The Idea in Brief Almost nothing a company does can't be outsourced anymore--even functions as critical as engineering, marketing, and manufacturing. Yet only 6% of the companies that outsource are satisfied with the practice. Why?...
There's more than one way to account for Research and Development (R&D). A business using the accrual method of accounting will treat R&D costs as expenses. A business contracted to undertake R&D for another company might treat it as an operational cost. If that business retains an element of financial...
Trust is described as an elusive concept, difficult to describe, understand, and therefore manage. The Trust in Construction project undertook five exploratory case studies in order to understand how trust is formed and the impact this has on project performance. The authors propose a model of the different forms of...
This paper discusses how competitiveness could be enhanced through a close partnership with an integrated multi-utilities firm, aimed at improving energetic efficiency, reduce polluting emissions, and thereby cut costs. This case describes how PSA, a car manufacturer, turned the environmental issue into a competitive advantage by externalising to Veolia, a...
Tenant-in-Common TIC and Delaware statutory trust DST offerings may not fit every situation, but they fill a multitude of needs in an asset class, real estate, that needed more options than direct ownership or buying shares in a large real estate investment trust. The best evidence that they are filling...
Like all areas of Defence, the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and the Army Air Corps face challenging and exciting developments. The pace at which innovative equipment becomes available drives the evolution of each Service, but progress must be achieved efficiently and cost effectively. With this in mind,...
Management and protection of proprietary intangible assets such as technology and management skills is important for firms considering international expansion via joint ventures. Joint venture partners have incentives to appropriate intangible property. Also many governments have instituted policies to help domestic firms maximise technology spillovers. Some require foreign firms interested...
While the scope of business process outsourcing is vast and rapidly expanding, this white paper focuses on application or forms processing, the point of capture for incoming information that ultimately helps financial services firms shape future relationships with customers. Companies that capture this information more efficiently often reduce costs and...
Government-industry R&D partnerships can play an important role in advancing the public interest. A widely cited example is the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles PNGV. It was launched in 1993 by the Clinton Administration and three US automakers, with the goal of advancing the development of energy efficient...
The paper discusses the development and operation of terrorism insurance programmes established in France, Germany and the U.S as reaction to 9/11. These three programmes are all based upon a public - private partnership with government backup. However, there are some fundamental differences regarding issues such as exclusions, price differentiation,...
Outsourcing services to a third party is typically done to reduce costs. But while considerable effort goes into deciding what to outsource in order to capture such benefits, most managers find it more difficult to arrive at an optimal model for managing their resulting partner and supplier relationships. Thus outsourcing...
The attractors for the enterprise and the Information Worker are speed and saving, especially in business process management for CRM, Sourcing-Procurement and Partner Relationship Management. None of these could be achieved without on-the-fly data mediation and integration, as these business applications often cannot wait for a specific data warehouse to...
This whitepaper presents a step-by-step explanation of how strategic sourcing and Total Cost Management provides product companies with tremendous benefits by transforming suppliers into partners throughout the product lifecycle. With purchasing expanding its focus from solely pricing to strategic alignment and information exchange, companies are realizing improved profit margins and...
Even more than larger firms, SMEs Small and Medium Sized Enterprise need to access external sources of information, knowledge, know-how and technologies, in order to build their own innovative capability and to reach their markets. They can only partly secure such access through markets for goods, services, IPRs (Intellectual Property...
This paper describes the Business Transformation Outsourcing BTO which is a service that delivers faster, more successful and enduring business transformation. This is achieved by leveraging the expertise and scale of a partner who has a comparative advantage in operating processes that are integral to the implementation of the broader...
There is a trend in organizing the building process with stronger focus on better integration of the different actors and use of new procurement methods. The experiences started with the research project "The Integrated Building Process 1996 - 1999", where the authors has developed and tested different partnering models in...
This paper discusses issues pertaining to insurance coverage for liability arising from joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies. Throughout the paper, the terms "joint venture," "partnership" and "limited liability company" are used independently, whereas the term "JV" is used to refer generally to all three combined, and the term...
Martindale-Hubbell posed the following question to partners at five law firms to provide a variety of views on this important topic. What is the best way for corporate legal departments to optimize relationships with strategic partners and avoid future disputes?
Cost of production is a key focus area for casting centers. More so, value added product casting centers associated with primary aluminium smelters are often questioned regarding value addition. The challenge in all casting center's, and especially were complex product such as rolling ingot, extrusion ingot, rod and primary foundry...
The increasing use of third-party logistics providers (3PLs) is changing the duties and skills required of today's logisticians. No longer are logistics managers responsible only for making sure inbound and outbound freight gets to where it is supposed to be. The challenge, then, is to develop logisticians that are versed...
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