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Leading Change In Turbulent Times
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Fundamental change is painful. The intellectual and logistical challenges may be daunting, but the emotional confusion and chaos during such change can virtually paralyze and organization. In...
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Creating People Advantage in Times of Crisis: How to Address HR Challenges in the Recession
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The most popular planned action in the current crisis - cutting back on recruiting - clearly makes sense from a cost-cutting perspective. But companies should cut back with caution. For most, it...
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Talent Management: Nurturing The Egg
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Three trends are looming over companies as they define their HR strategy. These trends will force them to move away from a strategy based on restructuring to one based on growth and development....
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Cloud Computing in Large Enterprises
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Business executives and chief information officers alike are curious about cloud computing. Many senior executives were caught off-guard in the 1990s by the rapid development of the Web, and they...
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Rapid Results In Retail
October 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Retailers' margins are always under pressure from rising costs. Now, with private-equity players stepping up their investments in the sector and shareholders continuing to expect strong quarterly...
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Gaining A Seat At The Innovation Table
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Innovation is at or near the top of most corporate agendas. Indeed, fully two-thirds of the almost 2,500 senior executives who responded to The Boston Consulting Group's latest annual global...
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Health Care Regulation Across Europe: From Funding Crisis To Productivity Imperative
September 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Scarcely a month passes without some striking regulatory change in one European health-care system or another. New measures supplement, and often contradict, existing measures; reforms reform...
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Winning The Heart's And Minds Of China's Consumers
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Thanks to a rapidly rising middle class, 'China is one of the largest and fastest-growing domestic markets for multinational consumer companies. As a result, global businesses such as Adidas,...
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A Key To Smart Sourcing: Hedging Against Risk
September 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Commodity risk can jeopardize even the best-laid business strategy. Unexpected price swings or supply shortages can hinder production, disrupt earnings, and derail growth plans. But by making a...
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Getting To Win-Win: How Toyota Creates And Sustains Best-Practice Supplier Relationships
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Much has been written about "The Toyota Way" Why, then, add to that extensive body of publications? The answer is that many automotive executives that the authors talked with have raised questions...
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Shifting Battlegrounds In The Passenger Car Market
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The competitive landscape is shifting in the passenger car industry - and that shift is rewriting the established rules of the game and reshaping the prospects of players around the globe. Back in...
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Measuring Innovation 2007: A BCG Senior Management Survey
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Companies measure their innovation efforts as carefully as they measure other aspects of their business; some companies barely attempt to measure innovation at all. The potential cost of this...
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Innovation 2007: A BCG Senior Management Survey
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Innovation is a key differentiator - perhaps the key differentiator - in the marketplace, separating winning companies from the also-rans. It takes a wide array of forms, from new-service and...
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Hidden Talent
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Transition is a constant for corporation & Events such as mergers, downsizings, leadership changes, and retirement create the risk that key knowledge will leave the organization. Even without...
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Sourcing From China: Lessons From The Leaders
July 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As companies continue to stretch their supply chains around the globe, some are becoming adept at reaping the rewards of sourcing from rapidly economies (RDE5), such as China, India, and many...
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The Future Of HR In Europe: Key Challenges Through 2015
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Companies in Europe will face five particularly critical HR challenges in the near future: managing talent, managing demographics, becoming a learning organization, managing work-life balance, and...
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Maximizing Value In Upstream Oil And Gas
June 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The upstream oil and gas industry is enjoying a bull market. Since 2002, upstream companies have doubled and sometimes even tripled their net profits. But that ride could come to an abrupt halt...
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Creating A Distribution Advantage In India
March 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
India is on track to become one of the world's largest markets for consumer goods. Thanks to rapidly rising household incomes, its middle class is beginning to rival that of China. Even better,...
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A Road Map For Change
June 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It was midway through an ambitious, bet-the-company initiative - the kind that keeps executives tip at night. The CEO listened to yet another project update with a vague sense of unease, knowing...
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The Relentless Advance Of Private Label: Strategies To Compete
April 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Consumer goods companies face a challenge that is getting bigger every year. In grocery markets around the world, private-label products continue to gain share of shelf space and consumption. In...
