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CEOs, Mind Your Own Business! Why and How Corporate CEOs Should Pay More Attention...
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The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
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Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
Structuring Your Organization to Meet Global Aspirations
By Suzanne Heywood & Roni Katz
The matrix structure is here to stay, but its complexity can be minimized, and companies can get more value...
Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?
By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz
The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...
Innovate the Way You Innovate
By Stephen Shapiro
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ability to innovate is not enough. You need to innovate efficiently, quickly, and with less risk....
Getting Ruthless With Your Processes
By Avinash Goyal, Suzanne Heywood & Toby Gibbs
Consistent global processes add value—up to a point. New research helps companies find the right balance between...
Transformers: Supply Chain 3.0 and How Automation will Transform the Rules of the Global...
By Sean Culey
From the 1960’s up until the 1990’s Western manufacturing companies were out-performed by new levels of quality, cost and efficiencies emanating from...
Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future
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The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
Ensuring the ROI from ERP has a Bigger ‘R’ than ‘i’
By Sean Culey
It is over two decades now since Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems first arrived on the scene promising a new dawn of...
Transforming the Global Supply Chain
By Carlos Cordon and Winter Nie
The rise of the emerging economies, fluctuating prices in commodities, the lingering effects of the global financial crisis and...
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...
The Challenges of Global S&OP
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What do you want to achieve? Where does your company want to be in 12, 18, 24 months? Do you know? If...
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...
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...
Efficient Frontier: A Moving Target
By Karin Bursa
Do you view inventory as a cost factor, a risk, a service level influencer or a competitive advantage? Many executives view inventory...
Understanding and Mastering Complexit
By Wolfgang Amann, Christoph Nedopil & Ulrich Steger
Complexity is re-emerging as a topic in top management. A combination of factors, such as the severe...
Segmenting for Success – From Value Chain Theory to Everyday Execution
By Sean Culey
Theory has little value unless it can be successfully translated into everyday execution.
“Real artists ship.”
Scrawled on an easel in January 1983 by...
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...
Quality for ALL: The Power Of LEO
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The “New” Face of Quality
At a time when we have, more than ever, an abundance of impressive management tools to help us...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part II
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It is easy to look good in a boom.
It is a lesson that the executives at Chaos Corp have learnt the hard...
Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership?
By Jette Steen Knudsen
In this article I examine a key business question: which kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from joining international...
Making Best Practices Stick
By Adrian Done, Chris Voss and Niels Gorm Rytter
Several key factors influence the short-term success and long-term sustainability of best practice interventions. Management of...
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part I
By Sean Culey
In the last edition of The European Business Review, my article called ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ was published, in...
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
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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
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Firmly entrenched misconceptions surround outsourcing, and they are holding many companies back from maximising the potential benefits from this fundamentally important tool.
Despite misunderstandings...
The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness
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The Four Challenges of Supply Chain Transparency
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In this article we examine a key business question: how much should organizations know about their extended supply base,...
A Word About Dynamic Supply Chains: Delivering value through people
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The key to successful supply chain management is recognising that it’s people who really drive the living supply chains that are at...
Nanomaterials-Moving towards stabilisation
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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...
Jumping the S-Curve: How to Reach the Top – and Stay There
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One obvious trait of high-performance companies is that they are all adept at launching new businesses -- a process...
The Economic Aftermath of the Recent Earthquake in Sendai, Japan
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Natural disasters potentially impact severely on economic dynamics — e.g. on production, prices, incomes, and employment — in the post-disaster period.
Over the...
The Changing of the Guard: Rules for Successful Succession Planning in Business
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I remember going to work six years ago at Weatherchem, my plastic caps and closures company. Before going to my office...
Discover the Art of Real Road Driving Part II: Tip-tronic Gearboxes Explained
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If you have a car with one of these tip-tronic gearboxes, do you know how to use it so as to get...
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