BNET Industries
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is in the Business Services Industry
Latest News and Analysis
Envisioning the Roadmap for a National Hospital Quality Reporting
The American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) engaged Booz Allen Hamilton on behalf of the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) to pulse prominent thought leaders with opinions about hospital quality reporting and determine a roadmap for a single reporting...
A Global Check-Up: Diagnosing the Health of Today's Organizations
This paper talks about a research by Booz Allen Hamilton, which depicts that most organizations exhibit "Unhealthy" traits and behaviors that prevent them from turning decisions into action. Globally, the U.S. has a higher rate of ineffective organizational profiles than every country in Europe. By contrast, China ranked near the...
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...
Convergence of Enterprise Security Organizations
To gain a better understanding of the impact of security convergence on global enterprises, Booz Allen Hamilton examined the trend within enterprises throughout the United States at the request of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International. This white paper identifies several internal and external drivers that are forcing...
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...
Materials Witnesses: When Companies Come Together to Save the World, What's More Compelling - Environmental Results or Competitive Advantage?
This article discusses the ultimate question facing CEOs which is to what extent will their endorsement of a new environmental ethic include new ways of working with competitors and other companies and what kinds of permission and sponsorship and commitment will leaders of environmentally responsive companies give collaborative initiatives, even...
The Four Dimensions of Intelligent Innovation: Winning the Race for Profitable Growth
Over the last decade, companies have made great strides in retooling their innovation engines. Leaner and faster, they can get products from concept to customer in record time. But even a Ferrari does not know where to drive. While there are still plenty of opportunities to enhance execution, inspiration and...
Disaster Relief: Improving Response and Long-Term Recovery
This paper describes a simulation designed with an intention to prompt discussion on a range of disaster relief and recovery coordination issues. Simulation led to several key findings, including the identification of common challenges to coordination and the development of recommendations for overcoming them. Challenges to coordination include cultural differences...
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...
CEO Succession 2004: The World's Most Prominent Temp Workers
The study reported in this paper finds Sarbanes-Oxley Act has not led to greater CEO turnover in the US, CEO turnover rate matches normal attrition for all employees, and Chief executives 55 years old or younger increasingly choose to retire. The study comprehensively examines the linkages between CEO tenure and...
Mastering the Innovation Challenge
Successful innovators have better financial performance and are rewarded with superior shareholder value growth. According to a recent study, European executives are setting ambitious innovation performance targets for the next three years. Respondents not only seek to boost their return on innovation investment by an impressive 29 percent, but they...
The Five Principles of Smart Customization
"Smart Customizers" are those that successfully trade off the value of variety against the costs associated with introducing more complexity into their business models and outperform peers two to one in revenue growth and have profit margins 5 percent to 10 percent above competitors. While achieving the full benefit of...
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...
Change Management Perspective
Managing change is a critical component of any major transformation. It is a necessary process that helps companies successfully implement new strategies. Change management gets results by building sponsorship from the top, creating leaders who will act as change agents, and by changing behaviors in frontline teams and individual employees...
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...
Engaging the Top Team and Leading the Change
The paper shows that five critical elements to successfully implement major transformations are executive capacity, the ability to make the case for change, a clear and shared direction, the right values and alignment, and a tangible plan. The immense pressures and demands of leadership are often described in terms of...
Too Much SOX Can Kill You - Resolving the Compliance Paradox
Many companies have fallen short in developing a governance agenda and architecture that effectively anticipates some of the most significant risks to their business. The temptation in reacting to Sarbanes-Oxley and other recent regulatory requirements is to reduce risk management to a "box-checking" activity, an expensive and resource-intensive compliance exercise....
Accidental Retailers - How Wireless Operators Can Make the Most Out of Their Store Networks
In their pursuit of customer revenues, wireless operators have become "accidental retailers," building networks of single-brand, single-product stores that collectively cover over 6,000 locations in the U.S. alone. Despite some signs of saturation, operators in the U.S. have continued to add stores - primarily driven by the expectation that company...
Rebundling of the Auto Finance Industry
A systematic unbundling and review of each stage in the value chain can shed some light on the possible future for automotive finance. Unlike the mortgage industry, auto finance in the United States continues to be dominated by a set of vertically integrated competitors, each performing all three major activities...
- Next »
- page 1 of 9
- « Previous
Sort byClose
View by Content TypeClose
View Related Content by Tag Close
- Management (85 results)
- Strategy (67 results)
- Finance (42 results)
- Leadership (38 results)
- Business Operations (37 results)
- Human Resources (23 results)
- Marketing (20 results)
- Article (19 results)
- Investment (17 results)
- Innovation (16 results)
- Financial Accounting (15 results)
- Workforce Management (14 results)
- Tools & Techniques (12 results)
- Mergers & Acquisitions (12 results)
- Software (11 results)
- Enterprise Software (11 results)
- It Operations (10 results)
- Industry (10 results)
- Financial Services (9 results)
- Performance Management (9 results)
- Corporate Law (9 results)
- Productivity (8 results)
- Outsourcing & Subcontracting (8 results)
- Merger (8 results)
- Outsourcing (8 results)
- Team Management (7 results)
- Operational Planning (7 results)
- Channel Management (7 results)
- Change Management (7 results)
- Marketing Research (6 results)
- Networking (6 results)
- Offshoring (6 results)
- Benefits (5 results)
- Supply Chain Management (SCM) (5 results)
- CEO (5 results)
- Financial Planning (5 results)
- Supply Chain (5 results)
- Sales (5 results)
- Security (5 results)
- Research & Development (5 results)
- It Services (5 results)
- Manufacturing (5 results)
- Telecommunications (5 results)
- Acquisition (4 results)
- Knowledge (4 results)
- Integration (4 results)
- Telephony (4 results)
- Organization (4 results)
- Supplier (4 results)
- Government (4 results)