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The Story of Effective M&A: 2012 Corporate Development Priorities

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...

The Implementation Deficit: 2012 Corporate Strategy Priorities Survey Results

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?

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...

Energy Harvesting - Generating Electric Power from Sources Around Us

Most of us are aware of the fact of generating electrical power at large scale from ambient energy sources such as sun, water, but the industry for micro energy harvesting is slowly gaining momentum for low power applications. Micro energy harvesting (EH) intended for such low power applications generates electrical energy from different sources ar...

Overcoming the Great Divide: Embedding Corporate Strategies Effectively

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...

Why Blame S&P?

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...

  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

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...

European UV disinfection systems market - Poised for Growth

Many countries have raised concerns about the application of high levels of chemicals to disinfect water and wastewater. In order to overcome this concern many treatment plants are switching to more effective and efficient non-chemical based disinfection technologies such as ultra violet (UV) etc. The adoption and application of ultraviolet (UV) di...

Masterstroke in the Indian Water-Power Sector by GE Water and BHEL

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...

Game on in the Global Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Market with the entry of LG with its Green MBR product

The Global MBR Market has received a rather expected member in the form of LG Electronics, which has announced the launch of its Green MBR system (http://www.lg.com/global/press-release/article/lg-unveils-first-mbr-process-for-wastewater-treatment.jsp) The key features of the LG Green MBR is the flat sheet MF membrane configuration and claims to b...

Radiators - Not just about performance and eco-friendliness

When we talk about radiators it is mostly about their performance, energy efficiency and eco-friendliness, while aesthetics is an aspect hardly mentioned. Radiators are seen as necessary and purely functional equipment far from contributing to the beautification of the space we live in. However, it is quite possible that this is about to change as...

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