Revenue Performance Management As A Business Growth Strategy
By Phil Fernandez
For more than a decade, I have had a mantra that has guided my personal approach to leadership. It goes like this:...
Neuroeconomics. An Emerging Field of Theory and Practice
By James Giordano, Roland Benedikter and Nadia Flores
This article gives a short, introductory overview of basic aspects of the emerging field of neuroeconomics, as...
When Spending Hurts
By Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon
Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption in 1899 to describe spending with the intention of gaining social status.1...
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...
Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders
By Thomas Baumgartner and Maria Valdivieso de Uster
Achieving growth is enormously challenging in today’s complex and fast-changing business environment. But growth opportunities do exist...
The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier
By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan
The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
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...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
Complexity Kills Profits – CEOs need to simplify their businesses
By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay
The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends,...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
Write Off or Right On?
By Andreas Tesch
What businesses consider to be an uncollectable debt may not always be as clear cut as is the case when a customer...
Commercial Property: Spotting the Opportunity
By Michael Keogh
Property markets globally have recovered from the valuation declines recorded at the height of the financial crisis, but in large part, this...
Prospects for the World Economy 2011
By David Bartlett, Economic Advisor, RSM International
Solidation prevails in the United Kingdom and other member states.
• The divergent growth paths of developed and emerging...
The Economic Aftermath of the Recent Earthquake in Sendai, Japan
By Ilan Noy
Natural disasters potentially impact severely on economic dynamics — e.g. on production, prices, incomes, and employment — in the post-disaster period.
Over the...
Integrated Nano-Science & Commodity Exchange (INSCX™)
What are We?
Formally launched in Europe and the United States in October 2010, INSCX™ (the Integrated Nano-Science & Commodity Exchange) is a commodity exchange...
