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The Future of TV
By Jean-Claude Saade
TV is a very important medium in our life and the TV industry has been
always changing and adopting new ways and technologies. This time, the
change is big and will take the “TV product” that TV stations and media
companies are offering to a different level. This might be alarming for
some people, but we believe it will lead to more control and better
experiences for consumers. It also can be great news for the prepared
brands.
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The side effects of Basel III
on banks
by Dagmar Recklies
Much has been written about the
effects of the new Basel III / CRD IV regulation on Banks. My focus
in this article will be a slightly different one: Besides the primary
effects of Basel III like tighter equity requirements and implicit
restrictions for business models, there will be some side effects on
banks. As I see it, these secondary effects of the new regulatory
requirements too may have a significant impact on banks' profitability
and agility – at least for the implementation period.
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How to Rebuild Corporate Trust
By Dr. Bob Deutsch
Article about the state of corporate America and what it can do to
rebuild corporate trust
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Why Corporate
Images Are On Fire?
By Naseem Javed
Overnight, things got suddenly changed, over-exposing of corporate
credibility and governance, like Richter scales gone wild are thumping
the global populace in sheer panic while shattering thousands of mega
corporate name brands worldwide.
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A Worldwide Corporate
Metamorphosis
By Naseem Javed
The historian will have to be very kind to this global financial
meltdown and should reward it for the most needed rude awakening call
forcing a dramatic change of traditional business models. Right now, all
over the world, this crisis is teaching CEOs new things, firstly, face
the music and change the tune and secondly, appreciation for finer
details and anger management during this extremely-hyper-loss-count.
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Meltdown Creates New Global
Champions
By Naseem Javed
A summary of the issues of meltdown and how the new global champions
will emerge
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Raising Capital and Internet Offers
By Hannah M. Terhune
Learn How to Raise Capital and Avoid Illegal Offers of Your Fund
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The Nine New Mega
Opportunities of 2009
By Naseem Javed
The business issues of 2009 are not only hyper-accelerated but they will
take many sudden turns... Naseem Javed has carefully selected the
NINE hot opportunities for 2009
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Hedge Fund Performance Fees
By Hannah Terhune
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The Quest for Digital Gold –
Leveraging Social Media
By Aneesh Issar, Associate Director, Consumer & Business Insights
Practice at RocSearch
As companies demand more return on their marketing dollars, social media
is playing a pivotal role in the future of online brand engagement. The
research study attempts to showcase the social media eco-system, its
drivers & imperatives while detailing cases of brand successes and
failures attempting to harness the power of this medium.
The study covers campaigns from P&G, Nintendo, Heinz, Wal-Mart,"Step
Up", Sephora and many more.
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Management By Simplicity
By Praveen Kumar.S
Three case studies about very successful businesses with very simple
management styles
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Starting an Offshore Fund
By Hannah M. Terhune, Esquire 2008©
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The Big, Bad Brand of Bollywood
By Naseem Javed
There is really nothing wrong with the brand "Bollywood", except that
the Indian film industry has become far more powerful and far-reaching
than any thing else like this in any other country of the world, and
even larger than Hollywood.
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The Positive "R" words
By Naseem Javed
The current and unavoidable Recession of America, slowly impacting
Canada, Mexico, spreading it wings towards Europe and Asia, all the way
to the farthest corners of the world is nothing to be either afraid or
surprised of. It is just one of those cycles that appear every decade or
so. While some land soft, some land hard, but this may be the hardest,
yet still there are some very positive things in that "R" word.
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Can Short-Term Brand "Candidate Obama"
Transform Successfully Into Long-Term Brand "President Obama"?
Dan Herman, Ph.D.
A spate of recent articles about the Obama brand have, in my view as an
expert on marketing, neglected the brand's strategy and focused its
verbal or visual expressions. But far more important is the distinction
between the short-term brand, "Candidate Obama," and the long-term
brand, "President Obama."
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Revolution in a Box
By Naseem Javed
Come August 24th, 2008, when the Olympics Games start with music and
hymns and the torch lit the flame, ..., the whole world will witness a
sleeping giant, awaken to create a global shockwave. Like a nicely
packaged, little gift box, a highly intense global consumer revolution
will be let out to create ripples in global image shifts and perception
consuming minds and like a tsunami will mostly wash over the busy
production facilities of hundreds of nations parked far away.
