  The Rise of Mobile Application Stores: Gateways to the World of Apps The explosive growth of mobile apps is heightening the competition among a variety of industry players to build app stores to capture their fair share of a market that by 2014 is expected to be worth $40 billion. While players such as Apple and Google remain in the lead, others, including OEMs, telecom operators, and e-tailers, are developing their own stores as well. Who wins and who loses will depend on who can create stores that offer consumers the best range of devices, platforms, and apps, especially when apps are extended beyond the mobile sphere to service a variety of different devices. read more> |
 CEO Succession 2000-2009:
A Decade of Convergence and CompressionConvergence and compression — these are the big-picture themes that emerge from our analysis of 10 consecutive years' worth of detailed data on CEO succession among the world’s top 2,500 public companies. This year's study also includes interviews with over a dozen CEOs from around the world. Their remarks reaffirm many of the study’s conclusions: The tenure of a CEO is becoming shorter and more intense, the margin for error or underperformance is narrow, and increasingly, CEOs no longer hold the chairman's seat in the board room.read more> |
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