A foreign multinational company facing local competition needs to overcome its liability of foreignness and gain competitive advantage by makinguse of the big company network. At the same time, the…
The enormous changes in the financial environment demand new strategies from the financial institutions that intend to survive into the next decade. Given the speed with which change occurs in…
Defining International Financial Services Financial services may be defined as the provision of instruments and mechanisms to hold and manage savings, obtain funding, transfer funds between locations and forms,…
The degree of corporate internationalization has increased, making companies more dependent on their foreign markets. Size has apparently become an important weapon to win against competition and satisfy demanding shareholders,…
The IT service delivery value chain relies on a wide range of external service providers and vendors. The value chain is as vulnerable as its weakest link. Doing IT all…
According to traditional economic and strategy theories, the firm is mostly seen as a purely economic institution and its actors as driven by self-interest, with society a constraining factor. A…
The level of integration between Business Analytics and Strategy depends on the organization’s strategy, internal competencies, technological options, and competitive situation. We present four scenarios that illustrate different degrees of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…