The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation has released its study on the impact of the euro on Europe's main financial markets. But the report also warns that the problems with the Bund market early last year show "how little the City...
But, as new economy stalwarts such as Cisco Systems and established high-techs like HP and Eastman Kodak weighed in with warnings about earnings, who really pleased the analysts? Once upon a time, Apple and IBM were the movers and shakers of the...
Only by being a survivor can you play in 'good-time' markets. The new economy requires companies to be capable of rapid change and be able to deal direct with the changing external world of suppliers and customers as well as the internal world.
In a recent report, 'The World's Most Effective Policy for the e-Economy', Booz Allen Hamilton and the INSEAD business school examined Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, UK and the US using more than 100 selected criteria.
What needs to happen to revitalise the European economy is that the average European needs to want to contribute to its growth story. Small business growth and entrepreneur-led firms are a leading indicator of the health of any economy.
The review found that outsourced public services' contribution to the UK economy has grown 130 per cent since 1995, to £79bn, and that the UK leads the way in the public sector IT services market. This is now a thriving sector that employs over one...