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InWEnt defines its strategic aims
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InWEnt defines its strategic aims
and areas of business
Two years after Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (CDG) and the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) formally merged to form InWEnt / Capacity Building International the company now developed a profile of its own as both an organisation and an actor. “It was a hard slog for all of us,” says InWEnt Chief Executive Director Dr. Ulrich Popp, “but the results speak for themselves: we have grown into a single organisation. Anything that happens from now on is normal evolution.”
Together with managing directors Dr. Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius and Bernd Schleich, Dr. Popp harnessed the findings of a portfolio analysis to direct the strategic development and expansion of departmental operations – all with intensive involvement by staff. Last year, the company defined eight areas of business into which it channels professional expertise as well as methodological and instrumental modules for international “capacity building”.
Mergers are not guaranteed to be a success. Studies put the probability of corporate mergers having a happy end at 30, at most 50 percent, depending on whether the indicators of success are more a measure of cultural integration or business management.
Catering for 55,000 programme participants a year, InWEnt ranks among the world's leading education providers for personnel and organisational development in international cooperation. The range of options crafted by the “education manager” and its corps of around 860 staff is geared to the needs of specialist and managerial personnel in business, politics, administration and civil society.
InWEnt is a joint initiative of federal and state authorities and private enterprise. Its programmes are largely financed with federal money. The principal shareholder is the Federal Government, represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). In the words of Ulrich Popp: “With our expertise as an international education managers, we form part of the BMZ’s vision of development policy “from a single mould”. But InWEnt is also a partner for business as well as for the EU and other multilateral organisations.”
Hannelore Herlan
is head of Corporate Communications at InWEnt. presse@inwent.org; http://www.inwent.org
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