One and a half intensive days full of brainstorming, visioning and planning - Daxam’s 2012 kick-off delivers both individual and organisational progress as well as a lot of laughs and fun teambuilding activities. Our vision, mission and values have been further developed and sharpened, and we enter 2012 with a lot of positive energy, a commitment to make a larger impact, and an optimism of that this year will be more sustainable than the last one!

In late November, EAMSA hosted its 28^th annual conference at the University of Gothenburg. Christian Schmidt, from the Daxam team, submitted and presented his research paper on Western talent management approaches and adaptations to China. The research was accepted to the competitive session and was one of the runner-ups for the “Palgrave Macmillan-EAMSA Best Paper Award”. His presentation was very much appreciated by the 40 EAMSA delegates attending the session. In addition, Kaarina Dubee was one of three presenters in a special session devoted to “Sustainability’s role in the changing competitive business landscape”. She addressed the evolution of sustainability value creation in action and touched upon challenges and opportunities for SMEs to develop their business offer aligned to emerging realities of the global business environment.

Daxam was recently engaged by the United Nations Development Programme in Lithuania to deliver two days of training on the topics of responsible supply chain management and responsible reorganisation. Mike Debelak from the team travelled to Vilnius and Kaunas in November to deliver the training to over 70 participants from company, government, union and other organisations. The training was well received by all participants, and considered to play an ongoing role in the development of CSR in Lithuania.