Advisory Consulting publications

Security Among the Clouds*

  

Automated.* Security monitoring: the key to a successful compliance strategy

  

Information Security: Protecting and sharing information

Articles

Cost reduction: What others are doing with Garrett Cronin (First published in Accountancy Ireland, August 2009)

August 2009

Publications

Doing business and investing in Ireland
Ireland is one of the most favoured locations for investment in Europe, with over 1,000 companies from all over the world having chosen Ireland as their base to do business. However, despite the recent economic downturn, Ireland is still an attractive place to do business. This publication was produced in Ireland by a team of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ inward investment specialists. It draws on their extensive knowledge and experience of the critical issues faced by first time investors in Ireland including, laws, taxes, regulations and the business environment.

July 2009

Irish economic outlook

April 2009

Information Security: Protecting and sharing information

April 2009

Managing IT through the downturn

March 2009

Shared service centre: The 2nd Generation - Moving to the next level of capability

March 2009

CEOPulse 2009
The views of Irish business leaders on the current economic and operating environment. Includes insights into their key people concerns.

March 2009

Shared services evolution: Moving up the value chain

February 2009

Shared services and Lean Six Sigma

February 2009

Presentations

The cost reduction challenge: Dublin Chamber of Commerce - Presentation slides

May 2009


Security Among the Clouds*
Cloud computing is rapidly moving from hype to a must-have service model. The benefits are certainly real, but a business must ensure that the cloud environment is secure enough for its essential data.

In today’s harsh operating environment, the need to create new value and efficiencies is an imperative. Cloud computing has matured to the point that it can be a secure, viable, and highly effective approach. But without careful planning and consideration of market concerns, the gains can be overshadowed by the risk exposure.

September 2009

The Information Commissioner’s Office: Personal Information Promise - Are you prepared to make a promise?
In the last few months many stories referencing data protection have appeared throughout the Irish media. This media attention, coupled with a very active Data Protection Commissioner, has increased the impact on companies of not complying with the Data Protection Acts.

Please download a copy of the personal information promise flyer produced by PwC in the UK challenging organisations to support the UK Information Commissioner’s Personal Information Promise programme. Given the common European legislation which drives the UK and Irish Data Protection Acts, this promise is just as relevant to us in Ireland. This document may assist you challenging your thinking and approach to data protection.

September 2009

Empower your business*: Information rights management can lock down confidential documents and improve your information security
Data leaks proliferate, whether accidental or intentional, introducing potentially costly and damaging risks to organisations’ reputations and compliance requirements. IRM helps plug these data leaks so that sensitive content, regulated data, and intellectual property are protected no matter where they reside.

June 2009

Automated.* Security monitoring: the key to a successful compliance strategy
Given the broadly accepted reality that every network can be compromised, there are too many systems offering too many services and running too many insecure applications. No amount of code reviews, patching, or access control can safeguard against every attacker. When prevention does fail, how do organisations prepare for the likely intrusions? Chances are they don’t know how. This paper addresses how organisations can step back and objectively consider how their risks and business objectives impact security.

May 2009

Outsourcing comes of age: The rise of collaborative partnering
This study explores one of the key issues raised by CEOs in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global CEO Survey, and reflects insights on outsourcing gathered from executives of both outsourcing customers and providers representing 19 countries across several continents. The study finds that while outsourcing remains a critical element of the corporate strategic mix, success in today's complex outsourcing marketplace is contingent on new dynamics, specifically the customer and service provider relationship.

March 2009

Technology forecast: Winter 2009
In our last two technology forecast issues, we examined how agility is the deliberate combination of standardisation and flexibility that prepares a company for change and allows it to proactively shift course with minimal disruption. We also explained the importance of developing a business agility model for anticipating market changes and their impact on existing operations.

February 2009

IT cost reduction playbook
The objective of this IT Cost Reduction Playbook is to provide you with a practical, step-by-step guide for achieving rapid, radical and sustainable IT cost improvements. The tried and true approaches and techniques discussed in this Playbook are meant to provide a starting point for delivering real and sustainable IT cost improvements today in a meaningful way.

February 2009

12th Annual Global CEO Survey: Redefining success
CEOs around the world are retrenching, indeed many claim to be entering ‘survival mode.’ Our 12th Annual Global CEO survey shows how the financial crisis shattered short-term confidence. The percentage of CEOs who were ‘very confident’ about their one-year revenue growth prospects dropped to 21%, the lowest level in six years. Uncertainty about the future is still running high and confidence no doubt continued to deteriorate after we completed the survey in early December.

January 2009
Convergence monitor: Personal mobility
This is the third in a series of global surveys aimed at understanding preferences and interest to buy and use various converged services. Personal mobility focuses on which devices and applications people are using today, how they are using them, and what they would like to have in the future. We look at the changes driving and enabling personal mobility, and the resulting challenges faced by service providers, equipment manufacturers and application developers.
January 2009