Risk Instability Indicators and Exchange Rates
The private sector has over the past few years been hard at work creating “risk appetite indicators” to measure overall conditions for risk tolerance across currency and asset markets. Within…
Shifting Financial Risks Critical Survival Factors
Financial services companies offer dozens of elaborate risk management services. A wide range of financial products, collectively known as derivatives, designed to help industry players hedge risk, has grown to…
Finance Globalization Impact Analysis
We are witnessing the emergence of a truly global financial marketplace. While the origins of this phenomenon were in the globalization of the non-financial products and services markets, financial globalization…
Business Valuation Decisions are made Differently
Coming from all types of backgrounds, valuation practitioners bring their experience and biases with them. Even day traders are influenced by insights on valuation. When we talk about valuation practitioners,…
Forecasting Market Evolution and Demand Volume
How far ahead must businesses forecast markets and plan their actions? This question is far from an intellectual curiosity; event certainties, the value of money, and many other factors diminish…
Value-Based Management
As known, the value of a firm is based on the present value of its future cash flows. In fact, there are two distinct components: (1) present value of…
Dynamic Capital Management
Most organizations allocate capital in the annual budget, though they may not allocate much of that capital to specific projects. In other words, a percentage of allocated capital is subject…
Strategic Change Requirements
Strategic change is about ensuring that the organization is consistently relevant in its market arenas. The very essence of strategy involves exploiting change before your competitors do. So in order…
Six Sigma Strategy Benchmarking
In order to understand why Six Sigma might be considered a component of business strategy, it is first necessary to realize its purpose and application. Fundamentally, sigma represents a standard…
Financial Ratios Patterns
There are two issues of concern for financial ratios and their interaction with economic activity. These two issues are the interaction of cyclical and secular (longer-term) patterns and the role…
Customer-Centric Strategies
Many customers want relationships with key suppliers. Customers want close relationships through which they can engage in dialogue with suppliers for the purpose of detailing their customization desires. These dialogues…
New Equities Business Opportunities
In the past decade, almost all of the conditions affecting competition in the equities business have changed and are still changing. Not the least is the widespread availability of financial…
Static and Dynamic Competitive Innovation
Dynamic competition is a style of competition which relies on innovation to bring forth new products and processes and concomitant price reductions. It improves both productivity and consumer welfare. Dynamic…
Managing Strategic Threats and Reconfiguration
The successful identification and calibration of technological and market opportunities, the judicious selection of technologies and product attributes, the design of business models, and the com- mitment of (financial) resources…
Financial Implications of Strategy
In order to understand financial implications of a certain market strategy it is necessary to analyse the revenue stream that is generated besides the existing strategy cost structure. Setting the…
Creativity-Inducing Innovation Situation
Selecting people who have characteristics that seem to be related to creativity is not the only option for organizations that seek to increase their innovativeness. Providing specific and difficult goals…
Innovating Patterns of Interactions
The world’s network of interactions has undergone several profound changes. First, the total volume of interactions has grown. The markets of “interaction enablers” (e.g. telecommunication services, Internet, and media) as…
Cisco: Connectivity and Innovating Customer Relationships
Hyper-competition results in increased complexity and weaker signals for companies. Strategies that face and embrace complexity are emerging in organizations built around maximizing interaction value rather than minimizing interaction cost.…
Knowledge Leveraging and Product Innovation
In contexts where product innovation is a crucial competitive weapon, dynamics related to knowledge are of utmost importance. New knowledge may turn into new products, making possible a strategy of…
Managing Strategic Change Aspects
The most commonly recognized signal of a need for strategic change is an acute crisis signalled by financial losses, a significant fall in market share and a rapidly falling share…