...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...

... fluid and ready to respond quickly to change. Business plan Model Organizational change Value You are probably tired of hearing about how the pace of business is picking up. Most executives are well aware of the acceleration. They want to know what to do about it – how to stay hot without...

...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...

... printing technology. Innovation Corporate culture Value Despite the growing recognition that innovation is the only sustainable source of growth, competitive advantage, and new wealth, an Arthur D. Little survey of 669 global company executives found fewer than 25 percent of the companies...

... 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. In 1998, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu...