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After the Storm: A New Era for Risk Management in Financial Services
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Almost two years since the financial crisis first emerged from the sub-prime mortgage business in the US, the repercussions continue to be felt. Despite unprecedented efforts by governments,...
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Corporate Citizenship: Profiting From a Sustainable Business
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Corporate citizenship is becoming increasingly important to business sustainability. It provides benefits that are both tangible - such as reducing waste and increasing energy efficiency - and...
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Management Magnified: Getting Ahead in a Recession by Making Better Decisions
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To explore how the recession has affected corporate decision-making, in May 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed companies from a range of industries around the world. Almost two-thirds...
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Management Magnified: Strategies for Revenue Growth in an Economic Downturn
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
At first glance, the global economic crisis, which began in the US financial sector, does not seem propitious for growth. Indeed, a survey on decision-making conducted by the Economist...
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Sustainability Across Borders
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The social and environmental challenges facing business today are a complex mix of the global and the local, with the two levels frequently interrelated. Climate change, for example, is a...
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The Bigger Picture: Enterprise Risk Management in Financial Services Organisations
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Despite a growing appetite for enterprise-wide risk management among the world's largest financial services providers, there is some way to go before such practices are fully rolled out and...
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Preparing for Renewed Growth: Setting Strategy for IT and the Business
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
If there is a bright side to a recession, it is that it forces companies to set frivolous projects aside and focus only on those that clearly produce value for customers and shareholders. In the...
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On the Move Creating a Culture of Business Growth
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the global economic recovery slowly gathers pace, many companies remain focused on preventing further financial losses rather than ensuring future gains. They simply ducked for cover during the...
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Managing Risk Through Financial Processes Embedding Governance, Risk And Compliance
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Most companies have tried at some point to automate and streamline financial processes. But these initiatives often focus more on reducing costs than on adding value. This may be a mistake. The...
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The Demand-Driven Supply Chain
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The report was based on desk research and in-depth interviews with executives from around the world about the challenges and opportunities they face in developing more demand-driven global supply...
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Organisational Agility: How Business Can Survive And Thrive In Turbulent Times
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The market turbulence of the past year may have foreshadowed a new phase of globalization, one in which volatility is likely to remain a constant. Even after the current recession lifts,...
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Innovation: Transforming The Way Business Creates
May 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This white paper is one of three published in 2007 as part of a research programme that arose from the Economist Intelligence Unit's March 2006 report for Cisco, entitled "Foresight 2020." This...
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Doing Good Business And The Sustainability Challenge
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Being a good corporate citizen has never been so challenging. Companies have long been under public scrutiny for practices ranging from recruitment to workplace safety, from attitudes to overseas...
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The Role Of Trust In Business Collaboration
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many businesses today extol the concept of collaboration, though few seem to define collaboration in exactly the same way. It is not without irony that the term "Collaborators" has, at times, been...
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Closing The IT-Business Gap
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A recent benchmark survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by BMC Software, polled chief executive officers (CEOs), chief information officers (CIOs) and other senior...
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Globalisation Stalled: How Global Economic Upheaval Will Hit The Business Environment
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an assessment of how the current global financial and economic crisis will affect the global business environment in the medium term, as seen through the prism of the Economist...
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IT And Sustainability: Bringing Best Practices To The Business
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In recent years climate change has become an international concern, touching on politics, an uncertain economy, business and international security. At a time of soaring energy costs and fragile...
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Surviving The Drought: Access To Finance Among Small And Mediumsized Enterprises
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
SMEs continue to grow in spite of the downturn. Despite the current gloomy environment, many SMEs continue to grow revenue - albeit at a slower pace than in 2007 or 2008. In all, 54% of executives...
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Governance, Risk And Compliance In Financial Services
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Among the hard-won lessons of the global credit crisis is the importance of a consistent - and consistently enforced - set of governance, risk and compliance policies. Consistency is no guarantee...
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The Empowered CFO: The Emerging Role Of The Finance Office In Large Corporations
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
There is a trend towards centralized, higher-profile finance functions with authority to monitor performance and liaise with business units at all levels. Finance departments are increasingly...
