Business Issue Papers Archive
IMP3rove: European Innovation Management Landscape
The IMP3rove project began with an analysis of existing best practices in Innovation Management consulting approaches and self-assessment tools that are applied in Europe. The insights gained are being used to develop a concept of a future approach in Innovation Management Consulting for SMEs.
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Building the Optimal Global Footprint
It is no longer a question of offshore versus onshore, or here versus there. Today, there is just one global market to tap into.
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Avoiding Merger Integration Limbo
Integrating a newly acquired business unit is never easy, but ensuring that the transition service agreement works to your favor can smooth the way.
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Building a Legacy
Mega-sporting events should extend beyond new jobs and tourism to advance social and economic development, and inspire national pride.
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Smart Boxes
As more companies implement RFID technology in their over-ocean supply chains, success factors are becoming clear.
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Canadian Future Forces 2005: An Executive Roundtable
The Future Forces Roundtable provides a forum for leaders in the Canadian Food and consumer products industries to discuss the current issues and their future impact.
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Measuring Merger Odds for European Banks
With consolidation in the European banking community, we can predict the merger prospects for the top 50 European financial institutions.
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Not So Fast
In merger integration, speed counts. But what exactly is merger speed and how does it influence integration success? It's time for companies to stop emphasizing outright speed.
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Selling Wireless Services on the Internet: Turning Clickers into Buyers
Wireless operators are overlooking the value of online sales channels. To reap the benefits, it’s time to get back to the basics.
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Nanotechnology Is More than a Hot New Label
Nanotechnology is still in its early days, but it’s already clear that this will be the next game-changing technology across industries.
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Rising to the Growth Challenge
Regardless of size, focus or geographic footprint, financial institutions across the United States are stepping up efforts to improve their organic growth.
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Turning the Periscope on Manufacturing
A new approach to manufacturing helps companies improve their competitive position and drive revenue growth.
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Real Options = Real Value
Real options analysis offers executives a new way to value large strategic projects that reduces risk and uncertainty by turning the unknown into the known.
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
In this Harvard Business Review article, based on our research in 2004-2005 with companies in a range of industries, we explain what makes a successful leadership development program.
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Simplify or Drown: Fighting the Rising Tide of Telecom Complexity
Telecom carriers can turn back the rising tide of complexity with a simplified organizational structure that will reduce costs, increase revenues and improve the customer experience.
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Mobinet 2005: Raising the Stakes
The stakes are higher than ever for mobile operators—how to attract consumers who want to use multimedia services on their phones and those who don’t.
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The Seventh Strategy for Fixed-Line Carriers
Leading telecom companies are adopting a new approach to outsourcing that could lift operating profits by 15 to 20 percent of more.
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Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind
Companies can slash 10 to 50 percent from their contract-labor spending by matching project needs with labor costs.
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Is U.S. Policy Exacerbating Chinese Apparel Imports?
In the run up to the elimination of textile and apparel quotas, the United States and Canada were taking very different approaches. Find out how each is faring in a post-quota world.
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Manufacturers: Develop a Private Equity Mindset
Manufacturers should stop pouring money into improving their long-term capabilities. Instead, think like PE firms and focus on cash flow.
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Destination China: The 2005 Global Retail Development Index
The opportunity for retailers to grow quickly, sell to the world’s largest emerging market and establish an Asian beachhead is very real.
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Destination India: The 2005 Global Retail Development Index
The message on India is clear: Move now or forego prime locations and market positions that will become saturated quickly.
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Destination Russia: The 2005 Global Retail Development Index
Russian retail is booming. And it’s not just the food sector. Russians are earning more money and becoming more price conscious.
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Destination Ukraine: The 2005 Global Retail Development Index
Few countries have shot up the Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) rankings as quickly as rising star Ukraine.
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China Cold Chain Is Heating Up
Frozen foods are not yet household staples in China, but it won't be long before they are. How to move them to consumers?
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Corporate Governance Roundtable
Large-scale corporate failings have prompted regulators and investors to open wide their boardroom doors.
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The Counterfeiting Paradox
Counterfeiting is a billion-dollar industry. When it comes to prevention, all eyes are on China.
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Knock It Off
The quasi-identical appearance and functionality of "knock-off" products raises suspicions, and rightly so. Are the technology and know-how legally acquired?
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Crunch Time
As the high-tech and telecom industries feel the heat of increasing global competition, it's time to step up to the plate.
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Creating Value through Strategic Supply Management
Instead of focusing on costs, procurement’s challenge is far more strategic--how to capture value from the supply market?
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Shared Services in Government
Governments face an uphill battle to balance their books while responding to citizens' ever increasing expectations. Can they do it?
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Why Today's IT Organization Won't Work Tomorrow
Can today’s IT organizations meet tomorrow’s needs? Only if they can move beyond the past and plan for the future.
