Tags
A cross-sector group of leaders in the early to middle stages of their career took part in Navigator, a four-day leadership programme sponsored by Shell and run in partnership with Silatech, Social Development Centre (SDC) and Qatar Business Incubation Centre (QBIC).
The programme was designed and delivered by Common Purpose, an international leadership development organisation, and brought together 26 leaders from a variety of sectors and specialisations to tackle the challenge - “How can we make a step-change in the survival rate of Qatari start-ups?”.
Hosted at Qatar Shell Research and Technology Centre (Qatar Science & Technology Park) and QBIC, the group was guided through an innovation process involving inputs from experts and organisations from across Qatar’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Together, they developed prototype ideas that would address the central challenge.
The ideas included En-Space: an idea for an agreement between employers and employees to allow time during the week for staff entrepreneurs to do work relating to their enterprise; One-Stop Shop: an idea to align the different entities supporting entrepreneurship and startups and to connect SMEs and startups to all their stakeholders in one location; The Study: an idea to produce a study of the current situation in the Qatari entrepreneurial market needs in order to identify the gaps hindering its process and missed opportunities; and Start-up Point: a mobile application designed to help entrepreneurs with their business registration process and provide alerts on regulatory dues. It will have integration with all related ministries and departments involved in a new company formation in Qatar and, at a later stage, can be used to connect an entrepreneur with financial and legal experts, when required.
Rob Sherwin, general manager and deputy country chairman, Qatar Shell, and chair of Navigator Advisory Group, said: “We are proud to contribute actively, together with our partners, to the Common Purpose Navigator programme.”
Participants of the Navigator programme were drawn from organisations such as QNB, Ooredoo, Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, Qatar Petroleum, Vodafone, Qatar University, Doha Film Institute, United Development Company, Qatar Tourism Authority, Commercial Bank, the British embassy in Qatar as well as Shell and SDC.
Eman al-Marzouqi, civil engineer at Qatar Shell and a participant, said: “The programme was very beneficial to me.”
There are no comments.
SPORT Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when you are saying farewell to those that have left a positive impression. That was the case earlier this month when Canada hosted Mexico in a friendly at BC Place stadium in Vancouver.
TECHNOLOGY Some 60mn primary-school-age children have no access to formal education
CULTURE Lekhwiya’s El Arabi scores the equaliser after Tresor is sent off; Tabata, al-Harazi score for QSL champions
ARABIA The Yemeni Minister of Tourism, Dr Mohamed Abdul Majid Qubati, yesterday expressed hope that the 48-hour ceasefire in Yemen declared by the Command of Coalition Forces on Saturday will be maintained in order to lift the siege imposed on Taz City and ease the entry of humanitarian aid to the besieged
ARABIA Some 200 teachers from schools across the country attended Qatar Museum’s (QM) first ever Teachers Council at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) yesterday.
ARABIA The Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC) of Qatar and the Indonesian Supreme Court (SCI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on judicial co-operation, it was announced yesterday.
ECONOMY Sri Lanka is keen on importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar as part of government policy to shift to clean energy, Minister of City Planning and Water Supply Rauff Hakeem has said.
