Reignite Business Performance For Competitive Edge Executive Summary
On 30th June, 25 senior executives from a range of leading multinational companies gathered at Gordon Ramsay's York and Albany restaurant in central London to share insights on increasing competitiveness, raising performance levels, controlling expenditure and positioning a company for growth in an ever uncertain, fast-changing global marketplace. Read more 25 July 2010
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All is eerily quiet on the corporate front. Even though the global economy continues to grow strongly, and the economic recovery is nearly a year old even in America, corporate investment, and mergers and acquisitions, remain at low levels even though firms are sitting on record piles of cash. Read more 9 July 2010
The More CEOs Make, The Worse They Treat Workers, Says A New Study
CEO pay has been blasted for increasing risk to the economy, being out of proportion to ordinary wages and being unrelated to actual company performance. And, according to a new study, a high salary may actually make your company's CEO meaner. (Hat tip to Harvard Business Review) Read more 8 July 2010
Intel CEO: Fostering an Innovation Economy
Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today said that innovation and investments in information and communications technology (ICT) will accelerate economic recovery and jobs growth worldwide. Read more 25 May 2010
Using rivalry to spur innovation
Companies looking for new sources of creative energy might want to look backward—to the productive rivalry that catalyzed much of the artistic innovation during the Italian Renaissance. Read more 20 May 2010
Innovation leaders: a breed different from corporate managers
Innovation is the fountainhead for differentiation.The importance of innovation in business is clear. However, to most companies and managers, it is not clear where such innovation might come from. Read more 3 February 2010
What's Needed Next: A Culture of Candor
If there's one thing that the past decade's business disasters should teach us, it's that we need to stop evaluating corporate leaders simply on the basis of how much wealth they create for investors. Read more 2 February 2010
Where next for Shared Services and Operational Excellence?
For the last couple of decades, businesses have been doing a lot to improve their internal operations. They’ve ticked off an impressive array of programs that have driven corporate productivity to ever higher levels. Read more 2 February 2010
