...Arthur Bert; Timothy MacDonald; Thomas Herd Today, with years of corporate experience in managing mergers and acquisitions, there is little excuse for deals that don’t create value. Regrettably failure is the case more often than not. Depending on the industry, a top‐performing merger can increase...

...Michael Petromilli; Dan Morrison; Michael Million Corporations must routinely ask “how should we allocate existing financial and human resources among our brands to grow shareholder value?” Firms should focus on getting the most from existing brands through better organizing and managing brands...

... of their products and services to customers, build costs in advance of revenues, and underestimate what it will take to deliver value consistently. Amway’s pyramid sales approach is the basis for one of the most robust, sustainable models in the business landscape. On the other hand, the XFL, NBC’s experimental...

...Pamela Cohen Kalafut; Jonathan Low There is increasing recognition of the importance of intangible assets. There is also a pressing need for a set of widely accepted metrics by which corporate leaders and the investment community can account for the non‐financial factors that affect value creation...

... design as the sum total of the high‐tech innovations multiplying around us is a fatally incomplete view. The discipline of digital business design is about serving customers, creating unique value propositions, leveraging talent, achieving order‐of‐magnitude improvements in productivity, and increasing...

.... Beyond merely amassing data, such teams can be helpful in discovering hidden opportunities and in “assaulting assumptions” that might preclude exploration from traditional departments. Creativity is valued in such teams and is allowed to flow freely. Successful innovation means more than just hatching...

... Competitive advantage Value “Going global” is one of the guiding business imperatives of the new century. But what does it mean? There is no magic formula to going global, or even a clear definition of what the characteristics of a truly global organization are. Most of the 25 companies feel...