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The Booz Allen Hamilton Global Innovation 1000: Money Isn't Everything
The myth that higher R&D spend translates into competitive advantage has been around for decades, but it appears to be particularly strong now. Pick up any business magazine or newspaper. One finds ample evidence of the belief in the effectiveness of larger budgets, for both corporate and national competitiveness. The...
China Sourcing: Balancing Global and Local Requirements
This paper highlights that china sourcing does present significant savings opportunities. But these opportunities vary considerably by nature of the materials purchased. The purchasing portfolio needs to be screened and prioritized to identify the best fit for China sourcing based on five key criteria: labor, transportation, lead time, design stability...
Performance-Based Logistics Perspective
The paper discusses that since 2000, the Department of Defense DoD has consistently directed that Performance-Based Logistics PBL be the preferred acquisition and sustainment vehicle. It is widely believed that PBL solutions offer the best overall construct for long-term sustainment support of systems and subsystems. Put simply, ever-tightening constraints on...
Innovation's OrgDNA
Innovation is inherently a highly cross-functional activity that, when it works well, creates a constructive tension between competing objectives of development cost, product value, performance, quality, and time to market. Product development touches every part of the company. Functions like strategic planning, sales, operations; customer support, purchasing, and finance are...
Engineering Offshoring for the Automotive Industry
As competitive pressures in the automotive industry continue to increase and cost pressures accelerate with material price increases and OEM price pressures, improving engineering productivity is critical to driving growth, increasing product development throughput, and reducing engineering costs. The latest restructuring wave is to move engineering and other services, in...
Outsourcing and the CFO -The Balanced Delivery Model for Finance and Accounting
The paper discusses that the role of the Chief Financial Officer has evolved dramatically, moving far beyond the responsibilities the title suggests. Many CFOs are discovering that they have exhausted supply-side opportunities for improving F&A functions - typically by having eliminated, consolidated, and standardized as many processes and operations as...
Next Generation Outsourcing and Offshoring - Capturing Value in Financial Services
Outsourcing and offshoring of business processes has permanently changed the way financial services companies operate. Companies are evaluating nearly every activity for benefits they can attain through better management of services and better deployment of a global footprint. While this focus on evaluation is widespread, most companies are actually less...
The New CFO Agenda: Global G&A Survey Insights and Implications
The pressure on corporate management to reduce overhead costs has intensified over the past two years. The paper reports about a survey of 156 Chief Financial Officers from around the world to understand current trends and best practices in the management of General & Administrative (G&A) functions, also known as...
Business Process Offshoring - Making the Right Decision
Offshoring business processes can offer companies across a range of industries the opportunity to lower costs by 40% or more. Still, offshoring is not for every firm and certainly not for every business process. As senior managers look beyond the back office for functions to offshore, they need to determine...
CEO Succession 2003: The Perils of "Good" Convergence
The paper depicts that forced departures of CEOs declined last year, although involuntary turnover remains at near-record levels, according to the third annual survey of CEO turnover at the world's 2,500 largest publicly traded corporations released today by Booz Allen Hamilton. In addition, the study found that dividing the roles...
Outsourcing Globally - Trends and Implications of Offshoring for Australia
The report examines the potential for offshoring and the advantages and disadvantages of global outsourcing for Australian companies. The number of jobs that could be offshored is lower than many would have expected for a number of reasons discussed further in the paper. The study provides relevant findings and reminds...
Innovation And Product Development - Clearing The New Performance Bar
After five years of retrenchment and cost-cutting, senior executives at leading companies across a variety of industries share a common conviction which is Innovation - the ability to define and create new products and services and quickly bring them to market . It is an increasingly important source of competitive...
Outsourcing Trends in the North American Telecommunications Market
The study says telecommunications outsourcing will grow within North American Service Providers as they further drive performance improvements to remain competitive. The paper reports about a recently conducted a major study on the evolution of the value chain and the potential impacts of outsourcing on the North American telecommunications industry....
Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks - What Service Businesses Can Learn From Manufacturing
Service organizations face unprecedented challenges in today's business environment. Customers demand better service and more customized offerings. Sales managers push for incremental revenue, improved retention, and higher service levels. And senior management expects the virtually impossible- meaningful cost cutting at the same time as new product launches, acquisition integrations, and...
R&D Spending in the German Automotive Industry
The automotive industry is one of Germany's largest investors in research and development (R&D) funding, but a study by Booz Allen Hamilton revealed a 20% productivity gap compared to Japanese original equipment manufacturers OEMs. This study identifies need to improve how the German automotive industry investments in R&D. By implementing...
A New Take on Business Process Redesign
As the economy shows signs of a turnaround, corporations are directing their focus to capturing growth in the upturn. The companies are reevaluating and redesigning their business processes both customer-facing and non-customer-facing in search of increased customer value, as well as internal efficiency. This new round of business process redesign...
CEO Turnover in 2002: Trends, Causes and Lessons Learned
This study finds that forced CEO turnover is becoming the new norm. As shareholders and markets generally demand higher and higher performance from companies and senior management this phenomenon is now fully global. The findings have significant implications not just for chief executives and senior management, but also company boards,...
Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring
It is more challenging then ever to improve business performance. The global economic downturn, diminishing returns on capital, internal business constrains and new security and governance requirements all conspire to depress companies result. Operating under such market condition make it difficult for industry to survive. In such condition BPO make...
Business Process Outsourcing & Offshoring
Faced with mounting pressures to improve business performance, most major corporations have already assessed their internal services and employed a series of cost reduction strategies. Companies have turned to reengineering internal processes, outsourcing, and, most recently, improving demand management for internal services. Traditional outsourcing has increased in scope and impact...
Case Study: Delphi Builds a Board
In the face of near-term financial pressures and troubles in the automotive industry overall, is corporate governance really worth the CEO’s precious time and attention? This case study focuses on the design implemented, that positioned the organization to be completely engaged in strategy, not just to serve as an...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
