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7- Corporate Responsibility, Strategy, Management and Value _ How PwC can Help
Article selection: Hamid Atharinejad
Summary : When our hunter-gatherer forefathers started bartering goods and services, they could never have envisaged the radical transformation this would produce. Commerce is the glue that holds the world together, the source of the wealth that has made life in the 21st century easier for more people than ever before. It has given us access to greater options, better ways of communicating and higher living standards, as well as the advances with which to share the knowledge we acquire.
9- The People Agenda, Optimising Performance at the Front Line
Article selection: Hamid Atharinejad
Summary : People, we frequently hear, are at or near the top of the agenda for every CEO. This year, 70 per cent of the participants in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ CEO Survey indicated they lacked the right talent in their business to be able to execute their plans.
As the global war for talent grows increasingly fierce, the management of people is a key concern among the CEOs surveyed. Once thought of primarily in terms of cost, people in successful companies are now being valued as rich sources of talent, skill and diversity, which are critical to the success of the enterprise.
10- Managing tomorrow's people
Article selection: Hamid Atharinejad
Summary : Organizations operating in today’s world are facing some of the greatest people management challenges in the history of business: the talent crisis, an ageing workforce in the western world, the rising demands for global worker mobility as well as the organisational and cultural issues emerging from the dramatic pace of change in the past ten years. But how will these changes impact businesses over the next decade, and what other social, economic, environmental and demographic factors will have an impact on the world of work?
A team from PricewaterhouseCoopers used scenarios methodology to think about these issues and the impact on future of people management. We also conducted a global survey of 3,000 ‘millennials’ from the US, China and the UK who represent a generation just joining the workforce, to test their views and expectations on the future of work.
11- Manufacturing Barometer _ Business outlook report
Article selection: Hamid Atharinejad
Summary : In the fourth quarter of 2008, PricewaterhouseCoopers interviewed 60 US-based industrial manufacturing executives about their current business performance, the state of the economy, and their expectations for business growth over the next 12 months. We then compared their responses with the prior quarter’s results to see how the panel’s 12-month outlook changed. The final step was to compare their views with a wider panel to show how the industry differs from the broader population.
12- Embracing change in the technology industries
Article selection: Hamid Atharinejad
Summary : Change in the technology industries appears never ending. Yet amid constant flux, technology executives express confidence in their ability to manage and to succeed. This edition of PwC's Technology Executive Connections focuses on the constant state of change in the technology industries due to ever-evolving technologies and increasing customer sophistication.
Evidence from 13 in-depth interviews and an online survey, conducted in 2005 by the Economist Intelligence Unit of 126 executives in the technology industries worldwide, shows that the technology industries believe they are learning how to adapt, survive and possibly thrive amid great change. In short, these executives tend to see themselves and their organizations as masters of their own destinies. The technology industries are defined here as IT hardware, software, IT services, semiconductors, biotechnology and telecoms equipment.