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Retailing In China: Bring Your "A" Game
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The economic boom in China's major cities - where most global companies are concentrated - has been going strong for 25 years. Now that wealth is spreading to second- and third-tier cities. By...
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The Unretired
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Many companies now recognize that they need to anticipate and plan for the retirement of baby boomers. However, there is another problem: the unretired or workers who will not retire for several...
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Creating Lasting Advantage In Claims Management
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Several years ago, spurred by the lackluster performance of stock markets around the globe, many insurance companies launched sweeping cost-reduction programs to offset lower returns on their...
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Beyond The Boom: The Outlook For Global Steel
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Steel is booming. Around the globe, mills are busy day and night turning out some 3 million tons of steel daily at sustained utilization rates rarely seen before. Steel companies in the so-called...
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Capturing The Personal Side Of Small-Business Banking
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Capturing the personal-banking business of small-business owners has long been a Holy Grail for financial institutions - and a highly elusive one at that. Part of the problem is that a lot of...
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Why Quality Programs Fail-And What To Do About It
November 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
Quality typically lies not at the technical level but far deeper; at the level of strategy and organization. In the author's experience, most companies need to tackle three major challenges:...
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What Women Want (In Financial Services)
February 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Financial services providers are always looking for ways to sharpen their segmentation - to provide the right offer to the right customer at the right time. Institutions that manage to do this...
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Constructing Strategic Spaces
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Strategic spaces are the fruits of free imagination and disciplined construction. What are they made from and how are they to be used? At the most basic level, there is physical space, in which...
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Sourcing In Central And Eastern Europe: An Overlooked Opportunity
March 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Consumer companies that source and manufacture products in China to sell in Western Europe might do better to explore opportunities closer to the markets they want to serve. Research conducted...
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Capturing the Value of Cloud Computing - How Enterprises can Chart their Course to the Next Level
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Some of the biggest and most powerful IT players - Microsoft, Google, IBM, SAP, and Wipro technologies are jostling for positions in the emerging cloud-computing market. Countless start-ups, many...
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India: The Next Frontier For Consumer Companies
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
India is fast emerging as one of the most important topics for CEOs of leading consumer companies. Witness the recent discussions in the press comparing India with China in opportunity potential;...
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The Fallacy Of The Player-Coach Model
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Professional Sports have largely abandoned the notion that great players can simultaneously be great coaches, but businesses cannot seem to shake the idea. If you peel back the first few layers of...
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Winners And Losers In Packaged Foods And Beverages
March 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Powerful forces are sweeping the consumer industry and they are shaking up the packaged food-and-beverage sector. Worldwide macroeconomic conditions - coupled with new, wide-ranging trends in...
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New Metrics For Market Share: Lessons From The Airlines
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Taiichi Ohno, originator of the Toyota Production System. is famous for having advised people to ask five whys before deciding on a how. Only by questioning your assumptions over and over again,...
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Winning The Localization Game
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Automotive markets in China and India are growing at breakneck speed. From 2001 through 2007, markets for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles achieved compound annual growth rates (CAGR5)...
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Does Your Strategy Need Stretching?
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Too often, executives equate "Strategy" with the rigid, template-driven, top-down planning approaches that prevail in most corporations. Executives commonly describe these processes as ossified...
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Tripling The Innovation Success Rate-With Less Effort
February 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
First the authors conducted eight MindDiscovery workshops in North America, Asia, and Europe to better understand the needs of end customers in each region MindDiscovery, an approach to market...
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Creating Competitive Advantage: The European Insurance Landscape
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the financial crisis of 2001 and 2002, the European insurance industry has recovered significantly. While the recovery was supported by favorable stock markets, it was also strongly driven...
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Competitive Strategy And The Future Of Medical Management
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
The future of health care in the United States will be determined largely by whether and how insurers - hereafter referred to as health plans - successfully deploy medical-management Strategies....
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Trading Up, Updated
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Trading up and treasure hunting are not limited to the United States. They are just as relevant and powerful in Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, and Japan. The socio-demographic forces...
