Bobbie Ramsden-Knowles, James Houston, David Stainback, Paul Williams
Senior executives often start out on the back foot when risks materialize because they have long instinctively prioritized financial resilience over operational resilience. They may have hedged against currency risk or liquidity issues but not paid enough attention to vulnerabilities embedded in the operating infrastructure that delivers their services and products to their customers—the things that matter most and that they’re in business to provide. … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Bobbie Ramsden-Knowles, David Stainback, James Houston, Paul Williams | Source: PwC | Subject: Risk Management
Simplifying Cybersecurity
Have our institutions become too complex to secure?
Content: Article | Authors: Richard Horne, Sean Joyce | Source: PwC | Subjects: Corporate Governance, IT / Technology / E-Business, Risk Management
Worldwide Advertising Spending
Out-of-Home (OOH) Ad Market
The Technology Entrepreneur’s Guidebook
A business guide for entrepreneurs. Contents include:
– Entrepreneurship
– A Sensible Approach to Writing a Good Business Plan
– Raising Venture Capital
– Accounting Policies and Procedures for Early Stage Companies
– Legal Issues for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
– Managing Explosive Growth in Technology Companies
– Choosing an Exit Strategy
Editor’s Note: some info is basic, some is quite thorough; the accounting info … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Sources: PwC, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, Washington Technology Partners Inc. | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Reference / Search
You’ve Acquired the Company – You Don’t Own the People
This articles lists a wide range of questions – focused on people issues – that must be answered to plan an effective integration.
Content: Article | Source: PwC
Steve Rimmer, Barbara Kraft and Charles Wheeler, with Joy Gramolini
Values, by definition, are virtuous, noble benchmarks for behavior. You would be hard pressed to find two groups that disagreed with each other’s value statements. True cultural integration, however, requires a focus on both organizations’ actual behaviors-not on rhetoric surrounding their conceptual values.
Content: Quotation | Source: PwC | Subjects: Mergers & Acquisitions, Values
Valuation of Intellectual Property
How much is the Coca-Cola brand or trademark worth? $50 billion? $ 100 billion? In August 2003, in an article in BusinessWeek, Interbrand included it in their table of “The 100 Top Brands” at a value of $70.45 billion. How would you check whether you agreed with their assessment?
In this article, Caroline Woodward-of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Valuation & Strategy practice-offers some interesting answers to these, and other … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Caroline Woodward | Source: PwC | Subjects: Accounting, Finance
Executive’s Guide to E-Business: From Tactics to Strategy
Content: Book | Authors: Amy Wright, Conrad Nowikow, Martin V. Deise, Patrick King | Source: PwC | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
What Can M&A Process Do for You? Ask the CEO Who Stole Your Deal!
The failure of most mergers and acquisitions to deliver their cost of capital has been well documented and quantified. What hasn’t been discussed as openly is the cost of the deals that got away–often because potential suitors do not have the right valuation procedures in place.
Content: Article | Author: Robert Filek | Sources: PwC, Quisic | Subject: Management
Robert Herz
co-author (with Robert Eccles, Mary Keegan and David Phillips) of The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game.
Content: Thought Leader | Sources: PwC, Quisic | Subject: Management | Industry: Investing
European Business Forum (EBF)
This site, an online companion to their print magazine, is a joint initiative of PriceWaterhouseCoopers & Community of European Management Schools. It bills itself as “Europe’s perspective on global management issues.”
Content: Online Resource | Sources: Community of European Management Schools (CEMS), PwC | Subjects: International – Europe, News / Magazine