Brain Workshop Institute, Research & Innovation

OS.UNIVERSITY Project Gaining Momentum Among European Universities

After the positive reviews and the expansion of its partnership network in 2016 (under programs for entrepreneurial support, led by the Ministry of Economy and the Open Society Institute, as well as through the Sofia Business School global masterclasses) 2017 proved to be an extremely successful year for the Open Source University R&D project that was kicked-off back in 2015 by members of the Brain Workshop Institute.

From academic perspective, the project was peer-reviewed by some of the leading technology institutes within the European scientific community and was featured in academic journals across Bulgaria, Latvia, and the Czech Republic. Continue reading “OS.UNIVERSITY Project Gaining Momentum Among European Universities”

Brain Workshop Institute, Business & Economy, Education & Research, Research & Innovation, Society & Development, Stakeholder Management

2017 will be the year of the Sharing Economy 2.0, the Internet of People

The Future is here – it’s just not very evenly distributed, William Gibson once wrote. Hence, you need to know where and when to look in order to connect the dots and see the broader futuristic-turned-realistic picture. There were a few such opportunities for me to look into over the past year.

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Brain Workshop Institute, Business & Economy, Stakeholder Management

Agile Stakeholder Management Training @ HP

hp_training_hristian_daskalov — A moment from the training at HP – great audience, some screen issues, and a topic to build on

Mid July 2014 I hosted an introductory training on the topic of Stakeholder Management in Agile Environment for Hewlett-Packard Young Employee Network (YEN).

The training took place in Global Delivery Sofia Center, and was part of a full-day seminar, organized by YEN and Brain Workshop Institute, on the topic of Effective Decision Making.

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Brain Workshop Institute, Business & Economy, Stakeholder Management

Bulgaria and the Eurozone Case – a Pioneer Stakeholder Analysis

eurozone_discussion_hristian_daskalov — The opening speech of the forum at the University of National and World Economics main conference hall

Bulgaria’s entry into the Eurozone has broadly been discussed as a matter of time, a matter or readiness and fulfillment of specific pre-conditions. But is it that simple, having in mind the condition the Eurozone is in, and its systemic shortcomings?

Instead of the next bias partisan discussion about it, me and my colleagues from Brain Workshop Institute, with the help of the Public Finance Department at the University of National and World Economy, to which I am grateful for their cooperation, decided to organize a pioneer state-of-the-art stakeholder analysis discussion, in order to unveil all the competitive interests, weigh the pros and cons, as seen by the different stakeholders, and to provide an independent analysis of their influence and power over the process, setting up the stage for drafting the best possible path for the country to follow.

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Brain Workshop Institute, Business & Economy

How to Stop the Brain-Drain and Start to Brain-Gain?

Great talk with Stoycho Kerev on News7 Channel — Great talk with Stoycho Kerev on News7 TV Channel

The brain-drain processes in developing economies, such as Bulgaria, have been extremely intense for quite some time.

In the same time, those countries, if implementing the right set of policies, and enabling the key stakeholders to deliver value, can achieve astonishing results. Especially in times when even countries such as Spain (“Spain’s brain drain ‘worst in Western Europe“) and Germany (“Germany’s brain drain is Europe’s gain“), are reported to face the same issues and difficulties.

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