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Where to Invest in a Downturn
As the recession begins to bite, all companies will be looking to make significant improvements in cash flow and operating margins with varying focus on the level and timescales for benefits realisation. All will have a variety of improvement projects ongoing at any time, the essential questions will be focused on the following: are we doing the right projects, will they deliver the benefits we need and how do we focus our limited resources to best effect? Read more about Where to Invest in a Downturn...
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Planning a fast track business turnaround
Although the headline problem will inevitably have a financial impact (declining revenues, spiralling costs or a combination causing a profits crunch) the causes are likely to be far less specific. The foundation of a successful turnaround will be to quickly pinpoint the crunch areas and the underlying causes using a very targeted approach to correct or stabilise without adversely affecting those parts that are performing well. Read More...
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The dilemma of engaging employees during unsettling times
In today’s rapidly changing economic climate many executives are facing an acute dilemma. Among many other priorities, how do they make the people changes that they feel are necessary to rapidly improve performance whilst maintaining employee motivation and engagement?
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How to Manage Successfully in Uncertain Times
Most businesses now believe that an economic downturn in the UK is now less a case of 'if', or 'when' but a reality. With a regular swirl of economic and market statistics, media stories and rumours circulating, what clear steps can businesses take to prepare themselves for the uncertain times ahead?
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Developing and Fostering an Agile Organisation
Business agility is one of the key differentiators in today’s market, indeed, a company’s future-centricity may soon become the sole differentiator as markets and customers adopt new ways of doing business. Constant change is essential to business success, and it begins with people. Business and HR leaders must work to overcome employees’ natural change-aversion and instill a culture of change from the grass roots up. Read more...
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Risk Transparency in Banking
Liquidity crises are a recurring feature of every financial market and in 2007 it was the turn of the credit markets. The ‘Credit Crunch’, also known as the sub-prime mortgage crisis, banking crisis or liquidity crisis, exhibits similarities to and also differences from previous crises. This paper explores some of the underlying factors which led to the credit crisis and identifies steps that banks can take to better manage a similar crisis in the future. Read more...
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MiFID Transparency and Structured Products
In the current market, regulation is at the top of the agenda as people search for answers on how the credit debacle materialized. As firms take stock and count their bruises, the regulators are already discussing how initiatives similar to Europes’ MiFID and the US RegNMS could be extended. The potential ramifications to other classes of financial instruments needs to be considered, and in particular, how to achieve transparency in the growing structured products market. Read more...
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Identity Management – Can the privacy conflicts be resolved?
The identity management debate has suggested that individuals are unnecessarily losing their privacy through technologically enabled surveillance such as ID cards. However, Atos believes there is a solution that can maintain individual privacy yet enable new methods of identification. Atos' vision for a secure ID scheme shows that these two objectives need not conflict. Read more...
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MiFID, Can you compete?
The deadline approaches. The firms in pole position to benefit from the Market in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) will be those that have their client and market strategies allied to an understanding of the changes to their operating model. Their budget and resources will have been allocated to business development that exploits the directive’s created opportunities. The losers will be those that are slow to react or seek only to tick the compliance box. Read more...
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Time for the insurance market to step into the future
The London Insurance Market is a trading environment rich in heritage and one that is famous throughout the world for its ability to craft bespoke coverages to address highly complex risks. The subscription basis of the Market and the significant role played by the broking firms all add to the uniqueness of London as a centre of insurance excellence. But things need to change. Read More...
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Want to know how a ‘Rich Picture’ can benefit your organisation?
Experience shows that it is extremely difficult to convey a forceful message through the medium of words alone, especially in a world in which communication is increasingly image driven. Confronted by a series of strategic challenges, a Greater Manchester NHS trust's leadership team opted for a new way of agreeing its vision which engaged staff and other stakeholders. Read more...
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