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The Power Of Cost Transparency
January 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The economic downturn has companies scrambling to cut costs and generate cash - especially in the face of tight capital markets and the imploding financial sector. Some forward-looking companies...
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Leading Out Of A Downturn
February 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The gravity of the current economic downturn is pressuring CEOs everywhere to act decisively and immediately. Just how much can - or should - be accomplished in three or even six months is...
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Living With New Realities
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Banks originated loans but were less concerned with the underlying quality of these assets because they could quickly offload them to investors. And in the United States, mortgage brokers poured...
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The Customer Value Challenge
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
European mobile operators have historically been growth machines - their metrics, incentives, and systems finely tuned to increase their customer and revenue base. They have been bred to keep pace...
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The Innovation Imperative In Manufacturing
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
To rank the 110 countries in the International Innovation Index and compare the innovation status of the 50 U.S. states, the authors analyzed the impact on innovation performance of inputs such as...
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Sourcing Consumer Products In Asia: Managing Risk And Turning Crisis To Advantage
March 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Even before tile world's economy plunged into recession, many companies had already begun to reexamine their low-cost country (LCC) sourcing strategies Asia in light of currency fluctuations and...
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Collateral Damage: Part5 - Confronting The New Realities Of A World In Crisis
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Commentators have frequently used the word "Unprecedented" to describe the crisis. And for today's executives, the combination of financial and economic upheaval is without equal in their working...
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Driving Cultural Change: Think Globally, Innovate Locally
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Changing organizational culture is tough work. You need to transform how people work and how they work together - a particularly difficult task in large, complex, and decentralized organizations....
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Planes, Trains, And Automobiles: Crossing Paths In European Travel
March 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Europe's travel sector has been evolving for some time, but the pace has accelerated as competition has intensified among modes of travel and across national borders. Rail ways and airlines are...
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Variabilization
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Fixed costs have merit. They turn growth into scale effects and cost advantage - and ultimately into profit. The 19705 was the golden age of fixed costs, as companies rode the experience curve to...
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Upstream Oil And Gas: An Evolving Ecosystem
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The competitive terrain in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) has shifted in the last decade. Boundaries that once defined markets and separated the three major groups of competitors -...
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Collateral Damage: Part 6 - Underestimating The Crisis
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Companies in the United States and Germany are the most optimistic about the timing of the recovery, with two-thirds believing that their government actions will improve economic conditions....
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Innovation 2009: Making Hard Decision Is The Downturn
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovation remains a strategic priority for the majority of companies, but the number that considers it a top priority is falling. Sixty-four percent of survey respondents ranked it a top-three...
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New Directions In Value Management
January 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
Every CEO of a public company runs the risk of getting caught between two powerful constituencies: on one side, increasingly demanding investors, determined to maximize their returns relative to...
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Assuming Leadership: The First 100 Days
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To choose the right people, you need to do some research and then be willing to act on your intuition. Review each candidate's record with the head of human resources, look at. the data on his or...
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Measuring Innovation 2009
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Good decision making hinges on good information. That rule applies to all aspects of business, particularly innovation. Yet companies routinely do a poor job of measuring their innovation efforts...
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Winning Consumer Through The Downturn
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Anxiety about the economy has spread to every market in the world - even to countries where the key economic indicators remain fairly positive and consumers have yet to experience significantly...
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Thriving Under Adversity: Strategies For Growth In The Crisis And Beyond
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Faced with the worst recession since the 1930s, many companies are reacting as bears do to winter - by hibernating. They are shrinking production capacity, downsizing their labor force, reducing...
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The Real Contest Between America And China
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
Shopping at Wal-Mart will give you the wrong idea about where China's threat to U.S. manufacturing lies. Most made-in-China consumer goods on those shelves represent industries that left the...
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Asset Productivity: A Potent Lever For Competitive Advantage
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With economic growth stubbornly elusive, demand trends unclear, and prices under strong pressure across industrial goods markets, leading companies remain highly focused on improving operational...
