MishTalk

MAY 28, 2015

If officials lack the political will to raise taxes when their bonds are trading at 300 basis points (3%) over the AAA benchmark, will there ever be a resolution short of insolvency? These will force the school system to pay penalty interest rates ranging from 9% to 13.5% and make swap termination payments.

Analysis 28

Analysis Marketing Financial Finance 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2013

The panel''s charter includes "workplace practices, productivity" and "product range". Agreements include extra productivity restrictions, often doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the total employment cost of a workforce. These agreements have the force of law. The employer cannot change them without an employee vote.

Enterprise 66

Enterprise Government Industry Automotive 66

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Productivity growth in advanced economies has been on a declining trend since well before the onset of the financial crisis, and the workforce is already shrinking in several countries as the population ages. Financing problems of non-financial corporations in EMEs can also feed into the banking system.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2015

Necessary basic reforms are crucial in Europe if it is to restore global competitiveness, increase productivity and get the unemployed back to work. This situation has been exacerbated by the fact that government pension schemes are insufficiently financed. This will reduce the overheads of the national economy and reduce the deficit.

Banking 28

Banking Government Policies Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Core r epositioning.

Methodologies 49

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 49

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Confessions of a Consultant

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Final Countdown: For this final blog I’ve taken the liberty to select two topics (a) Improving your personal performance (b) developing a highly productive organisation. You benchmark best practices, stealing ideas shamelessly from clients and competitors. In my experience it’s never about sectors or product type.

Engineering 40

Engineering Benchmarking Course Productivity 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N.

System 34

System Financial Benchmarking Report 34

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

Resources 28

Resources Financial Energy Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

Benchmarking 32

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 32

MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Trillion Yuan in Audit The Washington Post notes "Local debt now equals about 33 percent of China’s gross domestic product, up from about 10 percent in 2008 and almost nothing in 1997." Assets in exchange-traded products backed by gold fell 33 percent to the lowest since 2009 amid sales by billionaires George Soros and John Paulson."

Conference 74

Conference Banking Government Balance Sheet 74