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Raising the resilience of your organization
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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, June 2022
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Tackling inflation and margin pressure in the sporting goods industry
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Tackling inflation and margin pressure in the sporting goods industry
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Strengthening the balance sheet

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How distributors can build momentum in a slowdown

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Pricing during inflation: Active management can preserve sustainable value
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How capital expenditure management can drive performance
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Using analytics to address inflation risks and strengthen competitive positioning
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Forward Thinking on the transformative role of intangible assets in companies and economies with Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
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Unlocking cash from your balance sheet
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Getting tangible about intangibles:  The future of growth and productivity?
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Getting tangible about intangibles: The future of growth and productivity?
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A data-driven approach to improving net working capital
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A data-driven approach to improving net working capital
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Moving from cash preservation to cash excellence for the next normal
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Moving from cash preservation to cash excellence for the next normal
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What’s keeping you from divesting?
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What’s keeping you from divesting?
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A primer in resilience: Maximizing value beyond earnings
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A primer in resilience: Maximizing value beyond earnings
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Protecting the P&L

Defying cost volatility: A strategic pricing response
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Defying cost volatility: A strategic pricing response

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How to deal with price increases in this inflationary market
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Winning the race with inflation: The pricing opportunity for industrial companies
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Winning the race with inflation: The pricing opportunity for industrial companies
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Maximizing agile productivity to meet shareholder commitments
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Seeing the savings: Toward transparent management of portfolio companies
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Seeing the savings: Toward transparent management of portfolio companies
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Cash preservation in response to COVID-19
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Cash preservation in response to COVID-19
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Zero-based budgeting gets a second look
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Zero-based budgeting gets a second look
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Operations: Shoring up supply chains

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Delivering the US manufacturing renaissance

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Taking the pulse of shifting supply chains
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Supply chains: To build resilience, manage proactively
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Transforming supply chains: Do you have the skills to accelerate your capabilities?
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To improve your supply chain, modernize your supply-chain IT
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Risk and resilience in consumer-goods supply chains
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Diagnosing the pain in your supply chain
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Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
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Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
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Turn slow-moving inventory into fast profits
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Turn slow-moving inventory into fast profits
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Growing through M&A and innovation

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The ten rules of growth

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Choosing to grow: The leader’s blueprint
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Fear factor: Overcoming human barriers to innovation
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In conversation: The CFO’s critical role in innovation
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Spinning coin
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The flip side of large M&A deals
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How one approach to M&A is more likely to create value than all others
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The power of through-cycle M&A
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The power of through-cycle M&A
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A blueprint for  M&A success
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A blueprint for M&A success
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Are you a growth leader? The seven beliefs and behaviors that growth leaders share
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Are you a growth leader? The seven beliefs and behaviors that growth leaders share
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The M&A blueprint prompts business leaders to conduct a thorough self-assessment along with a comprehensive market assessment.

Flexing organizational muscles

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The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?

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Choosing to grow: The leader’s blueprint
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Redefining the modern CEO
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Human capital at work: The value of experience
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Stave off attrition with an internal talent marketplace
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Leadership lessons from the world’s best CEOs
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‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours
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For smarter decisions, empower your employees
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For smarter decisions, empower your employees
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The CEO moment: Leadership for a new era
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The CEO moment: Leadership for a new era
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Safeguarding data

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Cybersecurity trends: Looking over the horizon

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Securing your organization by recruiting, hiring, and retaining cybersecurity talent to reduce cyberrisk
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Financial institutions and nonfinancial risk: How corporates build resilience
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What you need to know about data and data privacy
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Safeguarding against cyberattack in an increasingly digital world
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Safeguarding against cyberattack in an increasingly digital world
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