Deloitte Insights
Depressed markets and customer sentiment are forcing management to adjust their plans at pace, outside any of the normal planning and strategy cycles. Businesses must tackle issues such as cash & capital, cost reduction, and growth & revenue protection throughout the organization as a matter of priority.
To assist you in addressing these and other critical issues we have developed Deloitte Insights, your primary gateway to relevant insights and strategies developed by Deloitte teams both locally and globally. We hope you find it useful.
General insights
Managing in Uncertain Times - How to navigate your business in the right direction
Given the current economic environment, companies are asking themselves questions about what to do and not to do. Decisions that were taken not longer than a few months ago are being reconsidered again. This generates uncertainty and anxiousness in boardrooms around the globe, however it also offers a unique opportunity for companies to shape the future and not to fail victim to these uncertain times.
Risk Management Brief - Managing Reputational Risk
Underpin strategic planning by fact-based evaluation of alternatives as to “where to play”. Estimate profit pools in the future based on current trend data or specific market scenarios.
To survive or thrive? Gaining Competitive Advantage in an Economic downturn
Every business wants to grow and to thrive. By turning to a set of common-sense strategies now, you can position your company to thrive during a downturn by taking market share away from competitors, and be poised for breakthrough growth when the economy rebounds.
Cash & capital
Staying on Course - M&A in Europe
Current M&A study reveals: despite the financial market crisis, European Executives remain upbeat about their M&A plans. Western and Eastern Europe attract attention of both strategic and financial investors.
Liquidity Risk Management Readiness Checklist
Are you ready for the more onerous liquidity risk management requirements that were recently proposed by the Basel Committee and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors? The questions in this checklist, that anybody with a broad view on the organization should be able to answer, attempt to cover many of these requirements.
Steps to Sustainable and Scalable Change
Creating sustainable improvements to a company’s cost structure requires three elements: choosing the right business model, determining how decisions will be made and putting the decisions into action.
Part 1: Rethinking a Company’s Business Model
Part 2: Aligning Operational Governance with the Business Model
Part 3: Aligning Organization Design and the Service Delivery Model (Coming soon!)
Financial Foresight - Risk Management Implementation: Buy-Side Challenges and Solutions
As asset complexity increases, investment managers are finding it difficult to implement risk management solutions that cover the multitude of instruments and buy-side strategies, but without a comprehensive approach to risk management, investment managers may face critical gaps that can leave their portfolios exposed to significant risks.
Cost reduction
Strategy Matrix for global transfer pricing
A comprehensive and authoritative guide, compiling essential information regarding the transfer pricing regimes in 46 jurisdictions around the world and the OECD. The strategy matrix should be the starting point for all your transfer pricing inquiries.
In Fighting Shape
Cost improvement has become a standard operating practice for many companies. According to our study of 70 Fortune 500 companies, more than two-thirds have maintained an ongoing focus on cost improvement - even during the recent economic boom.
Cash Tax Strategies
As you adapt your business plans in the light of the current economic climate, a review of your tax position could result in significant savings.
Seven Secrets to Downturn Survival
Existing cost management programs such as hiring freezes, reduced travel and across-the-board budget cuts may not be sufficient to survive and thrive in a downturn. Organizations are better off seeking sustainable improvements to underlying cost structures, such as streamlining infrastructures, adjusting service delivery models and redesigning business models.
Staying ahead of the curve - How to transform your cost base
Cost management is high on every business leader’s agenda given current market and economic conditions. The dilemma is how to achieve a sustainable impact on the cost base, without sacrificing customer loyalty and the long term growth of the business.
Growth & value protection
Threading the Talent Needle
What global executives are saying about people and work.
Highlighting the challenges many companies face in tackling today’s immediate talent challenges while positioning themselves for longer-term success.
Managing Talent in a Turbulent Economy
Playing both offense and defense. This report — part one in a three-part study — features results from a pulse survey that polled more than 300 senior business leaders and human resource executives at large businesses worldwide.
Managing customers in a downturn - Maximize short term revenue or position yourself for long- term growth?
As the global economy continues its downward spiral, companies all over the world face tremendous pressure to generate cash and sales. Businesses that had obsessed about growing revenue are now focusing on grabbing whatever slice they can from a shrinking pie. In this challenging environment, what’s the right strategy for managing customers: focus on short-term revenue or long-term growth?
Understanding and owning revenue and profit pools in changing markets
Chosing where to play - Economic confidence is declining and resources are constrained. To make the difficult decisions and trade-offs that businesses face, management and other stakeholders require solid quantitative evidence of value creation potential.
Skinny Sales
Given the current economic downturn, companies have limited room to raise prices and must focus increasingly on the cost side.To help sales executives through periods of downturn, Deloitte has identified 6 key priorities.
The Ups and Downs of Pricing
How to improve commodity pricing in good and bad times. In recent years, the big question for commodity producers was how to get prices and margins up as high and fast as possible. Now, the question is how to preserve those margins for as long as you can.