We arrived in Mumbai early in the morning after more than 24 hours of travelling. With only time for a quick shower and no sleep, we had our first encounter with the traffic in Mumbai and the concept of “Indian Time” as we rushed off to our company visit at the Mumbai Grundfos office. The…
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Study Trip to India – first company visits are now scheduled
BIA is proud to present you with the first four companies which have invited us to their Mumbai offices in March 2012. The companies are: Grundfos, Suzlon, Dansk Industri (Conferedation of Danish Industry), and MAIA Intelligence. See below for more information on each company. The program for the study trip will be posted here as…
Study Trip Destination 2012: India
November 14: The destination for the BIA Study Trip 2012 has been chosen and the association has now started planning the trip to India. Our main focus will be on Mumbai since many international companies specializing in consultancy & business intelligence have their Indian headquarters in the big city (21 million people). Mumbai is the commercial…
BIA study Trip meeting
20. October: The first Business Intelligence class from ASB went last spring on a study trip where they visited several different companies in Moscow, Russia and the new class have the intention of doing the same. That is going on a study trip but not necessarily to Moscow, as we have different ideas and ambitions…
Last Day in Moscow
We left Moscow with many memories and good experiences and could all agree that it had been a fantastic trip to a city we would not have visited on our own. BI – year 2010/2011 thanks our sponsors for making this trip possible.
Day 7 – Moscow Trip
We spent our final day doing some more sightseeing where we among other things went to the National Museum, walked around the small streets of the city and saw many more of the dome churches that are in the city. We also did some shopping and ended the day by going to a very nice…
Day 6 – Moscow Trip
Sunday was Labor Day and we went to see the demonstrations on the main streets, which were all closed due to the arrangement. The streets were filled with red flags and posters and people held speeches, quite like we do back home. At 1 PM we had arranged to meet with the student from Logistic…
Day 5 – Moscow Trip
Saturday was soccer day. We all went with the subway to the stadium, together with hundreds and hundreds of other fans. The two teams, CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow, are archrivals and therefore the game was controlled by lots of police, security guards and dogs. It was very fascinating watching the fans in the metro…
Day 4 – Moscow Trip
Our last company visit was at a Danfoss factory in one of the big industrial areas in Moscow. At Danfoss the General Manager gave us an introduction to quality control and a guided tour around the factory. We had hired a small bus to take us to the factory and when we drove back into…
Day 3 – Moscow Trip
The next day we visited Microsoft, where Chief of Staff (and also Lau Geckler’s wife) Aliona Geckler, gave us a general introduction to how business planning works in Microsoft, Russia. It was sometimes quite the challenge since Russia spans over nine different time zones, and the trip from Moscow to Vladivostok takes longer than from…