Key note presentation for conference November 10th in Malta organised by the Malta Chambre of Commerce

1. Ten skill requirements for a
globalised environment
Everard van Kemenade, Ph.D.
Fontys International Projects
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2. Who is here?
The quality manager The entrepeneur
The customer The function, sexe,
company, country

3. Content
I The past
- Learning skills
II Now: Globalisation
- What is it?
- Power shift
- Complexity
III Now: Consumerism
- Consumer trends
- Reach the individual
IV Future: How to act upon these conclusions
- New quality management paradigm
- Skills and attitudes for a globalised world

4. The past: survey 1999
Perhaps the key question is less what teaching
materials the institution for higher education
should provide its students, and more how can
the institution teach its students a critical, self-
adapting and permanent-learning attitude.
Van Kemenade et al (1999)

5. II Now: Globalisation
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The growing economic interdependence of
countries through increasing volume and variety
of cross-border transactions in goods and
services, free international capital flows and
more rapid and widespread diffusion of
technology.
IMF

6. Globalisation of what ?
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Companies
• Politics
• Culture

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Some figures

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