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Focus
May, 2013
Building Advanced Capabilities in Procurement: Moving Beyond Table Stakes
Robert Tevelson, Andreas Alsén, Amit Ganeriwalla, Stefan Benett
As procurement becomes a more powerful strategic function, even excellence in traditional core activities is no longer enough. In today’s dynamic and complex environment, procurement departments must develop and broadly apply a range of specialized skills that go beyond traditional cost management to materially improve the bottom line.
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Focus
April, 2013
Capitalizing on India’s “Digitally Influenced” Consumers: From Buzz to Bucks
Arvind Subramanian, Nimisha Jain, Shweta Bajpai, Shruti Patodia
Forty percent of India’s 90 million urban Internet users say that their online activities influence what they buy. This digital influence affects $30 billion of consumer spending in India today—as much as five times that of e-commerce alone. This digital impact is expected to reach $150 billion by 2016.
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Report
April, 2013
Turning Brazil Into a Business and Investment Hub: Charting a Steady Course
André Xavier, Masao Ukon, Juliana Abreu, Frederick Pierru, João Moreira, Paulo Oliveira, Pedro Guerra
Brazil has an image as a great place to visit, but what about doing business there? BCG analyzes the business and investment hub potential of the world’s sixth-largest economy and finds that dream demographics, consumer growth, world-class financial regulation, and economic and political stability outweigh bureaucratization and infrastructural limitations.
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