.sosense.org/https://www.investiere.ch/

Sourceshttp://www.bankcoop.ch/https://www.credit-suisse.com/http://www.kantonalbank.ch/http://www.migrosbank.chhttp://www.raiffeisen.ch/http://www.ubs.com

Trading services and communities

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GlencoreXstrata is the world leader in copper, coal, and zinc trading.

http://www.news.admin.ch/NSBSubscriber/message/attachments/30136.pdf, page 12.

In Switzerland, 70% - 80% of the financing for commodity trading is provided by the banks.

In Switzerland, it is mainly French banks, such as BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole, the two large Swiss banks [UBS and Credit Suisse], and various cantonal banks that are involved in commodity trade financing.

http://www.news.admin.ch/NSBSubscriber/message/attachments/30136.pdf

Insurance services and communities

Sourceshttp://cgd.swissre.com/https://openminds.swissre.com/http://www.swissre.com/

Part 2

People living in Switzerland

Who live in Switzerland?

http://www.swissworld.org/en/people/the_swiss_population/foreigners/

More than 20% of the people living in Switzerland are not Swiss citizens.

In Europe, only Luxembourg and Liechtenstein have higher proportions.

People from more than 170 nations live in Zürich.

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/schweiz/zuerich_kann_durchaus_noch_wachsen_1.10659070.html

About half of players on the Swiss national football team have their origin from other countries than Switzerland.

Sourceshttps://www.bfm.admin.ch//content/dam/data/bfm/broschuere-bfm-d.pdfhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_Fussballnationalmannschaft

10% of non-Swiss citizens, who live in Switzerland, come from Asia or Africa.

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Swiss people who live

outside Switzerland

More than 700,000 Swiss people, i.e. about 10% of the population, live in countries outside Switzerland.

Sourceshttp://aso.ch/en/information/statisticshttp://www.swissemigration.ch/eda/en/home/serv/swiabr/swissa.html

Where do the 700,000 Swiss people, who live outside Switzerland, live?

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Where do the 700,000 Swiss people, who live outside Switzerland, live?

Place Percentage

France 26%

Germany 11%

USA 11%

Italy 7%

Canada 5.5%

UK 4%

Australia 3.5%

Spain 3%

Brazil 2%

Austria 2%

Israel 2%

New Zealand 1%

Thailand 1%

Belgium 1%

China 0.5%

Denmark 0.5%

http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/02/blank/key/schweizer_im_ausland.html

Medium power distance

Power distance Individualism Masculinity

Uncertainty avoidance

Swiss culture

http://geert-hofstede.com/switzerland.html

http://history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch/swiss-revolution-helvetic-republic-1798.html

The decision of Napoleon to withdraw the French troops from Switzerland in July 1802 gave the signal to the partisans of federalism: On August 1st, 1802 the citizens of Schwyz, Nidwalden, Obwalden met for the "Landsgemeinde".

Napoleon had understood that centralistic state had no chance to be accepted in Switzerland. Therefore the constitution elaborated by his mediation gave most of the competencies to the 19 cantons of the new Swiss federation.

Im Gegensatz zu fast allen Ländern der Welt entstand die Schweiz in den Dörfern und Tälern und Städten: von unten nach oben.

Kein Monarch arrondierte sein Gebiet, kein Zentralstaat trieb die Untertanen zusammen.

Die Seele der Schweiz. Die Weltwoche, Nummer 2, 2008.

http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/vab_1_3_3_1.html

Formal population involvement in voting is strong

Voting dates

http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/03/blank/key/stimmbeteiligung.html

Real participation in voting is weak

Un certain nombre de domaines sont ainsi gérés uniquement au niveau cantonal. On y trouve par exemple l’éducation (sauf les universités fédérales), la gestion des hôpitaux (sauf les hôpitaux communaux

et privés), la construction et l’entretien de la majorité des routes

(sauf les autoroutes et routes nationales) et la police (contrairement à l’armée), d’autres charges sociales ou encore le contrôle de la fiscalité.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suisse

High individualism

Power distance Individualism Masculinity

Uncertainty avoidance

Swiss culture

http://geert-hofstede.com/switzerland.html

Switzerland isoutside the EU

Schein, Edgar: Organizational Culture and Leadership.Experiences working for the Ciba-Geigy company.

