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• Not so Easily Replaced: The Notion That Long-Term Government Employees Are a Liability Is a Simplistic One, According to One Reader

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  The notion that long-term employees in the private sector are an asset and that long-term employees in the public sector are a liability reflects an extremely simplistic view of those sectors and the employees who work in them. It perpetuates the belief that government employees sit behind desks making life...

  Tags: Employee, CFO Publishing Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• 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

• 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

• The Pipes Are Flowing

  BNET - 2004-11-01

  From the executive summary: ‘The up-front damage from hedge fund short selling will not be the end of the problems faced by some Private Investment in Public Entities PIPEs transactions. In fact, such activity has cost some issuers a significant amount of market value after their deals' closing. In the...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Investment, Financial Services, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Avoiding Decision Traps

  BNET - 2004-06-01

  Managers can be led into costly errors of judgement through cognitive biases and mental shortcuts. The paper examines behavioral finance, which has focused on asset pricing and behavior of the investors. Decision-making is being paid attention in the corporate realm. On the basis of managers training and experience, they might...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Finance

• Where Are All The Europeans?

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  From the executive summary: ‘The relationship between deal flow and currency values surprises few experts in the M&A field. One problem with buying American assets to take advantage of the weak dollar, is that the cash flows eventually coming from the purchase must be repatriated at the future exchange rate,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Free Trade, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• The Whole Truth

  BNET - 2004-04-15

  From the executive summary: ‘Whole Company Securitization WCS, sometimes called whole business securitization or operating company securitization, is a more complex version of traditional securitization. A parent company isolates revenue-producing assets often the trademarks or patents that are the crown jewels of its intellectual property by selling them to a...

  Tags: Asset, Securitization, CFO Publishing Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• IBM Acquires Indian Outsource Provider: First in a Wave of Consolidations in the Business Process Outsourcing Sector?

  BNET - 2004-04-08

  IBM's acquisition of Indian Outsource Provider is the largest deal of its kind in India's technology services industry. This deal means that Business Process Outsourcing BPO companies need to be part of a bigger outfit according to the wire service. Indeed, a number of experts believe this deal will touch...

  Tags: Business Process, India, CFO Publishing Corp., BPO, Consolidation, IBM Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, It Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Investment, Finance

• Going For Growth

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  From the executive summary: ‘For the past few years, companies have slashed spending on new factories and equipment, salaries and bonuses, technology, benefits, and travel. They have exited unprofitable businesses and sold off non-strategic assets. The companies have also downsized and outsourced in order to maximize the profits. But now,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Asset Management, Benefits, Outsourcing, Payroll Solutions, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Human Resources, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Stuck In The SAS 70s

  BNET - 2004-02-23

  From the executive summary: ‘A little-known and perhaps largely outdated auditing standard for outsourcers could be the next big hurdle for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Not only might the standard cause a number of businesses to conflict with the Section 404 provisions on internal controls, but it might also dissuade other companies...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., SAS Institute, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Regulatory Compliance, Operational Planning, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures