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The UK Government’s first annual Energy Statement recently acknowledged the ongoing need to realign UK energy policy in order to implement an environmentally responsible, secure and cost-efficient energy infrastructure.  Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little believes that the inconsistent policies so far pursued seem destined to deliver a high cost, low quality infrastructure – and asks whether the current Government is willing to turn this situation around.

The time is right for service providers to enter M-BRIC m-payment markets, according to a recent study by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little. While only 32 million people in M-BRIC currently use mobile financial services, Arthur D. Little projects that this number will increase to 290 million users by 2015.

Now is the time for corporations to make fundamental changes to the way they organize business IT, with 40% of CEOs and CIOs pointing towards an overhaul in IT governance. This is the key finding of a study of 63 large corporations by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little. The consultancy has developed an approach to provide companies with the means for optimizing IT governance.

Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little has produced a major new study that examines the management and technology issues facing nuclear new build projects and provides a comprehensive framework to help owners overcome potential obstacles and reduce risk. "Nuclear New Build Unveiled" analyzes the current status of and trends within the nuclear industry, particularly in the context of many projects being run on very tight time schedules by teams with little or no experience of nuclear new build.

The majority of CXOs across all industries predict businesses will return to pre-crisis activity levels by the end of 2011. This is the finding of a survey by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little of 338 executives worldwide, with 71% of CXOs believing their businesses will fully recover. This is a more prudent outlook compared to the consultancy’s survey conducted last year, where 84% of executives predicted this result. Yet, the popular notion of the “new normal”, commonly referring to a downsizing of the global economy, has been shown to have few adherents, with 75% of executives estimating growth to be at least as high as before the crisis took hold.

Arthur D. Little (ADL), the leading global management consultancy, linking strategy, technology and innovation, is pleased to announce that Michael Tse has joined the firm as Director of ADL China.  Michael has over 20 years of experience in industry and management consulting in Greater China, Asia and the US.  His prior consulting experience includes leadership roles at Accenture and A.T. Kearney with a focus on supply chain management, operations excellence, transformation & restructuring and growth strategy.

Arthur D. Little, the leading global management consultancy linking strategy, technology, and innovation, is pleased to announce that Carlos Abad has joined the firm as Managing Director of Arthur D. Little Spain.

Arthur D. Little's new report, "Untying the Gordian Knot", examines the current state of play in Digital Rights Management (DRM) and concludes that systems must evolve to deliver both acceptable content protection for owners and maximum interoperability for users, otherwise DRM may be abandoned altogether.

Green market challenge goes beyond developing new technology

Mobile Internet: blessing or curse?” predicts improvement in mobile industry performance driven by accelerating smartphone penetration and control of CAPEX over the mid-term