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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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Designing the Future Today
Customers are constantly rewiring their shopping behavior in response to new technologies, challenging economic realities, and shifting cultural norms. What can companies do today to satisfy the yet-to-be-determined needs of tomorrow’s consumers?
Teaming Up On Fresh Approaches to Today's Challenges
Partnerships between the U.S. government and private sectors were undertaken to achieve large infrastructure projects. Given the increasingly complex nature of our national challenges, has the time come for government and business to team up more often?
Separate or Equal: Should Environmental and Social Issues Be an Integral Part of Your Business?
A number of leading companies are taking deliberate steps to make environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities an integral part of their business strategy and operations.
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.
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.
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.
Meet or Exceed: What’s the Best Way to Approach Dodd-Frank’s Data Requirements?
There is no question that financial institutions will face a broad range of new data requirements as a result of the Dodd-Frank law. One question is what to do about it.
Good Riddance or Good Business - How Should Companies Manage Alumni Relationships?
Should employers invest to keep alumni close, or simply let them go once they walk out the door?
Should Life Sciences Companies Socialize on Social Networks?
All types of companies are diving into the waters of marketing on social networks, sparking conversations that never would have happened only a few years ago.