In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are faced with an increasing degree of difficulty in achieving a high level of service combined with an efficient cost and resource utilization base. One solution is the increasing degree of digitisation of business operations and supply chains. This business strategy is based on a range of …
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Maritime Industry: New Shipbuilding or Purchase and Upgrade of Used Ships
Many shipping companies as well as warships of navies of all countries to develop their services and at the same time follow technological developments choose either the construction of new ships (or surface ships and sub-surface sea ships when we refer to a navy) or the acquisition of used ships and the possible upgrading of …
How the Negative Consequences of a Project Can Be Avoided
The post Covid-19 era forces all businesses to adapt to the new reality of revising the way they operate with the goal, first their survival and then create value and goodwill. To achieve these goals, businesses design and then implement transformation projects that include the full range of their business. This is true in both …
The Challenges in the Energy Sector After the Covid-19 Era
All economic activities were adversely affected by the implementation of measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. The same was the case with the energy sector, which has experienced drastically reduced demand, increasing the feeling of uncertainty among shareholders and investors in such companies-energy producers. According to data from the organization International Energy Agency (www.iea.org) during …
The Relation of The Businesses With the “New” Customer After The Covid-19 ERA
The new data launched worldwide after the spread and treatment of the Covid-19 pandemic, among other things, also shape the behaviour of each company’s customers. From a business point of view, therefore, the challenges in terms of their customers portfolio are based on being able to correctly predict which consumer trends and behaviours will last …
EU vs. Apple
The European Court of Justice in its judgment of 15 July 2020 ruled that the evidence provided by the European Commission was insufficient to show that Apple benefited from an artificial reduction in the tax rate in 2014, thus annulling the Commission’s mandate to Apple to pay in Ireland – a member state of the …
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) in the post Covid-19 Era
The epitome of capitalism is the giant Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), which, in addition to being necessary, are vital because they lead to the organic growth of companies and the redefinition of their strategy. During the Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of their response measures in developed economies, M&A followed the trend of the time …
Survival Guide for Family Business for the post Covid-19 Season
With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, having been achieved in the first stage to protect human life by limiting the increased number of diseases by implementing measures to limit the spread of the disease, in the second stage the attention of all of us is focused on the survival of our businesses. The survival …
Wirecard: How Major International Audit Firms End Up Unreliable and What has to be done in Terms of Regulatory Frame
The recent scandal in Germany starring one of the largest digital payment companies in Europe, highly unreliable role of the four major international audit firms, as in the case of Enron Corporation (2001) in the USA. Wirecard AG is an insolvent German payment processor and financial services provider at the center of a financial scandal …
How Working Life Can Be More Productive And More Pleasant
The up to date surveys shows that productivity has increased significantly in the weeks since offices were closed due to lockdown and everyone was working from home. This is since the way each employee has judged whether he has fulfilled his obligations has changed. More specifically, these surveys showed that when an employee works in …