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Archived Performance and Value-based Management News
Market expectations become lead driver of value growth
Among the world's top 100 value-creating companies, rising market expectations-more than business fundamentals, such as cash flow and return on investment-are driving value growth. This is one of the findings of New Perspectives on Value Creation: A Study of the World's Top Performers, a new report released today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). 14 Nov 2000
The Crucial Criteria for Picking Long-term Winners
Edmond Jackson in the Telegraph talks about Marakon's strategy and identifies what he believes to be the key factors to consistent shareholder value growth. Dec 2000
Cost of Corporate Capital Reaches a Historical Low
Lower debt and equity costs have pushed the cost of capital to historic lows, but companies shouldn't be complacent as a result. Much value remains to be created by improving the business model and strategy. August 2000
Companies Reducing Shareholder Value Through 'Overly Limited' Risk Management
Companies are limiting their ability to deliver returns to shareholders and exposing themselves to unnecessary risk simply because their risk analysis and management systems are too limited, according to KPMG Consulting. 03 May 1999
Companies Failing To Implement Value Based Management Effectively
Value Based Management (VBM), the management approach that puts shareholder value creation at the centre of corporate philosophy, is rapidly becoming the standard decision-making and reporting framework of companies across Europe, according to a research report by KPMG Consulting. However, the report issues a warning that many organisations may be failing to gain the full benefits of VBM because of partial or inappropriate implementation. 02 March 1999
For shareholder value, Schering-Plough, Johnson & Johnson, Astra-Zeneca, Pfizer are the top performers
A study of 17 of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies released today by A.T. Kearney named Schering-Plough, Johnson & Johnson, Astra-Zeneca1, and Pfizer the top performing companies in the industry. The top performers were determined using a novel economic indicator created by A.T. Kearney called the Value Creation Index (VCI). 14 Jan 1999
Value Based Management is more than just changing your value measure
There are even more companies who have embarked half-heartedly down the value route and who cannot lay claim to such good results. These companies typically have flirted briefly with an attempt to measure value at the corporate level without ever exploring its possibilities as a tool for managing organisations and individuals. 03 June 1998
Archived Risk Management News
Basle puzzle still missing pieces
The next formal step towards a revised set of bank capital standards will take place next Tuesday, with the release of a proposal by the Basle Committee. The industry will be given more responsibility for setting its own capital levels, but questions remain over this, and other issues. 12 Jan 2001
Regulators urge quarterly risk reporting
Federal regulators have endorsed the recommendations of the Working Group on Public Disclosure, which calls for quarterly, rather than annual, reporting of risk metrics, including credit exposure presented by internal rating grades. 11 Jan 2001
Bear Stearns hit by massive award
A private investor who claimed Bear Stearns failed to warn him of the risks involved in currency futures has had his $111.5 million compensation upheld by a federal judge. 2 Jan 2001
Archived Knowledge Management News
High Performance Employees Are Missing Link in KM
High Performance Employees may be the missing link in the knowledge management chain, according to KPMG Consulting. 14 October 1999
Companies May Be Wasting Millions On Market Research
Companies may be wasting millions on external data sources such as market research and news feeds by failing to assimilate them into knowledge management initiatives, according to KPMG Consulting. 28 June 1999
Web-Based Exercise Enables Companies To Benchmark Current Use Of Knowledge
A new web-based assessment tool that enables companies to analyse how they currently share and utilise knowledge has been launched by KPMG Consulting. 29 April 1999
Companies Over-Complicating Knowledge Management Initiatives
Many companies are over-complicating the implementation of knowledge management programmes, according to KPMG Consulting. 24 March 1999
Knowledge Management Will Make Virtual Organisations A Reality
Knowledge management will be the underlying foundation of the emerging virtual organisation, according to a new report from KPMG Consulting. 19 February 1999
Companies In Danger Of Being Engulfed By 'Knowledge Glut'
Companies are in danger of being overwhelmed by too much information, according to a new study by KPMG Consulting. 10 February 1999
'Blinkered Approach' hampers Global Knowledge Initiatives
Companies may not be realising the full potential of knowledge management projects because of their failure to approach the initiative from a global perspective, according to KPMG Consulting. 13 November 1998
Companies of the future to be "All Brains, No Body"
Companies of the future will be "all brains, no body" organisations, relying on information reserves rather than physical resources to survive in the emerging knowledge economy, predicts a new book written by René Tissen, Daniel Andriessen and Frank Lekanne Deprez, members of KPMG's Knowledge Management team. 10 June 1998
New Survey Shows 'sea change' in Attitude Towards Knowledge Management
UK businesses have undergone a 'sea change' in their perceptions of knowledge management, according to a new survey. 28 May 1998
Archived Topical Issues News
KPMG Gives Its Verdict On The Basel Committee Proposals Governing Capital Adequacy
KPMG put forward its response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision within the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and the European Commission's consultative papers, which propose a fundamental renewal of the capital requirements first introduced by the BIS in 1988. 31 March 2000
Comment: Includes links to Basel and EC reports.
Shareholders Lose Out In More Than 80% Of Mergers
A global research paper by KPMG that identified the activities necessary to maximise shareholder value in a merger or acquisition has found that companies are not delivering enhanced returns for shareholders as a result of their M&A activity 28 November 1999
Comment: KPMG points to six key factors for a successful merger or acquisition.
Banks Making Loss On 50% Of Customers
As many as 50% of UK banks' customers may actually be losing the organisation money, according to a study by KPMG Consulting. 19 May 1999
Excessive secrecy may threaten success of mergers
Excessive concern for secrecy during pre-deal negotiations means that many mergers are failing to achieve their expected benefits, according to KPMG Consulting. 11 May 1999
Banks' 'Flight To Safety' Will Be Shortlived
The spectacular collapse of LTCM and turmoil in emerging markets has resulted in banks withdrawing from high-yield, high-risk business. However, this 'flight to safety' can only be a short term solution. Catherine Morley, principal consultant at TCA Consulting explained: "Low-risk options, by definition, do not earn significant profits and banks will be forced to return to the drawing board to devise new business strategies to satisfy their shareholders." 15 December 1998
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