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The Presidential Branding
By Naseem Javed
Article about the branding and labeling of politicians and of the
presidential candidates in the US
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Practice of strategic planning in German retail banks
by Oliver Recklies
This
paper analyses the practice of strategic planning of two major player
groups within retail banking business in Germany. Both types of banks
face a set of burdens to organise their strategic planning processes. To
discuss strategic planning approaches within these organizations the
author uses a three step framework of (1) strategic analysis, (2)
strategy finding and (3) strategy assessment. Key factors influencing
the planning processes will be identified. For each element of the
framework the author discusses tools and methods which are employed by
bank managers to overcome existing barriers. For strategy assessment two
benchmarking approaches are analysed. The author argues that approaches
of these banks give an example how small organisations might address the
issues of strategic planning.
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Welcome To The Click Society:
The 2008 Mega Trends
By Naseem Javed
We are simply not alone any longer, anywhere or anytime... not even in
the most private rooms and quiet spaces that we so dearly cherish. All
that beautiful décor and openness that we think is filled with fresh air
is actually jam packed with zillions of invisible wireless messages,
electronic signals, streaming videos and all kinds of pulses that are
fast forwarding our cyber-society of today.
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The $100 Zerophobia
By Naseem Javed
Consumers all over the world have always found comfort in things that
are often priced at the 99 cent range, regardless of whether it's a
small item at $9.99 or $99,000 for a big ticket item.
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What Does The London
2012 Olympic Logo Prove?
By Naseem Javed
That there is absolutely nothing wrong with the new London 2012 Olympics
logo, but there is something seriously wrong with the logo-driven
branding industry at large
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Who Really Owns Your
Brand?
By Naseem Javed
You may think that you have an absolute, 100% ownership for your brand,
yet if your name identity is shared with hundreds of others, then you
clearly lack 100% ownership.
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Theme-Based Real Estate Branding
By Naseem Javed
With some one thousand theme-based-cities being developed at a
phenomenal rate here in the Middle East, the branding and name
identities of such projects become nightmares.
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The Newspaper Cemetery
By Naseem Javed
Despite all denials, newspapers all over the world are simply dying. The
gravity of the problem is not that the competing media like TV or
Internet are at play it’s rather that the public all over the world
prefers moving pictures in the palms of their hands over deciphering or
reading between the lines of nicely arranged words spread out on a paper
blanket.
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The Super Stars
By Praveen Kumar S
Indian entrepreneurs are making waves all across the world. Indian
business firms are making acquisitions abroad and spreading their
tentacles in various corners of the world. Indian Entrepreneurs have
proved all doomsday prophecies wrong and on the contrary have
flourished. A brief profile and the management style of some famous
Indian entrepreneurs’ viz. Jamsetji Tata, Birla, Dhirubhai Ambani,
Subhash Chandra, Verghese Kurien and Narayana Murthy.
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The World's Largest
Office
By Naseem Javed
As the free-floating, nonrestrictive nature of streamlined internet
access and efficiency continue to grow, the internet community will
slowly render the traditional functionality of the office obsolete.
Bye-bye cubicles and bye-bye water coolers.
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Global Image Re-Positioning
2007
By Naseem Javed
Suddenly, there is a new global tidal wave of change all over the Asian
region, the obvious signs are people on the move, new developments and
properties popping up all over the region and a nouvo-consumerism is
appearing at every corner, customers are buying shiny and wonderful
things with beautiful packaging and companies are addressing their
hunger with massive blitzes. Unseen by the masses but clearly visible to
global circumnavigators, a new storm is building, wiser and well
seasoned, like homing pigeons, immigrants are returning to their
homelands…soon it will cut a clear path.
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The SME Revolution starts in
Dubai and GCC
By Naseem Javed
The Western economies realized decades ago that small and medium
enterprises are really the main drivers of the economy. While big
businesses are necessary to preserve and maintain structure within the
economy, surely they have considerable problems of their own. Mega
corporations of the earlier era have increasingly lost their edge to
smaller, nimbler organizations, which have spouted all over the Western
landscape. The Middle East is now a new turning point for SME’s to begin
a grassroots revolution.
