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• Any Storm in a Portal?: Portals Have Been a Godsend to HR Departments, But Behind the Scenes, They Can Create Plenty of Chaos

  BNET - 2005-02-22

  When the technology downturn took the exuberance out of the software business, Mapics Inc., an Atlanta supplier of enterprise systems, decided to shed real estate rather than people. The company made such a commitment to telecommuting that three-fourths of its staff now work from home, client sites, or other remote...

  Tags: Software, CFO Publishing Corp., MAPICS Inc., Portals, Telecommuting, Web Technology, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

• Steering Customers to the Right Channels

  BNET - 2004-11-16

  A single channel used to be all that companies needed to deliver products or services to their customers. But now companies, responding to customer demand for ever more channel choice, reach out through many routes. Multichannel customers spend 20 to 30 percent more money, on average, than single-channel ones do,...

  Tags: Channel, CFO Publishing Corp., Call Centers, Internet, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

• Cutting Through The Clutter

  BNET - 2004-11-02

  From the executive summary: ‘Over the past few years, the proliferation of virtual publishing tools has made it fairly easy for the average person to construct, populate, and maintain a Web site. While this would seem to be a good thing, there is one minor downside to the trend: the...

  Tags: Web, CFO Publishing Corp., Publishing Tool, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

• Blogging for Dollars

  BNET - 2004-10-13

  Blogs, once the domain of the malcontent, have gone mainstream, thanks in large part to the thousands of Web logs dedicated to celebrities and defunct TV shows. In the process, business leaders have come to value what they once feared about Web logs: these online diaries provide an easy way...

  Tags: Web, CFO Publishing Corp., Web Log, Blogging, Internet

• CFO Publishing Takes Home Nine ASBPE Awards; CFO magazine and CFO.com garner national and regional honors

  - 2004-06-28

  BOSTON -- CFO magazine again was named among the Top Ten magazines with over 80,000 circulation by the American Society of Business Publication Editors ASBPE. With five national awards and four regional awards, the Boston-based CFO Publishing family was also among the most honored publications at the June 24, 2004...

  Tags: CFO, CFO Publishing Corp., INTERNET, Leadership, Silver

• Going, Going...

  BNET - 2004-06-15

  The advent of the Internet technology made the path of selling products and services smooth for many business organizations. It came as a boon and made a permanent place in the minds of people. As a result, there was no field or sector that wanted to lose the chance of...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Online Auction, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

• Search Is On

  BNET - 2004-06-15

  From the executive summary: ‘On the Internet, the shortest distance between two points is a well-conceived search query. In fact, these days most surfing entails a hurried task of the first few sites returned by a search engine as one quickly tries to find exactly what one is looking for....

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., IPO, Internet, Financial Planning, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing

• The Economics of Sharing

  BNET - 2004-04-19

  The characteristics of information - be it software, text or even biotech research - make it an economically obvious thing to share. It is a "Non-rival" good: i.e., one's use of it does not interfere with another person's use. Better still, there are network effects: i.e., the more people who...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Biotechnology, Internet

• Your Place or Mine?

  BNET - 2004-03-31

  Properly equipping a remote employee is more complicated than one might think, as is deciding whether the investment truly pays off. More vexing still may be the issue of who should take the lead in pushing for - or pushing back on - work-from-home arrangements. To be effective from home,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Fax, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Management

• On the Road Again: Business Travel and Cost Control Amid a Cautious Recovery

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  This article focuses on the crisis of rising costs of business travel. Unfortunately, the cost of travel itself is also expected to rise. Faced with this pressure to hold down travel costs, many financial executives are now looking toward online services for help. It reports the findings of a research...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Recovery, Cost Control, Internet, Financial Accounting, Real Estate, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations