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Part 1: Some services and communities in Switzerland.Part 2: People living in Switzerland.TRANSCRIPT
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/
Instructions on how to do exercises
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
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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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Mr. Jacques Herzog
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
Relatively high
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.