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        <title><![CDATA[Taking Advantage Of The Pit Stop: How To Prosper In A Recession]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[IT Transformation: Creating A Strategy For Success]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fighting Smart: Strategy Options For Telecoms Operators]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Up Or Out: Next Moves For The Modern Expatriate]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Designing Effective Collaboration]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Resilient Supply Chains In A Time Of Uncertainty]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Better Life? The Wants And Worries Of China's Consumers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Financial Services Strategies For Growth: Focus On The Customer Amid Market Turmoil]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Doctor Innovation: Shaking Up The Health System]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From Hindsight To Foresight: Improving Business Transparency In The Wake Of The Financial Crisis]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How Technology Sectors Grow: Benchmarking It Industry Competitiveness 2008]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tomorrow's Markets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Innovators: How Successful Companies Drive Business Transformation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wiring Up: Technology-Led Development In The Emerging World]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Governments in the emerging world are increasingly turning to technology to support their economic and social development goals, including things like strengthening competitiveness, improving...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Time For New Ideas: Innovation In Central Eastern Europe And Turkey]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[M&amp;A Beyond Borders: Opportunities And Risks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Emerging market corporations are now more confident in their pursuit of M&amp;A. Chinese, Indian and Russian companies have been prolific in venturing outside their domestic markets to do deals,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Streamlining Operations: Discrete Manufacturers Pursue Improved Efficiency]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:17:14 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reading The Signals: Process Manufacturers And Customer Demand]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:16:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Improving Customer Relationships: An Integrated Approach]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Closing The Gap: The Link Between Project Management Excellence And Long-Term Success]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Knowledge Management In Manufacturing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond Transactions: Creating Value Through Customer Partnerships In Telecommunications]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:06:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Means To Compete: Benchmarking It Industry Competitiveness]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Converging On The Customer: New Media For Closer Relationships]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Future Of Enterprise Information Governance]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Global Disruptors: Steering Through The Storms]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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 &quot;Storms...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Power To The People? Managing Technology Democracy In The Workplace]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ahead Of The Game: Succeeding In Emerging Markets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Risk And Regulation: A New Era For Capitalism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Derivatives, said Warren Buffet, a renowned US investor, &quot;Are the financial equivalent of weapons of mass destruction.&quot; He has certainly been proved right, with failing banks around the world...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A New Ranking Of The World's Most Innovative Countries: Notes On Methodology]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From West To East: Gauging Institutional Investor Attitudes To Asia]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fortifying The Enterprise: Governance, Risk And Compliance Strategies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A New Ranking Of The World's Most Innovative Countries]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[To Invest Or Not To Invest: ICT Spending Priorities In Crisis-Hit Central And Eastern Europe]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond Box-Ticking: A New Era For Risk Governance]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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