Author Archives: Sabrina

Visualize it! ISP MBA guest lecture

Today I’m giving a guest lecture at the ISP MBA of the university of St. Gallen: I’m really excited to meet the international excecutive students, and discuss with them the topic of Global Management Communication. The presentation “Visualize it! Improving global management communication across cultures with visual mapping” is available online. — After the lecture:Continue reading “Visualize it! ISP MBA guest lecture”

University of St. Gallen top in rankings

The University of St. Gallen is getting top marks, according to the Financial Times and the Handelsblatt Ranking, the reference journal for the German speaking business world. The Financial Times ranks St. Gallen master in Managment as number one worldwide, for the second year in a raw. The CEMS master, of which St. Gallen isContinue reading “University of St. Gallen top in rankings”

Visual Literacy for Management

The presentation of the course Visual Literacy for Management, which I teach at the University of St. Gallen, is now online in a completely new format: a prezi presentation with a temple metaphor. It is also potrayed as ‘Visualization of the month’ on http://www.knowledge-communication.org Note: you need a good internet connection to be able toContinue reading “Visual Literacy for Management”

Supercomputer in Lugano

The CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) moved the biggest Swiss supercomputer to Lugano. The new building is right in front of the stadium. Recently the center had an open day in which the general population could tour the new center and learn about the uses of supercomputers for research. The event has been very instructional,Continue reading “Supercomputer in Lugano”

Testing your skills in color vision – gender differences

You might have had the impression that women can see and name more colors than men. You are actually right. Ten percent of men have some kind of color deficienc: mostly, they cannot distinguish red from green. Color blindness is easy to test: can you see the numbers below? If not, you have some degreeContinue reading “Testing your skills in color vision – gender differences”

Universidad del Pacifico – Visualization for Organizational Communication course

Thank you to the Universidad del Pacifico, Lima – Peru: I had a great time teaching the executive course “Visualization for Organizational Communication”. Here’s the great team, Sunday at 7pm after 16 hours of teaching! And, as promised, here are the results of the strategy communication game we have done in class: The results confirmContinue reading “Universidad del Pacifico – Visualization for Organizational Communication course”

Presentation – Universidad del Pacifico, Lima

At the International Week of the Universidad del Pacifico, in Lima (Peru), I’m giving a presentation on “Communicating across Cultures with Interactive and Conceptual Visualization: Emerging Trends in Managerial Communication”, on August 23rd at 07:30- 09:30 . Here you can find the presentation. Some more links from the presentation: Interactive map of visual tools: http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/maps/mapping_tools_radar/radar.htmlContinue reading “Presentation – Universidad del Pacifico, Lima”

Intercultural Communication Case Studies

We just published a collection of case studies on the topic of intercultural communication: miccases.wordpress.com The website collects some of the case studies developed by the students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Intercultural Communication (MIC), at the Università della Svizzera italiana – Lugano, Switzerland. You can find cases in English, French, Italian andContinue reading “Intercultural Communication Case Studies”