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The Rise of Telemedia Titans
The ties between wireless and wireline portends a possible clash of the titans of communications and media industries.
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China Versus the United States
With the end of textile quotas, China is imposing tariffs on six categories of products. Should the U.S. government be encouraged by these tariffs?
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Agile Communities
Successful community transformations break through all constraints to deliver positive, meaningful change.
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2004 FDI Confidence Index
A positive shift in investor outlook and risk perception could presage the return to positive growth in global FDI flows.
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Turning Risk into Reward
The elimination of textile and clothing quotas has forever changed how manufacturers and retailers conduct their businesses.
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Transforming Trade Spend
Getting less for more is always an unsustainable equation, and trade spend is no exception.
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CIO.com Consultants' Briefing articles
A compilation of articles on today's top technology and transformation issues, featured in CIO.com.
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The Changing Face of China
To become a preferred offshore location, China is promoting its strengths, fixing its weaknesses, and changing a lot of misconceptions.
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A New Plan for Rural Development
Rural development programs have failed to improve the lives and living conditions of the world’s rural poor. It's time for a new plan.
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Making Procurement a Priority
In today’s hypercompetitive environment, when no company is safe, procurement is another way to create shareholder value.
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Leaping the Wireline and Wireless Divide
Removing regulatory barriers is encouraging competition across the U.S. telecommunications industry.
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Outsourcing among Pharmaceutical and Biotech Firms
For pharma and biotech companies, outsourcing is a means to improving financial and operating performance.
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The Complexity Challenge
Consumer products companies must reduce complexity even as they add brands, extend lines and alter package sizes.
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Filling the CEO's Chair
Every company should have a succession plan to replace leaders—not just for the appointment but throughout the transition process.
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How Corporate Boards (Should) Work
Expectations for boards of directors have moved beyond selecting the next CEO to redefining the board’s role and culture.
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MVNO Explosion
The rise of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) is finally silencing the rhetoric about the dangers of excess competition.
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Independent Refiners and Marketers Spin the Value Wheel
Independent refiners and marketers are known for being lean, mean operators. Do they still have what it takes to succeed?
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Playing for Profits
Sports success must be balanced with business success. Not every soccer club can be a Manchester United, but every club can be a money maker.
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Banks Shift Gears in Drive for Top-Line Growth
Why has organic growth become a strategy of choice among global financial institutions? Because it works.
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Mergers and acquisitions: Reducing M&A risk through improved due diligence
In mergers and acquisitions, there is one universal truth: making the "deal" work is one of the hardest tasks in business.
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Success Through Shared Services
As the "shared services" approach gains credibility, it is becoming synonymous with the back office of the future.
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Transforming Field-Service Operations
Success in field-service operations requires more than keeping pace with the latest strategies, you have to deliver faster and better.
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Making Offshore Decisions
Wondering where to locate? Our Offshore Location Attractiveness Index compares the factors that make countries appealing destinations.
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How Wireless Changes the Way We Work
With all the hype about wireless technologies and the obstacles to wireless adoption, there are often more questions than answers.
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Ubiquitous Broadband
Governments and industry groups have lots of options when it comes to capitalizing on broadband opportunities.
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What to Move Offshore?
As moving offshore becomes less a strategic advantage and more a competitive necessity, companies need to be more aggressive.
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Globalization Index 2004
Findings in the fourth annual Globalization Index performed by A.T. Kearney and Foreign Policy magazine.
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How Many Supply Chains Do You Need?
Supply chain strategies that are one-size-fits-all, or try-everything-until-something-sticks, will not work in a global economy.
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RFID/EPC: Managing the Transition (2004-2007)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has created a storm--capturing the attention and, in some cases, the ire of industries and consumers.
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Improving the Medicine Supply Chain
Nations under pressure to reduce health care budgets and costs might learn a few lessons from Mexico.
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The State as a Customer
Private-sector strategies will not work when selling products or services to governments.
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Improving Performance in the Public Sector
Governments can be "agile" but only if they work at it, according to this study by A.T. Kearney and the London School of Economics.
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Demand Management
Demand management is fundamentally changing the way organizations acquire their goods and services.
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Breakaway Speed!
From office cubicles to factory floors, companies must learn to be faster, smarter and better than their competitors.
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Finding New Answers to the Pricing Question
Success is more than selling "value," it is determining how to split the value equitably between you and your customers.
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A.T. Kearney-Line56 E-Business Investment and Governance Study
This study by A.T. Kearney and Line56 Media finds that companies are spending 20 percent of their IT budgets on e-business initiatives.
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Corporate Logos for Sale
Unless corporate sponsorships are strategic and integrated into marketing plans, companies will not realize their full economic potential.
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The Line on Design
Companies that combine lean design with lean manufacturing have a complete arsenal for attacking waste.
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