Shanghai as an International Finance Centre - A Comparison with London and Frankfurt
This article, based on research generated under the EU-China Business Management Training Project at the China Europe International Business School, analyses the conditions necessary to transform Shanghai from a domestic to an international financial centre. The background to the work is the increasing global importance of China as the powerhouse of the world economy particularly after the crisis and the decision of the State Council of China to turn Shanghai into an international financial centre by 2020.

Innovating at today’s pace
In 2009 Criticaleye held a Forum in association with Prophet, to examine how to foster a real culture of innovation within an organisation. As a follow-up to the event, in which attendees had the chance to participate in a lively question and answer session with the morning’s speakers, Daryl Dunbar and Andy Stefanovich answered some further questions from the Criticaleye Community.

Creating an Agile Organization
The ability to innovate faster and in new ways will always be critical to achieving high performance. But given the new dynamics of a fast-changing and less predictable global economy, a number of competitive assumptions are changing. Criticaleye Affiliate, Accenture, explains that one of the most important changes is that
the new business environment will favour those companies able to execute innovations faster, and to move their organisations forward more nimbly.