European Business Forum back issues from June 2007:
CEMS an authority in management education.
Jun 22, 2007 ... COMMUNITY OF EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT SCHOOLS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES www.cems.org The Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS) is an alliance of leaders in business and higher education. Founded in 1988, the network has ...
Letter from the editors.
Jun 22, 2007 ... The past, as the British writer LP Hartley once said, is another country. If that is true, then the future must be another planet. Everyone wants to know what is going to happen in the future. Second-guessing future developments in technology, education, management systems, ...
The world's largest middle class.(Observations)
Jun 22, 2007 ... Until the mid-1990s China's retail market was dominated by large, single-city, state-owned enterprises and by "mom-and-pop" shops, street stalls and open-air markets. The entry of global hypermarket retailers such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart, offering previously unavailable price-value ...
Confucian myths.(Observations)
Jun 22, 2007 ... The phenomenal rise of the Chinese economy means many Western business plans now involve either selling to China or competing with Chinese-supplied competitors. It follows that an understanding of the success of the ethnic Chinese is important to competitive strategy. There are ...
Good and bad staff monitoring at the call centre.(Observations)
Jun 22, 2007; ... In a technology-accelerated world where activities, work times and outcomes are instantly measurable and even emotional expression can be calibrated, monitoring in the workplace is increasingly controversial. Popular culture offers a steady supply of possible interpretations of ...
Four ways to build a powerhouse.(Observations)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Judged against the hopes and expectations of a decade-and-a-half-ago, Europe's recent economic performance has been disappointing. But what is strange is the palpable and dangerous lack of crisis among policymakers. The rise of India and China-and the coming demographic storm at ...
Economic power: the West will still enjoy the highest living standards, but real economic power will have moved steadily eastwards.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007; ... The long boom of the world economy, driven by what we call globalisation, will carry through to 2025, transforming the living standards of billions of people and shifting the balance of economic power in the world. There will be bumps on the way. These will include economic downturns, ...
Energy: renewable energy, hydrogen fuel technology and the "smart power grid" will form the building blocks of a wholly new energy infrastructure.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007; ... It is becoming clear that we are approaching the sunset of the oil era in the first half of the 21st century. The price of oil on global markets continues to climb and peak global oil is within sight in the coming decades. At the same time, the dramatic rise in carbon dioxide emissions ...
Risk: Mega-threats like terrorism and global warming have changed how we conceive risk. Developing a detached view of the future will be a challenge.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007; ... The way we conceptualise risk follows the way we imagine the future. Apprehensions about the future are a roundabout way of expressing concerns about taking risks. In recent years, the belief that the present provides little guidance to managing future risks has gained widespread ...
David Bodanis: Science: the greatest leaps forward occur when scientists have fertile areas to explore and good research tools. Happily, both are now in good supply.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007 ... One afternoon in the early 1990s, in the research labs of one of the top hi-tech firms in America, I was part of a discussion on what the future of graphical user interfaces would be. Everyone knew of Microsoft's old DOS approach, with its simple horizontal lines of text, and how that had ...
Leyland Pitt & Bodo B Schlegelmilch.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007 ... Trends: In eras past, trends were largely linear; the paradoxical nature of today's trends makes managing the future very complex indeed. Throughout the 1980 and 1990 trend-spotters such as John Naisbitt and Faith Popcorn established major reputations and significant fortunes ...
Demographics: The next two decades provide an opportunity to do something about a range of key population trends before they become overwhelming.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007; ... The 20th century was characterised by Wolfgang Lutz, of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, as the century of population growth. But the 21st century will be the century of population ageing. While the world's population quadrupled from 1.6 billion to 6.1 ...
Debate the world in 2025.
Jun 22, 2007; ... Infrastructure: Economic growth will strain global infrastructure to the limit, forcing governments to turn increasingly to the private sector for capital investment. The power outages experienced not so long ago in North America, Scandinavia, Germany and Italy; the millions of ...
Interdependency: outsourcing, joint ventures and various forms of partnership--often across borders--will leave companies increasingly open to systemic disturbances.(Debate The world in 2025)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Globalisation, outsourcing and ever-leaner supply chains will mean a highly efficient economy by 2025. But the world will also be very interdependent and therefore increasingly vulnerable to systemic shocks. Companies have to create alliances to remain competitive. In some cases ...
