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• View From Asia: India Won't Benefit Fully From the Amazing Productivity of Its Companies Unless It Builds a Better Infrastructure for Business

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  India's companies surpass Chinese enterprises in productivity, although most of that productivity is being exported, via the service sector, to distant markets. According to a UBS report, between 1998 and 2003 the average return on capital employed for an Indian firm was 17 percent. China's was 11 percent. India outpaces...

  Tags: India, CFO Publishing Corp., Benefits, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Finance, Management

• People Skills Deserve More Respect

  BNET - 2006-03-08

  The quality that leaders respect most in other leaders is the ability to bring in financial results, according to a recent report by talent-development consultancy Development Dimensions International DDI. In DDI's fourth annual survey, nearly 5,000 "leaders" and human resources representatives around the world ranked decision-making ability second and vision...

  Tags: Development Dimensions International, CFO Publishing Corp., Leader, Decision-making, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

• A Trade Secret Comes to Light, Again

  BNET - 2005-11-01

  Trade-credit insurance has been around since the Civil War, but it never really caught on in the United States. Now, as a result of globalization and other economic factors, CFOs are rediscovering this antique finance tool - and putting it to good use. Some use it simply to expand their...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Trade-credit Insurance, Sales Strategy, Globalization, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Strategy, Management, Finance

• Risk Denial From the Top? Companies Overlook and Under-Manage the Business Risks of IT Project and Service Delivery

  BNET - 2005-09-21

  Information technology plays a central role in companies' execution of competitive strategy and business operations, say finance executives in a new survey from CFO Research Services. But research results make it clear that uneven management of IT projects and services poses material risks to strategy, business operations, and...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Information Technology, Strategy, Management

• C-Suite Dialogues: How the CFO Can Collaborate to Drive Profitable Growth

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  In a climate of moderate economic expansion, intense governmental scrutiny, and uncertainty about global competition, Chief Financial Officers CFOs are seeking to execute their growth strategies by collaborating more closely with their C-level peers. Because CFOs serve their Chief Executive Officers CEOs and boards of directors as stewards of information,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., CFO, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Collaboration, Groupware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

• Budgeting in the Real World

  BNET - 2005-07-01

  New software systems can support an improved budgeting process, particularly by sharing consistent information. But the greatest contribution of software packages is their automation capabilities - the ability to free up more time for financial analysis by speeding data-collection efforts, and moving the management of that data out of loosely...

  Tags: Software, CFO Publishing Corp., Budgeting, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

• Clocking R&R: Software That Tracks the Real Cost of Paid Time Off

  BNET - 2005-05-01

  For centuries, humans have wrestled with the concept of time. In most cases, time wins. The concept of time appears especially confusing for certain workers who seem to have difficulty ascertaining how much vacation time they've taken. Several software makers have begun offering programs that aim to help companies deal...

  Tags: Software, CFO Publishing Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management

• A Human Inventory: New Software Can Help Companies Map Their Corporate DNA

  BNET - 2005-04-12

  In the late 1990s, consultants and academics began talking incessantly about the ascent of the "Knowledge economy." This invisible system, they posited, encompassed the collective set of ideas and innovations generated by a global workforce. As the competition for customers grew more intense - fueled, in part, by the rise...

  Tags: Software, CFO Publishing Corp., DNA, Biotechnology, Asset Management, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Human Resources, Management

• The Activist CFO: Alignment With Strategy, Not Just With the Business

  BNET - 2005-04-01

  CFOs are increasingly aligning their function not just with the business but with the company's overall strategy. And by doing so, they are not just supporting the business with information and analyses, but also ensuring that the entire enterprise delivers on its commitments. This article reports a research program that...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., CFO, Strategy, Team Management, Management

• A World of Pain Points

  BNET - 2005-03-29

  BPM software was initially pitched as next-generation budgeting-and-planning software, and plenty of the marketing message behind it is still given over to urging finance execs to leave the spreadsheet behind for purposes of financial consolidation, reporting, and forecasting. But because it relies on powerful database and analytic capabilities to make...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., BPM, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Marketing Research, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Finance, Software, Marketing