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Taking Deflation Seriously
January 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
Two years after the biggest downturn in world stock markets since World War II, business executives need to take seriously the prospect of deflation. No one can predict with certainty that the...
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Collateral Damage Part 4: Preparing For A Tough Year Ahead
December 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
We all no doubt feel some relief that 2008 is finally drawing to a close - but this most difficult of years is keeping a sting in its tail: the World Bank has just warned that global GDP growth...
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Get Ready For The Private-Equity Shakeout: Will This Be The Next Shock To The Global Economy?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Private-equity firms have enjoyed extraordinary growth and returns over the last five years, but the collapse of the world's debt markets and the deepening economic crisis have brought this boom...
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Thriving In The New Normal: Corporate Banking 2008/2009
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis has led to a striking reversal of fortune for corporate banks. The years leading up to the credit crunch were good ones for the sector, as strong economies created...
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The Soft Approach: Transforming Hardware Companies
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The transition of both film and video editing from hardware to software is emblematic of moves by leading companies in the technology, industrial goods, and consumer electronic industries....
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Collateral Damage Part 3: Asia, Advantage And Action
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
As the crisis built up over the last few months, with the contagion spreading first among financial institutions and then from financial institutions into the "Real economy," some commentators...
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European Growth Champions In Insurance
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the insurance industry, growth plays a major role in driving total shareholder return (TSR) performance. Capital markets reward high-growth insurers with above-average expectation premiums....
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Collateral Damage Industry Focus: Implications Of The Financial Crisis For The Biopharmaceutical Sector
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis is no longer just a financial crisis - it has spread to the wider economy. As a result, there will be what the author has elsewhere described as significant "Collateral...
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Collateral Damage Part 2: Taking Robust Action In The Face Of The Growing Crisis
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the three weeks since the first paper, the situation has deteriorated. As of October 20, total losses for the year at banks and insurance companies have risen to $661 billion on a global level:...
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Collateral Damage Part 1: What The Crisis In The Credit Markets Means For Everyone Else
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Given the dramatic events in the capital markets, everyone is wondering what will happen next - and what the implications are for the wider economy. This paper is structured into five chapters....
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The Como's Dilemma: Can You Reach The Masses Without Mass Media?
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When a daily newspaper stops publishing o moves to an online format - as happened this year in Denver and Seattle and could happen as well in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles - a critical...
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The 2009 BCG 100 New Global Challengers
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The new global challengers are formidable competitors. In many industries, they have already reached global leadership positions: several on the list rank among the top five in their industries in...
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Collateral Damage
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyzed a total of 61 indicators for five of the world's largest economies - the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. They selected indicators covering the...
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Realizing The Multichannel Promise
February 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Companies that sell packaged-goods manufacturers, retailers, banks, and telecommunications providers - have jumped on the multi-channel bandwagon in search of cost efficiencies and higher profit....
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Winning In A Downturn: Managing Working Capital
August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Working capital is an important source of cash throughout the business cycle, but it is especially critical during a downturn. In periods of economic expansion, managers often focus so intently on...
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Back To The Basics: How Photovoltaic Suppliers Can Win In Today's Solar Market
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Because demand exceeded supply for several years running, the sales forces of many solar PV companies focused more on taking orders and allocating available supply than on improving sales and...
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Demonstrating Leadership: How The Chief Information Officer Can Help Beat The Downturn
November 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis is far worse than anyone predicted even a few weeks ago. Initial estimates put the likely losses of financial institutions globally at around $1.5 trillion, with a resulting...
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IT Performance In The European Banking Industry
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Differences in IT spending behavior between global and local players are becoming somewhat more prominent, while differences among local players themselves are becoming less prominent. In 2006...
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Sustainable Steelmaking: Meeting Today's Challenges, Forging Tomorrow's Solutions
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The current financial crisis has hit economies hard. Steelmakers around the world, facing collapsing demand and falling prices, are shifting their business priorities to focus primarily on...
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Collateral Damage: Industry Focus
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis affects the insurance industry in two ways: in the short term, largely through high pressure on the asset side of the balance sheet; and in the long term, through the damaging...
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