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In Germany, Japan and the USA more and more young people lose the desire to own a car. This development forces the car manufacturers to undergo a radical change in their business model. Therefore the car industry will alter slowly but surely into a mobility industry, forecasts Marc Winterhoff, co-author of Arthur D. Little’s study "Winning on the E-Mobility Playing Field."

Any company’s supply chain may easily be affected in summer months during water draughts that occur in some countries. A recent study by Arthur D. Little on the water margin pointed out four main pillars concerning water supply: disruption of business processes, as water shortages endanger the manufacturing and transport processes. Moreover, there are threats to reputation damages in the event of proven pollution by a company. Furthermore, government regulations request a permanent adjustment to production processes and finally, finance institutes render considerable and sustainable water-handling a condition for attractive credits.

In an article discussing the right strategies for growth before a business can hope to prosper again, Stefan Stern references Arthur D. Little’s "Ten management priorities for today and tomorrow" PRISM article.

According to Didier Levy, Director of the Telecom Practice at Arthur D. Little Paris, a product that is first given or rented can lead to a paid service. For instance, a mobile phone is given for free for every contract signed, you can get an I-pad if you subscribe to newspapers.

The business weekly Format presents the new Telekom trends for 2010 in great detail. Karim Taga is the only consultant, who is quoted on the topic Digital Dividend. His main message, "Splitting up infrastructure is an international trend, which is going to reach Austria as well."

Didier Levy, Director of the Telecom Practice at Arthur D. Little Paris, confirms that the price to have broadband plus TV plus telephone has been around €30 per month for some time now. To gain more customers, Operators are testing new and innovating packages. Numericable and Bouygues Telecom among others have entered the market by segmenting it and by offering various deals.

Full page write-up following the Global Carbon Equity Index launch announcement. This includes a quote from Davide Vassallo.

Fourteen months after the arrival of its new managing director, Sanofi Aventis has started the transformation of its research models. One of the challenges of these models is to master its complexity: Frederic Thomas, Associate Director at Arthur D Little brings up an important question: how to coordinate all this and who will make the decision at global level to continue or abortp a project.

The international aviation industry expects to lose .6bn in 2010. Rising operational costs and current overcapacities are seen as the major problems. There are still too many airlines in the market. Governments often fund their national airlines so that natural shake-outs don’t work. This is one of the results of a recent survey by Arthur D. Little.