Los aspectos dinámicos y personalizados de las tecnologías de consumo se han incorporado a la empresa y ahora IT corporativo tiene la oportunidad de adoptar esta tendencia para incrementar la agilidad empresarial. Las rápidas innovaciones en la tecnología móvil, los cambios en la cultura de trabajo y las cambiantes expectativas generacionales están generando una importante transformación en nuestra forma de trabajar. Los empleados esperan obtener más información acerca de los dispositivos, servicios y aplicaciones a los que pueden acceder y utilizar. Una mayor funcionalidad, experiencia de usuario, productividad y libertad de elección son los impulsores clave.

El tema central del presente Libro Verde es la reestructuración de empresas y sus consecuencias sociales, que son motivo de legítima preocupación para muchos ciudadanos europeos. La reestructuración es un factor crucial para el empleo y para la competitividad de la economía europea.

Reputation systems are a key success factor of many websites, e.g. eBay, or Amazon, ranking hotels, films, or music, enabling users and customers to vote on products. This gives consumers a better idea of the information, products and services being provided.

El informe presenta el proceso de elaboración, análisis y resultados del Indicador Sintético de PwC de Fortaleza Empresarial. Este indicador pretende medir, de manera sintética, la fortaleza empresarial de un país. En este trabajo se propone definir la fortaleza empresarial de un país, como la capacidad de las empresas para producir y vender.

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (JMT) (1839-1904).Habiendo nacido en la época del colonialismo, los dedos de Paganini llevados su persona se identificarían con su perseverancia, afán de mejora y la no aceptación de una negativa por respuesta. Esta actitud de JMT, refleja lo positivo que conlleva el establecimiento de un objetivo en la vida al tiempo que muestra todas las dificultades que se suceden hasta que aquel se realiza.

Último número de la revista Agenda, editada por Global Advisory. Se trata de una revista cuatrimestral dirigida a altos ejecutivos. En el actual entorno marcado por la volatilidad económica, este número de la revista pone el foco en los principales retos a los que se enfrentan los negocios y cómo las empresas en todo el mundo están adaptando sus modelos de negocio al cambiante escenario económico.

Ever-increasing compliance requirements and business complexity have driven companies to establish or procure other risk management and assurance functions. They are charged with measuring and reporting risk, identifying control gaps, tracking remediation, and concluding whether control processes are operating effectively in specific areas. Examples of some internal assurance providers are identified as environmental compliance groups, quality management functions that focus on manufacturing activities, internal control teams that assess controls over financial reporting, and IT governance groups.

Megatrends are shaping the development of our planet. The destruction of the environment, scarcity of resources, urbanization and demographic trends affect the whole planet. In the process, they are rapidly, often abruptly, changing the business models of established industries. Never before have companies experienced such far-reaching upheavals. Nothing lasts for ever.

En esta edición especial de la Newsletter de la Financiación de la Innovación, Alma Consulting Group publica los resultados obtenidos a través del 6º Barómetro de Financiación de la Innovación, un estudio a nivel europeo para medir el impacto de los instrumentos públicos de estímulo a la innovación en las empresas.

Four years ago, BCG identified a shift in the private-equity industry away from leverage and toward operational improvement as the primary source of value creation. Since then, private-equity firms have been experimenting with a variety of operating models in order to increase their capacity to create value by improving the operations of their portfolio companies.

In January 2008, a small group of senior IBM leaders, the Integration and Values Team, increased focus on helping IBM to become a globally integrated enterprise. Today, that team's mission continues in support of growing "global IBMers." As a result, Global Enablement Teams (GETs) were launched. A GET is comprised of four or five senior executives from multiple geographies working side-by-side with selected Country General Managers (CGMs). Each CGM has input on the necessary GET team capabilities to best enable business growth in that country.

The 2011 UK Board Index is a comprehensive review of governance practice in the largest 150 companies in the FTSE rankings. The composition, remuneration and effectiveness of boards continue to be subjected to close examination by investors, media and policymakers. This Board Index provides a valuable indication of the state of boardroom health during 2010-2011.

The research literature on the governance of corporations is extensive, and Researcher Robert Hoel mines it well for specific insights to improve the governance of credit unions. Perfection is elusive, but boards should deeply consider the ideas printed in this full report.

Division of labour and specialisation are rightly regarded in economic research as the cornerstones of productivity and prosperity. In keeping with this idea, European firms reduced their degree of vertical integration by about 1.5 percentage points between 2003 and 2007. Recent research has, however, found a supposedly negative correlation between the degree of division of labour (in the form of outsourcing, for example) and productivity at the company level, meaning that more outsourcing allegedly hurt productivity. This would fundamentally contradict standard management practices.

The world's population will become increasingly skewed toward retirees and senior citizens in the coming decades, a development that will significantly affect labor dynamics, GDP growth, capital availability, and consumer needs. Companies in all major industries must actively prepare for the demographic shifts to come.

As more and more organisations continue to expand internationally, Deloitte set out to understand current perceptions of the global mobility function and how it aligns with the wider business and talent objectives. Strategic Moves is the first in a series of global surveys which collected insights from some 150 business and HR executives, from multinational organisations around the globe, on today's workforce mobility challenges.

Estamos entrando en una nueva fase en el uso corporativo y profesional de las nuevas tecnologías. Según la Encuesta de uso de TIC del Instituto Nacional de Estadística, más de un 97% de las PYMEs tienen ordenador y conexión a internet. Esto es, prácticamente todas.