Diana CozmiucDiana Cozmiuc has blended her academic career with corporate career. She was an intern at Alcatel, and then university assistant. Her next jobs were as Financial Analyst at Siemens VDO Automotive and then at Continental Automotive. Main achievements ave been conducting the planning and analysis process fully for a 250 million Euros per annum, and then six hundred million Euros per annum. Whereas daily activities have involved analyzing variances to planning, a more challenging task has been setting the planning targets for marketing and purchasing activities on a worldwide basis. Other challenging tasks include the Budget Booklet, a 200 pages report from the Siemens VDO board to the business CEO covering strategic analyses, market analyses, geographical analyses, variance analyses. Diana Cozmiuc has been involved in reporting for 4 billion euros per annum joint venture since early years. Diana Cozmiuc has been involved in all levels of an international business bottom up managing responsibility centers and their interface with upper management, an international business line and its interface with the Siemens Board, or top bottom, setting targets and questioning variance analyses and scorecard reports. She has also worked closely with all functional areas and their processes, in setting targets, analyzing variances, analyzing key performance indicators, or conducting performance improvement programs. She has also interfaced closely with quotations, business controlling and investment requests in projects or operations. She returned to the university for her PHD, and worked as university assistant for 3 years of the program. One of the articles in the PhD thesis has received thirty-three citations and is rated pioneer. Other four chapters in books have been republished by the Information Resources Management Association in USA. She was awarded part of the best management authors in Romania 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 by the Management Academy SAMRO. She has taken part in an effort research by SAMRO to help organizations manage the Covid effort published in a book; contribution: digitalization and investing in cloud and automation enterprise architecture. She has worked as ad-hoc reviewer for Emerald Competitiveness Review journal; ad-hoc reviewer for two Information Resources Management Association in USA journals, International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR) and International Journal of Digital Strategy, Governance, and Business Transformation (one is indexed Web of Science). She is member of the Harvard Business Review Board. Diana Cozmiuc is currently a Researcher at the Ioan Slavici University. Read More Read Less