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The world’s<br />
knowledge is<br />
in the northern<br />
hemisphere<br />
The world’s fi ve<br />
top-selling daily<br />
newspapers are<br />
all Japanese.<br />
WHERE IS THE WORLD’S KNOWLEDGE<br />
concentrated? That’s the question posed<br />
in The Geography of World Knowledge,<br />
published by two think-tanks, Convoco and<br />
the Oxford Internet Institute. In the midst of<br />
a new media revolution, the publication maps<br />
things like worldwide Internet use, newspaper<br />
readership and centers of academic knowledge,<br />
and even includes a revealing breakdown of<br />
the geographic distribution of geocoded photographs<br />
uploaded to Flickr. In almost every case,<br />
the knowledge is concentrated in Europe and<br />
North America – which are also the regions<br />
where the largest number of Wikipedia<br />
biographies are written.<br />
+www.oii.ox.ac.uk<br />
Ideas for crisis-ridden<br />
companies<br />
NO TWO BUSINESS CRISES ARE THE SAME. Sometimes you just need<br />
to tweak your strategy; sometimes it’s time to call in the receivers.<br />
In nearly all cases, turning a company around demands a holistic<br />
approach that carefully considers all recovery options. Drawing up a<br />
restructuring plan that identifi es the causes and possible solutions is<br />
just as important as complying with the relevant legal requirements.<br />
This review by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants’ Bernd<br />
Brunke, Sascha Haghani and Thomas Knecht, entitled “Restructuring<br />
and Re-launching Crisis-Ridden Companies,” is a sound, up-todate<br />
and comprehensive guide on the subject. It takes into account<br />
current statute and case law, and discusses the latest approaches to<br />
various aspects of restructuring and insolvency.<br />
The review is aimed at company managers, bankers, other investors,<br />
and students and teachers of business studies and law.<br />
“DRAWING UP A<br />
RESTRUCTURING PLAN<br />
THAT IDENTIFIES THE<br />
CAUSES AND POSSIBLE<br />
SOLUTIONS IS JUST AS<br />
IMPORTANT AS COMPLYING<br />
WITH THE RELEVANT<br />
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.”<br />
“Restructuring and Re-launching Crisis-Ridden Companies”<br />
8 <strong>THINK</strong> <strong>ACT</strong> SEPTEMBER 2011
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