Health care is challenged in many countries. Aging populations, unhealthy life styles, and growing health expectations are driving up costs. This puts health care in …

Job-hopping talent and an apparent erosion of talent loyalty appear to be the most pressing challenges for Strategic Resource Management. What if the opposite is …

The Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry appears to suffer least from the current recession. This does not mean everything stays the same however. Consumers are …

Change is often hard work and success is not at all guaranteed. Fortunately help is coming our way. Social media have become much more accepted …

The relationship between Suppliers and Retailers has evolved over time. Now we reached a point where the biggest (implied) supplier is actually a retailer. Needless …

Value Chain fragmentation offers new opportunities for making merger integration efforts more effective. Instead of integrating entire companies, it becomes possible to adopt a differentiated …

Corporate governance has been the subject of many and intense discussion in recent years. Spurred by scandals involving companies such as Enron, Ahold, Worldcom and …

Complexity generally has a negative connotation. For some parts of the Value Chain however, complexity represents a true source of value. Better understanding of the …

Fragmentation of Value Chains means hard work for vertically integrated companies as they have to routinely modularize individual parts of the Value Chain. This makes …

Much has been written on the real impact of the Internet: its ability to break up value chains through the interaction efficiency it provides. Although …

Digitization and connectivity have provided a solid source of business process innovation making companies more competitive. In some cases this can be taken even further …