Competitiveness / Business and Industry

This section feature research, opinion and progress reports on how the Czech Republic compares to other EU countries economically. It includes analysis of international rankings such as the WEF and World Bank.

Spotlight issue

14th January 2022 / Competitiveness / Business and Industry


An End of 2021 Fireside Chat with Václav Muchna, Y Soft CEO

Join Y Soft’s Václav Muchna, CEO, for an end-of-year fireside chat with Duncan Hendy, Content Marketing Director, as Václav reveals some of the transformations that companies such as Y Soft have been going through in 2021’s year of the pandemic in order to lay the foundations for a stronger 2022. Topics range from enabling the hybrid workforce to why discovering the balance between happy customers and happy employees is crucial to delivering value.
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17th December 2021 / Competitiveness / Business and Industry


PwC CEO Survey: Rising raw material prices or failing supply? The bigger problem for Czech CEOs now is the lack of people

Czech companies continue to struggle with the impact of the pandemic and are going through another difficult year. CEOs do not think the situation will improve significantly any time soon, with 60% of them considering the lack of people to be the biggest problem, while rising prices and dysfunctional supply chains are also a concern. This is according to the interim results of the PwC CEO Survey.
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13th December 2021 / Competitiveness / Business and Industry


AmCham Year-End Report 2020-2021: From the first days, we tried to make the connections and propose solutions that worked.

Dear Members, When we sit down to write intros for yearend publications, we typically want to convince the reader that this was somehow an exceptional year. This year we do not need to try very hard. The coronavirus disrupted business in ways that no worst case scenario could estimate. The board, our councils and committees, Weston and I spent more time this year trying to find answers that would keep companies in business and people employed than any of us could have imagined in January 2020.
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