Our professionals share their insights on a variety of topics and economic issues
| View magazine, winter 09
View, PricewaterhouseCoopers' magazine for senior executives, is dedicated to addressing the forces of change that most affect the success of your business. In our Winter 2009 issue, our cover story discusses the need for a long-term US energy policy that supports economic growth in an interdependent world, and how businesses in all sectors have a role to play. In other feature articles, we look at the state of employer healthcare in the coming year, and at how companies can better manage change through transformative technology. And there's much more, including an interview with Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer on the importance of managing political risk.
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| Cities of opportunity
Cities of Opportunity studies 21 worldwide centers of finance, commerce and innovation for lessons on what makes cities thrive. Traditional centers New York and London, emerging cities Shanghai and Mumbai and cities with special qualities like Chicago, Toronto and Frankfurt are among those showing notable results.
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| From vulnerable to valuable: How integrity can transform a supply chain
Companies reeling from supply chain breakdowns are discovering that aggressive cost cutting created new risks, as demonstrated by product recalls. In the new publication, "From vulnerable to valuable: how integrity can transform a supply chain", PricewaterhouseCoopers discusses how companies can design and manage their supply chains to balance a competitive cost structure with investment in the future.
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| Technology Forecast: Fall 2008
Do more with less. Be more innovative. Manage continuous change. Anticipate market shifts. Bias investment toward differentiation. Standardize wherever possible to reduce costs. Deliver value from acquisitions. Make information a strategic weapon. Create a sustainable infrastructure. Be more agile. In scores of conversations with business and technology executives, it has become evident to PricewaterhouseCoopers that many apparently unrelated initiatives share a common challenge: to manage them in an era of continuous change without tearing the organization apart by lurching from one initiative or crisis to the next. This issue of the Technology Forecast describes how.
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| American Perspectives
American Perspectivesis a publication that examines trends and challenges that are impacting businesses today and will continue to do so well into the future. This publication is the culmination of research and interviews with senior US executives, academics, public policy experts and PwC partners discussing how these trends and challenges are interconnected. It provides clear actions for how to navigate these challenges in order to take advantage of them in the face of great change.
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| 10Minutes on data and identity theft
The risk of data and identity theft is on the rise and PwC understands that data losses can be devastating and risks are substantial, including compromise of company IT systems, direct financial impacts from investigations and customer lawsuits, erosion of brand reputation, loss of customers, government fines and regulatory mandates. Having strong data safeguards in place can help secure a company's reputation, competitiveness, and financial well-being.
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| Point of view: Business continuity
According to PwC the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (the Act) created a voluntary program whereby private sector organizations may choose to formally certify their business continuity and resilience management plans. This Point of View provides background and analysis on the Act and suggests strategies companies can use to become certification ready.
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| Speed of integration improves M&A success: PwC M&A integration survey report 2008
The period from deal announcement through the first 100 days post close proves to be crucial to deal success, with higher levels of deal performance achieved when certain integration tasks were started and completed within that timeframe. When organizations understand the interdependencies of integration initiatives—and speed up the execution of these activities—they can stop leaving deal value on the table and start delivering greater return to their stakeholders.
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| Fair value: Clarifying the issues
This whitepaper accompanies PwC's 10Minutes on fair value. It clarifies the issues and provides PwC's point of view on the use of fair value as a measurement basis. Fair value is the best available method for financial instruments, however, its limitations and challenges should be carefully evaluated before expanding its use beyond where it is applicable today.
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| XBRL: Steps toward an implementation plan
In May 2008, the SEC formally submitted its proposal that would require all companies applying US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to begin using XBRL within the next three years. As the deadline for implementation nears, it is apparent there is a need for a greater awareness and deeper understanding about the costs and benefits XBRL offers. This whitepaper expresses a point of view on what companies can do now to ensure they are prepared when the proposal takes effect.
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| View magazine, summer 08
View , PricewaterhouseCoopers' magazine for senior executives, is dedicated to addressing the forces of change that most affect the success of your business. In our Summer 2008 issue, our cover story, Warming Up to Climate Change, discusses how forward-thinking organizations are integrating comprehensive climate-change strategies within their core business strategies. We also ask the question: Are sovereign wealth funds a threat or capital-raising opportunity for US companies? And we present a lively conversation between former President George H.W. Bush and PwC US chairman and senior partner Dennis Nally. Plus: outsourcing, shareholder activism, bridging IT and medicine, the global tax picture, IFRS, and more.
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| Technology Forecast, Summer 2008
This new quarterly journal takes its cue from the well-known annual PwC Technology Forecast books published for over a decade. The inaugural issue considers how IT is evolving within the context of an emerging management model focused on creating enterprise agility. As authority is pushed out to the edge, what IT enablers will facilitate faster decision making? How will companies manage continuous change and the complexity that results from it? What kinds of collaboration and other Web 2.0 tools can help? What's the next software suite?
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| What you need to know about the coming debate on tax reform: Risks and opportunities for US business
Individual tax issues will drive tax reform, but corporate tax issues will be an important element as policymakers consider the best growth strategy of the US economy and the international competitiveness of US business.
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