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• At Home With RFID

  BNET - 2005-06-13

  Given the push for demand-driven manufacturing, expect to see more businesses rolling out RFID networks. Experts warn that early adopters face a steep learning curve, particularly in integrating the RFID-generated data into existing enterprise software. But makers of the software are already addressing the issue. Early reports on internal RFID...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

• Extras! Extras!: Voluntary Benefits Bring Goodwill With a Small Price Tag, But Watch Out for Liabilities

  BNET - 2005-02-22

  Companies large and small are offering so-called voluntary benefits to offset insurance costs and foster goodwill between workers and management. Employees like the convenience of buying products like life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, prepaid legal services, pet health insurance, and identity-theft protection at work: they can pay through...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Benefit, Goodwill, Insurance, Identity Theft, Financial Planning, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Security, Finance

• Risks And Benefits: The CFO As CRO?

  BNET - 2004-10-14

  From the executive summary: ‘At first glance, chief financial officers seem splendidly positioned to be the czars of Enterprise Risk Management ERM. Indeed, many already oversee one traditional area of risk management: the operational hazards often covered by property-casualty insurance. Typically, the corporate risk manager who identifies, assesses, and decides...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Benefit, Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Business Security, Business Operations, Finance, Management

• The Enemy Within

  BNET - 2004-10-01

  From the executive summary: ‘Over the past few years, risk management has undergone a slight bit of scope creep. More effective yet, a few corporations have begun to enroll employees in security-awareness training programs and then test those workers to see if the lessons have been absorbed. Patching that vulnerability...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Financial Planning, Workforce Management, Financial Services, Strategy, Training And Certification, Security, Finance, Human Resources, Management

• Watch Your Back

  BNET - 2004-08-01

  Charting a business plan is often easy, but it is more difficult to implement the same. It is important that the business planner foresees the risks that might ruin the business in the long-run. Hence, the planner must think strategically before putting an idea to motion. The process helps in...

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

• Who Does What, and Why?

  BNET - 2004-07-27

  While it's generally agreed that employees pose a greater security threat than hackers, virus creators, or other cybercriminals, what's less well known is that some of the newest tools for ferreting out evidence of wrongdoing can play other roles within companies. Although many legal issues remain murky regarding how closely...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Security, Virus, Viruses And Worms

• Get Rich Quick Fighting Spam?

  BNET - 2004-04-27

  By some estimates, between 50 percent and 75 percent of all corporate E-mail is spam - not a big surprise when it costs virtually the same to send a hundred messages, or a million. For the spammer, every junk E-mail is another money-making opportunity. For the company on the receiving...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Spam, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Marketing

• The O-Ring In Your Supply Chain

  BNET - 2004-03-11

  From the executive summary: ‘Supply chain risks can affect a company's working to large extent. Whether it occurs in far away place, or close to home, the consequences of the risks can be catastrophic. Many CFOs acknowledge that their companies cannot respond quickly to problems with overseas suppliers. Moreover,...

  Tags: Supply Chain, Risk, CFO Publishing Corp., Supplier, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Strategy, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Management

• Subject to Failure: Recent Scandals in the Mutual-Fund Industry Leave Employers Questioning the Security of Their Plans

  BNET - 2003-12-01

  As the mutual-fund probe widens, 401k plan sponsors are taking a hard look at an industry long regarded as a reliable workhorse for individual retirement plans. If the practices being investigated are found to be widespread, plan participants may be being robbed of billions of dollars in retirement savings. Investors...

  Tags: Security, CFO Publishing Corp., Mutual Fund, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Asset Management, 401(k), Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Rethinking Cash Balance Plans

  BNET - 2003-11-19

  From the executive summary: ‘Cash balance plans, a hybrid of traditional defined benefit pension plans and defined contribution 401k plans, lately seem to offer more risks than benefits. These risks include increased funding obligations, a damaging court ruling on age discrimination, and pending Congressional action to curb conversions from traditional...

  Tags: Risk, CFO Publishing Corp., 401(k), Retirement Plans, Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Management