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Used by over half the Fortune 100 companies, BoardVantage is making the paperless boardroom a reality.
The expansion of its internal functionality to different digital...
Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation
By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...
A ‘Sigh of Relief’ at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
By Michael Useem
“Wharton management professor Michael Useem, returning from his 11th trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports that confidence in the...
DAFZA Offers Highly Developed Infrastructure and Quality Services to European Companies
Established in 1996 as a part of the Dubai Government’s strategic plan to be an investment driven economy, DAFZA is one of the fastest...
Accelerating Your Worldwide Business with a Hub in Switzerland
By Aargau Services Economic Promotion
Switzerland has a stable, prosperous and high-tech economy thanks to its liberal economic system, its political stability, its high quality...
Innovation and Integration for an Environmentally Friendly Alberta
Alberta is committed to responsible energy production – because Albertans and Canadians expect nothing less.
Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with...
Board Responsibility under the FCPA
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the...
Going for Gold in the Productivity Olympics? Your Choices in Reward Administration are Business...
By James Markham
In my previous article (ref: TEBR July/August 2012 edition), I argued that organisations are not paying enough attention to how the Reward...
Mobile Payments
By Christopher Coonen, EVP Global Solutions, Sales Marketing Strategy at Ingenico
Market Trends
The mobile technology market all over the world is booming, with consumer...
D-Hotel Maris: the Ultimate Luxury Experience
D-Hotel Maris in Turkey combines the exotic elements of the East and modernity of the West through minimalistic style. Located in the stunning reservation...
Business Process Excellence: A Prerequisite for Managing Big Data
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The digitization of both the commercial and social worlds has blurred any boundaries separating them and is fundamentally changing the way we...
Effectively Managing Innovation
By Daniel Evans
At EMLYON we have had the opportunity to help develop the innovation efforts for companies around the world. Our combined experience suggests...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
The Challenges of Global S&OP
By Karin Bursa
What do you want to achieve? Where does your company want to be in 12, 18, 24 months? Do you know? If...
Getting More for Less: Revolutionising the Reward “Asset” Empowering Reward to Perform Better. Are...
By James Markham
In a period of recession, most major companies look for new ways of selling or streamlining operations. Rarely, however do companies turn...
STUDY IN AUSTRIA IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
Krems – a small but vibrant university town
Krems is the eastern gateway to the Wachau Valley and only a one hour drive from...
Innovative Technologies in Aviation Logistics
Due to the fierce competition caused by the economic downturn, rising fuel costs and growing customer demand, airfreight companies are forced to look for...
How the dot-CO domain opened the door to a new era of Internet innovation
By Kieren McCarthy
Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
Challenging the “Tailor” How to Effectively Customize Executive Education for the Companies’ Benefit
By Andreas Löhmer
When it comes to executive education, companies very often accept second best solutions. Looking at the impact achieved, these investments do not...
Clyde Waterfront – A River of Opportunity
The scale, pace and diversity of the River Clyde’s regeneration has re-vitalised the area, creating numerous opportunities for businesses and the public to invest,...
A Total Solution for Outsize and Heavyweight Air Cargo
Russia airlines dominate this highly specialist market, providing a solution for 75% of all such air movements and have done so since the first...
Full Electronic Data Integration: How a review of Business-to-Business transactions processes can help save...
By Steve Hill
In his 2010 study into business-to-business payment processes, Alessandro Perego said that electronic invoicing was a “competitiveness lever.”
His study, which was carried...
Binary Options: An Innovative and Intelligent Way of Trading
By Banc De Binary
Founded in the wake of the 2008 decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list binary options on the...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
Future Proofing the Boardroom
By Lucy P. Marcus
The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and...
Cloud computing and mobility: Adjusting in a New World – From Threat to Ally
By Christopher Clark
One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...
Getting Face Time
By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize
At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...
Nanomaterials-Moving towards stabilisation
(INSCX™)
The nanomaterials industry (NMs) is slowly evolving, from producing a suite of innovative materials in Research and Development (R&D) to laying a basis whereby...
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)- Outsourcing and Shared Service Programmes
Increasingly, value is created from successful collaboration of stakeholders connected in a network. Therefore outsourcing solutions must capture opportunities and navigate risk across these...
The Sustainable Organisation – Driving value through organisational change
By Claire Arnold, Co Founder of Maxxim Consulting
Everyone who has the ambition, drive and competence to want the top job has to be alive...
Discover the Art of Real Road Driving Part II: Tip-tronic Gearboxes Explained
By Julian Smith
If you have a car with one of these tip-tronic gearboxes, do you know how to use it so as to get...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
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