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Unlocking Innovation In China
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Can China become a nation of innovators? Its government hopes so. It has a plan to make China an innovative society by 2020. Increased innovation, it argues, will be vital for China to move up the...
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Asset Management In The Middle East: The Prospects For Global Financial Institutions
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Asset management in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE) is on the march. Strong liquidity resulting from high oil and gas...
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In Search Of Clarity: Unravelling The Complexities Of Executive Decision-Making
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Decision-making is at the core of all business activity, as executives set strategy and manage operations by weighing a vast array of factors to arrive at the desired balance of risk and reward....
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Managing For Sustainability
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Sustainable principles in business were once the preserve of the minority. Over the past decade, these principles have begun moving into the mainstream of business. An increasing number of firms...
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Corporate Transformation In Russia's Emerging Multinationals
September 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The phenomenon of the "Emerging Russian Multinational" is now well-established. Companies like Gazprom, Rosneft, and Lukoil feature regularly in the world media and their actions are watched...
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Latin America's Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Organisational Challenge
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) operating in Latin America face major organisational challenges stemming from globalisation and shifting corporate paradigms. In a world of change,...
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The New World Of Wealth: Seven Key Trends For Investing, Giving And Spending Among The Very Rich
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Being wealthy was supposed to be a passport to lifelong financial stability. But after 18 months of nail-biting volatility in financial markets and wealth destruction on a massive scale, the very...
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Path To Growth: The Power Of Technology In Emerging Markets
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
In the past, when IT experts spoke of "Architectures", they referred to the underlying hardware and operating systems on which applications were run. Thanks to the Internet, however, the network...
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Collaboration In China: Paths To Profit
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
China is a jumble of networks. The country has emerged as the world's second largest manufacturer through an intricate system of interconnected enterprises, mostly small and medium sized, each...
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Managing The Company's Carbon Footprint: The Emerging Role Of ICT
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Climate change is a fact, and the scientific evidence so far seems to implicate greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, as the cause of climate change. Since the industrial revolution, carbon...
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Staying The Course? Technology Decision-making In Turbulent Times
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the business world, no aspect of company operations will emerge unscathed from the toughest economic crisis in three generations. But Information Technology (IT), and the hard-won influence...
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Personalisation: Opening Doors To Growth In China
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
China may still be known as the world's factory, but many China-based companies already offer personalized goods and services as sophisticated as those found in the most advanced economies. Nearly...
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The Sustainable Future: Promoting Growth Through Sustainability
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As the gradual, but fragile, recovery from the global financial crisis continues, regulators, investors, and other stakeholders are scrutinizing firms' corporate behavior more closely than ever...
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IT Modernisation: An Exercise In Alignment
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
All organizations, regardless of size, industry or location, face the constant challenge of maximizing the contribution of their Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and applications to...
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Management Magnified: Sustainability And Corporate Growth
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the link between sustainability and corporate growth is typically indirect and intangible, skeptics often dismiss initiatives in this area as window dressing. But in the survey conducted for...
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Technology And Growth At Mid-Sized Companies
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Small to Mid-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that make intelligent use of ICT (information and communications technology) can gain a competitive edge within their industries. They are able to grow faster...
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Manning The Barricades: Who's At Risk As Deepening Economic Distress Foments Social Unrest
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Collapsing credit has plunged the world economy into the deepest recession in more than 70 years. What began as a property bubble in the US has spread rapidly as troubled banks have stopped...
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Beyond Transactions: Building Customer Partnerships In Consumer Goods
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The global recession and falling demand have hit the consumer goods sector harder than other industries. Except in China and a handful of smaller economies, retail sales fell dramatically in 2009...
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Talent Strategies For Innovation
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Talent strategies for innovation looks at how organisations approach the challenge of recruiting, nurturing and retaining talented people for innovation. The research found that the challenges of...
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Rebuilding Trust: Next Steps For Risk Management In Financial Services
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The global financial crisis had many causes but failures in risk management were clearly a contributory factor. Although there were technical shortcomings, especially related to the use of risk...
