Information, Communications & Entertainment
Bringing Regulation into the Boardroom
Enterprise 2.0 - The Benefits and Challenges of Adoption
Consumer and Convergence II
Enterprise 2.0 - Fad or Future
The Digital Bubble
Growth, Profit and Expansion in the Global Semiconductor Industry 2007
The Impact of Digitalization - a generation apart
Competing on Strenghts - The Challenge for Europe's IT Firms
Global Telecommunications Financial Performance Tracker - Full Year results 2005
Improved Point-of-Sale Reporting Benefits Manufacturers, Channels, and End Users
Current issues...future implications
Consumers and Convergence - challenges and opportunities in meeting next generation customer needs
Bringing Regulation into the Boardroom
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With an increasing focus on regulation, companies must be able to both shape and respond to the regulatory agenda in traditional and, increasingly, emerging markets. This new global survey, created by our KPMG UK team, looks at how communications companies can maintain an appropriate level of attention on regulatory issues in the boardroom. Download |
Enterprise 2.0 - The Benefits and Challenges of Adoption
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The second report in a three-part series on the use of social networking and collaborative software tools within the workplace. The report presents the results of a global cross-industry survey of 470 executives from around the world, conducted jointly with the Economist Intelligence Unit. Download |
Consumer and Convergence II
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Consumers are coming to expect that an increasingly broad array of digital devices can be used to do increasingly similar things in multimedia formats. The implications for this convergence are considered in this survey. Download |
Enterprise 2.0 - Fad or Future
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Generation Y (broadly, today's 15-30 year olds) has adopted Web 2.0 tools - social networking, blogging, and wikis with gusto. Will corporate adopters take them into the workplace and will that change the way we work? Download |
The Digital Bubble
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This publication addresses critical operations issues media and communications companies face when undergoing digital transformation. Download |
Growth, Profit and Expansion in the Global Semiconductor Industry 2007
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The 2007 edition of KPMG's annual global semiconductor survey. Download |
The Impact of Digitalization - a generation apart
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This paper discusses the impact of "Generation Y" on the use of digital media. The paper highlights the ways in which digital trends are shaping business models and future business strategy. Download |
Competing on Strenghts - The Challenge for Europe's IT Firms
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In September 2006, KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit polled 109 CIO’s, IT managers and directors in Europe for their views on the competitiveness of Europe’s IT firms. This is the second year that this survey has been conducted: our 2005 survey polled technology managers worldwide, while in 2006 we opted to focus our research exclusively on executives in Europe. Download |
Global Telecommunications Financial Performance Tracker - Full Year results 2005
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KPMG´s Global Telecoms Financial Performance Tracker records and analyses the financial performance of the top 20 companies in each of the three major telecoms regions of the world - Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMA), the Americas and Asia Pacific (ASPAC). Download |
Improved Point-of-Sale Reporting Benefits Manufacturers, Channels, and End Users
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The study reveals that point-of-sale (POS) reporting of sales-out and inventory by channel partners is a prime area for improvement. It examines current practices and discusses approaches for making POS reporting more accurate. The document is based on research and an analysis of a survey of leading IT manufacturers with extensive distribution worldwide whose combined annual revenue is 142 billion USD. Download |
A wake-up call for Europe: IT sector competitiveness
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KPMG´s Information, Communications and Entertainment practice produced in cooperation with the Economist Inteligence Unit the study analyzing the strenghts and weaknesses of Europe´s information technology firms in a global context. Download |
Current issues...future implications
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The study highlights some current challenges facing media organizations, offers insights into a number of pressing issues for the industry and discusses the problems of convergence of the IT, telecommunications and media industries, content providers and technology companies. Download |
Consumers and Convergence - challenges and opportunities in meeting next generation customer needs
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Based on a survey of 3576 cellular phone owners worldwide, Consumers and Convergence provides a detailed perspective on the experience base, attitudes, behaviors and preferences associated with various converged multimedia services, particularly those delivered via mobile handheld devices. The report from KPMG International claims that the time has come for service providers to switch from a customer-based business model to a model which focuses more on presenting a stable customer base to third party advertisers and sponsors. Download |
Convergence Takes Hold The Global Outlook for Information and Communications Technology
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Telecommunications and information technology industry leaders have reason for optimism, as suggests a global outlook KPMG´s Information, Communications and Entertainment practice. Painful cost cutting during the technology donwturn has put many ICT companies back on a solid financial footing, and they appear to have rediscovered a taste for growth. Download |
Convergence gathers pace: Emerging trends in Asia Pacific ICT markets
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The global ICT industry continues to see enormous oportunity in the Asia Pacifik region, where close to 10m new mobile phone subscribers are registered every month. The view of the ICT markets in Asia Pacific, produced by KPMG´s Information, Communications & Entertainment in cooperation with the Economist Inteligence Unit, summarises the major short and medium-term trends at work, competitive challenges, opportunities and driver sof growth in the region´s ICT markets. Download |
Indian entertainment industry Focus 2010: Dreams to reality
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The Indian entertainment industry is on the threshold of emerging as a large market globally. Future growth of the industry is expected to be led by rising spends on entertainment by a growing Indian middle class, regulatory initiatives, increased corporate investments and the industry´s dynamic initiatives, says a joint report of KPMG International and The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Download |
Film Financing and Television Programming: A Taxation Guide
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This book for tax and finance executives focuses on financing structures, tax considerations, and financial incentives for film and television production companies operating in countries around the world. This edition is an update from our 1999 publication and provides current information on: 1) Specific incentives used by governments to drive film and television production activity in 28 countries and 2) Key country facts, film financing structures, tax and financial details, indirect taxation issues and corporate and personal tax considerations by country. Download |
Managing the Risk sof Counterfeiting in the Information Technology Industry
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The Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement (AGMA), today announced it has teamed with KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, to issue a whitepaper titled "Managing the Risks of Counterfeiting in the Information Technology Industry." As counterfeiting becomes one of the most challenging issues for the IT industry, with illegal replicas of brand name high technology products flooding the marketplace, AGMA and KPMG collaborated to reveal the threat of this growing activity and present working solutions. Download |
Telecommunications Carriers Respond to Information Security and Privacy Protection Concerns
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America´s telecommunications companies have become some of the nation´s biggest repositories of sensitive personal information, making it ever more important for them to protect the valuable data with which they are enthrusted. Companies that fail to safeguard their customer´s private information may find themselves facing huge liability claims, fines, and a devastating loss of consumer confidence. Download |
Value, Growth, and Profit in the Global Semiconductor Industry. A survey of Industry Executives: Second Quarter 2005
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The semiconductor industry has reached a watershed moment. Electronics manufacturers seeking to reduce production costs are accelerating thein migration of operations to countries such as China and India, so chipmakers are reexamining how and where to do business, summarizes a new global survey of industry executives conducted by KPMG LLP in cooperation with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Download |
The purpose of the Investment in the Czech Republic is to provide some general guidelines on investment and business in the Czech Republic.
The April issue of the Horizons magazine is focused on Advisory Services.
The November issue of the Horizons magazine is focused on Financial Services.
- a quick-reference tool for the most common tax rates and amounts in the Czech Republic.