The establishment of a single market for services and goods – including banking - has for several decades been one of Europe’s core policy objectives. The way towards these objectives is termed integration process. The benefit of integration is to offer new business opportunities in Europe for the banks through more competition and the option […]

trendwatching.com, a leading trend firm, has just released its ‘10 Consumer Trends for 2010′. According to this trend report next year will bring a bonanza of opportunities, as even cautious consumers crave pragmatic or exciting innovations.Its argues that we will see a scene from ‘urban pride’ to ‘forced sustainability’.
The summary:

BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL | Forget the […]

In the last one and a half year the financial crisis has changed the views of many people, in particular their perceptions concerning corporate responsibilities and corporate ethics. Taking this into consideration I have to stress that in some discussions I miss an important issue: The crisis’ impact on trust, no matter whether it is […]

Tuck professors Vijay Govindarajan and Richard D’Aveni have once again been named to the Thinkers 50, the 4th biennial ranking of the world’s most influential living management thinkers. Tuck professor Sydney Finkelstein is also named as a management thinker to watch.

Created and compiled by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove of CrainerDearlove*, Thinkers 50 has established […]

Keeping track of all tasks and projects can be difficult sometimes. However, this is an essential part of manager’s roles. That led us to the question, whether there are any small pieces of software which might help managers to keep track of all their duties. Well, in most cases you might use MS Outlook (or […]

A provider of on-demand sales tools and related services has published an interesting paper on cost cutting. Its title is quite promising: “Simple Savvy Savings - 9 ideas to make anyone a Cost-Cutting Hero”. The underlying idea behind this paper is the current financial crisis and the resulting consequences, i.e. in terms of cost cutting: […]

A few days ago I did participate in a discussion concerning the transfer of existing print mail campaigns to new e-mail-campaigns. An issue within this discussion was, whether and to what extent content and structure should be changed.
The basic answer can be summarized as follows: E-Mail campaigns are quite different in comparison to print mail […]

…and how to manage them. When company managers discuss their personal experiences in terms of external consultants you can find a broad range of opinions and beliefs. Point of views may vary between very positive experiences when hiring external knowledge and very bad experiences; the later ones are sometimes expressed in jokes about “flippy” PowerPoint […]

Despite the poor economic situation many finance departments seem to be afraid that their key players could switch to a competitor. More than half of HR managers and finance department heads in the world see the risk to lose their best people. Also in Germany companies are afraid of losing finance specialists. That is one […]

No, I don’t want to post a blog about the change which is related to the presidency of Mr. Obama. I guess that there are articles enough available in the media which discuss this issue. In the case that you would like to employ the “we can change” in order to improve your organization this […]