Reports & Studies Archives
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| Information Security: The Need for Being Proactive "Segurança da Informação: A Necessidade de Ser Pró-Ativo" ("Information Security: The Need for Being Proactive"), an article produced in São Paulo with contributions from an international Booz Allen Hamilton team, addresses any company concerned with information security in the network era. |
| Virtual Intelligent Services: Transforming Your Home into an eHome The market potential for eHome services will grow to 1.3 billion Euro by 2003 in Germany alone with a proportionally comparable market size in each of the other key European geographies, says Booz Allen Vice President Stefan Eikelmann. |
| WTC Attacks to Result in Economic Output Loss of $83 Billion and 57,000 Jobs for City Booz Allen Hamilton pro bono work with the New York City Partnership reveals losses are large but manageable. |
| Profits or Perils? The Bottom Line on Outsourcing Outsourcing is fast becoming a fixture in the organizational models of the 21st century. |
| Nurturing the New Wireless Innovators Innovation in this environment is about launch and learn. It is about placing bets. |
| How to e-Enable Your B2B Relationships Companies need to buckle down and craft a B2B agenda, one that integrates the best of the public exchanges with proprietary e-enabled networking capabilities. The Internet offers the real promise of not just sizable operational efficiency gains but also substantial strategic differentiation. |
| Managing Procurement Through a Merger: Capturing the Value of the Deal Procurement consistently generates the bulk of near-term savings in merger-integration efforts. Since a high percentage of mergers fail to meet announced synergy goals, procurement has been — and will continue to be — a critical element that chief executives rely upon to deliver value from a deal. |
| Forgotten But Not Gone: Used Challenges and Opportunities In the strong economic climate of the last decade, many vehicle and equipment manufacturers achieved record sales and profits. The strength of the business cycle allowed OEMs to prosper despite intense competition and saturated markets. |
| Surviving and Growing in a Consolidating Industry Strategic options for small European aerospace & defence players. |
| Best Practices Transfer: Unleashing the Value Within Most large organizations need look no further than their own doorstep to locate best practices, and the pressure to start exploiting them is intensifying. |
| The e-Audit: The Road Map to Value-Capture in e-Business's Second Wave The collapse of the "New Economy" is prompting many companies to delay or abandon plans to integrate the Internet into their businesses. |
| Profiting from a Recession The global economy is undergoing a significant slowdown. But there is a silver lining in this dark economic cloud for companies that know how to manage their businesses proactively through a market decline. |
| Windows Into the Future Major music labels can profit from adopting a proven strategy from the film industry. |
| Managing Innovation Through Market Discontinuity The impact of rapid innovation on business dynamics has been examined using semiconductor companies in the wireless device market as a case study. |
| The m-Business Opportunity: Capturing Value in the Enterprise Wireless Market The key trend in the wireless enterprise market is an increased focus on end-to-end solutions.... |
| The Challenge of Service Delivery A new kind of technology service — what we call complex services — is emerging as providers seek an antidote to commodization of voice and data transport. |
| Punctuality: How Airlines Can Improve On-Time Performance Punctuality is one of the key performance indicators in the airline industry and an important service differentiator especially for valuable high-yield customers. |
| Merger Integration: Delivering on the Promise From airlines to automobiles to advertising, the urge to merge has escalated steadily over the past decade. |
| Customer Solutions: Building a Strategically Aligned Business Model As more and more companies migrate away from products or services toward integrated solutions for their customers, it becomes increasingly apparent that what separates the winners from the also-rans is the degree of alignment between their market strategies and their business models. |
| Capturing the Disruptive Consumer: Can Banks Break Through to a New Segment? Disruptive consumers has become a critical part of the affluent market. They are very financially active, tolerant of risk, and self-directed. These consumers can and will disrupt the financial services retail market as it exists today. |
| Automotive Telematics: Driving Toward the Wireless World This study provides Booz Allen's perspective on the nascent telematics market, as well as the critical capabilities and partnerships required to successfully build future competitive advantage. |
| Challenges of a Changing Retail Industry This study describes Booz Allen's perspective on the challenges and the correct organizational response. |
