La crisis ha tenido importantes consecuencias en la forma de entender la innovación, que en el plano público han quedado reflejadas en un claro interés por establecer estrategias de innovación y en el plano privado en una mayor confianza en el conocimiento que tienen las personas de la empresa para aumentar su competitividad. Por esta razón, se ha hecho un esfuerzo para que el informe refleje esta situación.

El Proyecto Milenio inició un estudio de dos años sobre el futuro de Latinoamérica en 2009. Esto coincide con las esperadas celebraciones del bicentenario de independencia de la región. La primera fase de este estudio consistió en la realización de una encuesta con la metodología Real-Time Delphi (RTD) durante los ejercicios 2009 - 2010, y un segundo estudio RTD (Delphi en tiempo real) que ha sido diseñado para integrar los resultados del primero en forma de escenarios de Latinoamérica 2030.

A new study from KPMG International shows that traditional methods of management are no longer sufficient to confront what is today a given for doing business globally: managing complexity. The findings reveal that business complexity is real and serious issue for senior decision makers and is a primary source of additional risk, cost and management challenges. But it also represents opportunities.

El mundo desarrollado continuó en crisis financiera y recesión económica a lo largo de 2009. Esta recesión ha tenido un importante impacto en las grandes y pequeñas organizaciones de toda Europa. La demanda en la mayoría de las industrias ha disminuido, así como el valor de los activos. Ha cambiado el modelo de negocio para la industria de productos y servicios. También ha tenido una influencia perjudicial sobre los ingresos, gastos e inversiones del público en las administraciones a nivel europeo, nacional, regional y local. La percepción general es que la recuperación económica será un proceso largo y difícil. Dentro de este punto de vista económico, la consultoría de gestión en Europa también ha tenido un crecimiento negativo del 5% en 2009.

Businesses today are undertaking digital transformations, rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what's newly possible for competitive differentiation. The challenge for business is how fast and how far to go. Business leaders have long used information technology to improve productivity and efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What's new is that customer expectations have also changed. People everywhere are using social networks to find jobs and restaurants, lost friends and new partners - and, as citizens, to achieve common political goals. They are using the Internet for entertainment, shopping, socializing and household management.

¿Qué es el Customer Experience?¿Qué me aporta a mi día a día en mi empresa?¿Cómo puedo mejorarlo, cuidarlo o potenciarlo?¿Por qué es importante el Customer experience para la empresa? Este estudio realizado por el equipo de investigación de dnx Designit nos acerca a este concepto que tanto escuchamos hoy en día y que tan de moda está en las empresas actuales.

Global Powers of the consumer products industry, from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), identifies the 250 largest consumer products companies around the world for the past fiscal year. But the report is much more than a list - it also examines trends for companies to consider as they plan their growth strategies, provides a global economic outlook for retail, and discusses "Q" ratio - a way of drawing inferences about the future performance of retailers by examining current financial information.

While organizations may have the elements necessary to link business and leadership strategy, many are searching for an integrative and guiding framework to bring the parts together. In this new whitepaper we take an in-depth look the advantages of pursuing leadership by design as opposed to - the all too common approach of - having leaders who emerge and are prepared by accident or chance.

A silver opportunity? Rising longevity and its implications for business is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Axa. It looks at the risks, and opportunities, faced by businesses as they start to grapple with changing demographics. This is both in terms of their internal workforces, as well as the changing nature of consumer demand. And although populations are ageing faster in many developing countries, this report focuses largely on developed economies.  

The governance of Britain's listed companies has gone through profound changes in the last fifty years. The composition of the board of directors, the role of the chairman, the relationship between directors and shareholders - these and other elements in the corporate governance system look very different today from the arrangements which prevailed in the 1960s and 1970s.

Tal y como la historia reciente ha demostrado, las empresas no pueden vivir solamente de maximizar sus beneficios. Los beneficios afectan a los resultados a corto plazo de una empresa. Sin embargo, para poder obtener un éxito real y duradero, la empresa debe adaptarse y crecer, porque solamente con las ganancias, este éxito no se consigue. A fin de ayudar a las empresas a conocer y aprovechar sus puntos fuertes y capacidades, los profesores del IESE Rafael Andreu, Josep Riverola, Josep M. Rosanas y Rafael de Santiago han ideado un modelo de simulación de una economía que pone el énfasis en los criterios de los directivos en el momento de la toma de decisiones.

En el entorno económico actual, más del 75%de los directores financieros confirman que sus funciones y responsabilidades en la empresa se han ampliado. En este sentido, hoy se solicita la involucración del Director Financiero en iniciativas de transformación que van más allá de su perímetro funcional tradicional, como por ejemplo en iniciativas de cambio en otros departamentos de la empresa como es el caso en tecnologías de la información (43%), estrategia y desarrollo de negocio (41%) y recursos humanos (39%), o también en materia de riesgos y servicio al cliente (37%), compras (35%), marketing y ventas (33%), investigación y desarrollo (30%) y gestión de la cadena de suministro (25%).

Commodity price increases accounted for more than half of the shareholder value generated by the mining sector from 1999 through 2009, but price increases do not account for the sharp variations in the performance of different companies within the sector, says this new report from The Boston Consulting Group.

Global companies face a radically altered business landscape following the Great Recession, most notably a slowdown in world economic growth compared to levels predating the global financial crisis. What's more, the growth pattern is uneven. A "two-speed" world is emerging, characterized by slow growth in the developed countries of Europe, North America and Japan, and faster growth in rapidly developing economies such as China, India and Brazil.

Ernst & Young has released a report outlining practical techniques that business leaders can implement to capitalize on the valuable perspectives and diverse skills of their global workforce.

Diversity & Inclusion is a strategic issue that belongs on the CEO's agenda. Diverse and inclusive companies clearly outperform their competitors on the hard financials.

OEMs have to create new strategies to face global challenges. Having been hit severely by the global recession in 2009, the mechanical engineering industry is expected to fully recover until 2012 on a global level.

Leaders of change: Companies prepare for a stronger future is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Celerant Consulting. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted the survey and analysis and wrote the report. The findings and views expressed in the report do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor. The Economist Intelligence Unit's editorial team designed the survey. Paul Kielstra was the author of the report and Gilda Stahl was the editor. Mike Kenny was responsible for the design. To supplement the quantitative survey results, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted in-depth interviews with relevant experts. We would like to thank all interviewees for their time and insights.

This report released by Ernst & Young in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that, after a brief pause in 2009 and a modest rebound in 2010, the world's 60 largest economies will continue to globalise steadily between now and 2014, driven by the continued global economic recovery, technological innovation and the rise of the emerging markets.