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Forex Trader-to- Forex Fund Manager:
The Path to Success
by Hannah Terhune, JD LLM
While starting and managing a forex fund isn't for the inexperienced forex trader, it's
not as tough or complicated as it may seem. These funds woo investors
who want to participate in the forex markets but who know that they do
not have the time or expertise to trade their own accounts.
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Due Diligence, Disclosure and
Fund Managers
by Hannah Terhune, JD LLM
Fund managers should be prepared for the proverbial "check under the
hood" when it comes to attracting new investors. When dealing with
potential investors ("prospects"), it may be helpful for fund managers
to understand the due diligence process in order to be better prepared
for all contingencies.
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How to Set Up Your Own Hedge Fund
By Hannah Terhune, JD LLM
This article covers many of the basic tenets of hedge funds. It educates
the reader on the components of hedge funds and common subjects related
to them.
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The Worst
Thing about Best Practices
By Michael W. McLaughlin
Few consulting “tools” are more widely abused these days than
so-called best practices. It’s no wonder most banks, supermarkets,
airlines, retailers, and consulting firms look astonishingly
similar—they’ve been busy copying each other’s best practices for
decades. What’s most alarming is how ingrained their use has become
in the language of consultants and clients. Best practices have
joined the long list of meaningless phrases like scalable
strategies, seamless integration, and transformational initiatives.
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Financial
services must focus on future while optimising the present
Doug Leather, MD, REAP Consulting
No managers in financial services need to be told that their world
is changing quickly, or that managing change is difficult, or that
short-term success is no guarantee of long-term success or even
survival, or that short-term failure is not a guarantee of demise.
However, DOUG LEATHER, founder and MD of REAP Consulting, says all
managers need to understand that balancing change for tomorrow and
for the day after tomorrow is probably the best trick they can pull
off - for their own careers, for their shareholders or stakeholders,
and for their customers.
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9
Ways Consultants Lose Sales
by Michael W. McLaughlin
Proposals are one of the most widely used - and abused - marketing
tools in a consultant's arsenal. All too often, consultants snatch
defeat from the jaws of victory with a lousy proposal. We focus here
on nine ways to blow a proposal.
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Paving
the road to profits
By Hanns Guenther Bollig
The article shows the principles of good logistics. If these
principles are followed, the reader will be able to save significant
costs and improve customer service.
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Survey
on the Growth Perspectives of the European Automotive Supplier
Industry
- How Suppliers can win more Business in Europe -
By Hanns Guenther Bollig
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) commissioned
Automotive Advisors & Associates to conduct a survey amongst the
European automotive manufacturers and their largest first-tier
suppliers about the growth prospects of the European automotive
supply industry and the priority actions for suppliers and
governments.
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Understanding
the Challenges of a Liberalised Aftermarket
By Hanns Guenther Bollig
The liberalised automotive aftermarket provides great opportunities for suppliers to win additional direct business with the
end
customers and take more profits home.
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Fit
for Growth
By Hanns Guenther Bollig
During the boom time of process cost reduction programmes,
Automotive Advisors & Associates carried out a European
Benchmark Project about "Best Practice" in Improvement
Programme Management in the automotive industry. The results are
stunning. This Survey on the effectiveness of business improvement
programmes in the automotive industry shows how effective the
various approaches to cost reduction and business improvements have
been in the past. Which ones have been successful, which ones have
been flops.
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Healthcare:
e-learning in India
By Nishikant Waikar, Gunjan Saxena & Jagannath Prakash
Health is considered as luxury for the people of a country having
population more than 100 crore and just 55 doctors per 1 million
population to serve. Can we ever imagine to achieve the mission of
Health for All by 2020 ! To cater the need of such a huge
population, we need expert and skilled medical professionals and
managers, but there is a great gap between demand and supply, which
can be fulfilled by e-learning in health care education, to a great
extent.
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Myths - STP in
Financial Services
By Deepak Pareek
What is STP, its’ benefits and strategies to have best solutions?
Is the business case for STP still valid and what should be the key
elements in an STP strategy? What are the myths surrounding the
importance of STP. This article takes a look at the subject of
STP by attempting to underline its importance, best way forward and
in the process, exploding a few of the myths associated with it.
