Monthly Archives: September 2011
Don’t forget the “real” in Real Estate
By Stefan Wundrak, Director of Research, Property at Henderson Global Investors
Are property investments like businesses?
When thinking about commercial property strategy, you might take the...
Developing a Breakthrough Service Model for Profitable Growth
By Philip G. Moscosoand Alejandro Lago
Stronger competition and more demanding customers require companies to deliver exceptional service and ultimately offer differentiated value propositions in...
How Electronic Document Interchange delivers the goods for FMCG businesses: a case study
By Ian Ford
In a business where timing and efficiency is critical, FirstB2B’s EDI solution handles a complex sequence of electronic messages effortlessly, ensuring things...
Outsourcing: Debunking the myths and unveiling the realities
By buyingTeam
Firmly entrenched misconceptions surround outsourcing, and they are holding many companies back from maximising the potential benefits from this fundamentally important tool.
Despite misunderstandings...
Timberland Investments: A risk analysis
By Klaus Biskup
Specialist knowledge is essential to maximizing timberland investment opportunities, and in particular, assessing the risks involved…
Over recent years timberland investments have gained...
Capturing the Growth Opportunity in Emerging Markets
By Henry Egan and Armen Ovanessoff
Over the next five years, emerging markets will account for much of the globe’s economic growth. To compete on...
The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
By Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
In the last two decades a growing number of companies across sectors and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders...
Credit Insurance – An inside story
By Neil Botting
To help provide a more detailed insight into the broader function of credit insurance and the business benefits, the best way is...
Think Again: How good leaders can avoid bad decisions
By Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead
Leaders can make good decisions or less good decisions. Several years ago, we set out to understand the causes...
Understanding the Cost of Cloud: Cost analysis of In-house vs. Cloud-based Hosting Options
By Byung Chul Tak, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam
Will cloud-based hosting be economically feasible for any given application if it migrated into the cloud?...
Royalty-Free Standards vs. Loyalty-Free-Standards: Freedom from royalties, or freedom of choice?
By Eric K. Clemons
Why would you expect good standards to be free? Why does a royalty-free standard often result in a client’s entrapment in...
A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully
By Dr. Richard Stallman
If the term “Cloud Computing” has any meaning, it can only be a certain attitude towards computing: an attitude of not...
Securing the Cloud
By Gareth Williams
Any cloud that relies on the public Internet for its connection is exposing its data to unnecessary risk. CIO’s and CTO’s are...
Understanding the Business Impacts of Cloud Computing
By Leslie Willcocks, Will Venters, Edgar Whitley and John Hindle
Cloud computing is already changing the way IT and business services are delivered and managed....
Why Europe’s head belongs in the Cloud
By Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
The emergence of Cloud computing stands out as one of the key technological advances of the last 30...
Building Change Capacity in your Organization: Ensuring that you have the talent and bench...
By Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Introduction
Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...
Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage
By Scott Keller and Colin Price
To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time.
The case for health...
Ecological Gold – A New Gold Standard
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery in Life
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery In Life, works with ecological gold from the Oro Verde (Green Gold) mining project in Colombia, a...
Woman in Consulting: Q+A with Claire Arnold
Claire Arnold is a founding partner of Maxxim Consulting. In this interview, she told us about her management philosophy, visions as well as her...
What Do Bosses Do Today? Rethinking this still-essential role for a new world
By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Being a great boss has always been hard. The challenge for organizations today is that it’s getting both...
