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Strategic Insights on Business Network Transformation


It's time to build greater visibility, transparency, and accountability into the way organizations works. Learn what business and thought leaders have to say.

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Three experts in consumer-driven industries offer their views on how business network transformation is helping companies gain greater competitive advantage in today's challenging market.

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Countdown to Copenhagen: Government, Business and the Battle Against Climate Change

This year has the potential to be a watershed year for climate change. This Economist Intelligence Unit report investigates the current regulatory outlook within key regions of the world and the prospects for change within the marketplace.

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Doing Good: Business and the Sustainability Challenge

Being a good corporate citizen has never been so challenging. Companies have long been under public scrutiny for practices ranging from recruitment to workplace safety, from attitudes to overseas investment to environmental pollution. This Economist Intelligence Unit report investigates the impact of sustainability on business today and how corporate leaders are dealing with issues relating to sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

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Getting Serious About Collaboration: How Companies Are Transforming Their Business Networks

BusinessWeek Research Services conducted an exclusive survey to discover and analyze the views of executives on collaboration with third parties. Find out what researchers discovered about how business network collaboration is impacting these industries.

Business Network Transformation in Media and Telecommunications

A new source of competitive advantage is emerging in media and telecommunications. Find out how these companies are transforming their business network of consumers, suppliers, and distributors to better understand and serve end customers.

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Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration

CFO Research Services recently conducted research among senior finance executives around the world to examine the role company finance organizations now play in driving business collaboration alliances. Explore why collaboration between finance and other lines of business is becoming more widespread and more important to the overall corporate strategy.

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Survey Shows CEOs Are Making Collaboration a Top Priority

Executives are increasingly turning to collaboration with their business networks as a way to win new markets and address evolving customer needs quickly. Read this BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) study to learn how information technology can play help support increased levels of collaboration with customers, partners, and suppliers.

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Innovating and Creating Value in Your Business Network
by Dr. Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley


Hear Dr. Henry Chesbrough's research on the connection between business network transformation and the innovation process.

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Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, professor, Harvard Business School


Listen to Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, a widely-known visionary whose Balanced Scorecard concept is used by more than half of Fortune 500 companies, as he discusses how organizations can close the loop between strategy and execution.

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WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS OUTLOOK?

Compare your outlook on the state of the economy with those of your peers with the Economist Intelligence Unit's Corporate Expectations Barometer.

THRIVING IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC TURMOIL

Discover how you can strike the right balance between reducing costs and making the targeted investments that will ensure future success.

THE BUSINESS OF SUSTAINABILITY

Investigate how IT can enable sustainable and profitable growth.

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INSIGHT. EFFICIENCY. FLEXIBILITY.

Close the gap between strategy and execution and optimize the performance of the business as well as the business network.

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BUSINESS NETWORK TRANSFORMATION

What exactly does business network transformation mean for today's organizations? CEOs offer their insights on how it has changed their perception and businesses.

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