Central Europe Top 500
Deloitte's ranking of the largest companies in Central Europe provides an essential map of the challenges that face enterprises and managers in the region.
M&A a new game as big players raise the bar
This article details the three factors requiring special notice as the M&A market becomes more difficult.
Avoiding M&A disconnect
Learn how companies can avoid a disconnect between the strategy that justified making an acquisition and what actually happens when the deal is done.
The overconfidence trap
Conventional wisdom gets a bad rap. Much of what we intuitively know about mergers and acquisitions — and there is a sagging bookshelf on the subject — is borne out by the facts. But being 'almost right' about expectations and priorities isn’t enough. The reality is far more nuanced.
The service revolution: Manufacturing’s missing crown jewel
With unprecedented pressures on product margins and the threat of commoditization, services may the best opportunity for profit and differentiation.
Why finance transformation matters in global manufacturing
In recent years, manufacturers have spent vast sums of money on business transformation to mixed results. While there is rarely one recipe for successful business improvement, there is a growing recognition that finance is an indispensable ingredient.
Globalizing Indian manufacturing
Despite recent and rapid changes in the Indian manufacturing sector, challenges still exists. However, a collaborative report produced in part by Deloitte Research, suggests overcoming the hurdles are well worth the effort.
Navigating the marketing measurement maze
This Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications article presents pragmatic approaches to the design of marketing measurement programs. It is based on interviews with 30 executives and aims to raise the strategic accountability of the marketing function as it increasingly becomes a part of the
C-suite agenda.
Putting a premium on service
The basis of competition is shifting toward service excellence—the ability to drive business performance through superior service and parts management. This Supply Chain Management Review article from Deloitte examines how manufacturers are driving growth through the service side of their operations.
Managing in the face of exchange-rate uncertainty
This report examines the risk exposures of large and long-term shifts in currency values to future business cash flow, especially changes to the U.S. dollar vs. Asian currencies. The report identifies operational hedging as a means for companies to create flexibility in their operating models.
China and India: The reality beyond the hype
Global business leaders increasingly believe that they must have a strategy for China and India. This study offers some thoughts on the risks and opportunities of doing business in each country, their future and the likely impact they will have on global business.
The service revolution in global manufacturing
While manufacturers look for growth and profits in all corners of the globe, they often neglect large opportunities much closer to home — in their own service and parts operations. This new thought leadership report reveals how manufacturers are building world-class service and parts businesses to drive profitable growth.
Seven disciplines for venturing in China
This study undertaken in collaboration with the China Venture Capital Association outlines the key lessons learned by leading venture capital and private equity firms investing in China.
Sustainable growth
Risk management has become an area of significant concern for numerous companies in today’s volatile marketplace. However, a number of executives are still grappling with what needs to be done to protect their organizations.
The power of synchronization: The case of TAL apparel
This new case study from Deloitte Research shows how TAL has changed the dynamics of its competitive situation to its distinct advantage by delivering a value proposition beyond the usual concerns of cost, quality, and delivery.
It's 2008: Do you know where your talent is?
An unprecedented talent shortage and skills gap is expected as a Baby Boomers retire and fewer graduates with the right critical skill sets enter the marketplace. This study defines the crisis and outlines a new, forward-thinking approach to talent management strategies — the “Develop-Deploy-Connect” model.
Disarming the value killers
Risk management has become an area of significant concern for numerous companies in today’s volatile marketplace. However, a number of executives are still grappling with what needs to be done to protect their organizations.
OnStar: Connecting to customers through telematics
This case study from Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum and Deloitte Research looks at how OnStar became the world’s largest telematics provider in the automotive industry.
The CEO and managing risk in the 21st century
Many of the world's largest companies have suffered significant losses in market value at one time or another during the past decade. These losses were often the result of failures to anticipate, hedge against, and manage diverse risks. Read more in this white paper written for the World Economic Forum's 2005 Davos Annual Meeting.
Business in China, the next stage: The fifth modernization
China's business culture is at a crossroads. The country's industrial capacity is rapidly shifting from a mix of state-owned and foreign-invested facilities toward privatized, domestic companies. Read more in this white paper written for the World Economic Forum's 2005 Davos Annual Meeting.
Tracking RFID's next wave to gain strategic advantage
Disposable RFID devices made of ink; Chipless RFID technology; Polymer-based RFID chips; Hacker-proof RFID tags; Mesh networks, smart dust & motes. These are a few of the terms associated with a wave of innovations by privately held companies and divisions of well established corporations that have either sprung into existence or have gained greater visibility of late.
Cracking the IT value code
Deloitte Research argues that the key to IT optimization lies beyond the types, uses and cost of technology, in the governance models used to manage and integrate IT within the business. In short, it is not what you spend but how you govern IT that unlocks the value code.
Moving targets: Tightening security in the transportation industry
Ongoing concerns about terrorism have prompted a flood of new regulations and security initiatives, many of them targeted at the transportation industry and global supply chain. These programs are reshaping the landscape of international trade.
Prospering in the secure economy
A new study from Deloitte Research shows that security is increasingly becoming a focus for directors of corporate boards who view it as a strategic investment that can reap measurable benefits.
China at a crossroads: Seven risks of doing business
China is now the preferred location for procuring goods, and its domestic market has achieved critical mass, driving global companies to increasingly target Chinese consumers. In this report, Deloitte Research examines seven key risks of doing business in China and offers its point of view on how businesses can successfully navigate these dangerous waters and emerge strong.
Marketing information technologies to small and medium-sized enterprises
Small and Midsized Enterprises are numerous, here to stay and actively looking for the right IT products and services to help them handle their growing pains. However, only those IT providers who take appropriate steps to avoid misconceptions about the SME market and carefully tailor their product line and message to meet the needs of this growing sector will succeed at making the most of the $85 billion SME market opportunity.
Everyone is a retailer
For those who thought they had gone on to higher education to avoid those low paying jobs in retail, this idea may come as a shock. But no matter how hard you try to avoid the reality of it, we are all market facing now.
Globalization at risk
The failure of the recent WTO trade talks in Cancun is not the only sign that globalization could be running out of steam. This new report identifies 10 forces that could reverse the trend toward global economic and political unity. One of them is hostility between developed and developing nations. Deloitte Research identifies nine other threats that are just as ominous, if not more so. The report recommends adopting an approach known as "Strategic Flexibility," which permits companies to make low-cost, tentative preparations for multiple future business conditions. Learn more in this Deloitte Research Viewpoint.
The world's factory: China enters the 21st century
With its entry into the World Trade Organization, China is set to increase its share of the global export market — but not without risk. The possibility of a currency revaluation, a banking crisis and the social unrest linked to further privatization all loom large. Read our in-depth analysis in this Deloitte Research Consumer Business Study. |
