• Ressourcez votre société en lui donnant des valeurs

Charles Gancel
(Management, August, 2002)

Voici les quatre questions que les dirigeants doivent se poser pour définir les "valeurs" de l'entreprise, celles qui vont fédérer les énergies.

• Critical Expatriate Skills: Preventing Culture Clash

Marc Raynaud and Elizabeth Jardine
(Corporate Relocation News, August, 2001)
At the humorous level cultural differences provide very funny stories. However, when shock becomes clash, levels of efficiency are hit and companies and individuals can suffer.

• How to work with the Chinese: You can run a successful joint venture in China!

Marc Raynaud & Zhang Hua
(Réussir à l'Etranger, March 1998 - Corporate Relocation News, April 2001) The results of a survey conducted by Inter Cultural Management Associates in China on how Westerners are perceived by the Chinese in some 40 joint ventures operating there.

• Managing Expat Experiences

Marc Raynaud
(Corporate Relocation News, January, 2001)
French companies are being urged to think international and open up to the world commercially. But behind the talk of dreams and adventure, all parties know that unless organizations open up to the international sphere in a professional manner, many companies will simply die out in the coming years.

• Franco-Scandinavian Negotiation

This analysis of the cultural differences in Franco-Scandinavian negotiations is the result of a series of interviews with experienced negotiators from France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

• How to marry your enemy

Charles Gancel and Elisabeth de Saint Basile
(Fusions et Acquisitions Magazine, September 1999) When you read the press today on the various alliances in the works, be they in banking, aeronautics, petroleum or other sectors, it is clear that the honeymoon is over even before the marriage begins.

• Culture Bridging© for International Performance

Irene Rodgers
(Revue Personnel ANDCP, April 1999) Many lack the attitudes, skills and behaviors needed to deal successfully with cultural differences. Culture Briding Skills© must be developed to meet these challenges.

• The New Management Challenge: Eliminating Distance

By Charles Gancel and Alison Perlo

• Inter Cultural Management - Pitfalls and Solutions

Charles Gancel & Chilina Hills
(December/January 1997-98) The ever-increasing internationalization of companies makes cultural factors a key dimension of success.

• Preventing culture clash

(Resident Abroad, December 1997) Cultural differences can make for very funny stories. But when culture shock becomes culture clash, efficiency drops, and companies as well as individuals can suffer.

ICM has produced a wealth of case studies showing just how badly clashes between cultures can affect not only the expatriate worker but also international businesses.

• Avoiding post-Merger & Acquisition blues

Ann McDonagh Bengtsson
(Acquisitions monthly, March 1997) Ann McDonagh Bengtsson helps companies manage their change process after mergers and acquisitions. According to her, pre-deal planning and thorough management should ease the stress of corporate integration.

• Confusions and Acquisitions

Marc Raynaud & Michael Teasdale
(Acquisitions Monthly, November 1991) Alliances are an excellent breeding ground for all sorts of misunderstanding and missteps, especially when both corporate and national cultures differ. Combining disparate cultures is a frustrating task. The bicultural audit addresses ways of resolving some of the crucial issues of “post-alliance culture shock”.

• Doing Business in Sweden

Ann McDonagh Bengtsson
Although it is a Germanic language, Swedish contains a surprising number of French words. Similarly, Swedes and Swedish skills have deep roots in the fabric of French society. The process of exchange between these two resourceful, creative, contrasting and proud nations is dynamic, but not without pitfalls.

• ICM’s management training in Russia

ICM developed teaching materials adapted to the specific needs of the Russian managers involved in the project to address the managers' lack of familiarity with Western management concepts and the characteristics of the Russian textile and clothing industries.