Lean Growth Quarterly: The Execution Challenge

2nd Quarter 2009. This edition focuses on specific project management issues. Leading companies explain how our Lean Growth approach -- planning and executing complex projects -- has helped them overcome their implementation challenges.

Senior executives report much top-down pressure to innovate, cut costs and improve productivity. But 70% of change programs in Asia fail to deliver the promised results so successfully executing improvements may well be a bigger challenge than identifying them!

We examined the causes of failure and developed tools to assure project success. Encouraged by clients, we then fine-tuned our approach for companies of every size, to help them ...  read more

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Featured Study: China Hospitality Study, unlocking the Market Potential in China

This detailed study uses primary and secondary channels to create a granular picture of the China hospitality market, including:
· A review of historic sector spend and an analysis of expected spend till 2013 by branded hotel segment
· Future headroom for each hotel segment in China over the next 10 years with an analysis of what Asia Now believe to be the key variables that will determine upside growth opportunity
· Profitability of different hotel segments in China. What really drives overhead costs in China and what does this imply for future development?
· Drill down into 20 key cities with an detailed analysis of each from an operating perspective and an appreciation of local market dynamics

An analysis of the strategies hotel players should leverage to unlock market potential in China and achieve sustainable growth.

Read more. For enquiries or comments, please contact us at hospitality@asia-now.com

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Featured Publication: Lean, Mean Growing Machine

Growing sales in Asia while keeping a tight rein on working capital is never easy, but the CFO’s of BASF and Honeywell are proving that it can be done.

For Arjun Sarker, working as a CFO in Asia today is both the best of times and the worst of times. His firm, Honeywell Specialty Materials, faces enormous growth potential in the region, a prospect that Sarker is only too keen to exploit. But as finance director for Asia Pacific, Sarker is also guardian of the company’s capital efficiency ... Read more

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