Learning to share what everyone knows; Companies tend to know that knowledge sharing is important, but fail to really do it. Here is how.(Indepth)(Company overview)
Jun 22, 2007; ... A fundamental challenge for multinational corporations is how to make effective use of their collective knowledge. "Knowledge" here refers to the firm's practices and processes, and its innovative ideas and insights, as well as its underlying technologies. It also refers to knowledge held ...
Large businesses.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Learning how to use knowledge effectively ...
learning disability.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Most businesses suffer from a "learning ...
Knowledge sharing as a priority.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Evidence suggests that many managers ...
Knowledge sharing.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * The link between knowledge sharing and value needs to be made more ...
Financial fraud: the how and why: understanding the conditions in which fraud occurs is the key to its detection and prevention.(Indepth)
Jun 22, 2007; ... In recent years, it has been nearly impossible to open any business newspaper or magazine without seeing headlines relating to various types of corruption. One type of corruption has been especially prevalent - fraudulent financial statements. While Europe has experienced several financial ...
Individuals commit.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Understanding why and how individuals ...
Pressure to commit fraud combined.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Pressure to commit fraud combined with opportunities to do ...
Rationalise fraudulent actions.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Some people are also able to rationalise fraudulent actions ...
Necessary to reduce the pressures.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * To prevent fraud, it is necessary to reduce the pressures and opportunities, ...
Acting to see: when disruptive times call for disruptive marketing; Marketers tend to be better selling to existing markets than creating new ones. In future, they will need to be more creative and hands-on.(Indepth)(Company overview)
Jun 22, 2007; ... It's supposed to be simple: the marketing department looks after your markets. But what about markets that don't exist? Very often, companies discover too late that while marketing was busy fighting incremental battles on existing markets, they were losing the war for new markets. Can you ...
"Disruptive" markets.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * "Disruptive" markets, often based on new ...
Traditional marketing.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Traditional marketing is very good at helping us sell to ...
Marketers need to learn.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Marketers need to learn how to ...
Radical innovation.(In Brief)
Jun 22, 2007 ... * Radical innovation must become a ...
Targeting the US market from Europe: Lapp Group; Faced with flat growth in a crucial subsidiary, Lapp Group embarked on a thorough analysis of its US strategy.(Case study)(Company overview)
Jun 22, 2007 ... Lapp Group is a large supplier of cables, cable accessories, connectors, and cable technology. The German family-owned enterprise generates a turnover of [euro]680m and has 2,500 employees in more than 50 companies. The company founded its US subsidiary (Lapp USA) 30 years ago ...
In my opinion ...
Jun 22, 2007 ... Lapp Group faced the challenge of changing its US market development strategies. Increased competition had eaten into its US growth, and its original sales system, which divided the country into five regions, clearly had drawbacks. The goal of Lapp's project was to identify ...
Charles Babbage: the man who saw the future.(History lesson)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Mathematician, scientist and economist, Charles Babbage is usually described as the inventor of the modern computer. That alone has earned him a place in the management hall of fame. Much of what we now do in management relies utterly on Babbage's invention, so much so that often we cannot ...
The best of both worlds; A group of companies has shunned the business school system to develop its own executive training programme.(Learning)
Jun 22, 2007 ... Companies will naturally turn to a business school for management education, and in the main they will be happy with what they get. The array of open-enrolment courses and bespoke programmes now available ensures that most will find whatever they need. For some, however, the ...
Lars Rebien Sorensen.(Leaders)
Jun 22, 2007; ... The chief executive of one of Denmark's most important companies discusses the changing economics of the drugs industry, business ethics and atypical office spaces. Novo Nordisk's executive suite is an unusual sight. The area is thoroughly open-plan, with not a single ...
Hungary's second-richest man built his fortune with a series of big developments in Central Europe. Now he is turning his attention to Romania and Russia.(Leaders)
Jun 22, 2007; ... The roaring cement mixers, forests of cranes and clouds of choking dust can feel an almost natural part of the citiscapes of Eastern Europe. Certainly from Bratislava to Bucharest, from Krakow to Kiev, few visitors can fail to notice the abundance of building sites. ...
The author explains why China's economic development may not be as smooth as some people seem to think.(Last word)
Jun 22, 2007; ... * Your new book suggests that China must deal with some significant challenges if it is to maintain its rapid growth. Is this a "glass-half-empty" view? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You can say "a lot done, more to be done", and that China is on a continuum of reform and ...