No matter what I did, I could not seem to get information flowing, especially laterally across divisional, functional, or geographical boundaries.

I eventually discoved that there was a strong shared assumption that each manager’s job was his or her private ”turf”, not to be infringed on.

Schein, Edgar: Organizational Culture and Leadership.Experiences working for the Ciba-Geigy company.

Most problematic factor for doing business in Switzerland: Inadequately educated workforce

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2013-14.pdf

Vor etwa 100 Millionen Jahren, als das Gebiet der Schweiz noch unter Wasser lag und zu so genannten Tetysmeer gehörte, begannen sich durch Sedimentablagerungen die Alpen zu bilden. Als Folge dieser dramatischen geologischen Veränderungen entstanden auch der Jura und das Mittelland.

Alpen, Jura und Mittelland bilden die drei beherrschenden geologischen, landschaftlichen und nicht zuletzt auch kulturgeschichtlich bedeutsamen Teile der heutigen Schweiz.

Chronik der Schweiz, s. 9.

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Der Schweizer mag es nicht, wenn sein Nachbar zu nahe kommt.

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/web-tv/standpunkte/sendungen_1.2166738.html?video=1.12942647, minute 17.

High masculinity

Power distance Individualism Masculinity

Uncertainty avoidance

Swiss culture

http://geert-hofstede.com/switzerland.html

Sourceshttp://demokratie.geschichte-schweiz.ch/chronologie-frauenstimmrecht-schweiz.htmlhttp://www.swissworld.org/en/people/women/the_right_to_vote/http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm

1971Women are allowed to vote at Swiss elections.

1990Women are allowed to vote in AppenzellInnerrhoden, Switzerland.

Women earn much less than men for similar work

http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2013/

In Switzerland, mothers invest twice as many hours per week in household work as fathers do

http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsnachrichten/muetter-arbeiten-doppelt-so-viel-wie-vaeter-1.18180452

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uncertainty avoidance

Power distance Individualism Masculinity

Uncertainty avoidance

Swiss culture

http://geert-hofstede.com/switzerland.html

What does Switzerland stand for?

http://emagazine.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle&aoid=249692&refresh=true&lang=EN

German culture is extremely protective ofprivacy and private information.

http://www.managementexchange.com/story/roche-oversight-insight

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Switzerland ranks # 20 on open data index

The swiss agriculture is heavily protected.

The surrounding farms in Austria, Bavaria or northern Italy have the same climatic and geographic conditions, but are bigger and more productive with half the prices.

http://cdh.epfl.ch/files/content/sites/cdh/files/shared/docs_ch/B.%20Kappeler%20Economy%20I.pdf

http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/vab_1_3_3_1.html

Voting dates are planned until the year 2033

At Ciba-Geigy, everything was planned to the level of the smallest detail.

I had to provide a plan that showed virtually minute by minute what would happen during the 2 days, and the company was clearly willing to commit all the time it might take to design as nearly perfect a meeting as possible.

Schein, Edgar H.: Organizational Culture and Leadership, p. 367-368.

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Durch Stress entstehen in der Schweiz jährlich Kosten von CHF 4,2 Milliarden.

SourcesFehlt die Anerkennung, kann Arbeit krank machen. 20 Minuten, September 10th, 2008.http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/wirtschaft/aktuell/wenn_der_stress_am_arbeitsplatz_zu_gross_wird_1.1695235.html

German-speaking SwitzerlandCould be characterized as a well-oiled machine.

French-speaking SwitzerlandCould be characterized by hierarchy and an impersonal bureaucracy.

Empirical assessment of Geert Hofstede.http://www.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/2787/$FILE/dis2787.pdf , p. 140.