Reports & Studies Archives
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| Transformation of a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise - Guangzhou Metro Corporation Guangzhou Metro Corporation serves as an example of how a previously poorly performing state-owned enterprise with a dubious reputation can be transformed into arguably the best-run mass transit company in China. |
| Managing Airport Construction Projects – Providing an Efficient Management Framework for Operators Airports need to manage air transport operations in addition to real estate investments and construction projects. |
| Beyond Offshoring - Building Regional Service Networks in Asia Business benefits—including reduced country risk, improved access to growth markets, and cost and efficiency gains—can be dramatic. |
| Maintaining Harmonized Spectrum Approach Will Lead to Economic Benefits in EU Continued standards use will increase consumer purchasing power to €244 billion by 2020 and boost user penetration by 37%. |
| Logistics Engineering Perspective Global military operations, rising costs, resource constraints, and a future of strategic uncertainty demand that logistics deliver higher weapon-system availability while simultaneously reducing costs. |
| Booz Allen and Partnership Leverage Smart Card Technology to Drive a Dynamic Collaboration A compelling white paper outlines the convergence between two seemingly dissimilar industries: Public transit and financial services. |
| A Select Set of Companies Sustain Superior Financial Performance While Spending Less on R&D Than Their Competitors R&D spending did not grow as rapidly as sales in 2005, continuing a trend that started in 2001. |
| Triple-Play TV Services Expected in 30% of German Households by 2011 Booz Allen study shows that Germany’s electronic TV and video distribution market should increase to 20 billion euros in six years. |
| Airline 'No Man's Land' The crisis faced by traditional hub carriers and how to escape it. |
| Informatics as a Competitive Advantage for Health Plans Informatics is a powerful tool to cut costs, enhance revenues and operating margins, spur new product development, and deliver insight into customers and health care providers alike. |
| Study Finds Companies Moving High-End Functions Offshore to Access Talent The need to source talent globally is replacing low-skilled, low-cost labor as the decisive factor in companies' offshoring strategy. |
| Drug Counterfeiting Forcing Pharmaceutical Manufacturers To Act Analysis by Booz Allen finds evidence of a strong increase in drug counterfeiting due in part to re-imports from less stringently monitored EU countries. |
| Success Hinges on Collaboration between Manufacturer and Retailer Study shows why packaged goods customization can—but often doesn’t—succeed. |
| RFID Yet To Reach Government Tipping Point Less than 30% of government departments in Australia gave RFID any priority in their business plan. |
| Clear and Present Danger - The Need for Risk Management in Electronic Banking Security By creating a proactive, enterprise-wide risk-mitigation mechanism that incorporates continuous assessment and improvement in sync with the risk appetite of the enterprise, a financial institution can position itself as a world-class security practitioner—both in its own operations and in the eyes of its customers. |
| Getting to Grips with the Supply Chain How pharmaceutical companies can enhance patient safety and protect revenues by increasing their control of drug distribution. |
| Victims of Success: Reducing Complexity for Nonprofits How nonprofit organizations can reduce complexity and increase their effectiveness by strategically choosing how to direct their efforts. |
| Labour and Skills Crisis Could Stall Oil and Gas Investment Boom Study finds that the traditional apprentice model is breaking down and calls for strategic HR intervention. |
| Moving Toward a Faster and More Predictable Process of Licensing Defense Articles and Services for Export Survey reveals frustration with the uncertainty and time lines associated with license applications. |
| Germany’s Changing Demographics Threaten Banking and Insurance Industry Revenues Retail banks and insurance companies must change their business models and service offerings. |
| Growing Demand for Engineering Services Creates Opportunities for Emerging Economies Companies look beyond cost control to find skilled work forces, access to expanding markets. |
| Mastering the Challenges of the Middle East Aviation System Overall growth aspiration of the region demands a high performing aviation system, but international benchmarks illustrate that existing system does not meet current demand. |
| Next-Generation Global Sourcing Opportunities in the Consumer Products Industry Consumer products companies today face a set of challenges that are different from any they have experienced before. |
| Capturing Hidden Value - Eight Principles for Optimizing Business Processes Eight principles offer insight into appropriate prioritization to ensure initiatives are capturing results via process changes, organizational modifications, and systems enhancements. |
| Danger! Shooting Too Low Threatens Merger Success The new wave of mergers washing over the utilities industry brings a serious challenge to management in each transaction: Produce the touted results or suffer the consequences. |
| Making Partnerships Work: A Relationship Guide for Chinese and Foreign Companies Because foreign and local partners often diverge in their objectives, working successfully in a partnership requires two key elements. |
| Lessons from the Shop Floor: Applying Sales & Operations Planning to Financial Services Facing relentless pressure on margins, manufacturers have worked out an approach to improve interdepartmental coordination called sales and operations planning (S&OP), and with just a few tweaks it could prove just as useful for financial services companies. |
| Saving Sell-Side Research While the news on sell-side equity research could hardly be any worse, Booz Allen believes that sell-side firms will remain the dominant research providers to the buy side. |
