10Minutes

We recognize how busy you are...

...so we are asking for just 10 minutes of your time to explore issues that we believe you'll want to understand and act on in the near future.

Without mincing words, each 10Minutes piece is designed to distill key information and insights on a corporate, legal, or regulatory topic relevant to your business, helping you set your compass in a landscape that is often difficult to negotiate. If we can make the journey easier for you, it will be 10 minutes well spent. 

Below are a list of selected 10Minutes publications relevant to the New Zealand market.

 

 

10Minutes on the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis

Minimizing surprises despite Eurozone uncertainties

This edition of 10Minutes covers several scenarios that could unfold from the Eurozone debt crisis, how these scenarios impact companies, actions companies are taking now to prepare, and best practices for balancing short-term crisis management with longer term strategic considerations.


 

10Minutes on effective audit committees

Leading practices that enhance audit and financial reporting quality

Audit committees play a critical oversight role in meeting the information needs of the capital markets and promoting quality audits and financial reporting. The leading practices in this 10Minutes can help audit committees continue to improve their oversight of auditors and management.


 

10Minutes on the CEO Agenda 2012

Delivering results: growth and value in a volatile world. Eight questions for every CEO.

Drawing from the results of our 15th Annual CEO Survey where over 1,250 business leaders from 60 countries shared their thinking, this 10Minutes explores 8 critical questions that help to frame the challenges and opportunities facing CEOs -- about strategy, talent, innovation, risk and other pressing issues.


 

10Minutes on medical innovation

Smaller, faster, cheaper: The future of medical technology

The study results show that innovation leaders of today may find their position slipping during the next decade. Countries that can overcome their current weaknesses and develop a supportive ecosystem to help medical technology companies thrive will lead into 2020 and beyond.


 

10Minutes on expanding business in Asia Pacific

Businesses strive to new levels of regional integration

10Minutes on expanding business in Asia Pacific looks at how businesses are striving to new levels of regional integration. Highlights: Multinationals setting up regional hubs , possible US trade pact(Trans-Pacific Partnership) in 2012, Multinationals are tapping innovation, Companies forging partnerships.


 

10Minutes on the boardroom agenda

Corporate governance, risk management and boardroom effectiveness

New governance regulations, risks associated with emerging technologies and fraud, and the effects of the economic downturn have corporate directors focusing on ways to increase their effectiveness in the boardroom. Executive compensation, risk management, and succession planning are three areas of focus for directors.


 

10Minutes on doing deals in China

May 2011

M&A in China is booming, but the rules for acquiring a stake in the world's fastest-growing economy have changed. China's 12th Five-Year Plan envisions a more urban, equitable, consumption-driven and cleaner China.


 

10Minutes on the CEO agenda

March 2011

Across industries and around the world, businesses are undergoing strategic makeovers to meet the new demands of a changing global economy.


 

10Minutes on engaging your pivotal talent

February 2011

In these early days of economic recovery, companies around the world remain committed to getting the most out of smaller workforces.