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Taking Advantage Of The Pit Stop: How To Prosper In A Recession
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ruptures in the subprime market began to appear in 2007. Highly geared banks with vault-loads of securitized debt suddenly found themselves in serious trouble. As Lehman Brothers, IKB Deutsche...
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IT Transformation: Creating A Strategy For Success
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the pace of business continues to quicken, many corporate IT departments have realized the need to revisit how they deliver services to the rest of the enterprise. In many cases, such...
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Fighting Smart: Strategy Options For Telecoms Operators
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The rising importance of the Internet and data services, combined with the gradual decline of the much older voice business, is creating threats and opportunities for telecoms network operators in...
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Up Or Out: Next Moves For The Modern Expatriate
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
If globalization is seen as inexorable then companies, to a greater or lesser extent, will need a globally mobile workforce tasked with administering their far-flung but rapidly growing...
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Designing Effective Collaboration
November 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
Just as Leo Tolstoy taught that every happy family is alike, research shows that every successful collaboration shares common traits. It is these characteristics - in culture, processes and the...
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Resilient Supply Chains In A Time Of Uncertainty
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As companies struggle to cope with the uncertain global economy in 2010, nurturing resilient supply chains is vital for survival. Companies must stay efficient to generate healthy cash flows, and...
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A Better Life? The Wants And Worries Of China's Consumers
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the legacies of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis has been a new focus on the latent power of the Chinese consumer. As demand in the United States and Europe has waned, exports have...
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Financial Services Strategies For Growth: Focus On The Customer Amid Market Turmoil
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Turmoil in the financial markets is leaving fewer institutions competing harder to win over a more wary and demanding group of retail clients. Banks and insurers that can both reassure customers...
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Doctor Innovation: Shaking Up The Health System
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Asked to picture healthcare in the twenty-first century, one might imagine scientists applying the latest breakthrough in biotechnology as a radical cure for disease. But equally, they might also...
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From Hindsight To Foresight: Improving Business Transparency In The Wake Of The Financial Crisis
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It has been a difficult two years for Asia since the US sub-prime mortgage business imploded in 2007. The global financial system nearly collapsed, bank lending dried up, export volumes fell off a...
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How Technology Sectors Grow: Benchmarking It Industry Competitiveness 2008
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Tougher times lie ahead for information technology (IT) producers as an economic slowdown brings weaker IT spending in the US, western Europe and Japan. Even amid shifting market conditions,...
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Tomorrow's Markets
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The big four emerging markets - Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) - have for some time captured investors' imagination. But the picture has become more complex in recent years. Rising...
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The Innovators: How Successful Companies Drive Business Transformation
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Innovation has become a popular term in the corporate vocabulary. Innovating, in a company setting, is to create or change something - be it a product, a route to market, or even a back-office...
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Wiring Up: Technology-Led Development In The Emerging World
October 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Governments in the emerging world are increasingly turning to technology to support their economic and social development goals, including things like strengthening competitiveness, improving...
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A Time For New Ideas: Innovation In Central Eastern Europe And Turkey
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Innovation has been a driving force of post-communist economic transition of central and eastern Europe (CEE) over the past two decades. Most of this has come not from locally owned firms but from...
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M&A Beyond Borders: Opportunities And Risks
March 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Emerging market corporations are now more confident in their pursuit of M&A. Chinese, Indian and Russian companies have been prolific in venturing outside their domestic markets to do deals,...
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Streamlining Operations: Discrete Manufacturers Pursue Improved Efficiency
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the near-term outlook for manufacturing demand growth dims in major world markets and prices of raw materials and energy continue to climb, midsize discrete manufacturers may be forgiven...
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Reading The Signals: Process Manufacturers And Customer Demand
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In decades past, building inventory was a midsize manufacturer's tried and tested way of guarding against uncertainty in the demand environment. The nature of manufacturing demand is changing,...
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Improving Customer Relationships: An Integrated Approach
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Few executives would disagree that customers are critical to their firm's success. The very premise of a business, after all, is to make a profit by selling goods and services to others. Following...
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Closing The Gap: The Link Between Project Management Excellence And Long-Term Success
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Delivering projects on time and on budget is a minimum requirement to do business for most organizations, and in many industries it is critical to long-term success. Companies that adhere to...
