Entrepreneurial Ventures Valuation
Successful entrepreneurs tend to have one thing in common; they have developed an uncanny ability to separate the opportunities from the chaotic sea of ideas. Entrepreneurial success depends on identifying…
Real-time Financial Corporate Performance Management
Corporate performance reporting is a critical CFO function. Real-time performance reporting allows top management to understand the pulse of the business from its financial and operational metrics. Real time financial…
Global Collaborative Innovation Clusters
Across many different types of industries, firms will succeed to the extent that they can use superior know-how and capabilities to create a continuous stream of innovative products and services…
Private and Hybrid Clouds New Operating Models
In this global economy with short product lifecycles, companies need to be good at bringing new products to market, and they need to be good at tailoring existing products to…
Trading Brokerage Value Chain Transformation
The securities industry is in a period of fundamental transition and broker-dealers are facing many new threats to their business. If market-making and brokerage is an attractive business, why do…
Driving Innovation in Top and Bottom Lines
Innovation is the key element in providing aggressive top-line growth and for increasing bottom-line results. Companies cannot grow through cost reduction and reengineering alone. Most of the past attempts at…
Financial Analytics Transformation
Every company has huge amounts of data and knowledge. However, only those businesses able to transform their disparate data streams into timely, relevant, and coherent information will ultimately achieve real…
Value Innovation in Banking Channels
An emerging field in customer experience and behavioural research and marketing is the area of value innovation. Value innovation, in strategic terms, is the creation of a superior customer value…
Values-driven Corporate Culture
A corporate culture is the system of values, beliefs, norms and behaviours that creates a certain organizational climate. Tangible factors such as the external environment, technologies, organization size and structure,…
Corporate Social Responsibility Benefits
Although regulation on environmental practices and corporate stewardship already existed, until recently Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been widely regarded as a costly waste of resources. Enron’s failure succeeded in…
Strategic Alliance Development Factors
A strategic alliance is a link between two or more firms that enhances the effectiveness of the firms’ competitive strategies. More specifically, an alliance is a voluntary arrangement between two…
Innovation Performance Assessment Levels
Improving Companies performance implies having to embed innovation in a continually changing host. For a successful outcome, organizations must have an accurate, although not necessarily fully detailed, picture of where,…
Prespective Strategy Options Evaluation
Strategy selection involves two aspects that should be clearly distinguished: content and process. • Content is about what is in the plan. It means the actual strategy that is finally…
Corporate Centers Value Creation
In several multi-business groups, the different businesses comprising the group have developed their individual, appropriately tailored sources of sustainable competitive advantage, or areas of core competence. These should be tailored…
IT Strategic Controls
IT strategy is crafted and aligned with the business functions of the organisation after the IT function is set up with a structure, personnel, administration, and the Enterprise Architecture is…
Executive Leadership in Sustainable Business Development
The rapid spread of information and knowledge, the increasing expectations of customers and stakeholders, hyper-competition, the dramatically increased dependence on supply networks, and the breathtaking speed of change are making…
Service Industry Efficiency
The information economy is driving the redefinition of work processes. We can look back at history to get an idea about why. In the early days of industrialization, a new…
Competitive Shifts in Changing Markets
To prosper in a changing environment, established firms must radically rethink how to compete. In many cases, they will have to unlearn everything that has made them successful so far. …
Strategic Implications of Cloud-Enabled Business Models
The business and financial potential of cloud makes it a special trend for us to embrace. Cloud computing offers business agility in a simple, clearly understandable model: For a new…
Strategy Paths During an Industrial Life Cycle
The innovation context of companies and industries affect their ability implement strategy due to the competitive challenges that arise in the different life stages of industries and companies. the industrial…