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Investment Banking and Capital Markets: Market Report - Third Quarter 2005 Edition
This paper, with the help of certain facts and figures, reports that the investment banking industry surged ahead in the third quarter 2005, with pre-tax profit margins up 5 percent and revenues up 30 percent over the second quarter. These gains stood in stark contrast to third-quarter results from previous...
Balancing Act: Implementing an Integrated Strategy for Value Creation - The 2005 Value Creators Report
This report analyzes five-year Total Shareholder Return TSR at leading global companies across twelve major industries. The report argues that the most successful global companies take a holistic approach to value creation by optimizing their performance across three critical dimensions: fundamental value, valuation multiples, and distributions of free cash flow....
Spurring Innovation Productivity
Most companies urgently need to boost their innovation productivity. However, many lack the discipline to systematically filter their innovative ideas, focus only on the most promising among them, and follow through effectively in developing, launching, and sustaining the resulting products. To isolate the best ideas and drive them to market,...
The Battle for the Digital Nomad
As the world increasingly becomes broadband, mobile, and digital, a new consumer, called the "Digital Nomad," is emerging to take advantage of those trends. Nomads have four primary needs. They want offerings that are convenient and economical. They want control over the media presented to them, and they want mobile...
Advantage, Returns, and Growth - In That Order
Sometimes the best path to creating shareholder value is to decrease Return On Investment ROI and increase growth rates. But that is an option only after one has moved ROI sufficiently above the cost of capital, and the economic linkages between the core businesses and adjacent markets are real. The...
The Role of Alliances in Corporate Strategy
Alliances have become an increasingly important part of corporate strategy. They can be extremely useful in situations of high uncertainty and for growth opportunities that a company either cannot or does not want to pursue on its own. But the advantages of shared risk are often offset by unclear governance...
Taking Care of Brands Through Vertical Integration
As traditional retail channels continue to decline, many manufacturers are looking to vertical integration to better manage their brands. Blending product and retail identify, vertically integrated brands enjoy attractive economics and have captured significant market share. But retail is detail: getting all the parts right isn't easy. From a survey...
The Knocking on the Window
The knocking of beggars on the windows of cars is getting louder, and it must be addressed by the corporate sector with more than charity. Companies must give the poor a chance to participate in capitalism. How? With "Microloans" and other arrangements that are already proving that there are new...
Preparing for Fundamental Shifts in Energy: Strategies for a Changing Industry
New trends in geopolitics, industry behavior, cost structures, resource quality, and technology are causing tectonic shifts in the energy landscape. For industry players, these shifts pose both significant threats and major opportunities. In this changing environment, energy companies must continue to make enormous long-term investments and necessary short-term commitments. This...
The Golden Rules of Successful Offshoring
What determines the difference between an offshoring program that ultimately succeeds and one that is destined to fail? Although there is no easy answer, this document believes that financial institutions should learn from the experiences of the early movers and carefully weigh different choices as they embark on offshoring journeys....
China Report: Studies in Operations and Strategy - China and the New Rules for Global Business
With a population of more than one billion and an immense supply of low-wage workers, China is coveted both as a consumer market and a superb location to manufacture and source products. But is the conventional wisdom correct? This report reveals that experts and Wharton and BCG say it is...
Searching for Profitable Growth: Global Wealth 2005
Numerous trends are changing the wealth management industry's competitive landscape and thus influencing the ways in which wealth managers can best improve their businesses and achieve profitable growth. This fifth edition of the Global Wealth report, focuses on four main issues: global market sizing, changes in the needs of wealth...
The Future of the Mobile Handset
The paper outlines that handset makers have spent several years trying to restore profits. Now they must turn their attention to strategy. They must fully commit themselves to Asia. They must deeply understand what their customers want from mobile devices a telephone is only part of the solution. As the...
In Search of Perfection: Practice, Patience, Courage
Ben Hogan's single-minded commitment to becoming the greatest golfer in history exemplifies the level of dedication that will be required to succeed in today's increasingly competitive world. This article focuses on Hogan's discipline, his ability to visualize what he needed to win, his confidence founded on unrelenting practice, and his...
Realizing the Potential of Multibusiness Companies for Organic Growth
Multibusiness companies have traditionally pursued growth by deploying two basic strategies: expansion of their portfolios through mergers and acquisitions, and organic growth of the individual businesses within their portfolios. Both avenues are proving increasingly challenging. The paper highlights that there is a tremendous potential in a third option: cultivating organic...
Banking on China: Where to Place the Chips?
Legions of international banks are buying minority stakes in Chinese financial institutions and trying to expand their own modest branch networks in China. They're wagering that China's remarkable economic growth will continue and that further deregulation expected by the end of 2006 will lead to significant new opportunities. The paper...
Sizing Up the Heavy Spender
In many categories, the top 30 percent of customers generate considerably more than half the revenue and profits. Focusing on heavy spenders makes sense, but real competitive advantage comes with understanding how they differ from average spenders. Why do they choose certain products and retailers over others? What factors close...
Feeding the Beast: Steady M&A Diet Fuels Value for Big Device Firms
This article explores the financial rationale driving the steady trend of M&A activity in the medical technology sector-as well as the business implications that result. It analyzes the role of acquisitive growth within the sector and its impact on large and small medtech companies alike. It focuses on the area...
Delivering Profitable Growth in a Crowded Market: Global Corporate Banking 2005
Many corporate-banking businesses are not pulling the levers required to create substantial value. This report, based on key findings from an extensive benchmarking survey involving more than 75 leading financial institutions worldwide, explores numerous steps that corporate banks can take to drive profitable growth both in home markets and abroad....
Winning in Today's Chinese Automotive Market
China's red-hot automotive market cooled dramatically in 2004, when passenger car sales increased only 13 percent-sharply down from the 74 percent rise in 2003. This insight depicts that the slowing growth combined with falling prices, significant increases in capacity, and a proliferation of new-model launches has turned China into a...
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