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E-medicine
in India: - Hurdles and future prospects
By Gunjan Saxena and Jagannath Prakash Singh
E-Medicine is not an evolutionary concept but a revolutionary
concept in itself. It represents a very innovative approach in
providing quality health care whenever and wherever needed, but is
seen lacking reliability, user friendliness & most importantly
governmental support. In fact the main challenge facing website
administrators, software engineers, system developers & medical
practitioners is to develop strategies that will give e- care a
reliable environment to exploit opportunities and make it more
feasible & cost effective.
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The Internet:
Redefining relationships in the supply chain
By Hanns Günther Bollig
The automotive industry is fighting to increase it's attractiveness
for shareholders and funds. The Internet will provide them with the
opportunity to increase shareholder value and compete more
effectively with other industries. Issues are: Exploiting the
automotive brands, supplying the built-to-order car, rationalising
the supply chain, new build technology and improved customer service
Read the Executive
Summary
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Online
Marketplaces for Freelancers - Faults in the Business Model?
by Dagmar Recklies
Many electronic marketplaces for freelancers and project work have
started on the Web during the last years. The business model seemed
to be brilliant. However, if you have a closer look at the long list
of Internet-based marketplaces for freelancers and project workers,
you will find that not all of them make significant business any
more. So
why doesn’t this fascinating concept work? As so often, reasons are multiple.
June 2001
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The Management Consultancy Industry
- An Analysis
by Dagmar Recklies
The management consultancy industry shows a very fragmented picture
with various segments and player groups. We have analyzed this
industry in its current state and future prospects.
This industry shows an impressive growth. It outperforms the average
GDP growth in many countries. This growth is fuelled by the
developments in its clients industries, which require ever-new
consulting needs. Amongst these drivers, IT is one of the most
important ones. The German Association of Management Consultants
predicts, that about 50% of all consulting assignments will at least
partly include some e-business consulting in 2001. However, this
industry is not without problems. The already fierce competition
will become even harder, driven by new entrants from other
industries and by consolidation amongst their clients. Moreover,
management consultancies do not only compete for clients, but also
for staff. The ability to attract qualified people is one of the
critical success factors in this knowledge-based industry. Read our
two-part analysis
Part I - Current State:
Market Segments and Player Groups - html file - 19 KB
Part II - Future
Prospects: Driving Forces, Future Developments for Market
Segments and Player Groups, Critical Success Factors for Consulting
Businesses -html file - 26 KB
April 2001
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Internet
Marketplaces for Freelancers – The Future of Work?
by Dagmar Recklies
Marketplaces for freelancers and freelance projects are an example
of the many new business models on the web. The chances for survival
of many B2B marketplaces are discussed controversially today.
However, freelancer-marketplaces still have a good image in terms of
future prospects. Freelancing is widely seen as the model for work
in 21st century. Accordingly, the industry is
enthusiastic. For a more down-to-earth analysis, this
article will describe how the business model works. Than we discuss,
what these marketplaces really can offer their members – buyers
and sellers of services. Finally, we have a look at the future of
(freelance) work.
January 2001
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Expo 2000
by Oliver Recklies
This article asks why the World Exhibition 2000 in Hanover missed
its ambiguous objectives and why so few visitors wanted to see it.
To find answers, the author compares the Expo's problems with the
problems Eurodisney Paris faced during its first years - and finds
lots of similarities
July 2000
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The
Venture Capital Industry
by Dagmar Recklies
An analysis of the Venture Capital Industry: key player groups,
success factors, competitive situation, drivers for change, two
possible future scenarios and likely reactions of players
March 2000
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Printer-friendly pdf-file (228 KB)
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Euro
Disney I
by Dagmar Recklies
This report was written as an assignment in the authors MBA-Course
for Managing Finance. It answers the question:
Were the 1992 and 1993 financial results
for Euro Disney an indication that principal factors in the planning process
were wrong?
September 1999
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Euro
Disney II
by Oliver Recklies
This report was written as an assignment in the authors MBA-Course
for Managing Finance. It answers the question:
How far do your think Disney's assumptions in the planning process overlooked some key cultural differences in the market in Europe and areas
where Disney had had previous experience?
September 1999
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