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Key Findings: In Vitro Diagnostics M&A and Deal Trends: The growing demand for in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) is stimulating increased deal activity in the industry as companies position themselves to take advantage of opportunities, particularly for early disease diagnosis and better targeted treatments, in the emerging companion diagnostic market.
The Mobile Wallet: The latest buzz in the payments industry has been about how to turn the mobile phone into an everyday payment tool that could displace traditional plastic cards or even cash. Companies across numerous sectors all over the world are attempting to gain a piece of the burgeoning m-commerce business.
The Changing Regulatory Landscape for Smart Energy: Smart grid development will heavily rely on access to data and the availability of advanced systems of meters and sensors. Data and data analytics tools will enable new products and services to be offered to utilities and their performance to be improved in terms of energy and cost efficiency. Smart grid expansion will provide additional kick to the ICT industry.
Cloud Computing Market in India: Cloud computing is a model where all servers, networking equipment, applications and other elements related to a data center are made available to end-users and access to these services is provided over the internet. The goal of cloud computing is to utilize the resources to carry out high-density computing and display the results on end-user's system.
Targeting Adult Consumer Needs in Soft Drinks: As median consumer ages rise in the developed and developing world alike, it is becoming increasingly important for marketers to focus their efforts on soft drinks that are targeted at and primarily consumed by adults. As it becomes less acceptable for people in western societies to drink alcohol on work-related occasions and when driving, the demand for non-alcoholic drinks is rising; at the same time.
Managing Change - Nine Common Blunders—and How to Avoid Them: Despite increased awareness of change management processes, principles, and practices, many business leaders continue to struggle with navigating their organization through a change initiative. These challenges often stem from a series of common blunders that can significantly impede progress in achieving project goals.
Winning the $30 trillion decathlon: Going for gold in Emerging Markets: By 2025, annual consumption in emerging markets will reach $30 trillion—the biggest growth opportunity in the history of capitalism. To compete for the prize, companies must master ten key disciplines.
India's Education Sector: Moving Toward a Digital Future: The typical Indian classroom was once characterized by students sitting through hour-long teacher monologues. Now, technology is making life easier for both students and educators. Schools are increasingly adopting digital teaching solutions to engage with a generation of pupils well-versed with the likes of PlayStations and iPads, and trying to make the classroom environment more inclusive and participatory.
Transformative Leadership: Achieving Unparalleled Excellence: The ongoing cynicism about leaders and organizations calls for a new standard of ethical leadership that we have labeled ‘‘transformative leadership.’’ This new leadership model integrates ethically-based features of six other well-regarded leadership perspectives and combines key normative and instrumental elements of each of those six perspectives.
How Can Internet Comparison Sites Work Optimally for Consumers?: In today's information society, there is such a large amount of available information about any given good or service that consumers are unable to make an informed choice. Internet comparison sites (ICSs) could provide a solution to this problem by comparing markets for consumers and making a comprehensive recommendation.
Social innovation must be in Core Curriculum: In recent years, business schools have been both advocates and developers of social innovations, often enlisting support from schools of design or engineering in exploring promising new products that are intended to address both economic and social demands.
Business plans present a vision for the future: A changing mindset among MBA students and professors alike means that social entrepreneurship is making its way to the top of the business school agenda. In particular, students are honing their skills through a plethora of competitions and challenges with social innovation as the theme.
Indian executives lead in job hopping: Corporate executives in India lead the world in their desire to hop job. About 60 per cent them in the country are planning to leave their present jobs within the next five years, when the global average is 44 per cent. This is without considering another interesting finding: a third of Indian executive’s plan to change office within two years.
More B-Schools Choose Women as Deans: Women constituted 18% of U.S. business-school deans in the 2011-2012 academic year, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, an industry group. Meanwhile, women hold just 20 CEO spots at Fortune 500 companies, according to Catalyst, a nonprofit organization that supports women in business.
Students are blinkered by a narrow teaching focus: The curricula in business schools require revision. Business schools are supposed to be ahead of best practice, ahead of what the best companies are able to do. They should also be producing graduates who can make better decisions than those without a business education.
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