Delivering sustainable improvement within your organization.
Business Improvement is central to enhancing shareholder value. Companies can only do this if they have the right processes, systems, skills and information. Key components are financial effectiveness, IT effectiveness and regulatory compliance.
This collection of PwC thought leadership offers ideas for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of key business processes.
| Communications review: Sustainability - May 2007
The theme for this issue of PwC's quarterly journal is sustainability and features articles on investing in the future, a winning combination, a different view, attracting the right tallent, and includes interviews from Didier Lombard, Chairman and CEO, France Telecom; Alex Arena, executive director and group CFO, PCCW; and Julio Linares, general manager for coordination, business development and synergies, Telefonica.
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2007 budgeting and forecasting study - April 2007
This study is based on research conducted to understand how finance executives are responding to these new challenges. We examined both established financial planning practices and emerging trends to uncover links between leading practices and overall satisfaction with large organizations' financial planning processes."
How retail and consumer companies can improve global business performance with better political risk management - April 2007
Managing the risks inherent in globalization isn't a new challenge for retailers and consumer products manufacturers. After all, they have been pioneers of international trade and retailing for centuries. But in spite of their experience, retail and consumer companies today are facing a much more complex global risk environment for a host of different reasons.
Performance management: Real measures for market realities - February 2007
For over a decade, a single metric--share value--has dominated market evaluations and corporate goals. Today, the consensus is that a range of more meaningful factors should be used to guide long-term company performance.
The best starting point for performance improvement: A healthy bottom line - Jan 2007
Modern Healthcare and PricewaterhouseCoopers present Straight Talk. The session on performance improvement was held on March 22, 2005 at Modern Healthcare's Chicago headquarters. Fawn Lopez, publisher of Modern Healthcare, was the moderator.
How energy companies can improve global business performance by better managing political risk - October, 2006
Energy companies understand the business consequences of political change perhaps better than organizations in any other sector. Matching energy demand and supply is, at its very core, a high-stakes geopolitical business endeavor. This is truer today than at any time in the past.
How managing political risk improves global business performance - June, 2006
Companies doing business internationally are grappling with political issues that sometimes surprise even the most experienced. A new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eurasia Group shows that despite current efforts, a high percentage of multinational companies believe they are not doing all they could to manage political risk effectively.
The big leap: Utilities global survey 2006 - April 2006
This year we go inside the industry to focus on the sector’s viewpoint about the Big Leap forward that needs to be made in the power and gas utility sector. We find a sector that has little doubt about the scale of the challenge facing it and has increasing confidence that it can provide many of the solutions. We survey the Big Leaps that are being or need to be made in technology, investment, M&A, efficiency, cleaner fuels and customer relationships. But we also find a sector still worried that these developments may flounder on the hurdle of continuing regulatory uncertainty despite the industry voicing its concerns. Planning, price and regulatory uncertainty continue to cloud the long-term investment frameworks that are needed to deliver a range of solutions such as nuclear, clean coal and renewables.
Herding cats: Human change management - December 05
Organisations are feeling the heat of public criticism. Fuelled by a growing cynicism, many long-standing institutions have become targets for scrutiny and change. Regulators are cracking down on questionable industrywide business practices in troubled sectors. Many companies are restructuring their operations to cope with the new, lean economy. The imperative to change the way organisations do business has never been greater.