| The Constellation Organization: Organizing to Win in the 21st Century Perhaps the most salient lesson from the dot-com shakeout is that companies that do not capture the value they create do not survive. |
| Risky Business: The Business Customer's Perspective on US Electricity Deregulation An in-depth survey of 500 power customers nationwide reveals that deregulation has created a fundamental change in the U.S. electricity market, transforming it from a predictable and stable arena to a risk-management exercise that caught most commercial and industrial customers wholly unprepared. |
| European Companies Reflect on the Impact of e-Business Companies in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria report mixed results when it comes to Wave I. |
| The e-Marketplace Revolution: Creating and Capturing the Value in B2B e-Commerce As significant as the B2B e-commerce opportunity is across industries, many of the e-market-places that exist today will fail in the next 12 months because they will chase share at the expense of profitability or fail to gain sufficient market liquidity. |
| Winning the Customer Churn Battle in the Wireless Industry The wireless industry is expected to lose $19 billion a year by 2003 on churn — the cost of losing and signing up new customers. |
| Why Be in Manufacturing? Many companies that design and produce engineered products are having second thoughts about manufacturing. |
| Seize the Occasion - Usage-Based Segmentation for Internet Marketers Online marketers fail when they segment Web users on demographics alone, according to a co-branded study by Booz Allen Hamilton and NetRatings. |
| Wealth Management: The Challenge Changes in the nature of the customer base and in regulatory forces, as well as the increasing diversity of the competitive environment, are shaping the strategic agenda for private bankers. |
| The Demand Chain: Connecting with the Customer Booz Allen talks about how to transform the customer-facing elements of your business into a synchronized, integrated, e-enabled demand chain. If you don't make this transformation, you'll leave money on the table for someone else to pocket. |
| Unbundling the Value Chain: The Internet's Impact on Supply Relationships This study examines the way manufacturing companies should be looking within themselves and along their entire value chain to prepare for the challenges and the opportunities of the B2B marketplace. |
| Why Systems Haven't Been the Solution for Suppliers Vehicle manufacturers have embraced the strategy of outsourcing production of complete vehicle systems to automotive suppliers. So why aren't the automotive suppliers netting more profits? |
| Crash of the e-Tailers: A Fire or A Phoenix Anyone pondering the millennium year will be drawn to the market debacle of the dot.com dive, particularly B2C e-commerce or "e-tailing." Like any engaging story, our tale covers the full spectrum: the good, the bad, and the ugly. More importantly, we also take time to look forward and envision the possibilities of a better world for e-tailing. |
| The Shape of the Digital Organization: Managing the Talent Pipeline As companies recognize the role and importance of their people assets, they are getting creative about how they attract and retain those assets. |
| Getting Past the Hype: Value Chain Restructuring in the e-Economy The Web has infiltrated traditional value chains, opening up supply networks, production processes, and distribution systems to new e-enabled competitors that have unlocked trapped value. But while these start-ups may have unlocked considerable latent value, it is not at all certain they will capture it in the long run. |
| Building a Winning Verticalization Strategy for CyberCarriers The telecommunications industry has undergone a period of intense merger, acquisition and alliance activity as competitors attempt to hold on to their existing market positions and/or expand into new ones. |
| Customer Solutions: From Pilots to Profits Once the domain of the consulting services professions, solutions-based business models have migrated across industry and geography, and are now a business reality for companies of all descriptions. |
| Optimizing Customer Care for Wireless Operations Intense competition is buffeting major companies in the wireless telephone industry. |
| The Shape of the Digital Organization: From Shared Services to Allianced Services As a result of today's forces of corporate upheaval, something is happening to corporate organizational structures. Something subtle in approach, chart-shattering in effect. |
| Rapid Valuations for Bank Mergers and Aquisitions: Assessing the Real Sources of Value The Rapid Valuation Approach (RVA)TM can minimize time and effort while obtaining a credible and realistic valuation. It is based on Booz Allen's experience as advisors in several major transactions in Asia over the past two years. |
| e-Business and Beyond: Organizing for Success in New Ventures Traditional companies looking to parlay their e-business experience into a sustainable new venture creation capability should draw and build upon the best practices of a wide variety of sources, including venture capital firms, incubators, dot.coms, and other brick-and-mortar competitors. |
