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Free Reports from Executives Online
Executives Online has published a number of research reports exploring topics of interest to our clients and candidates. All of our reports can be downloaded free of charge.
Our most recent reports are:
Challenge of Change – on Change Management in UKplc
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Interim Management Trend Update
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Real Deals Portfolio Management Edition
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Bounceback
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Business Exposure
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Challenge of Change
In Executive Online's NEW Challenge of Change report we explore how South African companies view and manage change. This groundbreaking report updates our original Challenge of Change report, published in 2002, with new research involving over 840 senior executives in South Africa, in roles where they’re responsible for business transformation programmes. It explores such challenging questions as: Is change used as a strategic tool to create better companies that are more able to remain successful, or is it used reactively, in an inward-facing way? What techniques and resources are being used to deliver change? How important are senior managers in this process? And above all, how successful are change programmes?
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Interim Management Trend Update
Executives Online's publication Interim Management Trend Update explores the types of organisational change which often result in an interim manager being required, day rates and utilisation of interim managers themselves, and the diverse benefits clients derive from leveraging interims. Interim Management Trend Update, the latest report on interim management from Executives Online, is written specifically for South Africa. Interim Management Trend Update also includes sections on interim managers as agents of change, women in interim management, and interims as candidates for permanent executive roles.
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Real Deals Portfolio Management Edition
With few new deals on the horizon and liquidity events like IPOs and trade sales but a distant memory, private equity investors have had to turn their attention to portfolio management – ensuring the companies in their portfolios are well run, sustainably, for the foreseeable future. Certain resources, including interim management, cash management, and debt restructuring, are being employed like never before by private equity to help their investment companies weather the troubled economy. As the exclusive sponsor for interim management in Real Deals’ portfolio management edition, Executives Online contributed strongly to the editorial commentary on how interim management can supplement the skills of underperforming management teams or mount a full-scale turnaround.
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Bounceback
Our recent report Bounceback addresses issues of managing in an economic downturn, drawing on research conducted among more than 570 senior executives based in South Africa who are registered with us. Their answers give perspective on the impact that the current trading downturn is having on organisations. These insights, lessons, and learnings can help any company to weather – and perhaps even benefit from – the current economic climate.
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Business Exposure
One of the key reasons companies come to us is because a senior director has unexpectedly left the company, or their traditional recruitment method is failing and they urgently need to plug the gap. The aim of this report is to identify the level of exposure created in companies by these unexpected gaps or slow permanent recruitment. Drawing on 102 surveys among HR managers and line managers responsible for hiring executive roles, Executives Online has published Business Exposure.
We look at how common the problem is. We explore the roles which are the most vulnerable, and those which are toughest to fill. We consider the problems companies face when they can’t solve a senior recruitment problem, the damage that results, and the steps companies might take to minimise it.
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The Pharma Report
This report covers key topics impacting on the pharmaceutical industry, one of the world's most complex and compelling industries. The articles include a comprehensive survey of flexible working practices and policies in the industry, production forecasting and supply chain management, and customer satisfaction.
