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More new research indicates that global companies are setting their sights on growth and global expansion.

As I pointed out last week, nearly all (95 percent) of the CFOs polled in BDO’s annual Global Ambition Survey said they are optimistic about their global expansion plans.

Now, a new report from KPMG concludes that global manufacturers have made top-line growth their number one priority in the next two years, despite persistent economic volatility and uncertain demand.

KPMG surveyed 220 manufacturing executives from global companies with at least $1 billion in revenue and found that: (more…)

Businesses today want to enhance their performance, and intriguing new research from KPMG indicates that firms are turning to shared service models and internal process improvements in order to meet those goals.

More than half (59 percent) of those polled in the KPMG 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey said they anticipate greater demand from clients for shared services delivery models.  Most (51 percent) also saw more demand for internal process improvement. Interestingly, outsourcing demand remained flat, including both business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT outsourcing (ITO).

In other findings:
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While there’s no doubt that new approaches to supply chain management are gaining a foothold at many companies, most businesses today still see cost as their main priority.

In fact, a recent KPMG survey polled nearly 200 senior-level executives from the aerospace, metals, engineering and conglomerates sectors across North America, Western Europe and Asia-Pacific, and it revealed that: (more…)

Nearly two-thirds of business executives say converging their companies’ Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) initiatives is now a priority, driven by business complexity, the desire to improve risk management and a need to reduce costs, according to a recent global survey by KPMG International.

The survey results are available in KPMG’s new 44-page report, “The convergence challenge: Global survey into the integration of governance, risk and compliance,” where I learned that: (more…)

Has the construction industry weathered the global economic crisis?

Recent research suggests that it has. In fact, almost two-thirds (64 percent) of construction industry executives expect to either increase or at least maintain their firms’ profit levels by mid-2010, according to the Global Construction Survey 2009 by KPMG.

The 32-page report, Navigating the storm; Charting a path to recovery, was compiled based on face-to-face interviews in mid-2009 with 108 senior leaders from top engineering and construction companies in 30 different countries. Taken as a whole, the results reveal a surprisingly optimistic outlook for the new year, and they also uncover an interesting new trend: (more…)