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Featured Foresight
Booz & Company CEO Shumeet Banerji tells the Financial Times' Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson why he thinks things are looking up for a U.S. economic recovery, but that Europe's crisis may not yet be contained. He also weighs in on the FT's Capitalism in Crisis debate: The problem? Not enough of it.
World Economic Forum
Information Technology
In this exclusive video interview with Booz & Company Partner Ramez Shehadi and Principal Walid Tohme, Dr. Harris discusses how new technologies, from electronic medical records to social media, are empowering patients and ensuring better medical outcomes.
Featured Foresight
The 2011 Global Innovation 1000, Booz and Company's seventh annual study of the world's 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders, focuses on the links between culture, organization, and innovation strategy -- and their impact on financial performance. The key finding: culture is key to innovation success, and its impact on performance is measurable.
Booz & Company at the IAB MIXX Event
Karen Premo, Principal in Booz & Company's Global Media & Entertainment Practice, presents Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media & Marketing 2011 at the IAB MIXX event. Conducted in partnership with Buddy Media, this study identified the key capabilities required to take advantage of social media.
Booz & Company at the IAB MIXX Event
Partner Christopher Vollmer, global leader for Media and Entertainment, leads a panel discussion with executives from L'Oreal, Diageo and Starwood Hotels, and Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow during IAB MIXX 2011. The key takeaway? Social media requires a fundamentally new set of capabilities.
Booz & Company at the IAB MIXX Event
Partner Christopher Vollmer and Principal Karen Premo, both from Booz & Company's Global Media & Entertainment Practice, discuss key findings from Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media & Marketing 2011, a study conducted in partnership with Buddy Media.
Abu Dhabi Media Summit
Booz & Company is proud to have been a knowledge partner at this year’s Abu Dhabi Media Summit, which brought together an impressive array of top-tier global media players and their emerging-market counterparts.
Information Technology
Meg McCarthy, Aetna’s executive vice president for innovation, technology, and service operations, attributes much of her company’s success in making well-planned and carefully carried-out investments to the company’s use of detailed road maps for matching technology investment decisions with the needs of the business. In this exclusive interview, she describes the origins of the process, how it is governed, and how the business units and the IT organization interact to build the critical capabilities the company depends on for its success.
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
Capabilities-Driven Strategy
Mergers & Restructuring
Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand in Conversation: What role do capabilities play in successful mergers?
Information Technology
Following the merger of Pfizer and Wyeth, Jeffrey Keisling, Wyeth's highly regarded CIO, took the same position at Pfizer. In this exclusive interview with Booz & Company partner Anu Gupta, Keisling discusses his goals for creating IT synergies through the merger, the need for transparency in all of IT’s dealings with Pfizer’s many business units, and Pfizer’s plans to make greater use of technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing, and social media to achieve its business goals.
Information Technology
Joe Eng discusses how the effort to transform JetBlue's maturing IT function required the support of all the company's stakeholders. "We don't do IT projects at JetBlue. We do business projects."
Media & Entertainment
Books
Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan discuss the guiding principles behind their new book Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results.
Books
China strategy today doesn't just mean implementing a set of plans for doing business in China — most big companies are already selling to China’s markets and competing against Chinese companies. A true China strategy is different, as Booz & Company's Edward Tse outlines in his new book, The China Strategy. What's needed is a one world strategy: a long-range plan for doing business as a global enterprise in which China is a central and integrated component.
Organization, Change & Leadership
Helping leaders to identify good fights from bad ones is The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value by Saj-nicole Joni and Booz & Company Senior Executive Adviser Damon Beyer.
World Economic Forum
Information Technology
In this special video interview, His Excellency Rashed al Mansoori, CIO of Abu Dhabi Government, discusses the challenges of driving technology-enabled change in a rapidly developing region, outlines some of the program’s major successes, and reflects on how CIOs can help lead major change management efforts.
Media & Entertainment
Old advertising models are exploding and new ones are emerging. Where is the smart money going? Panel moderated by Christopher Vollmer, Partner and Leader, Global Media and Entertainment, Booz & Company.
Capabilities-Driven Strategy
Booz & Company Senior Partner and North American Managing Director Cesare Mainardi recently sat down with Paul Michelman of Harvard Business Publishing to discuss how executives should use a strategic approach to cutting costs — but often don't.
Books
In this video, Booz & Company's partners from around the world discuss the concepts behind Cut Costs, Grow Stronger.
Information Technology
Rob Carter, Global CIO of FedEx, said his greatest challenge is using IT to maintain Fedex’s competitive advantage over its aggressive rivals. To that end, he discusses how FedEx has undertaken a major renewal of its technology architecture in hopes of reducing complexity and increasing connectivity.
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
Media & Entertainment
Booz & Company Partner Christopher Vollmer discusses specific challenges facing marketers, advertising agencies and media companies in an increasingly digital ecosystem.
Mergers & Restructuring
Booz & Company’s Senior Partner for Mergers and Restructuring Gerald Adolph discusses M&A in a volatile market with The Deal's Suzanne Stevens.
Mergers & Restructuring
Booz & Company’s Senior Partner for Mergers and Restructuring Gerald Adolph speaks with Corporate Dealmaker editor Kenneth Klee about distressed attitudes in corporate boardrooms – and other developments he anticipates in an M&A market that has slowed but definitely not stopped.
Mergers & Restructuring
Booz & Company’s Senior Partner for Mergers and Restructuring Gerald Adolph discusses how the financial crisis is impacting recent M&A deal volume and identifies which deals are likely to still get done.
Mergers & Restructuring
Booz & Company’s Senior Partner for Mergers and Restructuring Gerald Adolph discusses expected M&A activity over the next year, with CNBC’s Bill Griffeth.
