Europe’s Bad Boy Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is not well liked in Brussels, nor in Kyiv. Not only does he rankle Western Europe’s democratic virtues, but he also appears to side with Vladimir Putin. Yesterday he said that Ukraine has no chance of winning the war against Russia. Hungary is also the only EU country that has retained its unilateral restrictions against agricultural imports from Ukraine. Orban is not alone though. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears to have stood up Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at a meeting planned for last weekend’s G-7 meeting. The leftist government of Brazil has sided with Moscow. Africa’s Bad Country Washington has completed some key c...
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.