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China and India: Comparing the world’s hottest consumer markets
This report discusses the evolution and future direction of consumer markets in China and India, including risks and six rules for doing business in each country.
The future of consumer product companies series
This new series of reports focuses on key issues that consumer product manufacturers should be thinking about to achieve sustained, profitable growth in the years ahead.
Mid-market food: Small is beautiful
In the food industry, the real growth has steadily accelerated since the end of the 2001 recession to its fastest pace in more than 20 years. This study looks at how this growth has been captured by retailers who are taking a "Small is Beautiful" approach to the marketplace.
The service revolution in global manufacturing
While manufacturers look for growth and profits in all corners of the globe, they often neglect large opportunities much closer to home — in their own service and parts operations. This new thought leadership report reveals how manufacturers are building world-class service and parts businesses to drive profitable growth.
Wealth with wisdom
This report examines the four areas of change affecting older consumers and explains new demands on business sectors such as retail, consumer packaged goods, financial services, health care, automotive, real estate, hotel and lodging.
China's consumer market
Considers the changing consumer business environment in China and offers predictions about the evolution of the Chinese consumer market as well as the likely strategic implications for global consumer oriented companies.
The power of synchronization: The case of TAL Apparel
This new case study from Deloitte Research shows how TAL has changed the dynamics of its competitive situation to its distinct advantage by delivering a value proposition beyond the usual concerns of cost, quality, and delivery.
Unlocking the value of globalization: Profiting from continuous optimization
More than 80 percent of world's most global companies are not capturing full value of their investments. Rather than take a holistic view in the design and expansion of their global supply chain network, most manufacturers focus on fixing individual pieces of the network. The result: suboptimal improvements, wasted efforts and frequently lackluster performance.
Quotas end, uncertainty continues
Looks at global trade in apparel and textiles; evolution of the trading regime; likely scenarios for the future of global trade and protection; the impact of ending quotas on emerging countries and the strategic choices market participants face.
Mastering innovation: Exploiting ideas for profitable growth
For manufacturers today, innovation is the engine of growth. Paradoxically, however, building or restructuring their operations to profitably bring new products and services to market is near the bottom of most manufacturers' priorities. Our research shows that overcoming this "innovation paradox" is crucial to survival and success in increasingly complex global markets.
Global consumer business: Strategies for a challenging world
In this new report from Deloitte Research, Dr. Ira Kalish examines in detail the business environment now facing retailers and suppliers and looks at the strategies they must adopt in order to survive and prosper.
Synchronicity: An emerging vision of the retail future
When a consumer develops a need, the synchronized consumer business is there to deliver it. The future competitive environment for retailing will be very different from the past. A future vision of retailing will have to take into account changing technology, consumer expectations, productivity and competition.
Assessing retail globalization
Despite the many failures within retail globalization, there are also many successes. Deloitte Research considers the issue and offers useful lessons that can be gleaned from the experiences of the past.
Seven strategies for survival in the grocery industry
This Deloitte Research Consumer Business Viewpoint is aimed at helping mid-market grocery retailers think about the issues involved in developing a differentiated offer.
Consumer goods firms eye radio-frequency IDs
Automatic identification using new radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies promises to unleash tremendous new savings in the consumer packaged goods value chain.
Mastering complexity in global manufacturing
Learn how “complexity masters,” are able to leverage their strengths in collaboration, flexibility, visibility, and technology in order to generate profits, growth and shareholder returns. This is the second report in a series based on Deloitte's Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Benchmarking Series.
The world's factory: China enters the 21st century
With its entry into the World Trade Organization, China is set to increase its share of the global export market, but not without risk. The possibility of a currency revaluation, a banking crisis and the social unrest linked to further privatization all loom large.
Retail tsunami? Wal-mart comes to japan
Wal-Mart's entry into the Japanese economy is bound to stir things up. How will the world's largest retailer fare? And how will it change Japan?
Strategic flexibility in a world of retail change
Great ideas change the world. The ability of consumer businesses to adapt their strategies to the idea of strategic flexibility will be the margin between success and failure.
Reinventing retail: The challenge of demand chain innovation
What happens when supply chain efficiency has squeezed every last dime of the global supply chain? Retailers will have to look to some combination of organic revenue and margin growth. They will have to turn to demand chain innovation.
Collaborative commerce in the consumer business industry
The consumer business game has shifted to collaboration. Long-term success depends on trading partners' ability to compete on the shelf, but collaborate across the value chain.
Consumer business digital loyalty networks
Digital loyalty networks can make your business twice as profitable as competitors who do not. Find out how to overcome the hurdles and harness the benefits.
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