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Deloitte Debates

Deloitte Debates examine today’s most pressing business issues from many angles. The Debates offer a healthy discussion of options, immediate impacts and long-term consequences. The following Debates address some of your operations-related concerns.

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Brand Defense: Are Your Most Dangerous Saboteurs Outside or Inside Your Organization?
Brand reputation is more precarious than ever. Should your brand defense strategies first target potential saboteurs on the outside? Or those within?
Who Do You Want Driving Your Finance Transformation? The Finance Team Veteran or the Killer Project Manager?
Already have a finance team veteran with a gift for project management? Lucky you. Everyone else has to choose. Here’s one way to work through this important decision.
Shared Services: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
Factors that helped locate your shared services centers may not matter as much anymore. And opportunity for savings tempts you to relocate even farther away. When is change appropriate?
Should Health Care Still Revolve Around Hospitals, or Accountable Care Organizations?
New options for physician alignment and care delivery offer the prospect of more efficiency, better outcomes, and higher revenues. But they carry new costs as well – and could upset traditional roles. Is realignment worth it?
Operating Model Restructuring: Does Speed Kill?
When events force your hand, should the process of restructuring your operating model be any less deliberate than when you make changes on your own initiative?
The Mobile Banking Bandwagon
Should you focus more on generating new revenue sources, or drive harder for operational efficiencies?
Who’s Marrying Your Ex? Choosing a Carve-out Buyer
When you detach a new entity from an existing business, who’s the best buyer – a corporation that will integrate and operate it, or a private equity firm that will likely operate it as a standalone entity?
Ladder or Lattice: Does “One Size Fits All” Fit Anyone?
The corporate ladder has been the prevailing model for managing work and people since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Post-merger IT Integration: Custom or Off-the-Rack?
When it comes to post-merger IT integration, which is better – a customized or standardized process? Explore the debate.
Which M&A Strategy is Best – One Big Deal or Several Smaller Ones?
Today’s economic environment creates temptations that even risk-averse companies can find hard to resist. CFOs with access to cash reserves and low financing rates are eyeing large, possibly undervalued, companies as potential acquisition targets.