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Knowledge Management In Manufacturing
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
European manufacturers have long recognized that, much like their service industry peers, they find themselves competing in a knowledge economy. Companies both large and small possess vast amounts...
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Beyond Transactions: Creating Value Through Customer Partnerships In Telecommunications
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
While battling the global recession, the telecoms sector has registered some positive results. According to Gartner, a market research firm, global shipments of smartphones will increase by 27% to...
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The Means To Compete: Benchmarking It Industry Competitiveness
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Producing information technology (IT) matters to an economy. In countries where software, hardware or IT services are generated in abundance, the contribution to gross domestic product is upwards...
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Converging On The Customer: New Media For Closer Relationships
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In just two decades, the Internet has revolutionized nearly every industry across the globe. Yet none has been more irrevocably changed than telecommunications, media and information technology...
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The Future Of Enterprise Information Governance
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Information is the lifeblood of any modern-day business. Companies succeed and falter based on the reliability, availability and security of their data. A corporation's capacity to handle...
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Global Disruptors: Steering Through The Storms
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's business environment is characterized by the presence of powerful disruptive forces operating on a global scale. As the current crisis in the financial markets demonstrated, these "Storms...
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Power To The People? Managing Technology Democracy In The Workplace
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Technology changes are often accompanied by fanfare, but in recent years at least one quiet technology revolution has been developing in the workplace. Individuals are adopting for work use the...
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Ahead Of The Game: Succeeding In Emerging Markets
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Looking to emerging markets as a source of corporate growth is not a new story. But since the wave of reforms and geopolitical changes during the 1990s, emerging markets have moved more clearly...
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Risk And Regulation: A New Era For Capitalism
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Derivatives, said Warren Buffet, a renowned US investor, "Are the financial equivalent of weapons of mass destruction." He has certainly been proved right, with failing banks around the world...
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A New Ranking Of The World's Most Innovative Countries: Notes On Methodology
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovation performance is not only determined by direct inputs. It is also influenced by a wide range of policies and attributes of the business environment. The policies include both those...
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From West To East: Gauging Institutional Investor Attitudes To Asia
March 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the world emerges from the worst financial crisis for more than a generation, a shift in economic power from West to East is gathering pace. With many developed countries weighed down with debt...
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Fortifying The Enterprise: Governance, Risk And Compliance Strategies
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Both the private and public sector executives are under pressure today to increase their understanding of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) issues - and their ability to respond to them. They...
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The Intelligent Enterprise: Creating A Culture Of Speedy And Efficient Decision-Making
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In virtually every industry, success hinges not only on traditional competitive advantages such as a dominant market position, geographical penetration, or even proprietary technology. It also...
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The Big Tilt: The Rise Of The East And What It Means For Business
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The East has been rising since the 1950s, and its economic ascent is entering a new phase, following the Great Recession. There are likely to be a number of differences in its evolution in the...
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Under The Spotlight: The Transition Of Environmental Risk Management
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is a growing consensus that business should bear a greater responsibility towards the environment and pay closer attention to the "externalities" that its activities create. Nongovernmental...
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Maturing With The Millennials: Are Organisations Prepared For The Millennial Consumer?
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The baby-boomer generation is a demographic group that has been studied closely for decades. Its influence on everything from consumer spending to public finance has captured headlines and shaped...
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A New Ranking Of The World's Most Innovative Countries
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovation is defined as the application of knowledge in a novel way, primarily for economic benefit. Companies deem it vitally important as a competitive tool. Government policymakers see it as...
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Future Tense: The Global CMO
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The chief marketing officer (CMO), a title that barely existed 15 years ago, is under increasing pressure to keep pace with rapidly changing digital media and new markets with shifting demands....
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To Invest Or Not To Invest: ICT Spending Priorities In Crisis-Hit Central And Eastern Europe
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Before the full onset of the global economic crisis in September 2008, the largest countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) were some of the most stable and prosperous among emerging...
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Beyond Box-Ticking: A New Era For Risk Governance
September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The boardroom has always been the preserve of the gifted, the ambitious and the self-confident. In Anglo-Saxon business culture, board-level executives wield substantial power and, while other...
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