Author: Geert Poels

Renata Petrevska Nechkoska is a professor, and practitioner with considerable both practical and academic experience in Western Balkans and in Europe. After a decade of middle management experience in banking, she moved to the academic world in order to approach tactical management from a multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating strategy and operations, as well as project management with her Denica managerial method. She holds a double Ph D degree in Business Economics from Ghent University (Belgium) and in Management from the University of St. Kliment Ohridski (North Macedonia). In her role as a project evaluator for the European Commission, as well as numerous voluntary engagements as Head of research at the Western Balkans Alumni Association, project manager for academia at global hackathons, initiator, and facilitator of the Academia Diffusion Experiment she conceptualises, traces, and applies strategic, tactical, and operational management practices in an unpredictable global environment in order to pave the foundations and bridges for co-evolution in this world. Gjorgji Manceski is full professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University St. Kliment Ohridski Bitola (North Macedonia). He has been Dean of the Faculty for 8 years and prior to that Chief of the Department for Mathematics, Statistics and Cybernetics, as well as board member of the company Vitaminka Prilep. He is also an advisor for the UNDP self-employment program, guiding young entrepreneurs with significant knowledge acquired from his academic and entrepreneurial experience. His publications have been a substantial contribution to the universities across Western Balkans. Geert Poels is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University (Belgium). He is a member of the University Research Council. He also teaches and directs master dissertation research at IC Institute (Beersel, Belgium). He isleading the department of Business Informatics for decades, bringing out the best of global scholar potential with abundance of geographical and professional backgrounds, research interests and directions, enabling substantial qualitative and quantitative impact for science and practice, as well as for building bridges with, such as in this work, Europe and Western Balkans.