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Delta Air Lines to buy a US East Coast oil refinery from ConocoPhillips. A good investment but definitely not a hedge against jet fuel crack spreads.
- 02 May 2012 11:33
- by Diogenis Papiomytis
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In order to discuss the implications of this move by Delta, we first need to acknowledge the main drivers to the deal. If we exclude short-term shifts and look only at mid-term macro developments, we can observe the following: a) Heating oil crack spreads, a proxy for jet fuel cracks, have tripled compared to 2009 and now stand at about $30 per bar...
The Story of Effective M&A: 2012 Corporate Development Priorities
- 21 Mar 2012 08:02
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of corporate development executives. The respondents were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to address the prominent issues identified in the survey. Corporate Development in 2012—A Snapshot T...
How to revitalize your demand management process
- 19 Mar 2012 10:30
- by Austin Pullmann
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It’s the rare B2B marketer who hasn’t had to listen to sales reps complain about the quality of leads being provided. And sales forces tend to be underwhelmed by the volume of leads too. So what to do? Ramping up demand generation efforts makes little sense if the lead management process (i.e., what happens to it when it comes in the door) is funda...
The Implementation Deficit: 2012 Corporate Strategy Priorities Survey Results
- 19 Mar 2012 09:49
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of corporate strategy executives. The executives were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to address the prominent issues identified in the survey. Corporate Strategy in 2012—A Snapshot The prim...
Kodak - After 130 years in development, will it go in a flash?
- 23 Jan 2012 07:48
- by Noel Anderson
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This coming summer will play witness to my 5th wedding anniversary. In that time my wife and I have honeymooned, bought a family home and filled it up with two (sometimes) lovely children. In short, in the last half decade, we’ve had more Kodak moments than there have been EU regulations defining the shape that a banana needs to be in order to be a...
Overcoming the Great Divide: Embedding Corporate Strategies Effectively
- 21 Nov 2011 13:03
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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When the Growth Team Membership (GTM) program surveyed corporate strategy executives to identify their top challenges for 2011, the primary challenge was, for the second year in a row, developing effective strategy implementation plans. When asked to identify the root cause of this challenge, respondents indicated it was a lack of common objectives...
Airline industry in recession: European airlines facing a harsh winter
- 31 Oct 2011 14:56
- by Lida Mantzavinou
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Last month IATA published its 2011 revised estimates, showing an expected 60 per cent decrease in airline industry profits, over 2010. No doubt airlines are in a far worse position in 2011, following a large rebound in 2010. The European and North American sovereign debt crisis, rising fuel prices, turmoil in the Arab world and Japan’s earthquake, ...
Why Blame S&P?
- 09 Aug 2011 06:55
- by Kirti Timmanagoudar
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The president of United States, Mr. Warren Buffett and the analyst on the wall street; many are blaming S&P for downgrading the US ratings. I have the highest respect for the world's greatest investor.. Eu to Buffett? In stead of congratulating S&P for doing a good job and being honest (even at the potential of getting this wrath from various angl...
On St. Patrick's Day - The unintended consequence of a lost passport, Murphy's Law and a Mosquito...
- 17 Mar 2011 10:46
- by Noel Anderson
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Earlier in the week I was returning home from Zurich when I realised that I had lost my passport. Up until that point, my journey home from the mountains had been perfect and I thought to myself “typical, Murphy’s Law!” But what is Murphy’s Law? On St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it fitting to debunk a British fallacy linked to this theory, whils...
Mining text - A new way to increase ROI and reduce churn
- 03 Mar 2011 13:24
- by Avinash Bhaskar
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I recently started with a new research on exploring the exciting technology area of text mining. The more I have learnt about the technology, the more I have realised the wonderful implications that it could potentially have on such multi-billion dollar sectors such as retail, banking & financial sector and healthcare. What the heck is text mining...
"Sprint Inside" - The Case for Integrated Network Access
- 05 Jan 2011 13:21
- by Nancee Ruzicka
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A very successful branding campaign was launched years ago by Intel in conjunction with PC manufacturers known as "Intel Inside". There were numerous video and print ads as well as little stickers on the PCs indicating that Intel was actually inside. Intel and other chip manufacturers make bits of silicon that are used in every electronic device ma...
Masterstroke in the Indian Water-Power Sector by GE Water and BHEL
- 06 Dec 2010 12:42
- by Fredrick Royan
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The recent announcement of GE Water striking a strategic alliance with BHEL in India is very much a masterstroke in the booming Indian power sector- http://www.bhel.com/press_release/press_pop.php?press_id=458. Specialist water & wastewater treatment companies in India and even from overseas are gearing up for the windfall of opportunities in the r...
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