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National Defense
November 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Downturn Sets Off Mergers, And a Search for Non-U.S. Customers The defense industry is wasting no time to maneuver into position for the coming downturn in spending.   |
National Defense
December 2010
Tom Captain |
Defense Affordability: Can We Buy Only What We Need? Military acquisition budgets globally are flattening out and declining. Large scale multi-billion dollar programs are running over budget and being delayed. |
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control. |
Job Journal
October 15, 2006
Michael Kinsman |
Moms: You are Cleared for Reentry Deloitte's Personal Pursuits program is designed to keep men and, especially, women connected to the company -- even if they postpone their careers for up to five years at a time. |
National Defense
May 2009
William Y. Bishop |
Pentagon Acquisition Rules Exacerbate Problems The defense industry has launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington saying that future reductions in acquisition funding will put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk. |
Bank Systems & Technology
July 20, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Data Management at Heart of New Regulation A Deloitte report says data aggregation and integration are key to meeting new regulation. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2005 |
Threats to talent pools may create perfect storm Human resources executives say incoming workers with inadequate skills pose the greatest threat to business performance over the next three years, followed by baby boomer retirement and the inability to retain key talent. |
Managed Care
January 2006 |
Costs Slow Down, But Not Enough to Assuage Employers' Concern A new survey shows that health care costs for companies are increasing more slowly than in recent years. |
National Defense
May 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2010 |
Deloitte Finds Shortfall in Business Analytics Despite the steady proliferation of business analytics and intelligence technology, a large portion of technology firms and other companies are still housing information in separate buckets, according to a new survey from Deloitte. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2010 |
Google, the Most Attractive Global Employer Google has emerged as the most attractive place to work globally, retaining its top position for the second consecutive year. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Robert N. Charette |
What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations. |
Scientific American
March 13, 2006
Daniel G. Dupont |
Software Insecurity A good deal of code for some of the military's most sophisticated weapons -- fighter aircraft and missile defense systems, for example -- is written in other countries, creating an obvious risk to national security. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
CEOs Go Global For Talent Companies looking overseas for skilled employees. |
National Defense
January 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Acquisition Reform Act: The Backlash Has Begun It's only been seven months since President Obama signed the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Predictably, a chorus of disapproval already is being heard. |
National Defense
March 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry and Government Butt Heads Over Weapons Maintenance Contracts Repairing and maintaining decades-old inventory has been big business for the defense industry, and will continue to be despite funding cuts that will hit the Pentagon over the next several years. |
National Defense
May 2010
Harvey M. Sapolsky |
The False Promises of Acquisition Reform Despite meetings, laws, and hearings on acquisition reform, cost overruns, schedule slippages, and performance lapses still plague nearly all weapon system acquisitions. |
National Defense
November 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts. |
National Defense
February 2014
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Downturn Should Be Manageable The defense industry lobby made a strategic miscalculation by using job-loss scare tactics in the fight against Pentagon budget cuts. |
National Defense
September 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Next Pentagon Procurement 'Bow Wave' Will Be a Tsunami With the Defense Department now facing a precipitous drop in new equipment purchases over the next two years, the green-eyeshade crowd already is predicting a huge bow wave for 2018 and beyond, which could be the biggest one yet. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Big Projects, Big Budgets: Fixing Government Procurement More links in the chain can also mean more delays or mistakes -- and an error from a single supplier can derail an entire project. |
National Defense
May 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs |
National Defense
October 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Fears of the Incredibly Shrinking Defense Budget May Be Overblown A defense industry apocalypse is not here yet: Everyone in Washington is always in favor of savings in the abstract but when they see the particulars, they tend to get cold feet. |
National Defense
January 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Government Reports Depict Alternate Realities Federal agency reports can be notoriously oblivious to facts. |
National Defense
June 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Government Contractors: Can Trust Be Restored? To improve relations with the government, the defense industry will need to show that it wants to help fix the national budget. |
National Defense
December 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Competitive Prototyping 'Brings Out the Best' in Contractors As a result of massive cost overruns and performance failures in major weapon systems, the Pentagon is now requiring competing contractors to build real-world functioning prototypes of their proposed hardware. |
National Defense
February 2016
Sandra I. Erwin |
CEOs Not Yet Ready to Take a Gamble Defense executives don't have clear answers as they weigh investment choices in an uncertain market. |
IndustryWeek
April 18, 2012 |
Manufacturing CFOs Look Inside and Out for Growth Deloitte survey shows the top items on the agenda. |
InternetNews
March 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
Avoid Taxing Problems When Making IT Buys Large companies could lose millions by ignoring the tax implications associated with major IT buys, a new report warns. |
CFO
November 1, 2007
Kate Plourd |
Lights, Camera, Audits! The Big Four turn to YouTube and FaceBook to attract a new generation of recruits. |
National Defense
April 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Government, Not Industry, Should Be in Charge of Interoperability Government agencies, not contractors, should be responsible for making weapons systems interoperable, senior military officials said. |
National Defense
January 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Budget Squeeze Could Spur Defense Industry Shakeup To borrow a line from Casey at the Bat, there is no joy in Mudville. Defense industry executives, with good reason, are experiencing considerable anxiety as Pentagon budget cuts lurk around the corner. |
Inc.
October 2005
Darren Dahl |
Granting Options Like It's 1999 New rules do little to dampen private companies' use of stock options. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 6, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Job Cuts Top of Mind for Employers A Deloitte survey of large companies worldwide shows that executives are at the point where making decisions on staff cutbacks isn't as straightforward as it once was. |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006
Nanette Byrnes |
Get `Em While They're Young Forget college. Business is starting its talent hunt one step earlier: high school. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 23, 2008
Cory Levine |
Compliance Costs Grow Faster Than Net Income According to New York-based Deloitte & Touche's Deloitte Center for Banking Solutions, compliance costs are eating up more and more of firms' net income, due to applying human resources to monitor regulations. |
National Defense
July 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Industry Targets $150B Weapons Maintenance Market Operations and support, or operations and sustainment, is military-speak for the unglamorous work of maintaining, refurbishing and overhauling Pentagon hardware, some of which is decades old. |
CRM
February 8, 2012 |
Deloitte Partners with Salesforce.com The alliance bolsters Deloitte's reach into the cloud. |
U.S. Banker
November 2008
Joseph Rosta |
Models Built on Good Times Fail in Bad Today's economic mess has led to plenty of finger pointing, but the failure of risk management models is surely a prime culprit. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 16, 2012 |
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Robert N. Charette |
Advice for the Next U.S. President: Fix Military Acquisitions Several leading defense acquisition experts offer a few observations and recommendations for the next president. |
National Defense
July 2014
Sandra I. Erwin |
Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 19, 2007
Paul McDougall |
Big Surge for Bank Offshore Outsourcing, Deloitte Study Predicts Banks in the U.S. and other countries will dramatically increase the percentage of their IT budgets devoted to procuring technology services from offshore providers operating from low-wage countries, such as India and China, over the next three years. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 27, 2008
Cory Levine |
Compliance Costs Continue to Rise Compliance costs are eating up more and more of firms' net income. |
National Defense
September 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military to Expand Outsourcing of Weapons Maintenance The Obama administration has unleashed plans to curtail outsourcing and bring more work in-house. But one area where the practice is not likely to slow down is weapons maintenance. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
From Parts Unknown How to identify what might be missing from your parts pricing strategy. |
InternetNews
April 13, 2007
David Needle |
The Big Internet Slowdown? Is the Internet in trouble? If so, video is one of the prime culprits. |
