Diaspora Experts Knowledge Sharing Programme: Talent and Performance Management with Vernisa Rejhan

Dear representatives of ABSL member companies and the global business services sector,

We are pleased to inform you that as part of the collaboration between ABSL and the USAID project “Diaspora Invest,” a workshop will be held on August 21, 2024, as part of the Diaspora Experts Knowledge Sharing program.

The full-day workshop will be led by Ms. Vernisa Rejhan on the topic of Talent and Performance Management.

Date: August 21, 2024
Time: 09:00 – 16:00
Location: HTEC Sarajevo, Maglajska 1

You can confirm your participation by August 19, 2024 by using the following link

More about the mentor and program:

Vernisa Rejhan has over 13 years of experience in coaching, training, and project management. She is currently the Talent and Performance Manager at Softhouse Consulting, a leading provider of software development and IT consulting services. Vernisa is a certified Scrum Master and a passionate advocate of lean and agile principles and practices, which she applies to deliver value to clients and teams across various domains and industries.

Her mission is to enable and empower people and organizations to achieve their goals and maximize their potential by providing them with the tools, techniques, and support needed to improve their processes, performance, and culture. She has successfully led and supported strategic and tactical initiatives and projects in areas such as operations, administration, and IT, resulting in increased efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction. Vernisa is actively involved in various social and professional networks and forums, such as the Foundation for the Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Leaders Tribe, where she shares her knowledge and insights with other leaders and learners.

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The first ABSL BiH Business Service Leaders Talk

As a significant result in 2020 and a visible contribution to the development of the business services industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABSL BiH has prepared and published the first Annual Country Report for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Potential investors, members of ABSL in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other ABSL locations (Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Romania and Latvia), international organizations and employers were introduced to numerous opportunities found within the local market in the form of companies, services, resources and competencies.

Our country’s potential in terms of talent, expertise and market advantages was highlighted throughout the report, with special focus on successful BiH companies within the industry.

The ABSL BiH team is certain that this report will positively affect the perception of the BiH market as an attractive business destination and make a key contribution to the development of this industry in Southeast Europe.

In order to promote the Report, to present ABSL BiH activities for 2021 and to encourage synergy between current and future ABSL members and foreign stakeholders, ABSL BiH is organizing the ABSL BiH Business Service Leaders Talk – first in a series of online panel discussions with industry experts!

The panel will encourage further discussions thematically related to current trends in the business services industry, and the importance of the location of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans.

Speakers joining us for the day are:

Tomislav Glavaš (CEO of M + Connect)

Jacek Levernes (Honorary President of ABSL Poland)

Dino Ibrahimović (Managing Director of MENA Infobip)

The online panel discussion will be held on 11th March 2021, from 9:00 to 10:15 a.m., via Microsoft Teams.
You are kindly invited to participate for free by following this link!

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The First ABSL Webinar

In the midst of the COVID-19 situation that has impacted the whole world, we have managed to adapt and to transform the previously planned lecture into a digital format. Together with our colleagues from PwC, on March 31th 2020, we organized the very first ABSL Webinar!

“VAT treatment of professional services in accordance with the Law on VAT in BiH” was the theme of this webinar and it was elaborated by Alisa Šehović, tax consultant working for PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax and Advisory.

Our first digital session, hosted on the Google Hangouts platform, covered several useful and interesting topics, especially relevant for companies working within or cooperating with the BFSI sector. Ms. Šehović sucessfully managed to start an important conversation and offered valuable insights to representatives of 25 companies.

Within the hour long webinar, our lecturer talked about the general and special rules of taxation of services within the VAT system in BiH, taxation of services under the EU Directives, accounting and tax treatment in case of services received from abroad and answered all additional questions posed by the attendees. All of the attendees received the webinar recording and were also encouraged to send any questions they might come accross after reviewing the recording.

In conclusion, the first ABSL Webinar was rated as extremely useful and relevant and we managed to provoke active interest of the present profesionals, who expressed their interest in future similar events and suggested possible future conversation topics, relevant to the sectors within which they operate.

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The first constituent meeting of the ABSL BiH Strategic Board was held in Sarajevo

The Association of Business Service Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABSL) is the leading organization within the business services sector. It was established primarily to represent the business interests of all domestic companies that offer their services to foreign markets, to assist in expanding the scope of business of these companies within the domestic and foreign markets, to allocate new clients and to improve the business environment and legal framework within this industry.

After many years of successful activity across the territories of Poland, Romania, Latvia, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, the Association formally commenced operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2019.

In these locations across Europe, ABSL represents over 500 leading business service centers with over 700.000 employees, while ABSL BiH currently has 30 members with over 2.500 employees.

The first constituent meeting of the Strategic Board was held on February 27, 2020 at the premises of Sys Company d.o.o. The meeting was attended by the representatives of Deloitte, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, DDC MLS, M + Group, Infobip, DVC Solutions, Alfa Energy, Sys Company, Storsen and the members of the ABSL Management Board.

The Strategic Board will do its best to represent the interests and unify the requirements of ABSL and its members, in order for them to be presented to key partners in governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as to potential association members.

During the first held session, a plan of work for 2020 was presented alongside a recommendation to create a strategy for the period 2020-2025., in accordance with ABSL principles. First ABSL Club activities have also been announced – a BFSI Club Workshop in cooperation with PwC BiH is planned for March, while a HR Club Workshop is planned for April.

ABSL invites all companies that offer business services to foreign markets (IT, design, architectural and accounting services, support and contact centers, etc.) to seize the opportunity and secure their free membership for 2020, to participate and contribute to the creation of the business services industry, and to become an important part of this community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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