Recent Cross-Industry reports:

China and India: The Reality Beyond the Hype
This publication offers some thoughts on the future direction of India and China, the risks and opportunities of doing business in each country, and the likely impact they will have on global business. Source: Deloitte Research

A Risk Managment Study: Disarming the Value Killers
We examined instances of major losses in shareholder value experienced by hundreds of companies over the last 10 years. Analysis gave way to understanding as patterns emerged from the data, and a picture of what we call “value killers” began to emerge. The consequences, in many cases, were surprisingly severe. For business leaders, recognizing these potential value killers will begin to help answer the question of what companies can do to protect themselves. Source: Deloitte Research

Marketing Information Technologies to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
This exploratory study of IT purchasing is an effort to understand decision making in different stages of the information technology purchase process. The resulting study identifies the key factors impacting technology purchase decisions by small and medium enterprise owners. Source: Deloitte Research

Tracking RFID’s Next Wave to Gain Strategic Advantage
This report summarizes recent innovations in RFID technologies and provides information above and beyond widely publicized deployments that utilize commercially available and more fully tested systems, most often, chip-based RFID deployments requiring the use of “passive” RFID tags (i.e., tags that do not have their own power supply). Such deployments have been largely driven by supply chain improvement initiatives announced by leading retailers and the U.S. Department of Defense. Source: Deloitte Research