With rampant change seemingly on all fronts, do your employees and leaders have what it takes to compete on a global stage that places a premium on adaptable expertise? Most organizations can envision the rewards of integrating global teams while accommodating local differences, but that's only part of the puzzle. What concrete actions can help transform your organizational culture in ways that let you tackle the challenges and grasp the opportunities of globalization?

In 1982, W. Edwards Deming's landmark book, Out of the Crisis, changed the way businesses thought about making things. It showed managers in the US and Europe how to build products and deliver services with the meticulous attention to quality for which Japanese business was known (and which Deming himself, stationed in a war-wrecked Japan in the late 1940s as part of the Marshall Plan, had helped engender).

BCG has developed an analytical framework-the Global Advantage Diamond-for assessing a company's current market position and devising strategies to achieve global competitive advantage. The Global Advantage Diamond differs from previous global-strategy models in its focus on all four aspects of global advantage.

A systematic multisourcing model transforms sourcing by driving stakeholder alignment right through it - but this alignment comes only with meticulous planning and execution. Forrester's 10-step plan guides sourcing executives through three critical phases of planning, building, and running a multisourcing model.

What were the management trends in 2009? Fascination with social networking and rethinking common wisdom about goal setting. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009.

The University of Pennsylvania's latest Global Go To Think Tank Rankings places the US-based Brookings Institution first among more than 6,300 think tanks evaluated worldwide. The annual report ranks Britain's Chatham House first in a separate category for the best think tanks in the world located outside of the US.

Eduardo Bueno y Carlos Merino analizan, en este nuevo cuaderno, el valor de los informes de capital intelectual en las empresas de base tecnológica y reflexionan sobre su importancia en la vida cotidiana de estas nuevas organizaciones. Las empresas de base tecnológica o intensiva en conocimiento tecnocientífico están convirtiéndose en protagonistas de las estrategias que desarrollan y ponen de manifiesto la importancia de la innovación.

This collection of articles explores many of the common people-related integration challenges organizations are likely to face during an M&A transaction, and offers recommendations to help executive leadership get it right for Day One and beyond.

Now that the dust of the global financial crisis has begun to settle, many business leaders are wondering what their next steps should be in the lingering atmosphere of uncertainty. With the heavy rounds of cost-cutting finished, "Growth now" is the new mantra. But how can companies position themselves best to achieve growth?

Actualmente las empresas están luchando en un entorno de condiciones extremas. Su reto es la información, cómo se adquiere, se gestiona y se interpreta para generar valor. Los líderes de negocio se cuestionan si las técnicas tradicionales de análisis seguirán siendo válidas.

The role of the CEO is becoming increasingly complex. Aside from managing and growing the business, the CEO has to deal with an ever widening range of stakeholders, pay due attention to corporate governance issues and ensure that the business has sound financial management. The job is becoming more demanding than ever before and, especially during a time of economic crisis, the CEO is required to have strong financial ability.

As the crisis has rumbled on, more and more chief executives have been forced to explain losses that were many times larger than they or their shareholders had expected. In each case, the story boils down to the same thing: banks had taken more risk than they intended. This article looks at what went wrong and how to fix it.

What will your business look like five years from now? While we don't have a crystal ball to provide all the answers, The IBM Global CEO Study sheds light on the Enterprise of the Future. The study is based on interviews with 1,130 business and public sector leaders in 45 countries worldwide.

The new report, The 2009 Shift Index: Industry Metrics and Perspectives, applies Shift Index methodology to nine major U.S. industry sectors, including insurance. The report found that while lower competitive intensity in the insurance sector has helped shield it from some long-term disruptive forces, increased competition from outside the industry and other developments will have an impact on competition in the future.

The Global Economic Crime Survey, estudio de la consultora PriceWaterouseCoopers que analiza, en base a una encuestra entre 3.000 ejecutivos de 54 países, la incidencia de la criminalidad económica en la actividad de las empresas.

El objetivo del trabajo, realizado por el IESE, es identificar los factores de gobierno corporativo donde estos dos grupos coinciden y donde se diferencian, para así señalar las prácticas a mantener y las áreas de mejora. Para realizar este trabajo se han realizado alrededor de 60 entrevistas a presidentes de empresas cotizadas e inversores institucionales.

Planning transfer pricing strategies, working to limit tax exposures and defending a company's return position and transfer pricing practices on a global basis requires thorough knowledge of country-specific tax laws, regulations, rulings, methods and requirements. After all, transfer pricing can significantly impact its worldwide tax burden.

Un nuevo estudio publicado en el Journal of Business Finance & Accounting afirma que a la hora de pronosticar los nuevos ingresos de una compañía, sus directivos no siempre tienen en cuenta los errores que han cometido anteriormente al prever las ganancias, y subestiman en consecuencia las implicaciones de estos errores pasados

A pesar de la crisis económica, en 2008 las empresas europeas gastaron de media un 8,1% más en investigación y desarrollo que en el ejercicio anterior, manteniendo el mismo incremento anual por dos años consecutivos. Sus principales rivales estadounidenses y japonesas también aumentaron las inversiones para crear nuevos productos, si bien en un porcentaje menor (5,7% y 4,4%, respectivamente).

The instability of the international financial markets has led to an acute capital crunch in recent months. Companies around the world were forced to curb spending. The consequences for innovation management and R&D: companies have thought twice about investments, projects have been shelved, and market launches for new products postponed.

This study will look at how organizations are defining competencies for all roles in their organization, and how they are utilizing those competency descriptions to assess, select, manage, and grow their talent.

More and more companies in emerging markets are looking to raise their governance standards. While the trend in recent years has been for governance models around the world to converge around commonly agreed principles, Asian regulators and business leaders have an opportunity to seek governance solutions to local governance problems - and drive behaviors that combine local needs with global best practice.

With business footprints expanding and markets becoming increasingly intertwined, leaders need to master an array of markets, cultures, competitors and workforce differences. Asia Pacific in particular has emerged as an important training ground for global leaders because of the tremendous opportunity the region presents, as well as its complexity and vast diversity.

La AEAP ha editado el estudio Situación de la Planificación Estratégica en España, que tiene el objetivo de ahondar en definición del planificador como un nuevo investigador que trabaja junto a los ejecutivos de cuentas, actuando como si fuera su propia "conciencia" y cuya misión consiste en representar al consumidor dentro de la agencia. Esta función la realiza convirtiéndose en un vínculo eficaz entre la investigación publicitaria y el desarrollo creativo.

El siguiente estudio elaborado por la Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), tiene como principal objetivo analizar el nivel en que se encuentra actualmente la innovación a escala internacional. Por otra parte, da unas bases que los gobiernos deberían considerar ya que impactarían positivamente en la innovación y competitividad de sus respectivos países.