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Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Improving Operations Through Contract Labor Substitution
Cost-saving strategies that truly deliver are tough to come by. But as companies battle to reduce costs and improve cash flow, some are finding that a new approach to contract labor can deliver significant results. When labor requirements are appropriately matched with project needs, companies can slash labor costs by...
Message to Manufacturers: Develop a Private Equity Mindset
If you ask any private equity companies what they look for in a manufacturing investment, the answer might surprise you. They do not focus on optimal inventory levels, improved asset productivity or efficient supply chains. Instead, they want to know how well the company is generating cash flow. It is...
WTO: The Road to Hong Kong
At the end of this year, delegates will convene in Hong Kong for the WTO's next ministerial. This article will not only bring you up to speed in three minutes, it may give you reason to hope that the future for globalization, growth and equity looks brighter than it has...
Supply Management Takes a Strategic Step Up
More than ever, CEOs expect their supply management organizations to deliver value beyond traditional cost cutting. But what kinds of value and how will the organizations deliver it? To find out, this paper depicts about a survey supply management executives from 275 leading companies in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific...
Not So Fast
Prevailing wisdom says speed in a merger or acquisition is essential to success. Integrate quickly or fail. So why do only a few generate real value? Depending on who you talk to, fewer than 20 to 50 percent of M&As succeed. It's time to rethink our philosophy on merger integration....
How Does Your Financial Institution Grow?
Winning financial institutions - regardless of their size, type or geographic placement - must figure out how to attract new customers, along with the lion's share of their wallets, and then keep their business. The paper reveals about a survey of more than 4,000 financial services retail customers in the...
It's Crunch Time: What's Ahead for Tech and Telecom
In high-tech and telecom, the consumer is replacing the business market as the leading driver of growth. Major emerging economies such as China and India are becoming huge technology markets, while also spawning powerful new competitors. Emerging technologies, from VoIP and broadband to the home, to WiFi and WiMax and...
The Path to Maximizing Margins
Can an obsession with product costs ultimately hurt profits? Can products be too good for their own good? Companies that manage this relationship skillfully can maximize their gross margins and, in turn, fatten their R&D and marketing budgets. The higher their gross margins, the better positioned a company is to...
Rising to the Growth Challenge
Regardless of size, focus or geographic footprint, financial institutions across the United States are stepping up efforts to improve their organic growth. The paper deals with a survey and based on it develops the Organic Growth Index, which assesses the relative organic growth potential of 31 financial institutions across the...
Outsourcing Strategically for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Outsourcing has grabbed headlines in the past few years. Some proclaim it as a necessary, effective, and inevitable strategy to reduce costs, focus on the core business, maintain competitiveness, and obtain needed capabilities. Others see outsourcing as a threat to jobs, companies, industries, and whole economies. And numerous studies point...
Creating Value Through Strategic Supply Management
Leaders in the study are creating value and gaining competitive advantage from supply markets by focusing on four areas: Innovation and growth, value chain optimization, advanced cost management techniques, risk management and supply continuity. Customer demands for a constant stream of new products and features as well as increased competition...
Meeting Your Growth Goals in Challenging Times
Investors' expectations are outpacing executives' projections when it comes to growth, creating a seemingly no-win situation. But smart leaders don't blame the world around them when there's a growing gap between expectation and reality; they look within their own four walls. They not only create a great growth strategy that...
Measuring Merger Odds for European Banks
The goal of mergers and acquisitions should always be clear: creating value through meaningful external growth. To determine how to best meet this goal, a study of merger strategies in Europe was undertaken, seeking a framework for analyzing conceivable deals. How much value can mergers generate? Should you seek to...
Foreign Direct Investment on the Upswing
Cross-border corporate investment could be reaching a tipping point. Expressing the greatest optimism in years, global investors show less concern about operational risks and expect to move more aggressively offshore. This article discusses how the US faces severe competitive pressures from two of the dynamic and rapidly evolving economies -...
Attacking Health-Care Costs Head On
Health-insurance premiums are rising 8 percent per year in the United States, and are expected to jump to 12 percent each year over the next five years. It's a big business problem and leading companies are starting to treat it that way. While employers understand what is driving health-care costs...
Banking on China
The call of the East is growing louder. The paper reveals that when it comes to banking preferences, China's highest earners are interested in more than standard checking and savings accounts; they prefer products and services ranging from credit cards and mutual funds to personal loans and mortgages. This is...
Why Today's IT Organization Won't Work Tomorrow
Many IT organization are so busy digging out of yesterday's ruts they have too little time to anticipate what tomorrow might bring. Caught in operational mode, they are not well positioned to help create or implement the types of strategies that set a business apart. But by closing the gap...
Technology and Telecom Companies Prepare for a New Playing Field
The paper highlights that in technology or telecommunications industries, how one would rate their company's competitive preparedness? In fact, more than 70 percent of executives in these industries say their preparation is good or fair, with another 15 percent sinking even lower. As the competition heats up, if one lacks...
The Rise of Telemedia Titans
A new industry structure is about to burst onto the scene. The growing ties between wireless and wireline services portend an imminent convergence and, yes, possible clash of the titans of the telecommunications and media industries. The result will be telemedia, a new market that blends services from both camps...
Contract Manufacturing: Realizing the Potential
Businesses today thrive by focusing on what they do best and leaving the rest to others. Contract manufacturing seems to fit neatly into this practice. In addition to allowing companies to focus on core competencies, contract manufacturers offer numerous other advantages over in-house manufacturing, including lower costs, flexibility, access to...
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