| BER Changes German Dealer Landscape More Slowly Than Expected Dealers feel increased level of pressure – consumers see little benefit from it. |
| Looking to the Future: Managing Procurement and Supply Chain in a New Environment for Oil and Gas Procurement and supply chain strategies and practices are set to move to the front of oil companies' critical issues in 2006. A combination of external pressures is rapidly reshaping the landscape to one that will have many perils, some surprises, and a few opportunities. |
| First-Ever Baseline Report of Best Practices Shows Private Sector is Moving toward Universal Access to HIV Treatment 84% of companies surveyed ensure that their workers have access to HIV/AIDS treatment. |
| Risk Stewardship - The Next Frontier in Building Shareholder Value The rise of strategic risk management as a board-level concern offers CFOs an opportunity to drive the strategic risk agenda and make sure that it contributes to the overall imperative of increasing shareholder value. |
| The Next Wave of Generation Investment The next wave of investment in U.S. generation is about to hit. While many view this approaching wave as an opportunity for growth and profit, some are more reticent. |
| The Greater Gulf of Guinea Simulation Simulation explores how to maintain sufficient stability to enhance economic viability. |
| Global CEO Turnover Set New Record in 2005 Rate of departure for underperformers quadrupled since 1995, with European and North American CEOs topping the list of involuntary exits in 2005. |
| Capturing the Telecom Operator Cost Opportunity With revenue constrained for the near term, mobile operators must look to cost containment to keep margins up and stay competitive. |
| Influenza Pandemic Simulation Reveals Challenges in Delivering Essential Services During Widespread Outbreak Exercise by the World Economic Forum and Booz Allen finds potential strains on healthcare and telecommunications infrastructure. |
| The Growth of Global Innovation Networks Creates New Management Challenges Growth of new R&D sites is fastest in China and India. Most companies with global R&D networks lack the organizations to efficiently manage them. |
| ME Mobile Markets Open Up To Competition for the First Time Number of mobile operators in the Middle East more than doubles in a seven-year period. |
| Mastering the Innovation Challenge - Unleashing Growth and Creating Competitive Advantage This compendium of Innovation articles helps companies unleash growth and create competitive advantage. |
| Diagnosing the Health of the Health Sector Report highlights key findings from the pharmaceuticals, insurance, and other healthcare industries. |
| The Path To Profit In China's Financial Sector China’s banking, insurance, and securities industries are now claiming their share of world attention. |
| Achieving Operational Excellence in China - Strategic Need and Practical Solutions Executives around the world have turned to China to solve the age-old problem of delivering growth and profits. However, the game is changing—and with it, the role of operations. |
| Managing Discontinuities in China Many executives from leading companies around the world are still having a difficult time grasping the opportunities and dangers in China. |
| Start-ups in a Time of Upheaval for the Mobile Industry With slowing growth and increasingly saturated markets, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and suppliers face some difficult challenges. |
| Capital Project Execution in the Oil and Gas Industry As the oil and gas industry's capital expenditures have soared in recent years, capital project execution has become a hot topic in the executive suites of producers and related EPC contractors. |
| Information Security Risk a Top Concern Among Outsourcing Executives Companies cite need for industry standards for evaluating security capabilities of outsourcing providers; support public-private partnerships to develop regulations. |
| Where to Start Service Oriented Architecture is a reality, but how should you take advantage of it? |
| Internet Is the Primary Hiring Source for Employers The web surpasses traditional hiring sources such as classified ads and career fairs. |
| The Growth of China's Civilian Aviation Industry and the Implications for Aircraft Manufacturers China holds the competitive advantage with 30 percent lower manufacturing costs for aircraft and a domestic demand that offers explosive growth. |
| Australian Business Chiefs Urged To Reconnect Marketing with Business Agenda CMO survey reveals good work of marketers often misaligned with overall business agenda; sees opportunity to unlock growth by reconfiguring marketing function. |
| The Road Ahead: China's Passenger Vehicle Market in 2015 A view of China's passenger vehicle market in 2015 across six key dimensions: overall market; regulatory context; products and markets; manufacturing and assembly; supply base; and branding, sales, and the aftermarket. |
| Tandem or Solo - Selecting an Ownership Approach in China Due to China's continuous economic rise, the country is becoming an increasingly important part of the CEO's agenda at many multinational companies. |
| Future of the Enterprise Software Industry - Keys to Competitive Success In the highly competitive environment of enterprise software, catching the next technological wave used to be the way to win. |
| The Roaring Dragon - Unocal Bid Just a Minor Bump in the Road As the largest-ever attempted Chinese international acquisition, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) bid for Unocal has spurred great interest in the energy industry on the part of Western market analysts, politicians, and others around how the ambitions of CNOOC will play out. |
| Part II of Refining Trends - The Golden Age or the Eye of the Storm? Refining margins continue to hover at extraordinary levels, contributing to the historically high pump prices consumers see every day. While some industry executives see a Golden Age in which cyclical downturns are a thing of the past, others are less bullish. |
| Hitting Oil in Your Backyard - Building a High-Margin Bank-Brokerage Business Booz Allen recently conducted a comprehensive study to understand how banks can build a high-margin brokerage business. |
