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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

• 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

• 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

• Growth Mode

  BNET - 2004-12-30

  From the executive summary: ‘The challenge for all companies: finding the next new source of growth is more difficult than ever before. Traditional sources of revenue growth such as product enhancements, grabbing market share, or acquiring competitors have been largely tapped out. In the hunt for growth opportunities, failure is...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Management

• Programmer, Reprogrammed: Building a More Business-Minded CIO

  BNET - 2004-12-01

  For years, CFOs longed for CIOs who were at least familiar with concepts like hurdle rates and return on capital. Now, these wishes are becoming requirements. Senior IT executives are not the only techies who need to do some growing. Even midlevel IT workers are being pressed to expand their...

  Tags: CIO, CFO Publishing Corp., Programmer, Information Technology Worker, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Development Tools, Strategy, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management

• 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