This study by Capgemini and IDG Global Solutions that looks at what manufacturing companies expected the world to be like in the year 2020. How would manufacturers do business? Where would they seek new opportunities? What steps need to be taken now in order to meet future goals?
The report is available to download from the [...]
The World in 2009 is the 23rd edition of The Economist’s annual collection of predictions for the year ahead — with views from journalists, politicians and business people. It includes the aftershocks of the global financial crisis. Available for free on the web.
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Thomas L. Friedman’s No. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world, and globalization, in a new way. With his latest book, Friedman brings a fresh and provocative outlook to another pressing issue: the interlinked crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy–both of [...]
Here are The Economist’s list of the best books of 2008 covering the Iraq war, Chinese capitalism, Mississippi blues, fishing in Sweden, ayatollahs, human waste and the secret life of words.
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SP-SP – Public-Private Sector Research Center of IESE presents this report by Prof. Xavier Vives and Dr. Giulio Federico with the collaboration of Natalia Fabra wich conducted an analysis of the most relevant issues related to competition and regulation in the electric and gas markets in Spain, based on the liberalization of the European energy [...]
This publication from Deloitte, now in its sixth year, includes a list of Europe’s top 100 construction firms by revenue, and offers insights into an increasingly challenging building environment.
The report is based on data from public sources, such as annual reports and economic figures from OECF, FIEC and Eurostat, and from national economic and construction [...]
The World Economic Forum has announced 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest calibre, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on business and society. The selection of these companies is the result of a vigorous selection process, for which the Forum received more than [...]
The European Environment Agency has just published an overview of modeling tools currently available to simulate future environmental change at a European scale. The report presents a general characterisation of environmental models based on the themes covered, the geographical coverage and the analytical structure of the respective models. The Technical report No 11/2008 is available [...]
The “Prices and Earnings” survey is published by economists at UBS Wealth Management Research every three years. It presents a global overview of the prices of goods and services, wages, wage deductions and working hours, and the resulting purchasing power in 71 cities on all continents.
Oslo, Copenhagen, London and Dublin are the world’s most expensive [...]
Euromonitor International has just published Health & Wellness Tourism-Thailand. This report offers one global vision about this sector, including trends, prospects and sector data information.
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Health and wellness tourism continues to grow at an astounding rate in 2007, showing growth of 25%, reaching Bt45.8 billion in current value terms.
The Thai government has included health and medical [...]
