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Amrop is an executive search company active in about 54 countries, and Benoit Lison, a managing partner based in Belgium, works within the firm’s global digital practice group. His focus is on recruiting chief digital officers, chief technology officers, IT directors and chief security officers. “We work on all these roles, and more, but always the number one or number two positions in a company,” he says. As part of Amrop’s global digital practice group, Lison takes part in discussions about worldwide trends and strategies in hiring people with digital profiles for executive positions, but his main geographic focus is Europe. Naturally, he pays particularly close attention to his home country, Belgium. Because he hires only the highest-level executives, he has a bird’s eye view of how young people might one day reach those heights. One aspect of the overall business climate in Belgium is a rapid change in organisational structures. In the past, nearly every company had its entire structure within the country – including the CEO...