Reports & Studies Archives
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| Engaging the Top Team and Leading the Change Five critical elements to successfully implement major transformations are executive capacity, the ability to make the case for change, a clear and shared direction, the right values and alignment, and a tangible plan. |
| Booz Allen Hamilton Lists the World's Most Enduring Institutions Joins with leading scholars to identify ten institutions that have adapted, endured and prevailed. |
| Putting the "Strategic" Back Into Sourcing Now is the time to take the procurement agenda to a higher level, by adopting a strategic, integrated approach to purchasing throughout the organization. |
| Sweden, Ireland & UK Lead in Information and Communications Technology Use - U.S. Is Seventh Study finds that the U.S. ranks first in terms of technology impact. |
| China's Gold Rush - Should You Make the Journey East? If approached with a rigorous assessment of product characteristics, can be the right answer for optimal management of the supply chain. |
| Trading Units Play a Central Role at European Utility Companies Many trading units have proven that they can add to the bottom line. |
| Patient Safety Exercise Shows that Greater Collaboration Across Health Disciplines Could Save Lives In the wake of tens of thousands of patient errors — many causing death and injury — hospitals and clinics could be made safer by improving interdisciplinary collaboration and communications. |
| Too Much SOX Can Kill You — Resolving the Compliance Paradox Many companies have fallen short in developing a governance agenda and architecture that effectively anticipates some of the most significant risks to their business. |
| Rebundling of the Auto Finance Industry A systematic unbundling and review of each stage in the value chain can shed some light on the possible future for automotive finance. |
| Accidental Retailers - How Wireless Operators Can Make the Most Out of Their Store Networks In their pursuit of customer revenues, wireless operators have become "accidental retailers," building networks of single-brand, single-product stores that collectively cover over 6,000 locations in the U.S. alone. |
| Putting Perspective in Planning Study explores how finance can improve planning effectiveness. |
| Marketing Department Priorities Often Differ From CEO's Agenda ANA/Booz Allen Hamilton study finds more companies are appointing Chief Marketing Officers, but the role is poorly defined. |
| U.S. Refining Trends: The Golden Age or the Eye of the Storm? Report identifies marketplace factors that could lower demand for U.S. gasoline. |
| TV Broadcasters in the Middle East Face Significant Challenges TV broadcasting industry must position itself for change to survive the current market conditions. |
| The Passive-Aggressive Organization — Converting Consensus into Action So congenial as to seem conflict free, the passive-aggressive organization breeds a culture of simulated compliance where "everyone agrees but nothing changes." |
| From Projects to Programs - An Oil and Gas Industry Perspective Management of capital projects for oil and gas companies is critically important, as worldwide the industry spends over $100 billion annually across upstream and downstream. |
| Next Generation Outsourcing and Offshoring - Capturing Value in Financial Services Outsourcing and offshoring of business processes has permanently changed the way financial services companies operate. |
| The Customer-Centric Organization: From Pushing Products to Winning Customers As the economy moves from recession to expansion, companies are shifting their focus from pruning costs to stimulating growth, particularly organic growth. |
| Measuring and Analyzing Corporate Values During Major Transformations Not so long ago, corporate values were viewed as profoundly amorphous. Surely the set of principles, interests, or ambitions that define a company were too complex to unravel, too difficult to change, too squishy to measure. That, as they say, was then. |
| Creating an Integrated Tier 1 Automotive Business Model Most managers acknowledge that organization design should follow strategy and enable desired performance. Yet few have developed their own business model based on their business's fundamental strategies. |
| The Road Towards More Effective Product/Service Development Strict adherence to pragmatic principles increases the effectiveness and efficiency of product/service development activities. |
| Hearts and Minds - The Key to Successful Mergers Mergers and acquisitions continue to be a critical strategic tool for Australian corporations looking to drive tangible bottom line improvements. |
| An Overall Approach to Change Management What best crystallizes and reinforces change is powerful imagery that appeals to the primal emotions within human nature. |
| European Energy Companies Continue to Discover the Benefits of Unbundling Booz Allen survey reveals a shift in attitude towards unbundling in the GSA. |
| Unlocking Mobile Growth with a Low-Cost Carrier Proposition VP says to remain viable European mobile network operators should consider a low-cost model. |
| Security Sector Transformation Why new risks demand a new kind of security governance. |
| Forced Departures of CEOs Declined in 2003 But Remained Near Record Levels CEO succession rate highest in Japan — Financial services industry has the lowest CEO turnover rate, utilities the highest. |
| Booz Allen Estimates 182,000-364,000 Australian Jobs Could Be Offshored Study says between 2-4% of current jobs could be offshored — number is lower than many expected. |
| Dallas at the Tipping Point - A Roadmap for Renewal Study outlines a roadmap for the city's strategic transformation. |
| Reducing Overhead Costs Is Still the Top Priority for Chief Financial Officers Outsourcing is a major force — but offshoring still meets resistance. |
| Building Advantaged Positions: Tier 1 Automotive Suppliers Booz Allen believes that suppliers create value but capture little — study outlines how they can capture their fair share. |
| Innovation and Product Development - Clearing the New Performance Bar After five years of retrenchment and cost-cutting, senior executives at leading companies across a variety of industries share a common conviction: Innovation — the ability to define and create new products and services and quickly bring them to market — is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage. |
| Energy Trends: New Hybrids Breaking Out of the Niche? Gasoline/electric hybrids represent a long-term trend toward a dramatically more efficient fleet. |
| Maximizing the Value of Services in Product Companies In search of new revenue opportunities, product companies have been looking to services as an engine of growth — with varying degrees of success. |
| Process Ownership: The Overlooked Driver of Sustained BPR Success Study says companies must adopt new forms of process governance that are appropriate to a new process orientation. |
| Ten Guiding Principles of Change Management A Top Ten list of guiding principles for transformational change. |
| Cascading Ownership and Mobilizing the Base Change programs encounter rational and emotional impediments as they roll from the top team, through middle management, and down to the front lines. |
| Change Management Perspective Booz Allen Hamilton offers clients a three-phase approach to change management. |
| Achieving the Full Value of Large-Scale Programs Booz Allen's best practices for senior management and day-to-day program leaders that significantly increase the chance for a successful transformation. |
| Outsourcing Trends in the North American Telecommunications Market Study says telecommunications outsourcing will grow within North American Service Providers as they further drive performance improvements to remain competitive. |
| The Gridiron Metamorphosis The changing role of the CEO and top team in driving transformational change. |
| Supplier Success in a Challenging Industry Study outlines five imperatives for supplier success in this challenging environment. |
| Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks - What Service Businesses Can Learn from Manufacturing The manufacturing sector's 30-year struggle to keep pace with increasingly demanding consumers and new, more efficient competitors turned out an array of innovative, industry-portable methods for improving cost and performance. |
| Redefining the Corporate Governance Agenda By the time a corporate crisis occurs, it may be too late to save the company. Headline scandals or the image of a handcuffed CEO is a powerful reminder of what happens when governance goes bad, but this is only the tip of the emerging corporate risk agenda. |
| Resolving the Housing Crisis for Low-Income Brazilians Study finds that low-income Brazilians face significant barriers to home ownership. |
| Strategic Competitive Advantage in the Global Automotive Industry Study identifies top three drivers of competitive advantage for passenger car manufacturers. |
| The Case for Transformation The two-volume set is a collection of research and case studies. |
| EU Prepares for Commencement of Emission Certificate Trading Power companies see switch to emission certificate trading as good for business and environment, but express concern over transition process. |
| Profiles in Organizational DNA — Research and Remedies Senior executives in every industry and every region lament their organization's inability to execute. |
