quarta-feira, maio 07, 2003
Curiosidade: os serviços financeiros e de contabilidade de todo o Grupo Rhodia são geridos e centralizados pela Accenture. A história da escolha da localização desses serviços:
Southern Europe—Lisbon, for example, or Barcelona—might have filled the bill, but “we were not convinced by these places," Van Beveren recalls. Central Europe, by contrast, was attractive to Rhodia; the company had operations in Poland and an important plant in Slovakia. Consequently, the search was narrowed down to three potential sites: Prague, Kraków and Budapest. Based on a number of criteria, including both cost and quality of resources, Prague quickly emerged as the most attractive of the three.
First, labor costs—some 70 percent of the total cost of any shared service center—were “significantly lower" in the Czech Republic than in Poland, explains Van Beveren. Prague also offered one of the best-educated populations in Europe, if not the world: 88 percent of the Czech labor force, between the ages of 24 and 64, have completed secondary school. Add to this excellent transportation and communications facilities, as well as some of the best values in commercial real estate in Europe, and the Czech capital came out well ahead of its competitors. The fact that Prague is about as close by plane to Paris as, say, Nice is seemed to settle the matter.
Jorge Moniz às 16:55 |
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