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Tag Archives: Strategy Research
The Evolving Model for Professional Services: A practitioner’s perspective.
These days, companies aren’t questioning whether to outsource as much as they are pondering how best to go about it. Although (at times) still the proverbial hot potato fraught with workforce issues, political quagmires, and public relations sensitivities, outsourcing moved … Read More…
Asset Bubbles and Bursts: The Re-emergence of Rational Valuation
Aswath Damodaran, the famed NYU finance professor and High Priest of quantitative valuation, shares a lot with Edward Altman, his equally famous colleague at NYU. (Damodaran penned “Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset”, a … Read More…
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“Is it Safe?” The Outlook for Investment in Emerging Markets
There’s a classic scene in the 1976 hit movie, The Marathon Man, in which Laurence Olivier, playing a skilled dentist who is also a Nazi war criminal, is torturing a young Dustin Hoffman. Using his medical know-how and some frightening … Read More…
Beyond Politics: Do Job Creation and Outsourcing Go Hand in Hand?
This weeks announcement between Dr Pepper Snapple and HCL Technologies has us thinking about how the practice of Outsourcing has been changing in recent years. Traditionally viewed as simply a means of cost arbitrage (effectively, moving work from one high … Read More…
Are We Not Taking Enough Risk…?
…At least when it comes to Innovation and the Venture Capital community? In times of trouble, organizations tend to do two things – 1) Conserve cash and 2) Focus on what you know. This makes perfect sense for most corporates … Read More…
Offshoring – Taking its place within the Management Toolkit
One of the most intriguing findings from our recent Financial Services survey related to the impact of offshoring (and outsourcing*) on the financial job market – both in recent years as well as today. All in all, 70% of recruiters … Read More…
The Asia vs. the West Business Debate: A Study in Strategy Contrasts
“We don’t try to grab market share quickly by competing on price. That’s not a long term, sustainable growth strategy.” Can you guess the technology CEO who recently said that? If you guessed anyone inhabiting the corner office of a … Read More…