Global climate change is a phenomenon that is creating unprecedented business challenges that are being felt from the production floor to the boardroom. Top-line and bottom-line growth can be threatened by new risks while growing interest in corporate eco-efficiency by both consumers and investors is creating new business opportunities. Broad-based interest in the potential impact of global climate change highlights the need for complete, accurate, and comparable data in order to make effective business decisions. The criticality and complexity of the information dictate that a comprehensive information management strategy will be required to address the increasingly critical nature of global climate change.

Due to market dynamics and economic conditions, oil & gas businesses - as well as related midstream,downstream & service companies - are seizing M & A opportunities and right-sizing their operations. The outright sales of subsidiaries & business units, as well as carve-outs of certain business lines and assets, are on the upswing. What are the key issues likely to arise as a transaction progresses,as well as effective practices for deal planning & execution? Read Deloitte's point-of-view on this topic to gain insights into recent trends in the oil & gas industry and ways to position part of your business for divestiture or carve-out.

An exciting trend in the world of CMMS is the increasing sophistication of condition-based maintenance features and functions vendors offer and maintenance professionals actually use. Perhaps we’re finally turning a corner on the age-old firefighting mentality, replacing it with a more planned environment.
In this report you will take advantage of a variety of techniques to increase equipment uptime. And you will even find out the link is between condition monitoring, reliability of assets and their consumption of energy.