1stWest, Mergers and Acquisitions.

R.Biasca is the new Managing Director in Argentina.

See www.1stWESTMA.com

International Business Consulting.

Biasca & Associates Inc. continues to be active in consulting projects. Some are projects related to international business (example: Coexito and Exiplast in Colombia), some are turnarond efforts (such as Viñas Argentinas), some are performance improvement projects (examples: Conarco and Fiplasto in Argentina), some are valuation assignments (such as Mabe Argentina, Yasaki, Alkasid, Colgate-Palmolive or General Motors in Argentina). The example of the World Bank project in Honduras is an example of job done for an international organization. 

Services related to Valuations/M&A are in www.vrg-ar.com; www.vrg.net ; services related to M&As are in www.1stWESTMA.com 

Valuation Research Group

Biasca & Associates is affiliated to the Valuation Research Group. See the new web sites: www.vrg-ar.com; www.vrg.net 
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Most recent valuations in Argentina were done in  mabe Argentina, Yasaki, Teksid (Alfa Group), Cargill, Pepsico, General Motors and Colgate-Palmolive. The group is growing continuously and the last annual meetings were in Washington,DC and Salvador, Brazil and San Diego,CA (October,2006,2007and 2008). One of the subjects that was discussed was the application of International Accounting Standards in several countries. See photo.

World Bank

R.Biasca finished his assignment as a Short Term Consultant for the World Bank. Project : SANAA Reengineering (Honduras).

International Class-based Teaching. 

The Koubek Center from the University of Miami programmed several of the R.Biasca's executive seminars during the 2005-2006 period. R. Biasca has continued his activity as visiting professor at Latin American universities. One example were the conferences and workshops delivered at the APEC University, Dominican Republic in 2006. Another example were the conferences at Universidad Autónoma de Nariño and the American-Colombian Chamber, at Cali, Colombia in year 2007.

Blog.  

See www.biasca.biz. The blog promotes discussions in the performance improvement / organizational change / restructuring / turnaround / lean fields.

New books for Latin America

Editorial Granica published the second edition of the three business transformation books written by R.Biasca.

Editorial Norma has published in Colombia the second edition of the book  “Un Nuevo Sistema de Gestión para lograr PYMES de Clase Mundial” (a New Management System to obtain World Class Small Business). The book has three main authors (R.Biasca is one of them) and 14 Latin American authors that have contributed with cases.

Two new books were published recently:
"Gestión de Cambio: El Modelo Biasca" (Organizational Improvement and Change: Biasca's Model) as book and e-book (see details in the publisher's website). This is 700 page textbook.
"PYMES más Competitivas" (More Competitive Small Business Enterprises) as an e-book. This is a teaching aid for instructors.

Colorado Performance Excellence Award. 

Rod Biasca was an Examiner in the 2007 Peak Award (http://www.coloradoexcellence.org/awardpgm.php) using the Baldridge Award methodology  (http://www.quality.nist.gov/index.html)

API.

The Pan American Academy of Engineering (www.apingenieria.org) had its bi-annual meeting at Atanta, Ga, USA. R. Biasca was present